[B.D.R.]

Cleaning out a house.
Found this and have no idea what it is.

 

[madrina]

Its the top part of a gigantic zippo duh.

 

[madrina]

...

 

[madrina]

Shut off valve?

 

[Seven-Delta-FortyOne]

Go to bed, Madrina; You're drunk. :laughing:

 

[Robinson1]

My guess would be something to do with drilling wells. Now gas, oil, or water I have no clue.

 

[builditguy]

I don't know either. I can guess. How about a pry bar. A threaded pipe can screw into one end and then use the flat end to pry with. If your bar has the wrong angle, you can adjust the angle by moving it to a different set of teeth. That way it can be a flat bar, an angled bar, or a 90 degree angle pry bar.

 

[TimelessQuality]

Adjustable foot for a porta-power

 

[CarpenterSFO]

Adjustable foot.

 

[Railman]

It would work well as a non wheeled Johnson bar!

 

[madrina]

Adjustable foot... hmm my kid has some adjustable roller skates. Wait wait wait... I'm way off...

I'm going to need a pic of an adjustable foot in order to validate that answer..

 

[B.D.R.]

Sorry I reply have no clue. But the adjustable foot seems plausible.
So does the pry bar theory

 

[ScipioAfricanus]

I will hazard a guess that it is used for breaking loose really big tires, like on a tractor.

Andy.

 

[CarpenterSFO]

Are you guys blind? It's a Maxwell House coffee scoop.

 

[Kowboy]

It's a Pez dispenser prototype.

 

[jlsconstruction]

Old excavator thumb. The kind you have to manually move to the position you want.


Or something for a well

 

[Tom M]

It resembles a manual pump head but it's fixed device with multiple positions. It looks to me it's used for prying leverage not cranking like a ratchet.

 

[Stoneyard]

A tooth from the bucket of an old front end loader.

 

[TimelessQuality]

Here's mine..