Can you guess what this is used for?

[motoyen]

Any guesses? :)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3592/3775960098_1060cc65cf_o.jpg

[cdifoto]

Poking Nikonians who try to jump from the murk of their filth and onto the deck of the luxurious cruise ship Canonia?

[Sparky98]

I don't know but you could drive the verticle shaft into the ground adjacent to your fire pit and hang a cooking pot from the horizontal arm. Or if the picture next to is is related it could be a device used to weigh something in the field. Then again it looks a little like a pike and cant hook used in the timber industry. Lots of guesses but really I have no idea.

[Darsk47]

something to do with surveying?

[nemo man]

Pah! Easy. POTN Mods use it all the time to insert into the rear whatsit area of little oiks who post nude shots in the Macro section!!!!

But what the hell is that thing reflected in the mirror?

[Mark1]

I know.... but it is illegal in 15 states! :)

[darosk]

Is it for doing dark deeds? ;)

[irispatch]

Measuring horses

[advaitin]

Consider the picture next to it. I'll bet part of a scale of some sort.

[MikeFairbanks]

It's a Quaker Rifle.

Nah, just kidding.

But there really were such things as Quaker Rifles. They were fake wooden guns designed to fool the enemy into thinking that every single soldier had a rifle. It worked in many cases.

Many battallions had a ton of support troops who didn't carry, but with those Quaker rifles they could mislead their numbers of fighting men.

[motoyen]

irispatch is right!! :D

I saw this at the Deutches Museum in Germany in the weights and measures area. It was actually very fascinating to see the many different devices humans have invented to measure our surrounding.

I thought this one particularly funny. I never knew someone would need to measure the height of a horse.

[advaitin]

Does it give the measurement in hands?

[motoyen]

I don't know. I didn't see anything indicating how they measured it.