The super macro guessing game (5)

Do I need to have a loft?

ECC233 wrote in post #19052876
Do I need to have a loft?

Yes. I think that should count as a win...

Wow .. that was a good one.

So it is one of the stick things with a kind of hook on the end that you use to unlock and open the ceiling door into a loft area? Does it have a proper name? And as an afterthought, how could it be considered a marital aid (if the revelation will not be too shocking)

Well done, I was never going to get that!

I honestly have not seen one since I was a kid ... but now I think about it, the structure is not so dissimilar to those window openers that we have in lecture theatres for those very high fanlights. I'll post shortly ... looking for something to rise to the new standards that Chris has set.

So I have been inspired by the structure of Chris' image. There is enough information in this image I believe, but will zoom out if we reach an impasse.

ECC233 wrote in post #19053061
So I have been inspired by the structure of Chris' image. There is enough information in this image I believe, but will zoom out if we reach an impasse.

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It looks like that hook is there to hang or secure a rope. Is that right?

Or even, to hang this from a rope?

hqqns wrote in post #19053086
It looks like that hook is there to hang or secure a rope. Is that right?

Or even, to hang this from a rope?

Sorry, no

ECC233 wrote in post #19052982
Wow .. that was a good one.

So it is one of the stick things with a kind of hook on the end that you use to unlock and open the ceiling door into a loft area? Does it have a proper name? And as an afterthought, how could it be considered a marital aid (if the revelation will not be too shocking)

Exactly - one of those stick things. This one must be 80+ years old. Rubber one end to prod the trap door with, and a hook the other to pull the ladder down. Some use the hook as a sort of key in a latch. The original rubber end had a point, but it had perished bt about 1990.

I thought it was a good object, but if someone had only ever lived in an apartment it was going to be difficult to guess. As I say, ALL the local houses have lofts, so they must have a trapdoor, etc. Mostly they're in people's upstairs Hall/"landing", but they can happen to be needed in just about any room that's below a roof. The bit which looks like a spring is just the way they made a "stop" so the hook has some support and it protects the end of the wooden pole.

I was surprised that once it was extablished as a long thin wooden thing with a metal bit on the end, it was still elusive.
I'll post a couple of pictures.

ECC233 wrote in post #19053061
So I have been inspired by the structure of Chris' image. There is enough information in this image I believe, but will zoom out if we reach an impasse.

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Looks interesting. It SHOULD be easy!

Does it have a connection with fishing?

Chris-R wrote in post #19053122
Looks interesting. It SHOULD be easy!

Does it have a connection with fishing?

It should be easy. No connection with fishing that I am aware of.

ECC233 wrote in post #19053149
It should be easy. No connection with fishing that I am aware of.

Electric fence wire support?

Clothes line support doesn't sound very Swiss...

Chris-R wrote in post #19053299
Electric fence wire support?

Clothes line support doesn't sound very Swiss...

Well that went a lot faster than I expected. Back to you. It is not for clothes lines!
Here is the entire think with insulation and wire cable

Oh deep joy.

Chris-R wrote in post #19053121
Exactly - one of those stick things. This one must be 80+ years old. Rubber one end to prod the trap door with, and a hook the other to pull the ladder down. Some use the hook as a sort of key in a latch. The original rubber end had a point, but it had perished bt about 1990.

I thought it was a good object, but if someone had only ever lived in an apartment it was going to be difficult to guess. As I say, ALL the local houses have lofts, so they must have a trapdoor, etc. Mostly they're in people's upstairs Hall/"landing", but they can happen to be needed in just about any room that's below a roof. The bit which looks like a spring is just the way they made a "stop" so the hook has some support and it protects the end of the wooden pole.

I was surprised that once it was extablished as a long thin wooden thing with a metal bit on the end, it was still elusive.
I'll post a couple of pictures.

Even with the answer, I'm not sure what this thing is...

Good one, Chris! Hard one...