We get given all sorts of weird things for the charity I work for:

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It has an extendable handle to about 5′. What’s it for? We think some kind of auger for planting things or digging post holes?

It looks like a badly homemade contraption of no particular use for anything

It’s a badger chunter.

Doesn’t look right for digging – with those paddles looks like some kind of mixer for paint or something.

digging fence pole holes? looks like it bores something…. Wouldn’t say it was a bike tool!

It’s a Flushed Grolling.

whats under the packing? Does it look like you’d fit it into a drill perhaps – poss a paint/plaster mixer if so like ben says, if its got a handle then I wonder if it does something like cut the holes in turf like you would on a golf courses

It’s a badger chunter.

Pretty old style, not seen a badger use one that old for years….

Footflaps, they struggled with the conversion to metric, I think.

Is it for getting stones out of boy scout’s hooves?

I’d go with something for tilling the soil, like this;

put it in the ground and twist

Footflaps, they struggled with the conversion to metric, I think.

Didn’t we all….

Still pay my badgers use shillings and furlongs….

It is for the Big Bike Bash!

Sorry, just hadn’t mentioned it or a while

My first thought from the description was a Garden Claw Gold, with an adjustable handle for the taller or shorter gardener.

But it’s not one of those.

It looks like a badly homemade contraption of no particular use for anything

I’d say it’s a reasonably well homemade contraption for a very particular use indeed. Someone’s looked at a problem and thought what I need is something like…” that^

Keeping a pipe clear? Couldn’t be a very long pipe, though. Maybe with the pipe lagging on the “handle” it’s for use in the cold? Keeping a channel through snow for an air vent? You’d do a better job with a shovel. ❓

Has it been given to you as a prize or for something to sell for fundraising, or for you to use as intended?

It’s a lapping flasket.

Looks like a paint agitator to me.

I’d suggest that it doesn’t look strong enough to be a tool for digging into anything, I’m gunna assume the lagging is just wrapping (for transportation/storage) rather than an integrated part of the design. I don’t have a specific suggestion more that it’s a ‘key’ type fitting/removal tool of some sort? Have you removed the lagging to see if there an branding (label) anywhere on it?

It doesn’t matter what it is. You’re never gonna sell it in the charity shop.
Bin it. And move on.

It’s a Ducksay.

It’s not robust enough to use in earth. Could it be for degunging drains?

It’s for extracting larval stage baby robins.

In fact looking at it again – it won’t be a mixing attachment because they’re flat-bottomed otherwise they’d try and chop their way out the bottom of the bucket – my money says inside that wrapping is a t-bar handle and its a soil tiller as wwawas suggests

You know when they dug the tunnel they started at each end and met in the middle.

UK Channel Tunnel drill

French Tunnel drill

Spatial vortexer for forth dimensional amalgamation of trivisional lifeforms

I must say maccruiskeen’s scooter looks a bit rubbish.

whatever it is,it’s flange looks broken…

I must say maccruiskeen’s scooter looks a bit rubbish.

I bought it from Dave Hinde

Bottom bracket facing tool

Well I just took off the lagging and stuck another picture up:
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not extendable, a t-bar, says ‘Garden Buddy made in Redditch by Steelesmith’ on it . Can’t really see it being man enough to dig into the very stony ground here. Anyone want it?

So it’s a boring tool. (although they all are according to my wife)

Hand held boring tool from STEELESMITH, bore a cylindrical hole for inserting fence posts or planting shrubs

Welcome to STEELESMITH (REDDITCH) LTD
Hand held boring tool from STEELESMITH, bore a cylindrical hole for inserting fence posts or planting shrubs

Well I was wrong.. & slow

Well that was almost as much fun as the safe-cracking thread 😆

I’ll give you £5 for it – never know when I’ll need to dig a small round hole.

I knew it! – “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!” – that was the name of the film where I first saw this device in action

My badgers are willing to buy it from you.

How many furlongs do you want for it?

is it a prototype Hope freewheel?

I knew it! – “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!” – that was the name of the film where I first saw this device in action

Wherever you go, there you are.

Can’t see it lasting long for that purpose in the real world

The perfect matching accessory for the Cotic owner (orange obviously) who wants to dig holes on a ride.