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Everyone here is usually good at this.
Someone at work has this and wants to know what it is.
My manager is adamant that it's a winch. I'm saying no way Jose! A winch needs a spool to take up the cable or chain. This doesn't have that and although it has a long handle, it's not been geared to suggest that.
I reckon it's some kind of metal shaping tool. Maybe as simple as a bender? The vertical rod is confusing me but it could be an addition to stop it moving or something.
It's a sock dryer.
A knacker cracker
I wonder rather than spooling up cable or rope like a winch whether it would crank a toothed track up and down - like the sort of thing that would open a sluice gate.
Or it could be for crimping Cornish pasties
Pencil sharpener for dead big pencils
A finger flattener. Give it a try and see if it still works!
Marble crimper. Obvs.
I think you're local to me, so I'm saying something lock gate-ey.
r/whatisit/ will solve it for you in minutes...
Looks like a swager of some kind.
To turn wire into flat um... Wire.
Could be a Doo-Dah-Dat, similar to a Wot-Not-Ton but quite often confused with a Bin-Dun-Din due to the handle orientation.
There is no bending mechanism in it its just two rollers with a heavy duty alignment blocks.
That and the meatyness of the housing and the long handle suggest high pressure.
The only thing i can think of is a spring rake tine swager.
Or aero spoke maker...
Victorian Wet Willy Wringer.
They hated wet willies or ones linked to satan.
Hence:
Little known Cornish fact, that's why Wicked Willy's didn't open it's doors in Cornwall till the Edwardian era.
It turns spaghetti into linguini
It genuinely is a rolling mill
Could be for clock making to create flat coils springs from piano wire.
Looks very pipe bender-y.
Black Country Living Museum might be a stronger bet
I think they were on 6Music last week.
Are the roller fixed and if they are whats the gap.
Wonderful 😊
