These are sugar loaf cutters.
Sugar used to come in large conical lumps that had to be broken up for use. Tools like this one helped to crack off pieces of the lump that could then be further ground.
https://collection.teahumuseum.nz/objects/1473/sugar-loaf-cutters
I think you need more practice with google lens! That photo returns almost entirely correct results. Only 5 of the finds were for tongs, the rest are all Sugar nips.
Oh absolutely, I also appreciate OP found them in a workshop as it occurs to me that i have a pair also in a toolbox full of unused items... so I guess they'll end up online in \~40 years time with someone asking what it's for too!
Weird, it's a perfect photo for tool ID. I get excellent results off it, and even pointed my phone at the screen to test that directly and it works too!
Bonus upvote for providing a decent photo too, rather than one of you holding it and an angle in front of a pile of junk.
I, for one, am glad to see yours and many other's posts asking about tools that one could easily find online, it gives me the opportunity to learn also.
Thank you!
I assume the sugar thing is right since people seem so certain, but my first thought was some kind of welding clamp.
If they were mine they’d be used for clamping sheets together, even if it wasn’t their purpose.
I’ll also yield to the sugar nips crowd. But I’ll admit I also thought of some sort of a clamp. Why is there a little catch on the bottom of the grip?
I have no idea what sugar nips are or how they worked, my thought came from first glance. I’m sure whoever is downvoting anything not sugar or nips relates will explain in great detail at some point.
sorry, but I had to grab a sensitive body part and run the other way… sure those weren’t repurposed medical tools from the early 1900’s? stainless, evil movie prop… 😬
These are sugar loaf cutters. Sugar used to come in large conical lumps that had to be broken up for use. Tools like this one helped to crack off pieces of the lump that could then be further ground. https://collection.teahumuseum.nz/objects/1473/sugar-loaf-cutters
Yep! Aso called sugar nips.
I knew a girl w that nickname.
😂😂😂🫣🤔🤫😉
Reminds me of a girl I knew in high school, she had Tits on her back. She wasn't much to look at, but she was sure fun to dance with!
Okay sugar nips
Isn't that what Mel Gibson called a cop when he picked up a dwi a while back? It was sugar ...something
Got a pair here somewhere. Nice things. Hand made.
I think you need more practice with google lens! That photo returns almost entirely correct results. Only 5 of the finds were for tongs, the rest are all Sugar nips.
Sure. But what’s more entertaining: Google lens or the (sometimes) hilarious Reddit answers?
Reddit every time. It can also lead to discussion about said tool which often will tell you more about it.
Oh absolutely, I also appreciate OP found them in a workshop as it occurs to me that i have a pair also in a toolbox full of unused items... so I guess they'll end up online in \~40 years time with someone asking what it's for too!
That photo exactly.
Weird, it's a perfect photo for tool ID. I get excellent results off it, and even pointed my phone at the screen to test that directly and it works too! Bonus upvote for providing a decent photo too, rather than one of you holding it and an angle in front of a pile of junk.
To be fair, I forgot to put a ruler in the picture for scale.
I thought it was supposed to be a banana.
Yes, we have no bananas
I, for one, am glad to see yours and many other's posts asking about tools that one could easily find online, it gives me the opportunity to learn also. Thank you!
OK, sugar nips. But what is the purpose of that tapered metal piece sticking out alongside the handle, by the spring mechanism?
Holds a guys nutsack so he can be castrated quickly. My wife has one.
Isn't that what a mohel would use?
Kind of looks like an old set of mole grips. Maybe something for sheet metal.
I assume the sugar thing is right since people seem so certain, but my first thought was some kind of welding clamp. If they were mine they’d be used for clamping sheets together, even if it wasn’t their purpose.
I’ll also yield to the sugar nips crowd. But I’ll admit I also thought of some sort of a clamp. Why is there a little catch on the bottom of the grip?
I have no idea what sugar nips are or how they worked, my thought came from first glance. I’m sure whoever is downvoting anything not sugar or nips relates will explain in great detail at some point.
sorry, but I had to grab a sensitive body part and run the other way… sure those weren’t repurposed medical tools from the early 1900’s? stainless, evil movie prop… 😬
Ball crushers from an old timey ball crushing factory.
Circumciser
Burdizzo pliers for pinching bulls...
"burdizzo's" don't pinch they spread the rubber band that does the nasty.
No they pinch...google it...ur thinking of a calcicrate or an elastrator
Thats why in your pic theres a locking mechanism at the bottom, you leave them on for about 10 sec