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Does anyone know what this tool is? Function? It is marked USMC.....

It kind of looks like a hoof scraper.

millman wrote:It kind of looks like a hoof scraper.

I knew Marines had tough feet, but that is ridiculous! In the Navy, we just used a pen knife......

I thought it might be some kind of farrier's tool, but the only thing I know about horses is that they make good dog food.

That would probably date to WWI?

SA1911a1 wrote:

millman wrote:It kind of looks like a hoof scraper.

I knew Marines had tough feet, but that is ridiculous! In the Navy, we just used a pen knife......

I thought it might be some kind of farrier's tool, but the only thing I know about horses is that they make good dog food.

That would probably date to WWI?

I can only assume if that is what it is (not sure at all) that perhaps the marines used mules to pull artillery. I would also assume ww1 or earlier.

I paid $.99 on ebay for the thing. Maybe I will get a horse to go with it.

SA1911a1 wrote:Does anyone know what this tool is? Function? It is marked USMC.....

Also could be a gut hook for field dressing. Marines eat dogs if necessary.

steelbuttplate wrote:

SA1911a1 wrote:Does anyone know what this tool is? Function? It is marked USMC.....

Also could be a gut hook for field dressing. Marines eat dogs if necessary.

I got my butt whipped on the beach at the EM's Club at Mayport Naval base when I accused Marines (I may have pronounced it morons) of eating something else. It must have been the beer talking because I actually had better sense than that.

Not a gut hook. Did a quick google its a hoof pick

This is the closest I have found under hoof knife.

Most of them are more curved on the end.
https://animart.com/store/dick_hoof_kni ... rt_narrow/

Gelding knife.

Thanks Miller, I think you hit it. That blade would be no good for castration.

One of the things I learned in school. (We were forced to take two years of Agriculture courses to graduate high school, the girls had to take Home Ec. .) It was a different time in a rural agricultural area.

For castration, we used a sharp pocket knife. Four held the poor creature down; slice low, (so it would drain later) pull out the gland and scrape the tube in half, rather than slice, to reduce the bleeding. Swab down with a mixture of burned motor oil and sulfur. I hated the process with a passion as I felt compassion for the poor screaming pigs. I became a plumber instead of a farmer......Your shit was my bread and butter.....

SA1911a1 wrote:Thanks Miller, I think you hit it. That blade would be no good for castration.

One of the things I learned in school. (We were forced to take two years of Agriculture courses to graduate high school, the girls had to take Home Ec. .) It was a different time in a rural agricultural area.

For castration, we used a sharp pocket knife. Four held the poor creature down; slice low, (so it would drain later) pull out the gland and scrape the tube in half, rather than slice, to reduce the bleeding. Swab down with a mixture of burned motor oil and sulfur. I hated the process with a passion as I felt compassion for the poor screaming pigs. I became a plumber instead of a farmer......Your shit was my bread and butter.....

You old turd jamb buster. Did they ever fix any mountain oysters at the Ag school ?

steelbuttplate wrote:

SA1911a1 wrote:Thanks Miller, I think you hit it. That blade would be no good for castration.

One of the things I learned in school. (We were forced to take two years of Agriculture courses to graduate high school, the girls had to take Home Ec. .) It was a different time in a rural agricultural area.

For castration, we used a sharp pocket knife. Four held the poor creature down; slice low, (so it would drain later) pull out the gland and scrape the tube in half, rather than slice, to reduce the bleeding. Swab down with a mixture of burned motor oil and sulfur. I hated the process with a passion as I felt compassion for the poor screaming pigs. I became a plumber instead of a farmer......Your shit was my bread and butter.....

You old turd jamb buster. Did they ever fix any mountain oysters at the Ag school ?

I can answer that in three words, "Oh hell no."