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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4105 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:26 pm Post subject: Can you ID these devices? |
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It's not a quiz I genuinely don't know other than they may have been used in vehicle recovery?
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012 Posts: 1735 Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:24 am Post subject: |
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They do look like they might have been used with some sort of webbing straps. |
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4105 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:48 am Post subject: |
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Bitumen Boy wrote: | They do look like they might have been used with some sort of webbing straps. | I think you may well be right as the rectangular holes are 52mm wide, would accommodate 2" or 50mm straps? |
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012 Posts: 1735 Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:18 am Post subject: |
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ukdave2002 wrote: | Bitumen Boy wrote: | They do look like they might have been used with some sort of webbing straps. | I think you may well be right as the rectangular holes are 52mm wide, would accommodate 2" or 50mm straps? |
As you say Dave the width of the holes is very suggestive! I wonder if these could have been a technological dead end on the way to the familiar ratchet mechanisms, though looking at the pictures I can't quite think how they would have worked. |
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