Hello I would like to here if anyone could tell me what this tool is used fore. I have no idea. On the brass part it says "And Matsson" "MORA" "Sweden" "no 1". The tool is not very large, about 20 cm long and 15 mm in diameter. The long thin tube (3-4 mm) is hollow and open and fits into the tube with drill. The lower picture shows the tool when not in use and the thin tube is inside the drill-tube whitch is inside the brass-part with the two red handles. I hope my description is Ok. Niels Chr.
I don't know the English word for it, but in Swedish it's called a "Trädborr", which directly translated would be "Tree drill" or "Tree borer". It's used to decide the age, or perhaps more often; the growth, of a living tree by just taking out a small core from the wood and check the annual rings. *Edit: I found an English word for the tool. It's "Increment Borer", which sounds good since another word in Swedish for this instrument also has that meaning: "Tillväxtborr".
No Sleecjr, it isn't! I wasn't speculating in my answer above. I was stating a fact. I know that it is an Increment Borer, and I've used one myself.
You're right Christer, I trained as a Forestry Technician as a lad and we used this tool to assess the historic growth rate of a subject tree to a see the effect of silviculture practices and past weather . Andrew
They are common where I live too. But it still begs the question, how did you come by it? The quality of construction makes it looks older.
The borer has the advantage that if it gets stuck in the neck of the bottle and you can't get it out, just use the extractor to pull out the core created in the cork and pour the wine that way. Andrew
Thank you all for your replys. The story about the tool is that its actually not my tool. It belongs to a friend of mine, who recently (3 month ago)opened his own museeum displaying old tools for carpenters, boatbuilders, coopers, saddlers etc, but had some problems with finding a site on the net, where to search for this kind of information, so I took the liberty to ask here on CPL. By the way, my own first thought about the tool was taking samples from cheese. Here is a link to museeum www.hoevlehuset.dk Niels Chr.
Niels, what an interesting museum that must be and just the sort of place lots of CPL members would like to have a look round. Pity it's so far away though.
