Can anyone identify this tool?

[voodoolord]

Got a pair of them from a local shop because they looked useful but not sure if they have a specific purpose. Anyone seen these before?

 

[JGarrison Knives]

Garlic press?

 

[voodoolord]

Lol! Nice guess but no.

 

[kuraki]

I think that's a narwhal crimper. For making bull narwhals into steers.

 

[Bill DeShivs]

Squisher.

 

[JTknives]

A penny pincher

 

[panoz77]

Nutcracker?

 

[voodoolord]

We have all the wise guys accounted for or does anyone else wanna take a crack at it? Lol.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Give us some measurements, please.

It is obviously some sort of pressing device with high leverage. It could have been to make a flattened place in a round bar. It would have worked for things like making the hinge joint in tongs or a flat ends where a bolt hole would go on a long support/reinforcement rod. The stubby end was probably placed in a socket on the floor and the tool operated upright. If the jaws are wide enough, it could have been used to make flat nails from round pre-forms.

 

[the possum]

It's for smashing the toes of those who wear sandals in the shop.

That long "foot" projection off the top left almost makes me think it was supposed to stand on the floor upright while ya use it...

 

[golfer1]

Saw my dentist pull a tooth with one of those. I left immediately.