Large stone wheel Sharpener/Grinder questions// value?

[CowCop]

Hi,

Are these worthwhile?

What would be the going price range for one like this?



Thanks

 

[OHALLUM]

Value? Whatever the seller can get for it. Use? Conversation piece. Be the only one on your block to own one! Depending on what you paid for it, it could be useful to sharpen an ax or an old machete. Any way, it is a cool old piece of farm history.

Blessings,

Omar

 

[tiguy7]

If I were going to use that thing, I would shorten the stand on one side so I could get closer to the wheel. I would also add a dripper to keep the wheel damp. It looks like quarried limestone. It would be good for shovels, old plows, scythes, lawnmower blades, etc.

 

[Omega Leather Works]

Be sure to do the "ring test" to make sure that it's not going to blow up in your face. Do a search for the test.

Edit- just saw that it's foot powered. Probably don't need the test for slow speed.

All in all I'd pass. What is the wheel made of? How coarse? Might be able to do some hollow grinding with it if it's stable and coarse, but then maybe not.

 

[StevieWunders]

I was online and reading your post almost as soon as it went up, but said nothing because I have no idea about the value of this piece. I've never seen one in anywhere near this condition up for sale-only in exhibits. If it were mine, I'd chain my wife downstairs and put it in the living room. As far as actual usefulness is concerned, remember that virtually all farm implements were sharpened to perfectly useful edges for centuries on devices like this. Every logging operation had at least one when trees were felled, limbed and sectioned by axes. Humanity not only survived the absence of mirror edges, but prospered and progressed.