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Trafalgar Holden Museum
Tool - Eyelet tool
... Used and sold by Holden ca1900 Bootmaker Tool Wooden handle ...Bootmakers tool used for making eyelets in leather goodsUsed and sold by Holden ca1900Wooden handle with steel spikebootmaker, tool -
Trafalgar Holden Museum
Tool - Sealing tool
boot makers sealing tool used during ca1900boot makers sealing tool used during leather marking as requiredmetal head with wooden handle with different size grooves on headGROOVES MARKED 8 AND 9 N KADERAW - PRAHAN - 12cobblers, sealing tool -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Tool - Tee square
... Wooden Tee square Tool Tee square ...Wooden Tee square -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Wooden darning tool
... Wooden darning tool... items such as gloves. Functional object Wooden darning tool ...Wooden mushroom used for darning may be gloves from Patrice Jennings' grandmother's collection.Small wooden mushroom used for darning small items such as gloves.darning, wood, jennings patrice, elsie doris whitten -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Tool - Hand plough, Mintern Products P/L Richmond, 1930's
... hoe pedestrian plough hand plough MINTERN D.W.HOE Wooden ...Used by students at BurnleyWooden handles direct a metal chassis with two tynes attached and two cast iron spoked wheels. Pulled by second person with rope attached. Stencil of manufacturer painted on wooden handles.MINTERN D.W.HOE burnley college of horticulture, hoe, pedestrian plough, hand plough -
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Equipment - 'Acorn' Mathematical Set
... Stainless steel drawing tools in felt-lined wooden box... drawing tools in felt-lined wooden box Equipment 'Acorn ...This and other sets advertised on 30 January 1937 by MULLENS stationers in Melbourne (Trove) Given to or acquired by Forester James McKinty. Probably in late 1937. Used for map making and draftingStainless steel drawing tools in felt-lined wooden boxembossed on the fabric on the inside of the lid of the box: ACORN MATHEMATICAL SET ROBERTSON & MULLENS Ltd MELBOURNEforests commission victoria (fcv), mapping, surveying -
Forests Commission Retired Personnel Association (FCRPA)
Adze
An Adze is versatile cutting tool similar to an axe but with the sharp cutting edge perpendicular to the handle rather than parallel. The wooden handle of this adze is shaped like an axe handle and the blade also has a slight curve. They are used for smoothing or carving wood such as sleepers An adz, with its long handle, cuts with the grain, and the nature of the chips is different from an axe. While they have a similar shape, they should never be confused with a hoe used or mattock for agriculture and horticulture.Carpenter's adze or cutting adze The tapered eye in the adze and tapered handle end forces the head to tighten when swung; but enables removal of the head for sharpeningtimber tools -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Tool - Garden tool, Dibber
Short tool used to make holes in the ground for planting. Made from a repurposed wooden and metal handle for another tool like a spade. Metal parts screwed to the wood. The end shaved to a point. Painted light green.garden tools, horticulture, students, burnley college -
The Paynesville Maritime Museum
Tool - Drawing board
The drawing board was used to prepare drawings of the parts of the boat so the boat-builders knew what to make.Wooden drawing board, tee square and instruments -
The Paynesville Maritime Museum
Tool, Oilstone
After a chisel has its cutting point ground (on the grinding wheel) the edge is honed on an oilstone. The wooden box is to prevent dirt getting onto the stone and to keep the stone moist with oil. Also used for plane blades and knives etc.oil stone, oilstone, sharpening -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Tool - Wood Moulding Plane, George Hathersich, 1797-1851
George Hathersich made wood moulding planes at 30 Shade Hill Street, Manchester, England, from 1797 to 1851. After his death, his wife, Elizabeth, carried on making planes. Moulding planes are used to create decorative edges on timber for doors, tables, cabinets and elaborate cabinetry.The maker, Hathersich, was a very early plane maker from Manchester, England. Hathersich's early 19th-century hand-operated planes are rare examples of crafted woodworking tools. Similar tools are still made today and used by specialists in cabinet and woodcraft trades.Plane; hand-operated mounding plane, round type. A narrow rectangular plane with a wooden wedge and an iron blade inserted in the bed. The wooden surface is stained and varnished. It has inscriptions. Made by George Hathersich of Manchester, UK. Also marked C S Schofield. "Hathersich" "C S Schofield"flagstaff hill, flagstaff hill maritime museum and village, warrnambool, maritime museum, maritime village, great ocean road, shipwreck coast, wood work, builder, carpenter, wood worker, woodworking, plane, moulding plane, tool, woodworking tool, george hathersich, shudehill, manchester, england, c s schofield -
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Pulaski
Bushfire perimeter rather than bushfire area is the main control problem for firefighters on the ground. A conundrum rapidly compounded by spot fires. A small 5 ha fire can be nearly 1 km around the perimeter. That's a long way to build a control line by hand in rough bush. Dry firefighting techniques by hand were mostly confined to “knocking down” or “beating out” the flames, as well as "digging out". Digging or raking a “mineral earth” trail down to bare dirt proved most effective in forest fuels which, unlike grass, tend to retain heat and smoulder. Early tools were whatever happened to be close at hand. They were simple and primitive and included shovels, slashers, axes, hoes, beaters and rakes. A cut branch to beat the flames was often the only thing available. Farming and logging tools, developed over centuries of manual labour, and readily available at local hardware stores came into use, but little thought was given to size, weight, and balance. For years foresters experimented with combination tools. In about 1952 fire beaters and other implements were being replaced with Rakuts. However, its believed the now common Rakehoe is an Australian variation of the American McLeod Tool which was developed in 1905 by forest ranger Malcolm McLeod of the Sierra National Forest. The late Athol Hodgson advised that predecessors, Reg Torbet who had been the Chief Fire Officer for the Forests Commission from 1948-1956, along with his QLD counterpart Clive Price, went in late 1951 as Australian delegates on a 10 week fire study tour of Nth America organised by the United Nations. They came back with a couple of McLeod tools from Canada. Cam MacLeod (different spelling) had been the Head of Fire Research for the Canadian Forest Service at the time and had supplied them. The tools were ideal for deciduous forests in the eastern provinces and Clive arranged to have them manufactured in QLD. The Rakho, as it was then spelled, was first issued to FCV crews 65 years ago in 1955-56. The American Pulaski had been trialled, but never found favour with Australian firefighters.Pulaski Fire Tool Combines an axe and a grubbing hoe. Digging end and cutting end with short wooden handleforests commission victoria (fcv), hand tools, forest harvesting, bushfire -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Tool - bale hook small, c1900
A hook as a hand tool is used for securing and moving loads. It consists of a round wooden handle with a strong metal hook projecting at a right angle from the centre of the handle. The appliance is held in a closed fist with the hook projecting between two fingers. This type of hook is used in many different industries, and has many different names. It may be called a box hook, cargo hook, loading hook, or a docker's hook, and a baling hook, bale hook, or hay hook in the agricultural industry. Other variants exist, such as in forestry, for moving logs, and a type with a long shaft, used by city workers to remove manhole covers. A hay hook is slightly different in design in that the shaft is typically longer. It is used on farms to secure and move bales of hay, which are otherwise awkward to pick up manually. A small bale hook with a wooden handle and 2 curved steel hooks pioneers, early settlers, market gardeners, moorabbin, bentleigh, cheltenham, brighton, tools, craftsman, carpenters, , blacksmiths, builders, farmers, graziers, wool bales, hay bales, -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Tool - Seed planting aids, Seed Planting drill and tamper
1. Handmade seed drill - square wooden base with wooden hand, 80 brass posts (80 seed holes at once). 2. Handmade wooden Tamper with wooden handle - used to tamp down soil media, same size as the seed drill.tool, seeds, planting, nursery -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Tool - Brace
... with wooden circular top handle and cylindrical wooden middle head ...Rachet Brace - Solid metal construction with wooden circular top handle and cylindrical wooden middle head griptrades, carpentry -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Tool - Try Square
Tools used by Mrs Duncan's grandfather, when he was a carpenter on the clipper ship of the 1870's between England and Australia.Thin metal blade and solid wooden handle. Some decoration on handle join. 12-inch Blade.W.B.D. on handletrades, carpentry -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Tool - Carpentry Brace and Bits, c 1878
Brace and bits are believed to be 120 years old.|Tools used by Mrs Duncan's grandfather, when he was a carpenter on the clipper ship of the 1870's between England and Australia.'U-shaped brace with wooden handle at one end, a wooden ball in centre and a rectangular metal block at the other end. Into this block are inserted the various drill bits . Bits are of various sizes shaped with a start screw and then the cutting edge. Rest of the drill is like a corkscrew. End of bit has a four-sided tapered section which is inserted into the metal block on the brace.trades, carpentry -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Tool - Garden maintenance machine, ATCO, Lawn Mower, 1961-1962
Used for garden maintenance and for teaching greens maintenance at Burnley CollegeATCO lightweight petrol lawnmower. 17 inch. With wooden height adjustable forward rollers, rotating metal grass cutter and metal roller. See B91.35.Machine Reference 1761/2 Made by Charles H. Pugh Ltd. Birmingham Englandgarden maintenance, students, grass cutting, mower, lawn mower -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Tool - Garden tool, Pitchfork
Used by students for garden maintenance.3 pitchforks each with 3 tynes and Wooden handles. 2 painted green and 1 painted blue. used by the students2 green and 1 bluegarden maintenance, students, pitchforks, tools -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Tool - Garden tool, Scythe
Long handle scythe used by the college to maintain gardensManual scythe blade with long wooden handle painted orange. Used by Burnley Students for garden maintenance,Metal stamped 1285garden maintenance, burnley, grass control, weed control, students -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Craft - Ship Model, Sovereign of the Seas, Made between 1930-1955
This meticulously hand crafted ship model is one of the most intricate and challenging projects for a ship modeller to create. Jim Williams took up the challenge, choosing to make all of the components by hand, following a plan of the ship rather than purchasing a pre-made kit. He even made his own tools specifically for working with this model. The “Sovereign of the Seas” 1637-1697 - The magnificent ship “Sovereign of the Seas” was ordered by Charles I of England, who desired a giant Great Ship to be built. It was built by Peter Pett under the guidance of his father Phineas, the King's master shipwright, and launched with 102-guns at Woolwich Dockyard on 13th October 1637, as the Navy’s second three-decker first-rate ship. It was the most extravagantly decorated warship in the Royal Navy, bought with the help of a special 'Ship Money' tax imposed by the King. Soon afterwards the ship was remodelled and cut down to a safer and faster ship. Over the ship’s lifetime it was renamed “Commonwealth”, then in 1650 it became simply “Sovereign” then again after a rebuild in 1660 it was named “Royal Sovereign”. By 1642 the ship’s armament had been reduced to 90 guns. In 1651 Sovereign was made more manoeuvrable by reducing the upper works. It served throughout the wars of the Commonwealth and became the flagship of General Robert Blake. It was involved in all of the great English naval conflicts fought against the United Provinces and France and was referred to as 'The Golden Devil' by the Dutch. By 1660 the armament was changed attain to 100 guns. After the English Restoration, it was rebuilt as a first-rate ship of the line, with flatter gun decks and 100 guns, and most of the carvings were removed. During the First Anglo-Dutch War, in a secret session on 21 October 1652, the States-General of the Netherlands announced reward money for the crews of fire ships that succeeded in destroying enemy vessels; the Sovereign was singled out with an extra prize of 3000 guilders to sink or ruin it. Although repeatedly occupied by the Dutch, the Sovereign was retaken every time by the British and remained in service for nearly sixty years as the best ship in the English fleet. The Sovereign was in regular service during the three Anglo-Dutch Wars, surviving the Raid on the Medway in 1667. After a second rebuild in 1685 the Sovereign was relaunched as a first-rate ship of 100 guns, before taking part in the outset of the War of the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV of France, venturing into the Irish Sea, and later participating in the Battle of Beachy Head in 1690 and the Battle of La Hougue. At this time she was more than fifty years old. It was the first ship in history to fly ‘royals’ above the topgallant sails and a top gallant sail on the jigger-mast. The Sovereign eventually became leaky and defective with age and was laid up at Chatham when, on 27th January 1697, the famous ship caught fire, burning to the waterline. Jim Williams, the model’s maker - Jim (James Bernard) Williams was born in 1888 at The Forth in Scotland. He lived in Tasmania for some time and enlisted to fight in France in WW1. After the war he moved to Warrnambool, Victoria, where he worked at the Cramond & Dickson clothing store until the Great Depression in the 1930’s. He was later employed at Fletcher Jones Menswear, where he worked for 27 years until just before his death in 1959. Jim was a passionate ship model builder. He worked on his model ships between 1930 and 1955, including The Endeavour and The Sovereign of the Seas, which was one of the most intricate historic ship models to build. He had a table set up in a bay window and worked on them on and off using a jeweller's eye glass on the finer pieces. Jim’s long-time employer, Fletcher Jones, knew of Jim’s hobby and skill as a ship model builder and requested Jim to describe the model, Sovereign of the Seas, with the view of putting it on display. When the model was finished there was a full article and photo in The Standard newspaper. Jim described his work on the ship mode “Sovereign of the Seas” in correspondence to his then employer, Fletcher Jones. The document gives us an insight into his skill, patience, and regard for replicating the details of the original ship. Some of the details are: "In making the model the time taken to make certain items might be of interest. For instance "The Great Lantern" on the stern, four weeks, a similar time for the figurehead of St George & the Dragon. "The lower shrouds three to each side about six weeks & the rigging as whole several months. There are nearly 300 blocks and pulleys ranging from nearly 1 / 16 inch in diameter. Dead eyes were bored with 3 to 5 holes. To do this needles of different sizes, set in handles & ground to wedge ends were used. Glass cut and ground to shape were used windows. All gun-port covers (74) hinged. "All guns and anchors made of wood. Nothing for the model was purchased ready-made; everything hand made." Jim’s family donated the ship model along with many associated tools, accessories and papers. The model represents the Sovereign of the Seas. The Royal Navy ship of the line launched in 1637 has a significant British maritime heritage. These days the Sovereign of the Seas still remains one of the most intricate historic ship models to build, representing to the model enthusiast a true challenge to the art of model shipbuilding. The model of Sovereign of the Seas in Flagstaff Hill's collection is an exemplary example of a ship model built and hand crafted from a plan with the making of every item on the model, not a model kit with prefabricated parts. It was made by a local Warrnambool man Jim Williams as a leisure activity in the mid 20th century. The hobby and craft of ship model making has resulted in visual representations of the changes in maritime technology and advances in world-wide navigation. Ship model of HMS Sovereign of the Seas, a 17th century British warship. The handmade model is in wooden framed, airtight glass case. All components were hand crafted. Many of the tools used were made by the model maker, Jim Williams. An inscribed plaque is within the case. Inscribed on plaque "SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS / 102 GUNS - 1634"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, model ship, vessel sovereign of the seas, jim williams, james bernard williams, the forth tasmania, freda williams, heather williams, phyllis bowditch, fletcher jones staff 1936, 17th century sailing ship, cramond and dickson, sovereign of the seas, royal sovereign, sovereign, charles 1, ship model -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Tool - Hand Drill, c1900
... with hand crank and wooden handles Tool Hand Drill Early settler ...Before drills and braces, T-shaped augers were used to poke holes into wood, while smaller gimlets were used to start them.. A significant advance on the auger was the brace, which was originally designed with a single, permanently fixed bit at its end. Hand drills were often called eggbeater drills for their similarity to that common kitchen tool using a crank to drive the drill into the wood A steel hand drill with hand crank and wooden handlespioneers, early settlers, market gardeners, moorabbin, bentleigh, cheltenham, brighton, tools, craftsman, carpenters, blacksmiths, builders, farmers, metalwork, woodwork, drills -
Broadmeadows Historical Society & Museum
Tool - Butter Pats
These wooden butter pats were used to shape butter into bricks; making butter ready for sale and use. The excess moisture would be squeezed out of the butter; which was then transferred to a wooden board. The butter maker would hold one of these pats in each hand and work the butter into shape. These wooden pats are thin; light and easy to hold. The inside face is serrated to grip the butter and squeeze out any further water. It was also used to make patterns on the finished butter.Wooden butter pats with handle. One side is rubbed, the other smoothbutter pats, butter making -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Tool - Two person saw
Method of sawing trees in early days.Long metal saw tooth, saw with wooden handles used by two peoplesaw, tool, hand tool -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Tool - Wool carding, Unknown
Two wooden paddles with fine mettle pins on one side, wooden handles on each paddle.wool-knitting, handwork -
Clunes Museum
Tool - WOOL WINDER
Wooden stand with four concertina arms from metal rod in centreNilwool winder, wool -
Vision Australia
Functional object - Object, Wooden ruler
A wooden ruler with raised metal dots marking the spacings on the ruler. Made prior to 1971, when metric measurements were introduced, this 18-inch ruler is a demonstration of how easily a simple visual measuring tool could be adapted for varying degrees of sight by the use of tactile markings. 1 wooden ruler with metal pins as measurement pointsassistive devices, royal national institute for the blind -
Emerald Museum & Nobelius Heritage Park
Tool - Soldering Iron
This soldering iron is a hand tool that would have been heated before use by a gas torch or fire and then used to melt solder, which is used to join two pieces of metal. Circa early 20th century.Unknown donor but assumed to have been used locally.Soldering iron with a round wooden handle, iron shank and copper head with pointed tip. The handle has two round holes, possibly for hanging the tool from a hook.No inscriptionssoldering iron, tools -
Emerald Museum & Nobelius Heritage Park
Tool - Plough Plane, Jenkins & Clark, Circa late 19th century
This plough plane is a hand tool that was used to cut grooves or rabbets into wood, for example for furniture construction. It was manufactured in Birmingham by Jenkins & Clark and imported or taken to Australia most likely in the nineteenth century. The several names imprinted into the tool imply that it may have been used by several unique owners at different points in time - J.O. Hart, Micl (likely Michael) Orgill, and D. Brown. Names may have been imprinted in the tool to prevent confusion in settings with many workers supplying their own tools.Unknown donor but assumed to have been used locally.Wooden plough plane with brass fittings. Includes adjustable wooden clamp and removable wooden blade clamp. The blade slot cuts diagonally through the object. There are inscriptions on both shorter ends of the object.On side opposite blade slot: 'JENKINS/&/CLARK/J.O.HART/MICL ORGILL/J.O.HART/D. BROWN' On side near blade slot: 'D. BROWN/[upside-down] J.O.HART/MICL ORGILL/[upside-down] J.O.HART'plough plane, tools, jenkins & clark -
Ringwood RSL Sub-Branch
Plaque - Shield - Navy, Shropshire, Floreat ambo, LEGA Pty Ltd, Circa 1990
... . Also with upturned boomerang with crossed aboriginal "tools ...Wooden shield with plastic fittings.Motto "Floreat Ambo". Emblem with Navy Crown with Lions head in the centre. Shropshire embossed over the navy Crown. Also with upturned boomerang with crossed aboriginal "tools".