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General => What is this??? => Topic started by: Raven on March 30, 2014, 20:08:22
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Well, that's what it looks like to me!
(http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i157/Raven461/Mystery1_zps8723ae83.jpg) (http://s71.photobucket.com/user/Raven461/media/Mystery1_zps8723ae83.jpg.html)
Where is this from and what was it intended for?
Also, what pulled it? It has a strange connector, seemingly unsuitable for either animals or vehicles.
(http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i157/Raven461/Mystery2_zpsb8c2f6cf.jpg) (http://s71.photobucket.com/user/Raven461/media/Mystery2_zpsb8c2f6cf.jpg.html)
I like it and I'm sure I've got use for it - but it would be great to know its original intention too!
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It's a wagon from a german shepherd (not a dog!) - pulled by a donkey ;)
playmobil: 3412 (http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=3412-B&showSpareParts=false&cgid=#q=3412&start=1)
(and I remembered the ref correctly!)
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Oh wow, thank you so much.
No wonder I couldn't find a driver's seat for it - it hasn't got one!
And of course it is the ideal size for sheep too - yet I never considered that. I'm so happy knowing what it actually is!
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That's so cool. Now I kind of want one. :lol:
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It's a wagon from a german shepherd (not a dog!) - pulled by a donkey ;)
playmobil: 3412 (http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=3412-B&showSpareParts=false&cgid=#q=3412&start=1)
(and I remembered the ref correctly!)
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. ;D
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This is one of those things I still need to find... really delightful cart.
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This is one of those things I still need to find... really delightful cart.
exactly, it has that classic charm.. I have a few roofs from job lots and I am still waiting for at lest a wheel more.
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We got one in a job lot recently (I just love those lots with hidden gems like this in them!) and I managed to get all the missing parts on ebay -except the donkey's saddle :(
Shepherds used shelters like this as temporary homes, I believe, in order to watch over their flocks. If you are a Terry Pratchett fan, you may remember Granny Aching lived in something like this (probably bigger though) in Wee Free Men.
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I don't remember the name of the (german) series, but it had a "park ranger" (or something) called Rombach, and it featured one JUST LIKE THIS. Really. I remember we were both quite surprised. The shepherd was just like Sebastian too, and even had that odd tool. Unfortunately, he just held it, so its use remained a mystery.
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. . . The shepherd was just like Sebastian too, and even had that odd tool. Unfortunately, he just held it, so its use remained a mystery.
I think that "odd tool" is meant to be a version of a shepherd's axe, as explained on Wikipedia: Shepherd's Axe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd's_axe) :)
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I think that "odd tool" is meant to be a version of a shepherd's axe, as explained on Wikipedia: Shepherd's Axe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd's_axe) :)
Thanks for clearing that up Indianna, sounds like an ancient Swiss army knife,
"it's a walking stick, no its a hammer, no its an ax, no its a self defense weapon, what can your Shepard make of this spectacular new piece of wood? No matter how it's used he will have plenty of carving surface for all those lonely nights. "
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I think that "odd tool" is meant to be a version of a shepherd's axe, as explained on Wikipedia: Shepherd's Axe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd's_axe) :)
I wondered about that tool too! It looks to me like a turf-cutting spade used to cut peat turves, e.g. http://www.pcl-eu.de/virt_ex/detail.php?entry=05 (http://www.pcl-eu.de/virt_ex/detail.php?entry=05) (these are Irish turf spades), perhaps combined with a shepherd's crook?
sounds like an ancient Swiss army knife,
"it's a walking stick, no its a hammer, no its an ax, no its a self defense weapon, what can your Shepard make of this spectacular new piece of wood? No matter how it's used he will have plenty of carving surface for all those lonely nights. "
:lol:
Stop that whittling!
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I think it looks like some sort of "shovel" - I don't know the name in english.. But why would a shepherd need one?
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What a very interesting and charming set particularly that walking stick if it is a Sheperd's Axe then it sounds very cool and versatile just the sort of thing I'd love since I do a lot of conservation work and have been brought up doing lots of walking in the countryside ;)
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It's one of the sets my older brother and sister had, we used the sickle often with the pirates.