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Mesquite has bean pods not nuts. They're not especially hard even when dry. Dried ones make a good flour when ground up.
 
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It's currently in Texas, Austin/Houston area. Not necessarily where it came from, as I don't know that the grandparents didn't move there from elsewhere, a lot of people did.
 
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Mike Barkley wrote:Mesquite has bean pods not nuts. They're not especially hard even when dry. Dried ones make a good flour when ground up.

Good to know - I was given the impression you pretty much needed a hammer mill, but that may have been the flour grinding part of the process. I'm in the wrong ecosystem for mesquite, and have never met one, but if I thought they had any chance of growing here, I'd give it a go for their ability to tolerate drought (our summers) and their supposed ability to move water from the surface to underground when it rains. However, maybe that info was faulty too?

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Not necessarily where it came from, as I don't know that the grandparents didn't move there from elsewhere, a lot of people did.

I can remember as a child, my parents buying a mixed bag of nuts in the shell at Christmas time. I was too wimpy to open most of them, but there were a couple of light coloured, vaguely almond-shaped nuts that even Dad couldn't crack with the little nut-crackers we had. He used to take them down to the bench vice... the tool in the picture looks vaguely like a bench vice with a particular intention.

I would use a C-clamp to mount it on a table myself. If it wasn't being used on a daily basis, it probably didn't deserve prime real estate.
 
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I have only ground it with a molcajete but I think any regular mill or coffee grinder would work just fine.

Doubtful the trees would survive your climate but you never know until you try.
 
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Ok! We have an answer, and you all were right. Nut cracker, known to at least have cracked pecans.
No easy way to declare a winner, as multiple people earned the apple, so multiple apples are being awarded :D
 
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This was at ReStore for 5.00 yesterday. The blue stripe standing by it is a yard stick for scale.

It's obviously well made for a specific purpose, if I sit on it, the clamp part (one pic shows it open, has leather pads that have come unglued) will hold SOMETHING at the perfect height to work on it.

What was it made to work on?





 
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My guess is a dress or gown.
 
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Mike Barkley wrote:My guess is a dress or gown.


The yard stick is not part of it, it's just something I stuck by it for pictures.  :D
 
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I found this link about a saddler's clamp or stitching pony which had this image of a

saddlers stitching ‘horse’. As the name suggests, it's a four legged wooden stool which is straddled for comfort during long stitching sessions with straps and belts etc.



 
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This might be hard. Any guesses?

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is that the new screwworm thing that is causing such havoc in US meat production/imports/exports right now?
 
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I would use Pearl's stitching pony to squish that bug.
 
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Not the screw worm.
 
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Coral or some other sea creature?
 
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not from the sea
 
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Microscope pic of an impact splash?
 
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Mike, have you been watching Dune, in black & white?
 
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It does look like sci-fi but I took the picture of a real thing.
 
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Looks like a carnivorous plant, similar though probably not a Drosera capensis.
 
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i'm still thinking of some kind of worm. tapeworm, botfly larva, one of those bad boys that are hard to get out.

(I would love it to be a tardigrade's mouth, but doubt it is).
 
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Is it a snail or slug's eye???
 
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I can see that some of you are a little close to being on the right track. I will post another picture tomorrow. Until then I'm going to be a pest & let it bug y'all.
 
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A little more detail in this one.
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Is it the foot of a water bear (tardigrade)?

 
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No. Tomorrow's pic will be more helpful than the first two.
 
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demodex
 
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Nope but you're getting warmer.
 
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Road Kill Cactus or Senita Cactus?  Maybe even Tadpole Cactus?
 
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Good guess but it's not a plant.
 
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An intestinal parasite?
 
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No. Good thing too. A few times in the military I ate hundreds, maybe thousands of these. Not intentionally or willingly but it was either that or no food. They really didn't have any noticeable flavor.

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termite larva, grub larva
 
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No. It is an adult something.
 
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Ant?
 
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Not an ant.

I have eaten some of those intentionally before. Again, it was that or nothing. I prefer the lemony ones.
 
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A grasshopper?
 
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I'm going with some kind of weevil. Heaven knows ive eaten plenty of them myself (even when things are buggy I can't throw away food-- there have been timed when i washed and washed and hoped for the best, but i suspect i got some extra protein!)
 
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Much smaller than a grasshopper.
 
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Locust
 
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I think a weevil is the closest so far but not a weevil. Think smaller still.
 
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