We fooled a lot of people last week. Hardly anyone correctly guessed that the Toolsday mystery gadget was a combination can opener and knife sharpener. Many people thought it was a tool used to lift the lid off a pot-belly stove, some thought it was a rug-making hook and others guessed that it was a pick for cleaning horse hoofs.
We randomly picked one winner from all the comments. The lucky winner is JohnB, who thought it was used to pry oyster and clam shells open. Congrats, JohnB. You have one week to reply to our email before we choose another winner.
Next Tuesday, we will be giving away a Black & Decker lithium hedge trimmer. This powerful tool can hack off branches up to 3/4-inch thick. It comes equipped with a 36V rechargeable lithium battery so it holds a charge five times longer than standard batteries. And it has a more powerful transmission than most trimmers its size.
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To enter the Black & Decker hedge trimmer giveaway, post a comment (click “comment” above) and tell us what this old-timey tool was used for? You don’t have to answer correctly to win; we will randomly pick one winner from this post. 
On Tuesday, June 12, we will select the winner then start up a new giveaway for another tool, which will be given away the Tuesday after that.
You have until June 12, 2012, 2:00pm (ET) to enter to win the hedge trimmer.
an old map reader
some type of scope
don't know what it is
i think it's a piece of land surveyor equipment
a cutting tool
I thought it might be a surveyor's tool until I read the comment about it being an antique optometer – now I think that is right.
unfished start of microscope
no new contest this week.
eye doctor early years
I too believe it is something eye doctors used to test your eyes
A thingo to examine eyes
RANGE AND LEVEL FINDER.
eye examining tool
an antique surveyor devise
It has been years since I trimmed privet hedge with B&D Trimmer but I need one again. The line trimmer is just not working that high.
This device was used in drugstore or mercantile stores for choosinbg eyeglasses with the best correction of your sight. It did not help the machoi man who would not be seen in reading glasses so he sent his wife to get glasses. Still happens today. but where is the fine print I need to win the B&D hedge trimmer. I am dense and bluind.
distance gauging tool
It is an antique french optometer.
The contest should of ended on Tuesday, 5 th June and you should of being giving away a Black & Decker lithium hedge trimmer. I guess it is not going to happen
Optometer for eyes.
a sight to line up something?
Its a meter reader
Doctors eye scope?
change it
Room sextant