For me, the fun part of going to the surplus auctions is looking at all the weird things that are sitting around and trying to figure out what they’re supposed to be and what they’re used for. Most of these items don’t come with instruction manuals, so you have to look at all the parts and how they fit together and imagine what it could possibly do. It’s fun.
This contraption was there on Saturday, and I’ll just let you take a look at the photos and you see if you know what it is. I’ll post our incorrect guess, then our correct guess, then proof of the correctness. Good luck!
Ok, I changed my mind. The rules to Bossy Lauren’s Game now go: Make your guess in the comments, then come back and click here to see what it is. Or, do what you want – apparently I can’t control you, dang it.
Keren Lowell says
This looks like something one would use to keep minnows alive.
Keren Lowell says
OK. Wow. I don’t think I would ever need one of these, and that’s why my answer was so wrong.
Brad says
It’s a container for delivering organs for transplants?
Lloyd says
I thought it was a contraption to allow your snakes and gerbils to cross safely between two tanks. That sounds like a kids game. “Hey! Lets play snakes & gerbils.”
Kristi says
It’s a contraption for zapping the worms to come up out of the ground into the cooler. Then you can go fishing.
Peggy says
I can only hope it’s an old fashioned portable air-conditioner & that you bought it to send to me!
Peggy says
I swear I didn’t look 1st. I just thought, Hmmm…a cooler with pipes and a motor…not to mention I would love a ‘carry with you’ air conditioner. Not that big of course.
Curt says
It’s a cooler to keep pipes and smaller coolers cool.
As for my real guess, it is some type of refrigeration device.
Curt says
Crap, I had seen the auction advertized on the intreweb, but forgot to see if Lloyd could pick up a monitor for me.
Lloyd says
I could have. I bought two of them, and, in hind-sight, I think I should have purchased about 30 of them.
Lauren says
We thought it was a fog machine at first.