Mary: Thanks, I'll pass this along. How it got where it got is a big mystery. Using the wedge at the one end for leverage appears to be what most people think its for. As for its name, who knows :). Sue > Sue, > The photo you show looks more like a peavey because of the hook on > the end. It's used in logging to move logs by leverage. It's bent > and I'm guessing there's a story about that -- otherwise, why would > it be attached to a monument? A Johnson bar, or a spud bar is > usually shorter than a peavy, and has no hook on the end. A > Johnson/spud bar has a wedge or point on the business end and > sometimes has a head on the other end. It would have many uses. I > have used mine to move large rocks and chunks of concrete, again by > leverage. The names of these tools came to me from Idaho and Oregon > in the local vernacular. I wonder what this tool is called elsewhere. > > MVT > > --------------------------------------- > Tegel Design + Planning > --------------------------------------- > >> On Aug 24, 2014, at 4:31 PM, Susan Maltby <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Greetings wise ones. A client of mine has an "artifact" in her >> public art collection that has been referred to as a "Johannson >> bar" (photo attached). Supposedly it was used in quarrying stone. >> Her research has shown up no such bar. It appears to have nothing >> to do with anyone named "Johannson." She fears that it may well >> be an urban myth. One person thought that it might be a "spud >> bar" (apparently a Scottish term). Does anyone on the list know >> what this thing is & how it is suppose to be used? We also have >> no idea if it is complete or not. Any input would be appreciated. >> >> Many thanks. >> >> Sue Maltby, Conservator >> Maltby & Associates Inc. >> Adjunct Faculty, Museum Studies Programme/Faculty of Information >> University of Toronto >> 174 Spadina Ave., # 602 >> Toronto, Ontario >> M5T 2C2 >> Canada >> 416-921-2877 >> >> -- >> **Please remember to trim posts, as requested in the Terms of Service** >> >> To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the >> uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: >> <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html> >> <Johannson bar.jpg> > > -- > **Please remember to trim posts, as requested in the Terms of Service** > > To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the > uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: > <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html> > -- **Please remember to trim posts, as requested in the Terms of Service** To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>