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[–]fiddlenutz 4767 points4768 points  (54 children)

Ice pick with built in grabber. Chunk your ice you want off the block and pinch to grab. Back when they had in home ice deliveries. Pretty neat tool to find one intact.

Edit: for description of tool.

[–]CharityJai[S] 985 points986 points  (6 children)

Solved! Thanks.

[–]PUTINS_PORN_ACCOUNT 327 points328 points  (22 children)

They’re handy. The old big ones with a handle kind of pinch harder using the weight of the ice itself. Handy af

[–]ronin722 17 points18 points  (1 child)

I thought it was cool they use the same principle in construction.


[–]TropicalKing 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Its what Kristoff was using at the beginning of Frozen.

[–]xDragod 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I love to try to guess these before I check the answer. This is the first time I got it right!

[–]HanThrowawaySolo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How to you grab anything? It looks like the pick itself would get in the way of the claws.

[–]HowIsntBabbyFormed 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I totally thought it was going to be some sort of leather sewing tool

[–]GenericSuperhero1Some guy on the internet. 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[–]frothface -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Sure it's not a corn holder?

[–]fiddlenutz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be anything with imagination and a little determination. I wouldn't want my teeth anywhere near the things on the sides.

[–]screwball2 238 points239 points  (2 children)

Trying to confirm this is found an amazing site on the subject of ice tools. I'm reassured that there's always somebody out there that knows everything about something.

[–]MyElectricCity 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Man, I had shit to do today. Oops.

[–]troyzein 27 points28 points  (0 children)

What an unusual thing to collect. I love it.

[–]momo88852 269 points270 points  (9 children)

Holy dam! Last time I seen this ice grabber/hook was back during the Iraq war. Good to see one again. Sometimes they use an extra hook to carry bigger chunks of ice along side this one.

[–]yallracistaf 40 points41 points  (6 children)

What was it used for in Iraq

[–]momo88852 86 points87 points  (5 children)

U see even tho we own shit load of oil, our electricity is barely few hours a day on and the rest is off. So people brought new idea to sell ice blocks. It comes in 1 meter length, and about 20cm width, so people need something to transport it from the cart to inside ur house. And they use those and hooks

[–]Meer_is_peak 11 points12 points  (4 children)

oh tell me about it brother, KRG is doing terrible electricity wise

[–]momo88852 12 points13 points  (3 children)

I bet Kurdistan is not doing so well as of now.

Well u see people simple rent electricity generators, and they have those big ice makers. Usually they place a big metal square that's hallow from the inside, they fill it with water, and the metal thing has a circle metal that's hallow too from the inside. This way it speeds up the freezing time. :) that's the best way I could explain it. here's advance way of doing it.

[–]Meer_is_peak 4 points5 points  (2 children)

oh that’s interesting, the ones I have seen are people on the street selling it, do they make it on their own or do they buy it?

[–]momo88852 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Those people on the street and usually they actually go between the streets as it makes them more money and u know it's 100+ degrees so people aren't welling to go out.

Anyway yes they buy it off manufacture and they resell it for profit. For example if I recall the price, it's like ~$2 for the 1 meter long ice block, and they resell it for over $4 so pretty good money tbh.

They use some tricks that include blanket and plastic wraps to wrap the ice and it stays unmelted for a long time.

[–]Meer_is_peak 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh okay, thanks for telling me