I'm outta ideas???

Been scratching my head for a while now trying to figure out what this is/ is for, mainly the socket type piece which doesn't appear to be electric as it's just leads to a brass tube, part of the casting. a long drill of some sort.
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cast brass handle, solid copper rod, brass drill bit. total length is just over 6ft.
This ones gonna stick around here for a while...whatever it is.

For taking soil samples? Is the drill shaft hollow? Just a guess...

Maybe a tool to clear out the packing behind an explosive charge in a mine if it was positioned improperly and needed to be removed. You guys have lots of granite up there right?

Pink socket thing might be to bond a ground wire to it.

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it's a cork screw for opening wine bottles.

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You need to return that to the clubhouse. Sir's been looking for his cork screw.

Keg...don't do wine. ;)

You could use it to leash your goat to it.

Mountains, goats...goes together like PB&J~!

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Sirscrapalot - I got goats that quote, don't make me use'm!

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This could be useful to a ham radio club for their annual Field Day. Field Day is when clubs and individuals set up their radio station outside power them with batteries, solar or generators. So an easily removed ground rod should be useful. 73, Mike

Could be used for grounding vehicles too.

They taught us at a electricity power station that if your vehicle gets electrocuted, like if something on it touches live wires.
To park it up in a safe open space with nothing around it for a couple of days.

The electricity can earth thru the tyres, if there's metal, nails, wire bits etc etc in the tread the power will go thru it.
This bit of power can cause a arc, this can cause a small fire, the compressed air in the tyre can feed this fire with oxygen, it will be a very tiny intense fire and can heat up the inside of the tyre.
This will increase the pressure inside it until the tyre explodes, or catches fire.

Just a random caution but mostly a source of a interesting random unknown safety fact that may never happen, to impress somebody else with one day.

I read a story about the making of 'The Boston bridge' using caissons.
Here's a bit about it.
Men Labored in Caissons Under the Brooklyn Bridge

They had the same problem when a spark from a lamp got into the timber roof, as the air was under pressure, it fed the spark, tunnelling thru the wooden beams until they got a (must have been tiny) guy to excavate it out using a hammer and chisle, it tunnelled over 10 feet into a solid wood ceiling/floor burning out individual wooden beams.

If you can find the whole story about building the bridge, read it, its one of the most fascinating construction story's I have read. Similar to 'The red rocks of Eddystone lighthouse".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddystone_Lighthouse