the iHousee is just an aluminum box with a door because there's no Windows

youtu.be/_mJ5kwVqkqg?si=HfIFVe…

I used a tool very like this while helping out on a farm a while back. It attached onto a longer handle. It was used to scrape muck off a shed floor. I am not sure if yours is the same tool, but it looks very similar. The movable joint makes it easier to get into tricky angles on unecen floors.

I will ask the farmer for the name of it because I can't remember. She definitely knew its name.

apparently it is called a rotating hoe. Though I'm working with a thatcher right now who would say that any tool is made to do a job, but often ends up doing a different job than intended. So it might also be that I know a similar tool to yours, but with a different use.

It might be worth asking a museum that specialises in old agricultural tools. The Museum of Country Life in Ireland has specialists in this and are good for replying to emails. museum.ie/en-IE/Museums/Countr…

NASA is targeting Sat. Jan 17 for the rollout of the Artemis II SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft for final integration, testing, and launch rehearsals.

The 4-mile journey to the launch pad at KSC using the crawler-transporter-2 will take ~12 hours. After system checks and tests, astronauts will conduct a final walkdown at the pad.

At the end of Jan, NASA will conduct a wet dress rehearsal, including fueling and unfueling of the rocket without astronauts onsite.

nasa.gov/missions/artemis/arte…
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Knock knock!

It is NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 arriving at the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC for a pick-up!

Tomorrow morning Jan. 17, at ~7 a.m. EST. it will transport NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft + Mobile Launcher to Launch Pad 39B in preparation for the Artemis II crewed mission around the Moon on ~6 Feb.

At about one mph, the four-mile journey will take 10-12 hours.

Livestream starts at 7 a.m. at youtube.com/watch?v=nrVnsO_rde…

nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/0…
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A pair of crawler-transporters (nicknamed “Hans” and “Franz”) were built in 1965 to move the massive Saturn V rocket from Kennedy’s VAB to Launch Complex 39. After the Moon landing and Skylab programs ended, the crawlers were used to transport the space shuttles.

CT-2 was upgraded for the Artemis program around 2012.
CT-1 was originally planned for commercial launch vehicles but its future remains uncertain.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawler-…
nasa.gov/humans-in-space/explo…
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Here are a few vital specs of the unique NASA crawler-transporter vehicles. No other vehicle comes close.

Each CT is larger than the size of a baseball infield and powered by locomotive and large electrical power generator engines.

The crawlers are designed to roll underneath the mobile launcher (ML) along with assembled rocket, pick it up, and steadily carry it 4.2 miles to Launch Pad 39B.

www3.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi…
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The crawler-transporter is able to raise and lower its sides and corners independently using its hydraulic system. It uses its hydraulic suspension to keep the mobile platform and rocket level, as it climbs up the 2.9 degree slope to the the launch pad.

www3.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi…
More pics at images.nasa.gov/search?q=crawl…
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The NASA crawlers were built by the Marion Power Shovel Co., a manufacturer of steam shovels, power shovels and excavators. Their power shovels played a major role in mining, the construction of the Panama Canal and excavation of Hoover Dam and the Holland Tunnel.

The idea for a crawler-launcher platform started when a NASA engineer visited his father’s farm near Paradise, KY, and observed a giant strip mining shovel in operation.

pophistorydig.com/topics/tag/g…
marionmade.org/2019/07/marion-…
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Here are a few videos of the NASA crawler-transporter in action in 2022 during the Artemis I mission.

youtube.com/watch?v=fhgPs0n3ph…
youtube.com/watch?v=aBpHjQjbt2…
youtube.com/watch?v=dk226QwT_1…
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Some amazing pics of NASA’s massive Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft, secured to the mobile launcher, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC, taken on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026.

All work platforms have been retracted in preparation for rollout to Launch Complex 39B at KSC in FL Saturday morning.

More pics at images.nasa.gov/search?q=artem…
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Assuming the weather cooperates and all goes well, the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft atop the mobile launcher will look like this at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in FL.

The pics below are of Artemis I in 2022 during wet rehearsals.

nasa.gov/humans-in-space/explo…
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