A wrench for the big tractor jobs

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Anonymous-0

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• Jan 16, 2012

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it should just about handle it all

 

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Doug in Illinois

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• Jan 16, 2012

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Where is the cheater pipe? You just can't get those
really tight nuts off without one.

Are you sure you won't strain your back using this
wrench? DOUG

 

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paul

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• Jan 16, 2012

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Was at a tool tent sale at Farmfest & could not walk by, had to buy a matching slip pliers to your wrench - too cute a little thing not to buy. It's sitting on the workbench with the oither pliers to remind me of the small tasks in life. Don't think I could get a 3rd finger to touch the handles.

--->PAul

 

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CWL

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• Jan 16, 2012

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I carried a small cresent on my keychain that would open up to 9/16" for many years. That thing sure came in handy a lot of times.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Jan 16, 2012

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Could replace the saw blade and spindle on a Dremel with that one.

 

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donjr

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• Jan 16, 2012

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Little wrench for your little nuts?

 

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gtractorfan

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• Jan 16, 2012

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Here's a "little" wrench I got at an auction for $1. It's 53 inches long and weighs 99 pounds. The handle is mushroomed where it's been beat on. What was a wrench like this used for?

 

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CCer

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• Jan 16, 2012

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That looks like just the tool to use for the "Wrench Throwing Contest" at your local gathering. Greatest distance wins. I have been looking for something like that.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Jan 16, 2012

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Stamp JD on it, and some fool will pay $300.00 for it!

 

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Paul Fenstermaker

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• Jan 16, 2012

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My dad worked at a cast iron foundry in the 40's where they had a large diesel engine to run a generator that powered their electric furnace. He said it had a catwalk around it to work on it. They circulated water through it from the creek. They had a large striking wrench to tighten the head bolts. He said they used sledge hammers hitting on the wrenches to tighten the bolts. I would assume they were big wrenches.
Paul

 

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samn40

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• Jan 16, 2012

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Small wrench or big hands?
Them hands should carry a government health warning, just like
mine!
Sam

 

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teddy52food

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• Jan 16, 2012

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That is for adjusting the carb on a lawn mower that won't start!

 

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Mike (WA)

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• Jan 16, 2012

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That looked like the wrench to change the blade on my radial arm say, until I saw the Pepsi can. Jeez, that one's a load.

 

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John A.

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• Jan 16, 2012

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lyle, guys, My Dad carried a small black, non-chrome Cresent wrench like that in WWII when he was Crew Chief on a P-51 Mustang! I have it put up in his stuff!
Later,
John A.

 

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ShadetreeRet

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• Jan 16, 2012

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Hey, I got one of those somewhere around here. Carried it with keys on it for a long time till the wife got tired of patching the holes in my pocket.

 

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George Rausch

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• Jan 17, 2012

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gtractorfan = Looks like something they used in the roundhouse to work on steam locomotives.

 

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NEBeef

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• Jan 17, 2012

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Got an ad in the Sunday paper a while back from the local hardware store, they had several things on sale including one of those flat pry bars - $2.99, how can you beat that? My wife was going down there anyway, she said she'd pick one up for me. She came back and dropped it in my hand - It was perfectly shaped and proportioned... but it was only about 3" long! LMAO at that one, it's still hanging over my tool bench...

 

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gtractorfan

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• Jan 17, 2012

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Now you got me curious since I like old steam locomotives. Will have to do some research. At the auction no one wanted it, too hard to carry to the truck-- I thought in terms of scrap metal price.

 

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The Dukester

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• Jan 17, 2012

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Grand-dad used to have pretty good sized (4" plus) spanner wrench to take off the flywheel nut on his 30-60 "S" model Rumely Oil Pull tractor. I remember them taking the flywheel off once back in the late 1930's or early 1940's (why, I don't know) They handled it with the same windlass that was built just inside the doorway of the Machine shed that they hung up butchered beef and deer carcasses with. Flywheel weighed 1250 lbs.IIRC. "They" was my Grand-dad, my Dad, and my Uncle.