Couple of odd tools

Keith True · Jun 2, 2022

I have dozens of boxes of old obsolete and specialty tools,and I picked out a couple of odd tools while looking
for something today.the funny U-shaped clamp I have no idea about.The lever action tool was thought to be a
setting tool,but I really have no idea.The long bar is a babbit scraper,this box came from a sawmill with a bunch
of sharpening,setting,and babitting equipment.I always hold the little vises in my hand,but I would like to know
how they were held originally.

Dusty MI · Jun 3, 2022

One of the tools is a grease-gun.

560Dennis · Jun 3, 2022

Vise grip

Richard G. · Jun 3, 2022

I ran my sawmill for many years here on the farm, but never used tools like those.

Russ from MN · Jun 3, 2022

I'm pretty sure the first tool is a saw set, I have a couple similar ones. We used to make babbitt scrapers out of old 3-cornered files.

cwtech · Jun 3, 2022

I always thought the little vise was just a small clamp for holding things together.

I suppose it could be held by hand to hold small things for filing or grinding.

PJH · Jun 3, 2022

I have the mate to the tool in the fourth picture. The old man who gave it to me said it was used in his family's harness shop. He didn't specify the particular use, but I picture using it to stretch leather for stitching around the neck pad for a horse or mule. (I can't remember the proper name of the neck pad)

DMartin9N-2N · Jun 3, 2022

Good afternoon, Dusty MI and all: The grease gun may be special; at one time, Alemite and Zerk were different companies, and fittings were different. Each needed their own type of gun. Somebody reading this may know.

Dennis M. in W. Tenn.

GaryinKs · Jun 3, 2022

First tool is a sawset , the tool next to the grease gun is a hand vise

Keith True · Jun 3, 2022

The grease gun just happened to be in the picture of my hand vise.I have a few of those guns,this one is an Alemite,and works on my Model A's.I kept all the actual sawmill tools apart from these,except for the babbit scraper.That was used on their planer.The shop was old,it had a bench for repairing crosscut and ice saws.That double jawed tool being used on harnesses makes sense,they did their own harness work there too.It has H&E cast into it.That hand vise being a clamp never occurred to me.The shop had a brick forge in the corner,but the owner told me he never remembered it being used,and he was born in 1920.His father had used an iron coal forge sitting next to it.He did remember his father brazing the crosscut saws together using the coal forge.

Kelly in tx · Jun 4, 2022

PJH the name for a horse/mule neck pad is a collar.

PJH · Jun 5, 2022

Thanks Kelly, I couldn't think of that word for the life of me.

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