Hi All: I came across this plier today. I didn’t know what they were but managed to find them on the internet while searching. Another addition to my tool collection. Anyone else ever seen these before?
1913 WEED TIRE CHAIN PLIER
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four.cycle
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Weed / Weed Tire Chain Grip Co., New York, NY / chain tool / patent 1069041 Jul 29 1913 Frederick A. Strong & 1141877 Jun 1 1915 Thomas C. Luce /
Lassen Forge
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Yep, light duty cross chain chain pliers - built enough sets of chains, to me this looks like work!!! For the big ones we had a clamper device - same function, looks kinda similar, but bigger - the handle was long and the other bolted to a work bench...
Private Lugnutz
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Yes. There was a time many years ago I was always on the lookout for them. The chains and the pliers were issued on some WWII jeeps. Not easy to find in the correct specs.
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four.cycle
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^ nice collection... what's that one with the fancy script? Pyreneer? Tyreneer?
Private Lugnutz
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Hmm. Well, up until just now I thought it was, 'The Pyreneer' and figgered it was made by Pyrene Mfg Co, in Newark, NJ, the same outfit better known for fire extinguishers. They did make tire chains, too. On-line research for more specifics on the tool of that name has been hampered - as you might expect - by pages and pages of documents related to mountain climbers who favor the Pyrenees! 
But that very well could be a T, not a P, and Tyreneer (i.e., alluding to the British 'tyre') makes sense, too, and might be a whole new path to research.
But that very well could be a T, not a P, and Tyreneer (i.e., alluding to the British 'tyre') makes sense, too, and might be a whole new path to research.
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Wrench97
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Toys mine look like this..................
four.cycle
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errrrr.. yeah... lemme know... I'm in a completely different rabbit hole right now...
those kraute pliers and the boy's tool box in the GS thread are pretty awesome.
those kraute pliers and the boy's tool box in the GS thread are pretty awesome.
Private Lugnutz
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99.9% sure it's fin de siecle Hibberd, Spencer, and Bartlett. I will be posting soon.
I also came across this tool and am trying to figure out its purpose??Hmm. Well, up until just now I thought it was, 'The Pyreneer' and figgered it was made by Pyrene Mfg Co, in Newark, NJ, the same outfit better known for fire extinguishers. They did make tire chains, too. On-line research for more specifics on the tool of that name has been hampered - as you might expect - by pages and pages of documents related to mountain climbers who favor the Pyrenees!
But that very well could be a T, not a P, and Tyreneer (i.e., alluding to the British 'tyre') makes sense, too, and might be a whole new path to research.
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Private Lugnutz
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I wasn't able to identify its purpose through research at the time I found it, or since posting it, and haven't tried since then. I posted it in this thread thinking it might could be a tool for removing and repairing links or cross-chains in vintage tire chains (for snow, sometimes mud), like the Weed examples I showed with it, but I was never able to confirm that. The jaws are similar, but notably a different orientation, almost like bypass nippers.
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Private Lugnutz
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^ Thanks, Steve. Good to know my deduction about them potentially being tire chain pliers was correct! Do you have the entire page or link? The excerpt you made doesn't indicate whether "Pyreneer" was a brand named derived from the "Pyrene" in Pyrene Mfg Co, as I also deduced, or a separate company.
Three footer? I should have got that one. I have it’s little brother, only twenty inch handles.Toys mine look like this..................
Happened upon it on eBay. Here's the link in case you had any interest in it. It's only $6 plus 7 shipping. I'd buy it if I had any interest at all at that price. https://ebay.us/m/ozJhcc
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d42jeep
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Not much doubt about them being the fire extinguisher manufacturer as well.Hmm. Well, up until just now I thought it was, 'The Pyreneer' and figgered it was made by Pyrene Mfg Co, in Newark, NJ, the same outfit better known for fire extinguishers. They did make tire chains, too. On-line research for more specifics on the tool of that name has been hampered - as you might expect - by pages and pages of documents related to mountain climbers who favor the Pyrenees!
But that very well could be a T, not a P, and Tyreneer (i.e., alluding to the British 'tyre') makes sense, too, and might be a whole new path to research.
-Don
four.cycle
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Pyrene Mfg. Co., 520 Belmont Ave., Newark, NJ
Pyrene / Pyrene Mfg. Co., 1358 Broadway, New York, NY (1913-1915), 17 E. 49th Street, New York, NY (1922), 520 Belmont Ave., Newark, NJ (1922) / fire extinguisher, tire chain tool / https://mycompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Pyrene_Manufacturing_Company
"Makers of Pyrene Fire Extinguishers"
manufacturers of "Off'N'On" tire chains
Pyrene / Pyrene Mfg. Co., 1358 Broadway, New York, NY (1913-1915), 17 E. 49th Street, New York, NY (1922), 520 Belmont Ave., Newark, NJ (1922) / fire extinguisher, tire chain tool / https://mycompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Pyrene_Manufacturing_Company
"Makers of Pyrene Fire Extinguishers"
manufacturers of "Off'N'On" tire chains
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Private Lugnutz
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Thanks! That confirms the hunch.
Defiely interesting how hard it was to confirm though. There was a bunch of different catalogs. I saw and went through a bunch of other resources and it was only that one that made mention of it. Probably because they wanted to get enough advertisements out without that line about how there's no tools required before added a tool to their product line. Anyways, I may as well do what I came here to do in the firs
he's some of my "weeds" pretty sure there's more sizes that I have aroundl somewhere
he's some of my "weeds" pretty sure there's more sizes that I have aroundl somewhere