Grandpa's Tools

[fowldarr]

I know there is probably a thread out there where this post would fit, but I didn't see it.

These tools belonged to my wife's grandfather. None of his grandkids wanted them at the time, so I drove all the way from Wyoming to Utah in the winter to pick up a couple of boxes of tools. This was a couple of years ago, but I just got around to cleaning up the old handmade wooden box that these ones came in (My mother-in-law is visiting, which gave me a good excuse for garage time, but she also loved seeing the box and tools cleaned up). A couple of interesting finds in the box. It was mostly full of Bodyworking tools (hammers a dollies), some older than others.

There was also a Vlcheck DOE, a couple of DOE's that I couldn't make out the maker marks on, and this cool "Hercules powder co No. 2" That I need to do some research on. (Unless somebody wants to chime in and tell me all about it. Anyway, I thought you guys would enjoy seeing these almost as much as I did.

 

[fowldarr]

I'll get a picture of the box degreased and cleaned up later. I forgot to take one last night.

 

[NYBODYMAN]

Post some pics of the old body tools.

 

[Username already in use]

The pliers are blasting cap crimpers.

 

[fowldarr]

I wonder what he used those for? Now, I'm going to have to ask some questions.

 

[fowldarr]

Post some pics of the old body tools.

I'll grab some pics of them tonight.

 

[jakemac]

I wonder what he used those for? Now, I'm going to have to ask some questions.

Did he remove a lot of tree stumps for a living ?
+1 for pictures of the body tools.

 

[ChaseDE]

Cool stuff man, I have Grandpa's tools as well haha

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=338002

 

[fowldarr]

Did he remove a lot of tree stumps for a living ?
+1 for pictures of the body tools.

he was a crime scene photographer....Though, I'm sure he did something before that.

 

[chruler]

That's so cool. Several years ago my grandfather gave me a couple of tool boxes full of stuff. Some of the tolls were ancient. Lots of fun going through them and figuring out what some of them were.

 

[Shiftless]

There was a "Hercules Powder Co." in Hercules, CA. way back when.
Founded 1912 although explosives were made there since 1881
Now the area is mostly tract homes.

 

[thehorse13]

I have a wooden Hercules dynamite box, which came with a set of those blast cap crimps.

There used to be a time in this country when dynamite was just a handy tool. Today, like everything else, possession makes you a terrorist.

 

[Roberts210]

.....There used to be a time in this country when dynamite was just a handy tool. Today, like everything else, possession makes you a terrorist.

Well said. When I was in Ag. Shop, in the early 1960's our Ag teacher told us even then dynamite was getting hard to buy so if we needed to take out a stump come see him and he'd help us take one out with some 20-10-10 and kerosene. None of us took him up on it, but I have no doubt he'd have taught us how to do it right. My pop took one out with dynamite when he was a young man he said he dug as far under the stump as he could and then stuffed in the hole way too many sticks of dynamite. He said the blast threw rocks and chunks of wood 60 yards. After that he burned 'em out.

 

[Dennis Leigh Henry]

That tool trade mark / logo is super cool...

 

[fowldarr]

Sorry for not getting pictures tonight. Ran out of time. Maybe in the morning.

 

[jacked_72]

Hercules used to make gun powder too. Now it is Alliant. They use the same names for their powder as when the company was Hercules, like Red Dot, Unique, etc.

 

[bcexplorer]

Thats cool, both my grampas were welders, but the tools all disapeared years ago. There is nothing id love more than some of their old stuff. Maybe thats why im into this vintage stuff. Thanks for posting!

 

[Empty Pockets]

I have my grandfathers' tools, as well as my dad's and an uncle's. Old tools have a certain charm to them.

Cool pictures, thanks for posting