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It would be used to cut hot iron or steel at a forge. The hot metal would be placed on an anvil, the cutting edge of the hot chisel would be placed on the metal, and the hot chisel would be struck with a sledgehammer.

Ararat‘s guess is dead on correct. It’s a handled hot chisel.

Get the Vevor 132 lb. Cast steel anvil, It’s brand new. $259 at Amazon.

Don’t have a date on the vice but the square headed bolts and nuts on the stand look like late 40’s or even earlier.

They are still around. I retired from the trade 12 years ago.

As of December 21, 2022 BJ’S in Riverhead, N.Y. has Rotella T4 15w-40 on sale for $64.99 for 6 gallons.

Lowe’s warranted my broken 40 year old USA made Sears Craftsman 3/8 drive rachet, 36 tooth, with an asian replacement 10 months ago. The asian replacement was also 36 tooth. It’s made like ****, I don’t use it.

That’s crazy. I just sold a leg vise last year for $175.

Here on Long Island my roofing job cost 11,750 in the summer of 2021. Total tear off of three roofs down to the lath. 1/2 inch plywood put down, don’t remember how many sheets, tarpaper and 11 square of architectural shingles.

Wrenchguy is right. When I worked in a living history museum as a smith we made wrenches as needed. Typically they would be a single open end wrench. On this particular wrench there appears to be grind marks where the parting seam would have been.

Looks like a retrofit to me. Every leg vise I’ve seen and used has a screw box that fits inside the fixed leg.

That’s a straight peen sledgehammer. When double striking at the forge the sledge man can use the straight peen to effectively fuller the iron.

Francis Whitaker was one of my blacksmith teachers. He used water when drilling mild steel or wrought iron. It works and it is cheap.

That’s a steel hoop setting tool used by a cooper. It is a hammer struck tool with the groove end placed on the metal hoop and then driven into position.

I use scrap cardboard in my shop.