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These are post-Proto/Pendleton sourced, the boxheads are the first ones from Moore Drop Forge (MDF). The pawl doesn't just come out like the next-gen pearheads (without surgery on the peened-on lever), best to just remove the cover and gear and soak/blast cleaner in/around the pawl to clean any...

I've got a triple play of Metcoid ratchets and 2 out of 3 IFC - need a 1/2" if it exists - but until this IFC set I've never seen anything else socket or drive tool-wise. If you get to digging out those IFC sets I'd be curious what sockets are there. A couple of mine are doubles and there's...

I've had a 36" combo since @ 2010, have mostly liked it - solid feel to drawers with thick drawer liners, good variety of drawer depths carry plenty of weight without sagging or sticking, really like the dark green color, BUT: - 3 drawers on the bottom box have very weak to non-existent...

So I finally have another 1/4" set to add - scored at the annual Threshermens Show in Pinckneyville IL yesterday (missed it 3 times earlier going by the vendor). An International Forge set with ratchet, Provincial posted one @ 6 years ago with fewer sockets and no ratchet, but a driver handle...

Not much in the way of Artisan, have a triple play of the ratchets (disassembled to clean up) and a dbl box wrench that I can't find at the moment. Neatest find was this box (first and only Artisan I've personally seen to date) that was fairly full of 1/2" drive Stanley metric sockets, misc...

If a power line is actually involved (looks like just phone from what I can see), DO NOTHING BUT CALL THE POWER COMPANY to deal with it, and DO NOT do any clearance trimming on your own - that's the power company's responsibility, not yours. If it's just phone as it looks then try calling them...

Unexpected score at a farm auction today - a like-new 1/2" Crafty RHFT flex head ratchet for $47.50. The like-new KD long RHFT didn't take half that much to come home either. Both have plenty of sticker remnants left on the backsides and no markings or paint, unlike a boatload of other Crafty...

Direct from Alloy Artifacts ref Billings sockets and drive tools: "By 1930 Billings had discontinued their clunky line of male-drive forged sockets and had begun offering a new line of square-drive alloy steel socket tools sourced from Walden-Worcester. Walden continued as the major supplier of...

WOOF!!!!!!! That's a deep dive! (y) And I noted your correctness on the Bonney-Billings wrench post, my steadily vaporizing brain cells conflated Billings, Bonney, and Herbrand...

Thanks much for the offer Don, but as I rooted thru my mixed drawer of Barcalos tonight for some of the other brands, I stumbled on a single-sided RP 9/16 Crescent that suffice as a stand-in until I eventually find a matching dbl sided. That's one of (many) problems with getting old - losing...

A quick n' dirty pic of the other Barcalo-sourced scooped-box brands I mentioned, add Wards to the list as well. The Wardmast'r ones I have (not in the pic) appear to be screen printed or somesuch (def not laser etched), as some are nearly impossible to read because the printing is mostly worn off.

Nah Lugz, you're absolutely right, my swiftly aging and rapidly declining memory conflated my 3 favorite tool companies from back in the day - Billings, Bonney, and Herbrand (actually, throw Wright in there for a 4th). So while I'm way out in left field on Bonney and Billings getting united...

Been meaning to post this for a little while - I picked up a Bonney combo wrench this summer that is clearly (at least to me) off a Billings forge/press. It has the same slightly tapered beam as Billings combos (see pic, I've never seen a similar Bonney before), and they both line up 95%...

I've also been gradually building mixed brand sets of combos and dbl boxes over the years - will have to pull them out and see how far I've gotten. Scooped Barcalo-sourced wrenches can be fun to search thru the wrench piles for, they easily stand out from the myriad other USA and Chi-wan...

Beetlejui...., er, PowderKeg checking in a little late, my Filson Triple Play, also in this past post on Filson tools - https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/the-mysterious-filson-tools-mystery-now-solved-at-least-in-part.385635/

Ditto on Truth, they supplied a few others/brands with that design as well, Wardmaster and Co-op Deluxe are two I have, and have seen one or two others.

Cool! I'm plannimg on keeping the box and a fair part of the contents to fill out a truck set.

So were the sockets and other drive tools branded S-K, or were they unbranded from S-K? I've got a fair chunk of an S-K set that might be from @ that time, or at least a close match. I picked up an Artisan short dbl box wrench this year as well - the ratchets have been the only branded tools...

Yup, my garage screams "idiot!" too, but then I just stack it a little higher to stuff something else in....

While I'm at it, scored the below at the annual show in Lathrop, MO a month+ ago. A set of Barcalo-sourced Bluegrass dbl box wrenches (most have a previous owner's stamped initials, but I just can't resist an otherwise great looking set of scalloped/scooped Barcalos. Also a couple of Powrkraft...