Mysterious tool

[aidindog]

Any one can help me to right direction I found this on back of road rail truck don't know what the heck is this

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[FigureItOut]

Any one can help me to right direction I found this on back of road rail truck

I don't know if I'm reading this right, do you think it might be railroad related? If so, I'm working this week at one of the Arkansas-Missouri Railroad shops, I can ask around.

 

[joetool]

Mutilated 1/2" breaker.

 

[woody 73]

I put the numbers into the ole inter-web and got this:

http://www.gedore.de/en/products/ar...[list_set]=210576,201490,201560,201574,205465

 

[jakemac]

I don't know if I'm reading this right, do you think it might be railroad related? If so, I'm working this week at one of the Arkansas-Missouri Railroad shops, I can ask around.

No, I think he's talking about one of the trailers off of an Austrailian road train.
That's where one truck tows a long chain of trailers across the outback like a train without a track.

 

[FigureItOut]

No, I think he's talking about one of the trailers off of an Austrailian road train.
That's where one truck tows a long chain of trailers across the outback like a train without a track.

Ah, gotcha.

 

[KnurledNut]

Ill second the post about a 1/2 breaker with a modification.

 

[woody 73]

No, I think he's talking about one of the trailers off of an Austrailian road train.
That's where one truck tows a long chain of trailers across the outback like a train without a track.

Thanks for that info I also thought it was from a choo choo train!

 

[aidindog]

He he I thought it would be a modified 1/2 inch breaker


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[retDAC]

Was it modified to be some sort of key?

 

[aidindog]

retDac I'm not sure we repair and maintain highrail vehicle I found this on back of Toyota Land Cruiser I say it would be either key or pry bar


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[wvrailroader]

Doesn't look like anything we carry on our hirail vehicles here.

 

[BroncoSquid]

Possibly used to tighten down those massive ratchet straps for securing loads?

 

[jakemac]

I'm wondering if it might have been modified to be used to release the fifth-wheel locking pin when dropping off the trailers. It wouldn't work here on a US locking pin, but I'm not sure how they're set up in Austrailia.

 

[popparoach]

I'm wondering if it might have been modified to be used to release the fifth-wheel locking pin when dropping off the trailers. It wouldn't work here on a US locking pin, but I'm not sure how they're set up in Austrailia.

they are upside down lol.

 

[Lassen Forge]

It's a geofranger for a multifarb 9/8" compound wye. Very common for retaining compound wyes in a negative gravity situation, otherwise you will lose surface traction with standard class C macadam, and the energy consumption to overcome it otherwise would be prohibitive...

(How's that for a pile of "stuff"? )

It looks like someone's homemade flatbed trailer wrench, either to snug up the ratchets (see BroncoSquid's picture above) or to move the 5th wheel back or forward to balance weight. Since it was found near a road train, that makes a lot of sense - someone probably set it on one of the trailers or on the frame rail of the tractor and it fell off...