Name this tool!!!!

[warehouse49]

Hello there!! We are a small town pawn shop and we have recently acquired this tool that no one here knows exactly what it is or what it is for. Does anyone know what this tool is called and what it is used for? Thanks!!

 

[larry_g]

Welcome to the group. I would suggest that you post this up in the TOOLS section to get more traffic and better guesses. To me that looks to be some thing embedded in concrete and then have something like a handrail put in it.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[Steve in Louisiana]

Hello there!! We are a small town pawn shop and we have recently acquired this tool that no one here knows exactly what it is or what it is for. Does anyone know what this tool is called and what it is used for? Thanks!!

My, that is so simple . . . it's a very old torque wrench from the wagon wheel days . . .

1st bump snug
2nd bump snugger
3rd bump tight
4th bump very tight


See how easy that was . . .

 

[1/2 Cup]

Welcome to the GJ, enjoy..

 

[Leaflessshadetree]

Looks more like a part of something than a tool. Possibly an adjuster where the "lobes" would fit in a notch.

 

[chris_1001]

I shall call it "Bob".

 

[Zeke]

I don't think that's a tool. More like part of an andiron set.

 

[colin39]

I shall call it "Bob".

Id call it bob too, sure looks like a bob.

 

[Rust]

Looks more like a part of something than a tool. Possibly an adjuster where the "lobes" would fit in a notch.

I don't think that's a tool. More like part of an andiron set.

thinking along these lines, it looks like a fireplace damper adjustment.

 

[Durka]

It's a float adjusting arm for something.

Perhaps a prehistoric toilet ?

So "bob" really fits now.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

I shall call it "Bob".

I would've called it "Rusty".

 

[Karl_B]

It's an interesting piece, but it looks to be a component of something rather than a tool. Is there a story behind how it was acquired that might shed some light on its origins?

 

[gayler]

Maybe a blacksmithing tool to hold something at different distances from a fire?

 

[Professur]

Actually ... it looks a lot like something I found in my wife's sock drawer.

 

[snowpro90]

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Lol!

 

[Karl_B]

Actually ... it looks a lot like something I found in my wife's sock drawer.

So you propose is it a cast iron "marital aid?" I wonder if the forked end is for optional attachments.

 

[BlksnshN]

Hammer

 

[2oolhound]

Reminds me of a throwout bearing fork but you wouldn't get much leverage near the last bumps.

 

[thewatusi]

It's an antique downspout "drive" ment to be embedded in a masonry wall.

Here's the modern equivalent:
http://www.guttersupply.com/m-steel-drives-rack-and-key-4.gstml

 

[66Charger67]

It's a railroad spike puller. They are still available new here. The ad below is from 1904.

http://www.rrtoolsnsolutions.com/catalog/TrackTools16.asp#94

 

[JoeMA]

Nice work 66Charger

 

[xfrk]

cool

 

[Rust]

It's a railroad spike puller. They are still available new here. The ad below is from 1904.

http://www.rrtoolsnsolutions.com/catalog/TrackTools16.asp#94

That was almost like magic...
Well played.

 

[NE Guy]

I've always heard it called a "Roadmaster"

 

[NE Guy]

A little more info; I've mostly used them to pull spikes that are in confined spaces, typically in switches. The rails are sometimes too close together to get a standard spike puller in and swing down to pry the spike out without hitting the other rail. You use this tool so your spike puller is sitting above the rails that are in the way.

Also, The official unofficial name is "a**l b**ds". So the Professur wasn't too far off.

Finally, I want to say hello. I've been lurking around here for a few months and think this is a great and horrible place. I now have a channellock, knipex, and socket addiction.

 

[619DioFan]

Who would have thunk. can we still call it Bob ? I had an uncle named Bob , he could bend railroad spikes just by looking at them. he was mean.

 

[NKlamerus]

I'm amazed...BOB'S identity was stolen and found in less than 12 hours.

I love this site!!

 

[drivesitfar]

i just read the thread and apart from a few good jokes discovered that the new guys 66 and NE figured out what the tool is and what it was used for.

i think you both will fit in great and welcome to Garage Journal. also keep a little spare cash for some extra tools you will most certainly be buying.

congrats and thanks for sharing your knowledge

 

[chris_1001]

You will always be Bob to me! Bob the railroad spike puller!

 

[mayday0017]

Looks like a sweet bottle opener to me...

 

[Glenn M.]

Obviously a dental tool.

Nice work, Charger!

 

[Zeke]

A one post winner!

 

[3baygarage]

He'll be back Zeke, LOL. As long as this thread stays alive until he logs in again. Keep guessing guys! (Nice job Charger).

Whatever happened to that crazy wooden thing that somebody's mother in law wanted us to I.D.?

 

[NKlamerus]

Does anyone have the link to the socket driver with a hollow oval handle???

 

[oldgoaly]

Bob = bottle opener buddy