Old Tool Collection

[NateHiggins]

Here's the vintage tools I've collected (Or hoarded, depending on your perspective) over the past couple years. These wrenches make great gifts too, and I've managed to part with about 6 or 7 that aren't pictured here. Knowledge or insight about any of them is always appreciated!

 

[Roberts210]

Is the square hole in the Bell System axe for tightening/loosening a square nut?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I've managed to part with about 6 or 7 that aren't pictured here.

Well, if you're giving things away, I'll take the axe for my Bell System collection.

Knowledge or insight about any of them is always appreciated!

The adjustable wrench in Pic #3, with the sleeve that you slide up or down the handle, actuating a pair of counter-posed spiral shafts inside that groove in the handle, is a "HandE" (pronounced "Handy"), the fortuitously clever trademark of Mssrs. Hemphill and Evans, its inventors. I have one. Linked here. If you're into old and oddball wrenches (the others you have are variations of some type of much more conventional screw adjustable monkey or pipe wrench), you may want to scroll around inside that thread.

 

[joel63]

Very nice collection.

I often wonder how they were used back in the day.

 

[woody 73]

You have a wonderful collection of vintage hand tools very nice.

 

[wrenchguy]

Is the square hole in the Bell System axe for tightening/loosening a square nut?

For screwing in the peg (wood or iron) that the wire insulator fastened onto.

 

[outofbounds]

The Billings Ball Pein hammer is a nice looking example. They advertised on the quality of their handles as "second growth" Hickory, and they age beautifully.

 

[NateHiggins]

Is the square hole in the Bell System axe for tightening/loosening a square nut?

Yep! Its a linesmans axe. Square hole for square pegs on telephone poles

 

[NateHiggins]

The Billings Ball Pein hammer is a nice looking example. They advertised on the quality of their handles as "second growth" Hickory, and they age beautifully.

I'm quite happy with it. Usually I like to find tools in rough shape so I can restore them myself, but I couldn't pass this one up.