Rocco's daily treasures

[C1070RS]

Going to start this thread showing my father in laws stuff that he picked over the last 40-50 years and stashed away on his 100 acre farm. He passed a year and a half ago at age 82 and his sons moved away and are not interested in any of it so I'm blessed (or cursed) with going thru all of it and deciding on scrapping, selling or keeping it. He would have loved to have scoured this forum but wasnt very computor savvy. He was a large machinery operator for quite awhile, and actually had his own plowing business and plowed at O'Hare field back in the 70's.
He loved to pick whenever he could. He used to bring home anything and everything, would go to hardware store closings and buy it all up. The '53 Chevy truck in my avatar was back in the woods and I moved it to the backyard pond with a skidloader; it now has water coming out of the grill into the pond. He had 5 road graders, a huge Oshkosh dump with a snowblade on the front, an IH Dump truck, an Allis Chalmers Loader tractor etc etc etc, all on the property! I've gotten rid of everything except for his John Deere track dozer that he bought new in the 50's or 60's. His son runs a gravelpit business in Texas and is going to restore it.
Here's a few pics of Rocco, the one with him on his IH 3414 loader where he's hauling my LS motor for my Camaro to the garage. I inherited the tractor and restored it last summer.
I will post some of the vintage tools I find as I make my way thru his treasures.....

 

[C1070RS]

Automotive finds:
Lisle CF-71 Spark plug gapper tool
Craftsman, VIM and Indestro brake tools
AC rpm checkers
Sunnen and New Britain flat head ford valve spring compressors

Farm tools:
Oxweld 133 welding wrench
Moore Drop Forging Ford 45 Model T and A wrench
Vintage cotter pin remover
Vintage file holder handle
American Swiss File & Tool Company 1/2" leather gasket punch
International Harvester 373942 R1 short box wrench
Eagle 3" oil can

 

[drivesitfar]

C10: I like your idea for this thread and the write up about your father in law was very interesting too.

I think the Ford fountain is a great idea even though some of the Ford guys might be yelling for the parts. post up a few more pics of it with the water coming out of the grill if you have time.

best of luck going through all that stuff and it looks like you have some skills too with that restoration of the old tractor/dozer.

just along for the journey if you don't mind!!!

just an FYI since this section of GJ doesn't have as many members posting or looking on it that you might want to combine the two new threads you started and looks like the other one has a few more posts, but I liked the story on this one. so maybe filter in the WHAT'S THIS TOOL into this thread to keep it active. your call and just a suggestion.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Subscribed!

(Good idea. I know you started a few other query threads, and you've shown some of the tools you have found on the farm on brand-specific threads, such as the Williams thread. But this is the best way to go - consolidated on one thread - for you and everyone else. Some newcomers just starting throwing stuff out there willy-nilly, one or two tools per thread, multiple threads, even thought most tools already have a thread dedicated to them, which proliferates redundancy, splinters discussions, and makes searching difficult later. We can point you to pertinent threads by type or brand as you post here.)

 

[C1070RS]

Thanks for the opinions, I will follow them going forward.
Lugz, I sent your "Rust Never Sleeps" to Rocco's wife and kids, it really hit the nail on the head as far as his lifestyle, they really enjoyed it!

 

[C1070RS]

C10: I like your idea for this thread and the write up about your father in law was very interesting too.

I think the Ford fountain is a great idea even though some of the Ford guys might be yelling for the parts. post up a few more pics of it with the water coming out of the grill if you have time.

Ford fountain?? Thats blasphemy Drives! Its a '53 3800 Chevy. Its been back in the weeds for years; had a dump on the back full of coal! Rocco actually used coal in his fireplace because it burned so hot, and he probably got it free. From the front part of the cab back it was a basket case. Soooo.... I cut it just behind the windshield with my sawzall and torched the frame just below it. Pulled it out with the skidsteer, lifted it and moved it 80 yards to its final resting place next to the pond. That large boulder next to it is also from the farm. I transplanted a bunch of native flowers from the farm around the truck also. The trans and engine are still in the truck. I had to buy the chrome hood piece off fleabay because someone stole the original off of the hood. My wife even likes it in the yard, its a pretty unique pond fountain.

 

[drivesitfar]

C10: thanks for the pictures of the CHEVY before and after pics are great. also like the stone giving your Father in law a few nice words.

Sorry about the mix up on the FORD, but in my defense it was 4am here in Seattle when i posted that and I WAS A FORD GUY before Honda made cars that wouldn't quit running.

hope I didn't get the blood running too hard and here's something one of the members posted a few years ago that i thought was nice too. also one of my neighbors wanted too much for her ex's car, but i might have driven a Chevy if I had the extra cash and if it wasn't YELLOW.

cheers and keep up the great work.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Lugz, I sent your "Rust Never Sleeps" to Rocco's wife and kids, it really hit the nail on the head as far as his lifestyle, they really enjoyed it!

That's all a potmetal poet can ask for!

its final resting place next to the pond.

Love it. A fitting tribute and it looks terrific in a folk art kind of way.

 

[Lookin4'67Galaxieconv]

Great idea for a thread. I love the '53 Chevy truck tribute/waterfall.

 

[C1070RS]

The rock tribute is actually for Rocco's son who passed in 2006.

 

[C1070RS]

These are some of the large machinery and autos that were on the farm, most I sold to people who were going to restore them, and some were scrapped. The jeeps were both used at one time by Rocco for his snowplow business. The old rolling fire extinguisher was sold to a fireman who was going to restore it and display it at his firestation. The A/C Loader was going to be gone thru and used on the buyers farm.

 

[C1070RS]

Road-graders-R-us! He had a total of 5. His wife told me she was sitting in a chair and heard a loud rumbling getting closer, looked out the window and it was Rocco coming down the road in a newly purchased road grader. I wish I would have done more research on the Oshkosh. I sold it to a scrapper but I kept the hood, sides and grill and am planning on making an enclosure around a wood stove in the 3 car with these parts. The front grill stainless is absolutely mint.

 

[C1070RS]

Here is an example of some items that are still on the farm and they will definetly not get scrapped. Still alot of cool stuff to go thru, thats for sure.

Those V-plows are HUGE along with the big-arsed grinder. I'm lucky to have a loader and skid steer available.

I will focus all future posts on only vintage hand tools that I find.

 

[woody 73]

Super cool that grinder is indeed very vintage along with that vintage yale lifting chain. Did you know that the US electrical tool company is still in business...

 

[Provincial]

That first photo of a road grader looks just like my Austin Western Super 88. Mine has the three-cylinder GMC/Detroit 3-71 diesel engine. I use it to maintain roads on our tree farm. Old, loud, and slow, but it does the job just fine and is very reliable. I have owned it for 25 years!

 

[48RON54]

those rpm checkers are supercool!

 

[C1070RS]

That first photo of a road grader looks just like my Austin Western Super 88. Mine has the three-cylinder GMC/Detroit 3-71 diesel engine. I use it to maintain roads on our tree farm. Old, loud, and slow, but it does the job just fine and is very reliable. I have owned it for 25 years!

Very cool Pro!

 

[C1070RS]

Vintage draw knives; top one is a Welloct.

Unknown maker of hand crank drill and T handle driller

C.S. Osborne & Co draw gauge/leather slitter. Cutting blade is broke off, highly doubt I'll find that

3 vintage hammers; ball pein unknown, S&J 6oz cross pein made in England, and a Swift'ning Swifts Blandlard advertising hammer with a really cool brass insert in the handle.

 

[Stuart in MN]

When I was a kid, my home town had a couple of those Oshkosh snow plows - I used to play in them when no one was watching. As I recall one of them had rear wheel steering, with a second steering wheel that was set horizontally next to the driver's seat.

 

[woody 73]

Some more information for you on C.S. Osborne:

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=300999

 

[C1070RS]

Some more information for you on C.S. Osborne:

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=300999

Nice info Woody! I just happened to have found a WM Johnson Co compass in the pile!

 

[ttpete]

Vintage draw knives; top one is a Welloct.

Unknown maker of hand crank drill and T handle driller

C.S. Osborne & Co draw gauge/leather slitter. Cutting blade is broke off, highly doubt I'll find that

3 vintage hammers; ball pein unknown, S&J 6oz cross pein made in England, and a Swift'ning Swifts Blandlard advertising hammer with a really cool brass insert in the handle.

The little t-handle thing is called a gimlet. It's used to make a starting point for wood screws.

The small cross pein hammer is for starting small brads. You hold the brad between thumb and finger and the cross pein will slip between your thumb and finger to strike the brad without hurting you. Once it's started, flip the hammer over to drive it in.

 

[woody 73]

Lets see if this link works tonight:

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=300881&highlight=johnson

 

[C1070RS]

Hey Woody we could use that Yale lifting chain along with this Manning, Maxwell and Moore "A" frame to take that big block 396 out of your '70 Chevy stationwagon!

 

[C1070RS]

Some nice craftsman finds today, a vintage Atlas Workshop 4" jointer/planer and Walker hydraulic floor jack. Rocco had the commercial grinder along with the Atlas and a 1/2 hp motor mounted to a 50 gallon drum which is pretty unique. Not sure whats in the drum but its heavy. The motor did not have a cord so I'm going to replace it with the Craftsman 1/2 hp 113.12793 I found and see how the Atlas jointer/planer runs.
The 397.19591 commercial grinder is really nice, the industrial 397.19590 needs some TLC but works. Notice the glass decal on it? It cracked but didnt shatter. Will have to seek out a new piece.

 

[C1070RS]

The Walker floor jack along with another tool that was on the 50 gallon drum, no idea what its for.

 

[C1070RS]

The Walker floor jack along with another tool that was on the 50 gallon drum, no idea what its for.

 

[rustyzman]

The Walker floor jack along with another tool that was on the 50 gallon drum, no idea what its for.

That second one is for dressing grinding wheels.

 

[C1070RS]

Cleaning up a section of the steel building I came across some really old stuff in box's, with prices on them. Check out the cost of the 2" long rivets vs the 3/4" long ones. Cobb & Drew Inc was established in 1848 and incorporated in 1907.
Would be interesting to know what year these were sold for 5 cents.
Also came across 40+ box's of combine and mower sections from a company I can't find much info on. They were between $1.22 and $1.62 back when they were for sale in a 10 pack; nowadays they are $12-$20.
The last items are some sort of german spikes for shoes maybe? Have 10 box's of them. It's like Christmas every day at Rocco's place....

 

[davethorik]

Not sure what Widia spikes are, but Widia nowadays is a division of Kennametal that makes drills, end mills, taps, etc. the logo is the same.

 

[ttpete]

Not sure what Widia spikes are, but Widia nowadays is a division of Kennametal that makes drills, end mills, taps, etc. the logo is the same.

Those look like tire studs. They'd have a carbide insert for wear resistance.

 

[rustyzman]

Those look like tire studs. They'd have a carbide insert for wear resistance.

A carbide insert stud would make sense for Widia. They are a carbide-heavy tool manufacturer, so that sort of product would not be a stretch.

 

[tombell572]

C1070RS--the small unknown tool you noted is used to dress and clean grinding wheels when they've loaded up with metal particles. Run the grinder and move the tool back and forth against the grinding wheel several times. It should clean up the wheel and help eliminate any ridges that have developed.

Tom B.

 

[woody 73]

Some information for you, hope you enjoy it.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...D64E59874199E3B5B6F2D64E59874199E3B&FORM=VIRE

 

[C1070RS]

Found some old wooden carpenters toolbox's with goodies in them; quite a few old wood planes. The first is a 1902 Bailey No.6 18" long and the second is a 1910 Bailey No.5 14" long with a corregated base.

 

[C1070RS]

Cleaned them up. pretty dang nice pieces of history...

 

[joey1320]

Super cool finds.

 

[C1070RS]

Super cool finds.

There's a couple of old Craftsman hand planes too, will get before and after pics of those soon.

 

[C1070RS]

Moved an antique hay rake from the weeds to a spot where it can be viewed in all of its glory. The path is mini-clover that only grows to 3.5" high so it never has to be mowed and is so thick that weeds cant grow thru it. This path will have 7 or 8 vintage farm implements on it when I'm done.

The second item is a vintage welding cart that I'm going to restore.

The third is a vintage horse drawn cart that I need to finish assembling.

And last but not least is a HUGE Weaver floor jack, that also needs to be restored.

Fun day on the farm.

 

[rustyzman]

Nice group of things in there. Very cool welding cart and I love the Weaver jack. It will be worth the effort to restore these things!