This is a cheater bar
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Mr.Nutcase
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lol.............
supertooljunkie
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I used to have a couple of those for my 36" pipe wrench.
ZRX61
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We something about that size for the nut thats holds the prop onto a P51. The manual calls for "a 150lb man hanging off a 6ft bar"
GeorgiaHybrid
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That's a bit longer than mine, I just use the handle from my floor jack unless I need to get something really long...
A couple of weeks ago that was a 8 ft pipe on a 3/4 braker bar to get the bung out of the end of the air tank.
A couple of weeks ago that was a 8 ft pipe on a 3/4 braker bar to get the bung out of the end of the air tank.
dlewis
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Hope that axle socket holds up.Could put the bed up and get it really tight!
That looks...adequate 
A 150lb man? That can't be a manual written for the North American market
A 150lb man? That can't be a manual written for the North American market
Moose-LandTran
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A 150lb man? That can't be a manual written for the North American market
It has a Packard V-1650, a Rolls-Royce Merlin built under licence. That's obviously a bitish manual!
toms73novass
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Plus they were built when americans weren't so fat!
Moose-LandTran
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As an older co-worker of mine says, "Meat was on ration when i was born."
Only, he's talking about something else..
If you wanted to take the passive aggressive route, you could write on a post-it "Warranty Voided" and stick it to the ratchet
Moose-LandTran
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If you wanted to take the passive aggressive route, you could write on a post-it "Warranty Voided" and stick it to the ratchet
"Warranty Void, Bar None."
Moose-LandTran
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I used an excavator on a 4ft pipe wrench trying to get a 6in plug out of a gas tank. Plug never moved but the wrench blew up in fine fashion
At least you did it properly.
Moose-LandTran
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At least you did it properly.
Sometimes you got to do what ya got to do.
Dust
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I had to do similar when removing the heads on my 360. Only had a 3/8" breaker bar in the tool set, but there was a five foot pipe laying by the wall...
Tight is when you lift one corner of your service truck off the ground using the crane on the truck to pull on the 1" ratchet loosening nuts on heavy equipment. Boss never did ask how the two piece handle got bent, but I did get a raised eyebrow when I told him I needed a replacement because it was bent...
some zilch
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eh, thats nothing. i used to have change the deck of my 70 ton lowboy trailer back and forth between your typical flat lowboy deck and what's called a beam deck. the two big bolts that hold the decks in place seemed to get tighter as it went down the road. Nothing a one inch drive breaker bar being pushed on by a 40 ton excavator couldnt fix.......
Art From De Leon
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Breaking tool joints where someone forgot to get them broke when the tool came thru the rotary can be interesting, when you can't send them back to the shop to have them put in the "breakout" machine.
About the only thing that can be done is ask if they can pick it up and set it back in the rotary table, and put the rig tongs on it, when they are tripping pipe.
Otherwise, you can cobble together some interesting interpretations of engineering, usually using one of the rig cranes.
About the only thing that can be done is ask if they can pick it up and set it back in the rotary table, and put the rig tongs on it, when they are tripping pipe.
Otherwise, you can cobble together some interesting interpretations of engineering, usually using one of the rig cranes.
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fatfillup
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Have a customer with a 48" pipe wrench with a bent handle. Said he was loosening a gland nut on a hydraulic cylinder. Put the pipe wrench on the gland and lowered the blade of a Cat D8 dozer on the handle. Couldn't believe it didn't snap.
bgott
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Y'all wouldn't believe how many 36" and 48" pipe wrenches with bent handles I see at the flea market. I don't think anybody uses them without a cheater.