K D No. 90 Nail Puller

[lptools]

Cleaned this one up today! Upper right corner of catalog photo. Thanks to Internet Archives for the catalog photo.

[gibsontool]

That guy is new to me. first one I've ever seen

[lptools]

Hello, gibsontool. Thanks for the reply. I did have help from the K-D collectors group with identifying the tool!

[JoeCB]

When I see nail pullers, I think back to the days when expensive stuff was shipped in purpose built wooden crates... usually via railroad or truck freight.

Joe B

[Sudsy]

When I see nail pullers, I think back to the days when expensive stuff was shipped in purpose built wooden crates... usually via railroad or truck freight.

Joe B

And I have flashbacks to childhood pulling nails out of 2nd hand 2x4's my father would buy
I got good at it !

[JoeCB]

Pulling nails, fun... but did your father then have you straighting the nails for future use? ... like my grandpa had me do

Joe B

[lptools]

Hello, JoeCB. That brings back fond memories. We always knew when Grandpa was in the basement when we heard the tap/tap of him straightening the nails that Dad and I had removed. He would keep an old finger jointed wooden cheese box that he would keep the straightened nails in!

[p_toad]

yeah, we had to straighten out nails, too.   got pretty good at it but there was no future 

[Bill Houghton]

Dad would carefully explain to me, as he tapped a nail straight again, that I shouldn't do it.  I can't recall, now, why.

[d42jeep]

When I was vey young, my father was a concrete contractor and when i went to a job site the workers would let me straighten the form nails, probably to keep me occupied. Eventually they explained to me that even if I got the nail perfectly straight, if they tried to reuse it it would bend again in the same location. The skill has proved useful in the tool collecting hobby though since I run across so many bent tools. This rare bent Plomb 1/4” drive pin handle needed a bit of straightening.
-Don