Tool Talk
Picture Forum => Picture Forum => Topic started by: Papaw on May 01, 2011, 09:37:58 AM
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"Tools"
I have a long Hibbard Wrench as a sign on my shop.
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How large is the wrench on your shop? You know you gotta add a dollar bill for reference :)
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Maybe I don't have a dollar! :D
The wrench is about 34" long, but the openings are 3/4" and 5/8" only.
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Thats pretty cool. One day i gotta get something like that for mine.
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My largest wrench, so far: 49 inches long. This QuikWerk brand behemoth, made by the Warren Tool and Forge Company, came from the Pennsylvania Railroad a.k.a. the World's Railroad. It has 1 3/4" and 1 7/8" openings, although they are marked 1 5/8" and 1 13/16". Found leaning against the back of a pickup truck at a local flea market.
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sooo we talking about length or opening ? cause largest wrench i have is this 3 1/4 opening
(http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx148/dustin32690/DSCF0382.jpg)
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Here is my shop door
Not a wrench, an infill jointer plane sign.
Funny thing, a guy once worte and asked if I was really hanging a $3000 infill, heehehe
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/house/awning9b.jpg)
yours Scott
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How come you guys display steel tools outdoors all year long? Doesn't it rain where you live?
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Mine is painted black and the lettering is an exterior house paint. Been up there for about four years.
I am on the Gulf Coast of Texas, less than 10 miles from the bay as the crow flies. It certainly does rain, and when it is not raining, the humidity is high enough to make you feel like it is.
That wrench is no collector's item, I don't think, so there it is.
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Here's my sign. a friend had a chain saw artist make it for me a couple years ago. It's over 5' long and made of Osage Orange wood.
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I like that, Bus!
Maybe I can do something like that ( or have it done, I always have trouble getting my chainsaw to start!)
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I always have trouble getting my chainsaw to start!)
Do you keep getting flat tires on your chainsaw too??
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Bus.
I planted 28 Osage Orange trees across the back of our property this spring. In 50 years, I'll be making my wrench sign. Seriously, your chainsaw artist friend did a great job carving out that pair of pliers!
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How large is the wrench on your shop? You know you gotta add a dollar bill for reference :)
One of those got to be counterfeit!!!!
DM&FS
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I don't have a large wrench, I have a very very large quarter.....
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A space ship landed in the middle of Texas one night and I saw 3 little 1" tall aliens climb out of the ship. I asked them if they were really just 1" tall and they said, "No, we're just really really far away...."
Guess ya had to be there....back to wrench stuff....
DM&FS
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Rusty:
I got a kick out of that!
Bob
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I am on the Gulf Coast of Texas, less than 10 miles from the bay as the crow flies.
Ever been to San Leon?
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But of course! San Leon is not far from here by back roads and not much farther by main roads. I used to go there with my folks many years ago. These days I go there or close by for photo opportunities.
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But of course! San Leon is not far from here by back roads and not much farther by main roads. I used to go there with my folks many years ago. These days I go there or close by for photo opportunities.
I visit down there 2-3 times a year off of Ave A, Topwater Grill is one of my favorite restaurants. Been visiting SL since 1991. Helped with Hurricane Ike cleanup on one visit, darn near wiped San Leon off the map. Buddy of mine lost a bunch of old tools in that disaster, nothing too valuable. Maybe we can hook up next time I am down. I heard Dusty Hill sold his mansion for a sweet deal after Ike.
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Sure, just let me know when you are coming.
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I have been in Texas a number of times on business. I was impressed by the heat and humidity and the art museum in Houston, all my cousins in College Station, and the aridity of El Paso (which is closer to the Pacific Ocean than it is to Houston). That's big!
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895 miles from the border of New Mexico on I-10 to the border of Louisiana on I-10 just outside of Orange.
The longest generally-southward straight-line path you can take through Texas North to South is about 806.2 miles. This would be a line in the SSE direction starting from the westernmost corner of the northern Texas "handle" and extending to Texas' southernmost tip, but unlike East to West, there is no one highway all the way.
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895 miles from the border of New Mexico on I-10 to the border of Louisiana on I-10 just outside of Orange.
The longest generally-southward straight-line path you can take through Texas North to South is about 806.2 miles. This would be a line in the SSE direction starting from the westernmost corner of the northern Texas "handle" and extending to Texas' southernmost tip, but unlike East to West, there is no one highway all the way.
There may have been if the Trans Texas Corridor Scam got built, thank God it did not.
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Ah, but that would have been from Laredo to Texarkana, a short trip! 522 miles
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Bus, those pliers are cool. Down here we call osage orange bo dock, a southern corruption of the French bois de arc, or we call it hedge apple or by it's scientific name Maclura pomifera. They are sexed, that means that the male flowers and the female flowers are on separate trees. It is far superior to hickory for things like handles, single/double trees and to locust for fence post but you have to wait more that a year to put it in the ground or put it in the ground upside down or it will sprout and start growing. the wood is very hard and durable. It has an orange cast to the wood and has a milky/sticky sap. I had a friend to make me two mallets of bo dock to use in blacksmithing to straighten twists. The wood came from a bo dock I took down for a customer about 10 years ago. He complained about how hard it was to work and about how often he had to sharpen his tools.
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The round one has a head dimension of length 6"by diameter 4" and the flat mallet has faces that are 2" by 3 1/2". The side dimensions are top: 6" and bottom 5 1/2" which gives it a slightly angled face. I got these just before my surgery and I've not yet put hoops on the round one to stop splitting. Can anyone tell me how to stop the flat one from splitting? The grain is quarter.
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>Can anyone tell me how to stop the flat one from splitting?
Don't hit anything with it on the edges. <g>
Wonder how Bo Dock compares to maul oak...
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Branson, I'm thinking about a rawhide braid put on wet. I don't know maul oak.
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Maul oak is Quercus chrysolepis Liebman, aka canyon live oak. Peattie describes it as "...tough, close grained, very hard, and heavy (53 pounds per cubic foot, dry weight)..." Heavier, a bit, from Bo Dock. The name, maul oak, came from its common use in making mauls and mallets in the past.
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Branson, I'm thinking about a rawhide braid put on wet.
I like that idea. It ought to work fine.
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Branson do you have access to maul oak? If you do how about PMing me your address and I'll swap you a piece of Bo Dock for a piece of maul oak so we can both make a mallet.
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Stoney, I'll have to do some work to find some. I have a hard time distinguishing among all the live oaks, and especially between the maul oak and the interior live oak. It's coming on to a good time for cutting wood, so let me see if I can get some of the right stuff. The swap sounds like a great idea!
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Ok, send me a PM and I'll send you some Bo Dock. I have some that has been cut about 10 years. I didn't stop it from checking as I planned to use them for anvil post, post vise mounts etc. so you will see checking.
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PM to come. There's an arborist I just remembered who might be able to direct me to some maul oak. I'll try to contact him this week. I want to play with this wood, too.
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Sent you my address as well. I'm an arborist, but due to my health I'm not active. I have arborist friends and can furnish local woods that you might not have available.
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This thread is about BIG? I parked my Triumph Stag next to my biggest BAHCO wrench for size comparison
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They both look like models! Is that BAHCO really that shade of gray? Or has it been bead blasted?
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I like that, Bus!
Maybe I can do something like that ( or have it done, I always have trouble getting my chainsaw to start!)
Those things start?!? No wonder it takes me so much more time to cut wood with one....
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Most people do not realize that chainsaws come with a built in yard sensor.
The yard sensor is what makes the chainsaw work everywhere but in your yard.
It works in the store, it works in the garage, and it works at the chainsaw shop.
It just doesn't work when you take it out into your yard....where the tree is.
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I think I may have been down by your place Papaw. Is it near Rockport?
I have to go down there sometimes for work. We take customers fishing out of Redfish Lodge. Good fishing between the mainland and South/North Padre Islands. Caught a big one last time & used my tag.
I generally like to fish with a guide, but mostly I like those that put you at a good spot and let you fish.
Chilly
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I am north of Rockport by quite a ways. Alvin is just 20 miles south of Houston.
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I thought Rockport was closer to Houston. Still, 3 hours from Alvin is closer than my 16 hrs from Colorado for fishing.
I imagine you have similar fishing up there?
Chilly
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Lots of fishing here, but we are not right on the coast. Most fishing here is done from Galveston or Freeport.
I am not a fisherman at all. Haven't wetted a line since my oldest son was 12 or so.
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I never fish either, but I went down there twice, its part of my job. Taking people to sports is also, dont watch any otherwise.
Tough job, but you know what they say...
I'd rather be out at garage sales, estate sales and auctions kooking for a nice bix of rust.