Tool Talk
Picture Forum => Picture Forum => Topic started by: john k on October 10, 2014, 09:45:25 PM
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I am putting this in because once upon a time there was a hardware supply company in Omaha, a really large company back in the day. Paxton and Gallagher Omaha, and am seeing a number of vintage tools that were marked for them. I have a nice handsaw, with a large Pagoma etch, have seen hammers and monkey wrenches too. This is a kerosene lantern I just got out of my mothers place. Was very pleased to get the dust off and see the PAGOMA standing tall. I bet a few of the guys here have run across something similar with the way tools seem to migrate around the country.
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Our local farm museum's ( http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/ ) focus is 1920s shift from horse power to mechanization. They have an "iron pile" behind the corn crib & I retrieved a PAGOMA hoof nipper from it a couple of months ago -- then gently "chided" the director for not recognizing a Nebraska brand.
The iron pile also had an early 1950's detachable chain "detacher / splicer" called the CHAINger that was produced in SD. It would work pretty well for splitting chain that was on a machine but not better than a "chain anvil" for bench work.