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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Ken W. on February 03, 2015, 09:14:27 AM

Title: WHAT"S IT PLIERS
Post by: Ken W. on February 03, 2015, 09:14:27 AM

I got this in a tool box over the weekend. What do you guy's think it is ?  I was thinking hog ring.

Title: Re: WHAT"S IT PLIERS
Post by: Ken W. on February 03, 2015, 09:15:25 AM

A few more.

Title: Re: WHAT"S IT PLIERS
Post by: Branson on February 03, 2015, 10:28:29 AM

Looks like a pair of tire chain pliers to me.

Title: Re: WHAT"S IT PLIERS
Post by: mvwcnews on February 03, 2015, 12:30:15 PM

The jaw pair with the slot & center hole are too delicate for tire chains -- something specialized and uncommon.  Were there other specialty tools in the overall lot that might give context for these?

Title: Re: WHAT"S IT PLIERS
Post by: mrchuck on February 03, 2015, 12:35:40 PM

I agree with Branson,,,,,tire chain repair tool.
I have personally put rings in Hog's noses when I was ten years old till 20 years old.
My pliers used did not look like this.
Big old hogs were a bitch to move from pen to pen. You just had to move them out to clean up the mess they always made.
They just loved to wallow in their own pig-shit.
Their nose was tender and sensitive.
Even humans a long,long time ago were controlled with this method.

Title: Re: WHAT"S IT PLIERS
Post by: Lostmind on February 03, 2015, 12:36:30 PM

How about bicycle or motorcycle chain? Pulls them together to install the link?
I agree , to light for tire chains

Title: Re: WHAT"S IT PLIERS
Post by: markhrobinson on February 03, 2015, 12:48:55 PM

These are double hog nose-ring pliers - similar, but not the same

Title: Re: WHAT"S IT PLIERS
Post by: Twilight Fenrir on February 03, 2015, 02:29:45 PM

Quote from: mrchuck on February 03, 2015, 12:35:40 PM

I agree with Branson,,,,,tire chain repair tool.
I have personally put rings in Hog's noses when I was ten years old till 20 years old.
My pliers used did not look like this.
Big old hogs were a bitch to move from pen to pen. You just had to move them out to clean up the mess they always made.
They just loved to wallow in their own pig-shit.
Their nose was tender and sensitive.
Even humans a long,long time ago were controlled with this method.

Hog rings are more than just their namesake... There are hog rings in my apholstery in my Fiero. Definitely much smaller, and finer than those used for a pigs snout :P

Title: Re: WHAT"S IT PLIERS
Post by: Ken W. on February 03, 2015, 02:46:08 PM

I was referring to the hog rings used in upholstery.

If you look at my other post under garage sale finds , it was in that tool box.
 
I added another pic next to  ruler for a size comparison.