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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Stoney on October 12, 2011, 11:46:54 AM

Title: What is it
Post by: Stoney on October 12, 2011, 11:46:54 AM

(http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr40/plantshepherdplus/DSC_0085-1.jpg)
This came out of the Greenbrier Alabama Blacksmith shop.  Both jaws move in opposite directions.

Title: Re: What is it
Post by: Papaw on October 12, 2011, 07:54:15 PM

I guess for holding a piece of plate or beam while welding?

Title: Re: What is it
Post by: gibsontool on October 12, 2011, 11:38:28 PM

I would think it could  be an assembly clamp or a clamp for bending somthing after it comes out of the forge

Title: Re: What is it
Post by: john k on October 13, 2011, 02:35:54 AM

Hanging on the wall like that, I would use it to hang an iron tire for a wood wagon wheel, for measuring, but not sure the why of the vise part.