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Farm and Implement Wrenches and Tools => Farm Implement Wrenches and Tools => Topic started by: HeelSpur on March 30, 2013, 04:40:57 PM

Title: Syracuse Z2
Post by: HeelSpur on March 30, 2013, 04:40:57 PM

Picked this up today at a flea market, its not in the best condition but I got it for a descent price.
Saw it on the Wrenching News site, its 0583.
Z2 Syracuse (Syracuse chilled plow co./deere)
10.5" 2 hammerheads, sm. end up variation.

(http://imageshack.us/a/img441/4416/001zbk.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img542/9636/002mkp.jpg)

Title: Re: Syracuse Z2
Post by: jimwrench on March 30, 2013, 06:14:07 PM

 Very nice. I would have been all over that one.

Title: Re: Syracuse Z2
Post by: Wrenchmensch on April 03, 2013, 09:42:07 PM

Great find!  It's made of malleable cast iron which means it will clean nicely with lightapplication of wire wheeling. 

Title: Re: Syracuse Z2
Post by: HeelSpur on April 30, 2013, 02:04:54 PM

I used a brass wire brush on it and didn't notice it before but the open end is 2 different sizes (1"&11/8").
Thought it was just a mistake at first but it measured out pretty accurate.

(http://imageshack.us/a/img841/5421/003bpm.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img267/9236/002qrx.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img11/915/001yzoj.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img42/7049/004zjjk.jpg)

Title: Re: Syracuse Z2
Post by: rusty on April 30, 2013, 06:38:30 PM

I forgot I had one, only, I don't have *that* one....

More than a little rough...

Title: Re: Syracuse Z2
Post by: Wrenchmensch on April 30, 2013, 10:21:47 PM

Here's a third one.

Title: Re: Syracuse Z2
Post by: Carl Wagner on May 05, 2013, 03:28:08 PM

The Iron & Steel Syracuse is much more rare than the Z2. Woodbeam is more rare. Then you move to the SCP CO pre-Deere aquisition wrenchs.

Title: Re: Syracuse Z2, Progressing toward SCP (pit by pit
Post by: Wrenchmensch on May 05, 2013, 04:19:04 PM

Here is a badly pitted SCP 6 so y'all in the South and East can get an idea of what a whole one looks like.  At least one Missouri Valley Wrench Club member has a whole one.

Title: Re: Syracuse Z2
Post by: rusty on May 05, 2013, 04:32:43 PM

Take whatever my Z2 is worth, double it for what the double hammer is worth, multiply by 10 for what the #6 is worth.....

Title: Re: Syracuse Z2
Post by: Wrenchmensch on May 05, 2013, 04:59:10 PM

Rusty,

We live on the White Clay Creek, one of the southernmost tributaries of the Delaware River.  A short time after I joined Missouri Valley Wrench Club, I began to collect "farm wrenches".  I gave up buying farm wrenches sometime thereafter.  I had exhausted available local supplies of them.  And finding a pristine SCP 6 wasn't in the cards, as nearly as I could tell. 

Title: Re: Syracuse Z2
Post by: Carl Wagner on May 06, 2013, 01:14:06 PM

Two more Syracuse wrenchs. The #4 is tough to find.

Title: Re: Syracuse Z2
Post by: HeelSpur on May 13, 2013, 06:57:46 PM

Quote from: Carl Wagner on May 06, 2013, 01:14:06 PM

Two more Syracuse wrenchs. The #4 is tough to find.

On the #4, why the round opening?

Title: Re: Syracuse Z2
Post by: Carl Wagner on May 13, 2013, 10:10:47 PM

Good question. One Id like to know myself. Maybe one of the other readers might know.