D 21 Ohio Rake.... A Rare find.

[Carl Wagner]

It's always a good sign when there's only a picture from a parts manual in Rathbones book and not a picture of an actual wrench. I sure am glad to have found this one. Any idea what this wrench would have came with Bus?

[rustcollector]

Upon further study, check page 270 of volume 2. There in lies the problem with somebody guessing where wrenches belong and printing a book about them. He really jumped the gun with the first book, should have had more proof on a lot of the wrenches he put in there. He has the part # listed for both in the supplement, without parts books in hand I don't know what is right.

[Carl Wagner]

Don't have volume 2 with me. What's it showing as? That's a picture from a parts manual for sure tho.

[turnnut]

Carl,

volume # 1 shows "Ohio Rake"

volume # 2 shoes "Stoddard"

volume # 3 neither

Frank

[Carl Wagner]

With both companies being in Dayton, OHIO I imagine that they may have merged at some point or been under the same umbrella somehow.

[rusty]

I don't think they were under the same umbrella, at one point they sued each other over a patent. Stoddard decided to play with automobiles becoming Maxwell , later the factory went to Dodge Bros.

Ohio Rake just seems to vanish without a trace...

I suppose Stoddard may have dumped ag impliments when it decided to play with automobiles, in which case Ohio may have aquired some articles made previously by Stoddard...but only speculation...

Edit:

Worth noting perhaps that Ohio Rake seems to have liked picking up machine lines from others.
They are listed as having aquired a Corn seeder and a harrow from Gale, Sulky & Walking plows from Moore Plow & Impl. co, and Cultivators and Disc Harrows from Collins.