Any Idea What this Wrench is for?

[J.A.F.E.]

I just snagged this little gem at the swap. No markings on it I can find. Just about 4" long and the openings are both about 1/2. Could it be a snath wrench?

[rusty]

I saw some snaths slowly sneaking surreptitiously somewhat southward sometime sunday....

[J.A.F.E.]

Supposedly seeking several sharp shiny scythes.

[Fatboy]

Sweet looker!

[fflintstone]

I could also be a wood stove tool, I have seen tools like that to remove the round top to put a kettle on, and “stove bolts” are often ½” square.

[lauver]

I'm liking the stove bolt wrench theory.  It does look like an old wood stove tool.

Whatever it is, it's a real looker.  If I owned it, it would be sitting on my desk so I could look at it any time the mood struck.

[J.A.F.E.]

...  If I owned it, it would be sitting on my desk so I could look at it any time the mood struck.

Seems we think alike on this subject lauver. It is sitting on my desk next to the little brass anvil, two snath wrenches and the neat little mower wrench I got from Bus at Wrenching News.

Thanks for the responses. I will be referring to it as the stovebolt wrench from this point forward.

[lauver]

JAFE,

I gotta ask... what the hell is a snath?

[Papaw]

The adjuster for a blade on a scythe.

[J.A.F.E.]

If I am not mistaken scythes were used to mow grass before the lawnmower was invented. Sounds like a very labor intensive and unpleasant job to me. But then so does harvesting a crop with one. No wonder the grim reaper is so grim.

Here are a couple snath wrenches these live on my computer desk next to the newly acquired stove bolt wrench. I am really taken with them for some reason.

[Nolatoolguy]

The adjuster for a blade on a scythe.

Ok ime gonna sound super stupid here but.........

So me being only 16 I have no idea what a scythe is. Whats a Scythe.

Sounds like a sickle sort of, does it have anything to do with that.

[Dustin21]

The adjuster for a blade on a scythe.

Ok ime gonna sound super stupid here but.........

So me being only 16 I have no idea what a scythe is. Whats a Scythe.

Sounds like a sickle sort of, does it have anything to do with that.

  i was under the impression a sickle and scythe are same thing... all i know is a scthe is what the grim reaper  carries :D

[Donny B.]

The adjuster for a blade on a scythe.

Ok ime gonna sound super stupid here but.........

So me being only 16 I have no idea what a scythe is. Whats a Scythe.

Sounds like a sickle sort of, does it have anything to do with that.

You are not going to sound stupid at all.

A scythe is a two handed mowing/reaping tool. As Dustin21 said, the Grim Reaper is often characterised as carrying one. The item in the attached pictures is a scythe.

A sickle is a one handed reaping tool.  There was one, along with a hammer, in the top left hand corner of the old flag of the U.S.S.R. If you need a picture of one (a sickle, not the flag) let me know.

[Papaw]

You would need a snath wrench to adjust the angle of the scythe blade.

[J.A.F.E.]

A sickle:



As opposed to a motorsickle: