old PLOW wrench

[leach]

WIARD PLOW WRENCH inv 2201

it says on wrench   70 TO 83  thats  it no other markings
IT HAS 3 SIZES TO IT A VINTAGE PLOW WRENCH

[scott radasch]

nice old wrench

[Carl Wagner]

Here is a rare Wiard Plow Co wrench.

[Wrenchmensch]

That's a nice Wiard!

[skipskip]

How do we pronounce Wiard?

weird? wired?

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[Wrenchmensch]

Wired.

[HeelSpur]

I've been wired a few times in the past :-)

[rusty]

Wiard is a weird word ;P

ia is halfway between long A and long I, it's rare in modern English, more common in older English and related ...(I can not even think of another word with wia in it)

 a bit like the er in here, with a w stuck to it, but not so much of an e as weird (which we pronounce wrong anyhow)

Perhaps you have to be wired to say it properly, or Scottish....

[skipskip]

Like "he  weared his clothes funny"?

[Carl Wagner]

W.P. CO is lots easier on the brain.

[Branson]

Second time I've seen this name.  A Canadian named Norman Wiard worked for the US around the time of the Civil War.   He designed a cannon which is named after him.  Such an unusual name, one wonders if this is the same fellow, or related.

[rusty]

Not  the same, but perhaps descended,

Thomas Wiard founded the plow co in 1804 (Initially, in Avon,NY), Norman's published artillary documents are around the 1860's, long strech of time even allowing arbitrary age for those endeavors....

Thomas had brothers, (William,Seth, Thomas, Henry, and Matthew)

William had a son, Seth, but he worked for the plow company (1860's)

Geneology traces Wiard's (also Wyard) to Connecticut families, from Boston emmigrants (1666), apparently from london or at least England..

The other direction is more interesting....

Norman's father was William wiard, William's father was Squire Thomas Wiard, of East Avon, New York.

http://books.google.com/books?id=EFNbAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA37
(Note, read up from this page, backwards)