Help With A Spud Wrench ID...Please??

[Branson]

Around here and i guess other areas of the country AB's are collected by ironworkers, maybe because of generation ties to the company. i know most i-w apprentices here always look 4 'em. good luck.

Iron workers are the biggest collectors of spud wrenches from what I've heard.  An ironworker friend collects them.  Forget the most collectable makers.

[lauver]

FWIW--  "H" might be Hargrave, a maker of striking tools (hammers, punches, chisels, etc).  I have no history on this company/brand, but I've picked up several stiking tools with this name on them and have picked up similar tools with the "H" on them.

Does anyone have any knowledge of Hargrave?

[rusty]

Hargrave was a brand name used by Cincinnati Tool Co, which eventually changed it's name to Hargrave Co.

Usually the H is in a circle, I havn't seen it otherwise.

They made a fair variety of things, brace sockets, C clamps, wood clamps, etc etc, but I don't recall ever seeing a reference to them making spuds...

[mr.x]

  " Indeed the 7/8 is the bolt shank size making this wrench pre-depression maybe??"
[/quote]

Yeah, this one probably is , however many Spud / Structural wrenches continued to be marked with that sizing system well after everything else had switched to the modern system away from all that U.S.S  S.A.E. A.L.A.M etc. mess.

[HeelSpur]

Last Saturday my buddy bought a 16" spud with a claw like on crow bar on the other end.
Not sure if I've seen that variety before or not.

I got a good look at what I thought was a spud today and its an old crow bar that had been ground down to a point on one end. Who ever done was really good too. No wonder I've never seen a variety like that.

[dimwittedmoose51]

Thanks everyone for your efforts on the origins of this wrench.  I'l p[ass the url on to the owner.

DM&FS

[Mark]

The H is for Heavy, as in the bolt is a heavy hex bolt.  Heavy bolts have heads and nuts 1/8" bigger than a regular bolt.

Mark

[Papaw]

The H is for Heavy, as in the bolt is a heavy hex bolt.  Heavy bolts have heads and nuts 1/8" bigger than a regular bolt.

Mark

I do not think that is even close to being the meaning of the H on this tool, mark.

[gibsontool]

Mark is correct in the sense that structural bolts (usually marked A325) do have larger bolt head and nut dimension than standard bolts, but I tend to agree with Pawpaw that it's doubtful that that is what the H is referring to.

[turnnut]

 Herbrand also made spud wrenches,  they had Herbrand spelled out.


 and also one was listed as Herbrand that had the H in a diamond,


 google; Herbrand spud wrenches

[Twertsy]

Herbrand also made spud wrenches,  they had Herbrand spelled out.


 and also one was listed as Herbrand that had the H in a diamond,


 google; Herbrand spud wrenches

Correct, if Herbrand the H would be in a diamond.  Never seen it another way.

[leg17]

The "H" was added to the underside and was not part of the forging die.
Likely not a manufacturer ID as that would probably be on the top side and part of the die.

'Hardened' is a possibility as is 'heavy'.
Owner ID is another possibility.

[turnnut]

 or at the end of the day, the steel worker was checking his tool belt before going home.

 " oops, I've got Harolds or Hanks spud wrench, I wonder who has mine ? "