Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: HeelSpur on March 28, 2016, 02:31:40 PM
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Its missing 1/2 the wood handle but for 3 bux why not.
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Crate hammer. Make and install a couple of new scales and it'll be good to go.
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FWIW, I have several versions of the Bport crate hammers and have not seen that one. Wanna triple your money? PM me.
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FWIW, I have several versions of the Bport crate hammers and have not seen that one. Wanna triple your money? PM me.
sent you a pm.
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I see these all the time but that one is definitely unique with the curved hatchet.
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That's a new one to me as well. So I did a little digging. Datamp has a couple similar Bridgeport Hardware tools, but not yours. I finally found it on Google patents, #1,031,001 for a Combined Nail Puller and Hatchet
Link: https://www.google.com/patents/US1031001?dq=bridgeport&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjvlcTqzOTLAhVBnoMKHVXHA5gQ6AEIHDAA
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Cool tool!
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I've had a few Bridgeports, but that is one I have never seen. Wouldn't take much to put another scale on it.
Mike
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That's a new one to me as well. So I did a little digging. Datamp has a couple similar Bridgeport Hardware tools, but not yours. I finally found it on Google patents, #1,031,001 for a Combined Nail Puller and Hatchet
Link: https://www.google.com/patents/US1031001?dq=bridgeport&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjvlcTqzOTLAhVBnoMKHVXHA5gQ6AEIHDAA
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Looks like another patent for me to work up for DATAMP.
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That's an interesting approach to the production problem of forging a tool with bits sticking out in every direction. It looks like they did three separate forgings, each of which would be fairly simple to make, and stuck them all together. I bet total production cost went way down, compared to the cost of forging all three functions (hammer, pry claw, hatchet) from one piece.
Awkward looking hammer face, though; you'd have zero latitude for slanting the hammer. It would have to be pretty well dead parallel to the surface into which the nails were being driven, and I bet there were a lot of cussing shipping department employees, nursing skinned knuckles, from using it. Imagining myself in that shipping department, I'd hope for enough seniority to grab the tool with the hammer face opposite the hatchet face, which should be easier to use.
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Tools of that nature were marketed far more to stores and end users than shipping in a world before corrugated cardboard and paper tape replaced wood crates.
You need to remember corrugated has only existed since the Second World War.
The hammer portion of that tool was primarily to bang a board or slat back down after it had been pried open to get at contents of the box. The purpose of the prying section is self evident. The hatchet blade was included more for a fracturing device to create a fracture so a board could be broken away rather than taking the time to pry both ends free of the adjacent connecting board.
It can even be contended such tools existed mainly because employees long term borrowed clawhammers and pry bars for home use, and nobody was going to be dumb enough to steal a crate tool.
Most of the ones I've picked up over the years were cast rather than forged, and so useful I set them back down where they collected dust.