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Wrench Forum => Wrench Forum => Topic started by: Stoney on December 05, 2011, 01:44:38 PM

Title: Four more Railroad Wrenches
Post by: Stoney on December 05, 2011, 01:44:38 PM

Four more RailRoad wrenches for my Cowan Railroad Tool Display.
(http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr40/plantshepherdplus/Tool%20Talk%205Dec/DSC_0060.jpg)
From top to bottom, a 22" L&N DOE S, a 17" N.C.&St.L. DOE obstruction, a 20" C&O DOE S that I bought from Wrenchmensch and a 20" C&O DOE S wrench.  The last one has a Verona trademark.  Boy howdy do I love the BIG wrenches.   

Title: Re: Four more Railroad Wrenches
Post by: skylab on December 05, 2011, 02:03:42 PM

those are nice!  Where did you find these at?

Title: Re: Four more Railroad Wrenches
Post by: keykeeper on December 05, 2011, 07:38:21 PM

Stoney,

I have a very similar wrench like the top one out in the shop, although it is a little bigger...about 32" long or so. I think it is marked H.T. Co. or something along those lines. I pulled it out of a falling down shed at my father's in-laws old home place. My stepmonster's Uncle lived there until his death, and he tended gas wells for years. I would guess it was for use on the pump jacks or something.

I also have a hand-crank sheep shearing machine that came from the same place. I couldn't find the hand-piece for it there, but found one at a flea market a couple years later. Love those old hand powered tools!!

Title: Re: Four more Railroad Wrenches
Post by: Stoney on December 05, 2011, 08:54:15 PM

Amen for big tools and hand power.