Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: johnsironsanctuary on September 08, 2012, 11:42:15 AM
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I had to go down to a town not far from Rockford IL yesterday. I made a few stops along the way. Two estate sales in New Berlin WI yielded the hefty 21 inch Coes and the Estwing framing hammer. The next stop was at a farm just outside of Sharon WI. It was one of those places that you see on American Pickers. Two old guys sitting in lawn chairs selling from TEN ACRES of farm junk. They go to farm auctions a lot. It was surprisingly orderly with mowed paths through the piles of rusty stuff. They said that the junk art welders are their best customers. I never saw such a big pile of house, railroad and auto jacks anywhere. Great piles of implements, wheels, pto shafts, tractors, trucks and angle iron. I bought the three rusty wrenches from a selection of hundreds.
(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb373/johnsironsanctuary/My%20Wrenches/Sharonwrenchesb.jpg)
One is from the Chicago and NW RR wrench.
(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb373/johnsironsanctuary/My%20Wrenches/Sharonwrenchesa.jpg)
Does anyone know what the connection is between W & B and JH Williams?
(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb373/johnsironsanctuary/My%20Wrenches/Sharonwrenches.jpg)
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About 1920, the monkey wrench lines were taken over by J H Williams, who sold them under the W & B name.