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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Branson on April 07, 2013, 10:12:29 AM

Title: Just what did I win?
Post by: Branson on April 07, 2013, 10:12:29 AM

I tossed a low bid on this (cute wrench factor, and under 4 inches, too) and accidentally won.  But what wrench is this?  What did it go to?

Title: Re: Just what did I win?
Post by: amertrac on April 07, 2013, 10:40:32 AM

looks like a wrench that hangs on a piece of farm machinery that needs to be adjusted often.  bob w.

Title: Re: Just what did I win?
Post by: Papaw on April 07, 2013, 10:43:53 AM

Might be a snath wrench.

Title: Re: Just what did I win?
Post by: johnsironsanctuary on April 07, 2013, 12:14:23 PM

Thanks, Papaw. I didn't know that there were adjustable snaths. ( WTH is a snath?)

Title: Re: Just what did I win?
Post by: HeelSpur on April 07, 2013, 01:49:09 PM

Quote from: johnsironsanctuary on April 07, 2013, 12:14:23 PM

Thanks, Papaw. I didn't know that there were adjustable snaths. ( WTH is a snath?)

lol

Title: Re: Just what did I win?
Post by: rusty on April 07, 2013, 02:36:15 PM

Snath's are what you take the green never-before-been-in-the-woods campers out to hunt in the dark ;P

Or... http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=345.0

Title: Re: Just what did I win?
Post by: johnsironsanctuary on April 07, 2013, 02:53:36 PM

I forgot. The older guys used to take us out at night on the turnip truck to hunt snaths .

Title: Re: Just what did I win?
Post by: johnsironsanctuary on April 07, 2013, 02:58:24 PM

OK, while Papaw takes his daytime nap, I looked it up.

snath (snæθ) also snathe (sneɪð)

n.
the shaft or handle of a scythe.
[1565–75; unexplained variant of snead (Middle English snede, Old English snǣd)]

Title: Re: Just what did I win?
Post by: Papaw on April 07, 2013, 08:34:15 PM

Those were snipe we used to take greenhorns out to hunt.

Title: Re: Just what did I win?
Post by: Branson on April 08, 2013, 07:57:25 AM

Quote from: Papaw on April 07, 2013, 08:34:15 PM

Those were snipe we used to take greenhorns out to hunt.

Remember the snipe hunt in Home from the Hill?  Great old movie.

Title: Re: Just what did I win?
Post by: Branson on April 08, 2013, 07:59:27 AM

Well, when it gets here I'll search it for marks, and I'll measure between the jaws.  I hope it fits something old that I use...

Title: Re: Just what did I win?
Post by: Papaw on April 08, 2013, 08:22:13 AM

They usually have no marks at all.

Title: Re: Just what did I win?
Post by: Branson on April 08, 2013, 12:45:44 PM

Quote from: Papaw on April 08, 2013, 08:22:13 AM

They usually have no marks at all.

I suspected as much, but a guy can hope.

Title: Re: Just what did I win?
Post by: ron darner on April 08, 2013, 09:59:13 PM

You usually adjust the blade, or the tholes, rather than the snath - at least on the scythes that I have.  Tholes sometimes are made so that you can turn them by hand, re-position, and re-tighten, but the blades almost always have square nuts that you have to remove to set the blade angle, or to change blades. The "snath" is that funny-curved long wooden piece, and the "tholes" are the two short straight handles that jut off of it; "blade" should be adequate for anyone who belongs on this forum!