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Title: old PLOW wrench
Post by: leach on June 15, 2013, 11:48:50 PM

WIARD PLOW WRENCH inv 2201

it says on wrench   70 TO 83  thats  it no other markings
IT HAS 3 SIZES TO IT A VINTAGE PLOW WRENCH

Title: Re: old PLOW wrench
Post by: scott radasch on June 19, 2013, 03:43:19 PM

nice old wrench

Title: Re: old PLOW wrench
Post by: Carl Wagner on June 19, 2013, 08:48:58 PM

Here is a rare Wiard Plow Co wrench.

Title: Re: old PLOW wrench
Post by: Wrenchmensch on June 21, 2013, 03:19:29 PM

That's a nice Wiard!

Title: Re: old PLOW wrench
Post by: skipskip on September 30, 2013, 05:01:20 PM

How do we pronounce Wiard?

weird? wired?

Skip

Title: Re: old PLOW wrench
Post by: Wrenchmensch on September 30, 2013, 05:26:47 PM

Wired.

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Post by: HeelSpur on September 30, 2013, 05:50:28 PM

I've been wired a few times in the past :-)

Title: Re: old PLOW wrench
Post by: rusty on September 30, 2013, 07:02:07 PM

Wiard is a weird word ;P

ia is halfway between long A and long I, it's rare in modern English, more common in older English and related ...(I can not even think of another word with wia in it)

 a bit like the er in here, with a w stuck to it, but not so much of an e as weird (which we pronounce wrong anyhow)

Perhaps you have to be wired to say it properly, or Scottish....

Title: Re: old PLOW wrench
Post by: skipskip on September 30, 2013, 08:31:00 PM

Like "he  weared his clothes funny"?

Title: Re: old PLOW wrench
Post by: Carl Wagner on September 30, 2013, 08:47:15 PM

W.P. CO is lots easier on the brain.

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Post by: Branson on October 01, 2013, 08:16:33 AM

Second time I've seen this name.  A Canadian named Norman Wiard worked for the US around the time of the Civil War.   He designed a cannon which is named after him.  Such an unusual name, one wonders if this is the same fellow, or related.

Title: Re: old PLOW wrench
Post by: rusty on October 18, 2013, 09:34:19 PM

Not  the same, but perhaps descended,

Thomas Wiard founded the plow co in 1804 (Initially, in Avon,NY), Norman's published artillary documents are around the 1860's, long strech of time even allowing arbitrary age for those endeavors....

Thomas had brothers, (William,Seth, Thomas, Henry, and Matthew)

William had a son, Seth, but he worked for the plow company (1860's)

Geneology traces Wiard's (also Wyard) to Connecticut families, from Boston emmigrants (1666), apparently from london or at least England..

The other direction is more interesting....

Norman's father was William wiard, William's father was Squire Thomas Wiard, of East Avon, New York.

http://books.google.com/books?id=EFNbAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA37
(Note, read up from this page, backwards)