This was posted on Tool Talk's Facebook page. Anyone know what it is?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150755997265271&set=p.10150755997265271&type=1&theater

Looks like a spreading type of lifting tong? Do you know what it is before I start digging?

Wayne

Is it for spreading open a tire for when you patch it on the inside?

Bill D.

I don't know what it is at all. It was posted on Tool Talk's Facebook page asking for ID.

I have no idea what it was intended for but it is awesome. Very cool looking item.

What's the range?  It looks like it's almost all the way "open" in the pic.
I like the teeth on the jaw that would have a tendency to pull loose, not so on other jaw.

Only thing I could come up with was for prying the dog's mouth open to get back that steak you dropped from the grill.  Probably would need more leverage for that though...

Really cool tool!

+1 for the tire spreader. A face breaking design if true.
Does everyone agree that the jaws move closer to each other as the handle is lifted? (Pardon moi, if this is obvious to everyone else. I am spatial perception challenged).

That's the impression I get, too: that the jaws move together if you lift this tool by the handle.  Makes me think that the lever was pressed down to do its work.  Looks too rough-'n-ready to be, say, a surgeon's rib-cage spreader . . . but the tire bead spreader, perhaps to get access for applying a hot patch to the inside of the carcass, is possible.  Can't judge tool's size, though, so that could be wrong.

Here is a Ken Tool bead spreader, we're getting close.


Seen here- http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/80257/118423.html?1262219182  Scroll down a bit.

I think I found a match- Seen here- http://www.costplustools.com/Ken-Tool-31551-Tire-Spreader-with-Lock-Pin-4-6-Capacity_p_4643.html

I guess these guys didn't figure out what it is either:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-MALLEABLE-CAST-IRON-TOOL-PATENTED-SOO-TOOL-CO-SIOUX-CITY-IA-RARE-/140615903864?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20bd5c6a78

This looks to be another variant:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-KEN-TOOL-COMPANY-AKRON-OHIO-SPANNER-WRENCH-T-53-STRETCHER-VERY-RARE-/140615900484?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20bd5c5d44
If you're needing one of these, now's the time it looks like.

Same seller, isn't it?
I might want one just for the cool factor!