International Harvestor Adjustable

[rustyfordgarage]

Had to get this the other day.  Other than a nice article on the farm collector site I didn't see much else about it.  Anyone know what It came with?  Patented Sep. 7 1897 Despite its age and experience it still adjusts easily with one hand.

[mikeswrenches]

One of the more common IH adjustable's.  The wood handle variants are much less common, as are the small ones like you have.

http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?pn=589765&id=14379

Mike

[wrenchguy]

chrome 1's really hard 2 find.

[jimwrench]

This wrench was widely issued; some but maybe not all of its usages were; McCormick Deering two horse mowers,Deering Ideal mowers,Deering New Ideal mowers,McCormick Deering reapers,Mccormick Deering corn binders,Deering Ideal Harvesters and binders,MCcormick Deering harvester thresher and at this point I got tired but the list goes on. Thats why they are easy to find.

[rustyfordgarage]

Thanks.  Didn't realize adjustable wrenches were so common with horse drawn equipment, I guess I figured the multi size open wrenches covered most of it.  I'm surprised I don't see them more often around here.