Just what did I win?

[Branson]

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?

[amertrac]

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

[Papaw]

Might be a snath wrench.

[johnsironsanctuary]

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

[HeelSpur]

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

lol

[rusty]

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

[johnsironsanctuary]

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

[johnsironsanctuary]

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)]

[Papaw]

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

[Branson]

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

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

[Branson]

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...

[Papaw]

They usually have no marks at all.

[Branson]

They usually have no marks at all.

I suspected as much, but a guy can hope.

[ron darner]

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!