Another tool find...

[Dave H (MI)]

These were at a sale earlier this week where I bought a couple of tool boxes. Not 100% of what all they are used for but the straight end is pointed like a drift and the other end has the little shoe on it. Biggest two are 19.5 inches to give you some scale. All are Snap-On and have some age on them.

 

[Steve@Advance]

You did good!

Not sure they have a specific purpose other than handy for prying and aligning holes.

 

[gab]

I think those are called rolling wedge bars, they work slick for certain pry jobs or hole line ups.

 

[504]

I have had those and to cheap look alikes.Those are good tools and expensive to buy.

 

[Phill Tibbetts]

One thing they were used for is pulling tapered keys. We had a lot of them in paper mills on old machinery.

https://www.mcmaster.com/keys/key-type~tapered/?SrchEntryWebPart_InpBox=

 

[rustred]

good deal! i have one snap on like that . they are called ladies slipper bars. i least thats what i have ever hear them called.

 

[Hobo,NC]

You did good mine are Mayhew I used them last Saturday to pry the injector out on a ford tractor.

 

[Old Ford Mechanic]

I call em Heel Bars

 

[RCP]

We called them a ladies foot.

 

[SVcummins]

I had that set of ladies foot bars but I think they are all gone now

 

[kcm.MN]

Those would have come in handy a couple months back when I was doing a brake job on the plow truck.

You sure do find lots of goodies in your area!

 

[Geo-TH,In]

Tools like that come in handy when you're putting the 2 halves of a tractor back together.

 

[caterpillar guy]

My brother used to use them in press repair work for prying and alignment. I have a couple of the bigger ones like that . I use them to pry out wheel seals when I have to change them. don't have to drive them out with the bearing when you can't get to the seal to drive it out. I've had them for many years. I think mine are OTC brand. Would like to have some of those hex shaped ones like on the left side of the picture in Hobo's tools there. They have a different end where they are bent back some then rounded like a circle to a end for getting under things and prying out or up with. They come in several sizes even in a 2or 3 foot long model.

 

[ASEguy]

We call them ladies slippers. Lock them in a vise and hang a head or tranny on them.

 

[Gambles]

I went to automotive tech school decades ago and one of these was on the required tool list. The name on the list was a rolling pry bar. Not used every day, but a fantastic tool when needed.

 

[Russ from MN]

I have a couple, handy tool, I have heard them called race bars, can be use to pry a bearing race out of a housing. When I google race bar nothing shows up, rolling pry bar is the name most common.

 

[JWA]

Roller head pry bars.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Always heard em called crows feet. gm

 

[gab]

Snap On calls them rolling head bars.

Think the price hidden by the date is $205.75 2010 price list.

 

[fastfarmall]

About $50,00 a bar,he must of had a use for them! I got one!!

 

[Ragnarok]

Snap On heel bars missing the small one...I just bought a new set off the truck...around $300 on sale....I've owned a set of those since the 1980's

 

[guido]

Dave H (MI),

They are called rolling head bars. I called them ladies fingers. I use them a lot doing frame work. Aligning x members and spring brackets. I have one bigger then the one on the picture, and a 4 in. one,

Guido.

 

[MARK ROBKE]

I have those and also a couple that have an adjustable 'foot'. In other words, you can change the angle of the foot in relation to the bar. Very handy for seal removal. Mark.