Tool Wars

[Tony in SD]

Every once in a while a few friends of mine will have a "Tool War". We start naming factory made tools we have that we think no one else has. Last man standing, wins. My winning tool is a Ridgid 4" pipe threader. What tool do you have that no one else has?

 

[glennster]

Cincinnati Bickford radial drill press.

 

[Dusty MI]

I have a Ridgid tripod chain vice and multi size pipe die, forget what sizes.

Dusty

 

[Larry986]

Kearney and Trecker 2HL horizontal mill

 

[teddy52food]

Large cast iron jointer with 12 inch knives. It had a 5 HP 3 phase motor on it when I got it. Now has a 3 1/2 Hp 220. I ran it with a 2 cylinder Wis for a while when I 1st got it. Close to 8 feet long.

 

[DoubleO7]

Every once in a while a few friends of mine will have a "Tool War". We start naming factory made tools we have that we think no one else has. Last man standing, wins. My winning tool is a Ridgid 4" pipe threader. What tool do you have that no one else has?

Hossfeld No. 2 bender

 

[BTfromBG]

Three foot long pipe wrench.

 

[Ellis Kinney]

#2 Di Acro bender. Ellis

 

[Dingo3]

Racine electric 3phase hack saw. 1930s-40s

 

[Stan Coryell]

Rigid 700 Pipe threader, Hougen Mag Drill

 

[miangus]

Every once in a while a few friends of mine will have a "Tool War". We start naming factory made tools we have that we think no one else has. Last man standing, wins. My winning tool is a Ridgid 4" pipe threader. What tool do you have that no one else has?

Lathe, Geo. D Walcott & Sons Jackson Michigan.

 

[wore out]

Lathe, Geo. D Walcott & Sons Jackson Michigan.

My largest and smallest lathes, big 'ol South Bend and Chinese mini-lathe.

 

[Janicholson]

My wife's paternal great grandfather's 1867 patent cast iron level/angle/slope whisky stick.

 

[Duner Wi]

Snap-on spring spreader for Fords with buggy springs.

 

[sms]

Large cast iron jointer with 12 inch knives. It had a 5 HP 3 phase motor on it when I got it. Now has a 3 1/2 Hp 220. I ran it with a 2 cylinder Wis for a while when I 1st got it. Close to 8 feet long.

I have one too.

 

[sms]

Three foot long pipe wrench.

I have one too. Maybe longer than that.

 

[sms]

Antique 20 inch planer in working condition.

 

[sms]

Antique 20 inch planer in working condition.

And a large wood lathe I resurrected. The wood for the lathe is being planed in the above picture.

 

[Brown Dirt Cowboy]

A large sleeve puller with about a dozen pucks. And an over center lever type chain binder.

 

[Stan Coryell]

My wife's paternal great grandfather's 1867 patent cast iron level/angle/slope whisky stick.View attachment 65724View attachment 65725

That's tough to beat!