OLD hand tools.

[Adam Helmer]

skeeter,

I concur-there is lots of old stuff we are not familiar with. I drove an old vehicle once that had the thermometer on the radiator cap that told the water temperature.

The wife got a digital camera for Christmas and once I figure out how to connect it with the 'puter, I shall post photos and ask: Whatizit? Be advised this includes 3 pickup loads of stuff. Be well.

Adam

[wrenchman]

you know i seen this post a while ago and didnt think about it but being my grand father worked for henry ford and my family in ky have been liveing on the same farm for 4 generations i have seen lots of older tools and for all typs of things.
I have my great grand fathers carbide lamp for working in mines and spoke shaves i also have his 1917 bayonet he would youse to cut tobaco.
my great grand father was still youseing his horse drawn cart in the 70s

[multibeard]

Old tools can be mind bogling trying to figure out what some of them are used for.

My father gave me a hand full of yankee screw drivers. All of them had a forward and reverse on them except one. I figured that it was just an early yankee screw driver until I was cleaning up the brass on the thing.

It has the name of a casket company on it. That is why there was no reverse. Once they screwed the lid on the casket it was on there to stay so no need for a reverse to take the screws out.

[gumpokc]

both of my grandads had a wide variety of old tools, some of which took abit of figuring out. post your photos when you can, i'm fairly sure we can figureout most