Auction stuff what is it

Dave Sherburne NY · Feb 15, 2012

Bought this stuff at the end of an auction last Sat. The big ratchet with the square hole in it may be part of the pipe die. The tool with the three points on it pivots at the rivet near the end. That Pipe Die weighs over 50 pounds and is adjustable up to 4 inch pipe.

LarryT · Feb 15, 2012

The Top picture is an old fire hose spanner. Pin couplings haven"t been used since the mid 60"s.

The next is a flange packing for old style pipe flange connectors.

The next is a tap handle used for old pipe taps for making pipe couplings.

The next I don"t know.

The last is a pipe die for cutting threads on pipe. It is adjustable for different size pipes within a range.

Aaron Halfmann · Feb 15, 2012

The tool with three points on it that pivots is a old barb wire stretcher. You would slide barb wire in notch close to pivot then put up to post and turn to take up slack. Use it on wooden posts. learned that from grandpa couple weeks back saw one hanging in the barn and had to ask what is it.

Bob Bancroft · Feb 15, 2012

Does the square hole in the ratchet fit the square drive on the pipe die?

Ultradog MN · Feb 15, 2012

Good photos. I always like the photos.
About the only thing I recognized out of the bunch was the pipe die.

LarryT · Feb 15, 2012

Yes. and some of them would ratchet, some were fixed. When these were used they Ridged pipe turners weren't around.

Oldmax · Feb 15, 2012

looks like you got into some citys water works. the third one is a handle for a hot tap machine Small one 3/4" to 2". Have used many of them. They let you tap a water line under pressure. Have made simler taps up to 24" with different machine.

Dalex · Feb 15, 2012

The top tool is a spanner for Fire hose. The kind with 2 little round studs sticking out of the ring on the female half

Dave Sherburne NY · Feb 15, 2012

Yes it does fit but the condition of the two is very different.

Leroy · Feb 15, 2012

I have used that fence stretcher many a time. It is more of a finnishing stretcher tho for doing the last end on a woven wire fence. You hooked the streatcher to the last post (the one the gate went on) and the clamp was between that last post and the brace post and you could staple up to the brace but then the rest was loose. You used that to wrap the ends around the post to tighten them to staple to post (2 more staples) and then the end of the wire that was still sticking out you wraped the rest of the way around the post and twisted that end around the wire just before the post. Usually about 8? wires (48") fence and then you might put a barb on top but that worked the same. A few years back Farm Colector Magazine had it in their mystery tools and somebody misidentified it and they printed his reply. I wrote them and explained just what it was and the proper use and they printed my explanition that was about a sixth of a page. I have 3 full sets of woven wire stretchers with parts for more and a bunch of the single wire stretchers. Plus several staple pullers.

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