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I was looking for a pipe wrench today. I picked up the first one I found. It said genuine Stillson Wrench. I have heard the term Stillson wrench many years ago, maybe my Dad use the word. I didn't know it was just a pipe wrench. Any body use the word Stillson, for a pipe wrench? Different areas call things different. When Dad farmed the rows at the end of a field were called head rows. I never hear the word head rows from farmers here. Stan
 
We plant end rows, they are often on the headlands from plowing.

Never really heard the two combined together around here.

What interests me is a disk harrow, where here it is just a disk, a harrow is an entirely different thing,

Paul
 
I have 2 wrenches marked as "stillson". Both have a spring and pivot in the head so that the jaw can be tightened and then as force is applied, the jaw pivots to tighten further. Ive not seen this on other brands of pipe or monkey wrenches.
 
Like DavidP, I would tend to refer to any pipe wrench as a 'Stilson' - like all vacuum cleaners are called 'Hoovers'! We call headlands 'endriggs' here in Scotland. Jim
 
I can barely read the factory sticker,on one of my disk, but it says 48 Disk Harrow, it's just a average tandem disk!
 
Stillison is a term I had heard of, knew what it was, but was never a part of normal conversation. I always thought it was a name brand of a pipe wrench. I don't recall ever seeing one.

Here is what Wikipedia says about it:

The Stillson wrench, or Stillson-pattern wrench, is the usual form of pipe wrench, especially in North America. The Stillson name is that of the original patent holder, who licensed the design to a number of manufacturers. The patent expired decades ago. Another type of wrench often used on pipes, the plumber wrench, is also called a pipe wrench in some places.
 
That’s all my daddy ever called them was a Stiltson. I’ve been with gas company 41 years now and only known as a pipe wrench in my trade. Everything we use is made by Rigid, never seen a Stiltson that I know of.
 
I grew up in Northeastern Ohio. Like Traditional Farmer, we always qualified the word "harrow" by saying "disk harrow", "spring toothed harrow", "spike toothed harrow" etc. We also plowed and planted the "headlands" last.

Tom in TN
 
I have thought that a Stillsom wrench had springs in the head while a pipe wrench didn't. However I have no reason to think I am correct, it's just what for some reason I have always thought.
 
I never saw the term disc harrow until I joined this forum! A disc was a disc, and a harrow was either spike tooth or spring tooth, and then my FIL had a roller harrow.
 
We called the end of the field turn rows. Still today. Harrow was a tooth harrow a disk was a disk. Also a two wheel trailer was a cotton wagon. I was correct once when a took a friend up north about a cotton trailer and he said it's not a wagon. Has to have 4 wheels. LOL
 
my dad also---that was from back in the 50's---i still have a couple of his stilsen wrenchs --also have a 2 ft monkey wrench
 
A pipe wrench has a solid head with a moveable jaw, a Stillson wrench is similar but the head is on a pivot. I am sharing this from memory without going to look at one, but there is a definite difference.
 
The only thing I know about it is I read a story once where one guy warped someone else upside the head with a Stillson wrench.
 
My father's younger brother was killed at 27 years of age like that.Hit on the head with a pipe wrench.It was 1963. The only time I ever saw my father cry.
 
We used a lot of "Drags" around here. Spring tooth harrows with no transport frame. Just shoes that drug on the ground.---------------------Loren
 
I saw a young Marine get killed on Taiwan.

We were setting up a tent camp and while the crew was driving tent stakes with a sledge hammer, the head flew off of a hammer and hit the poor guy in the head. He died on the spot.

Ever since, I get the "willies" whenever I see a loose head on a hammer.
 
never relized it but my stiltson wrenches have spring in head and pivots too my other pipe wrenches do not never noticed
 
We used to have a border collie that liked to follow along with the tractor. He was satisfied with how things were going until dad got to the fence row. Then he sprang into action. Our tractor was not going to leave our property if he could help it. He only settled down when it turned and started back the other way. He eventually tried to get a farm truck to slow down going past the end of our driveway. Not too smart. Lost 2 or 3 that way.
 
Some pictures. Spelled Stillson on the handle.
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