Name this tool.

[9w1911]

Friend of mine found this in an antique shop, on the floor, in Eastern Oregon. I wanted to see if the board could help guess what it could be and for what. Thanks.
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[JSnover]

Looks like a homemade low-profile box end wrench, by what looks like saw cuts (or they burnt the hex out with a torch, hard to.see on my phone) in the corners. Nice work but it could have been used for a lot of things.

[MT Gianni]

Crudely made wrench, probably used for setting bolts in mining headframes. I'd name it Ralphie.

[starmac]

Hmmm looks like a wrench, I have built a number of them myself, when I needed a bigger or thinner wrench than I had available.

[farmerjim]

Looks like a homemade low-profile box end wrench.
+1
I have made one that looks the same.

[9w1911]

so not a custom tool for a special farm implement? this is more a hand made on the job tool? and you think rafters, mining, maybe forest industry over say farming?

[9w1911]

very cool info thank you

[MT Gianni]

so not a custom tool for a special farm implement? this is more a hand made on the job tool? and you think rafters, mining, maybe forest industry over say farming?
I can't think of farm equipment using a 3-31/2" nut which is what I got from the hand size. The flats to contact the nut seem to have too much variation to be factory as does the slenderness of the body.

[9w1911]

Great!!

[dagger dog]

Looks like a wire wheel hub nut knock off wrench, to be used when changing wheels.

[jonp]

Made to take crank shaft bolt out of a skidder

[bangerjim]

Home-made on the fly wrench. Not worth much. And probably not that old. Looks like it was hogged out with an oxy cutting torch. Note the larger "burn in" hole at 9 and 11 o'clock. And
the drilled holes in the corners to know when to stop burning!

[9w1911]

Great!! Thanks!

My friend who got this, she is more interested in the story, that is the value to her.

[Ballistics in Scotland]

It may have been intended for fitting electric elements in water tanks. Those have been around a while now.

[Traffer]

Hey I was just in that antique shop in Oregon and that fell out of my pocket on to the floor. I want it back. Seriously though, larger wrenches are being made all the time because of the price goes up as the size goes up. A single box end wrench that big from a manufacturer would cost you the better part of a hundred dollar bill. Pretty good torch work on it also ...or it could be from a small drill where the maker made a zillion holes to cut a line. In an case it takes a bit of skill to make one.

[William Yanda]

looks like a crude version of mine.

[xs11jack]

Could the holes in the corners be there to reduce stress and stop cracks.
Ole Jack

[Parson]

For the nut on a wagon wheel axel

[jonp]

Word of advice. Not everything old is an antique. Some of it is just junk

[runfiverun]

you can see where they sawed across from one side to the other.
I'd guess a drill a saw blade some file work and probably a torch was involved.

it looks something like the wrench I made to fit the top bolt on my old international pick-up.
it cut the time to take the one bolt out down to 6 hrs.
only took me 2 to make the wrench.:lol:

[Mk42gunner]

For the nut on a wagon wheel axel

Most if not all horse drawn wagon nuts were square.

I'm not sure when hexagonal nuts became standard, but my 1950 Allis Chalmers WD still has a significant amount of square headed bolts and nuts on it.

Robert

[flyingmonkey35]

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[varmintpopper]

Fire Plug Wrench ?

Good Shooting

Lindy

[JFrench]

Looks like a 55 gal fuel drum plug wrench.
James

[starmac]

I do not know that I have ever seen a fuel drum with a hex head plug, are you talking about a normal 55 gallon drum? The drum wrenches that I have fits on the inside of the nut. The hex part is awful thin on the ones that does have a hex.

[kfarm]

My 1975 International 815 then 915 combine had a wrench just like that to manually turn the cylinder when you got it clogged up. Feed to much and get it stuck, the wrench had a holder attached to the header. The wrench was abt 3' long. Still have the wrench, combine long gone.

[mozeppa]

Looks like a 55 gal fuel drum plug wrench.
James

bung wrench

for your bunghole!
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[Traffer]

I believe bung holes use plugs that you drive out with a mallet. Maybe just the old ones?

[mozeppa]

I believe bung holes use plugs that you drive out with a mallet. Maybe just the old ones?

nope....they are called bung wrenches.
had to open many a 55 gallon drums of solvent for 2 years ....yup, bung wrench.

old days bung hammer....now days bung wrench.

[TXGunNut]

Diameter would be helpful, I'm guessing 2 1/2". Actual size would rule out a few guesses.

[trapper9260]

it looks like one that at one place i had work, we made some to use on the nuts on some disk gang for some farmers and also made some for them. Also on some combines have some nuts that some posted it looks .Where the end of the cut is there is a hole is like someone stated to stop it from cracking. also take up the stress.