Name that old tool

So it's not a flathead screwdriver with an unusal handle?

Tim

-- "I've got more trophies than Wayne Gretsky and the Pope combined!" - Homer Simpson Website @

That's unusual looking. Can a flat bar pass thru the top at an angle, where the rectangular hole is seen on the nearest side? Can a square bar (or some other gizmo) fit in the other hole on the top side?

WB .......................

its a henway.

Gunner

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. - George Orwell

Yeah, Yeah...about 5 pounds.

Ron Thompson On the Beautiful Florida Space Coast, right beside the Kennedy Space Center, USA

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

--Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

OldFella?

*******************************************************

Sometimes in a workplace you find snot on the wall of the toilet cubicles. You feel "What sort of twisted child would do this?"....the internet seems full of them. It's very sad

Caulking iron?

Gary Brady Austin, TX

Some old fire hydrants had caps with a pair of short radial pins on the OD rather than the typical pentagonal nut. Your tool looks like a mini version of the wrench for removing those caps -- a pin spanner where the pin is on the part rather than on the wrench. Maybe the chisel end is a free added feature to the tool's primary function?

Ned Simmons

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 07:27:54 GMT, Gunner calmly ranted:

Nah, this is a henway:

That looks like an old gas pipe valve turner offer thingy. The proverbial utility valve wrench, as it were.

P.S: I can say with total veracity that it is neither a kanutin valve wrench nor a twin valve duster adjuster.

========================================================= What doesn't kill you +

you hurt more. + Web application programming =========================================================

Good guess. I was going to say that the square/diamond shaped hole through the large end would be about right for working the valve at the top of a hydrant, and that the radiussed side of the large end may be a hose wrench for doing up the pins on fire hose connections.

Jim

================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at yktvmv (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ==================================================

Damn. That was gonna be my next guess!

:^)

Jim

================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at yktvmv (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ==================================================

I think it's a forged metal wouf hong, for use on certain personal items where the traditional wooden one might not be strong enough to do the job. (hi)

Jeff

I think you may be closer. My memory on this goes back to my college summer job working for the public works department in my home town. We used old fire hose for the discharge on the big Mudhen (not henway) diaphragm pumps when pumping out trenches, etc. They did indeed have the pin type fittings, like this...

I think this style is more common these days...

Ned Simmons

Nope..THIS is a henway.

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. - George Orwell

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:48:23 GMT, Gunner calmly ranted:

'Twas a dastardly deed, dude! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

------------------------------------------ Friends don't let friends read "Wired"

Wondrous Website Design =============================================

Just a quick question (after reading other posts to date)

*Why* would you get something like this, not knowing what it's for, not knowing its value, and obviously not having a *use* for it? To each his own, I guess, but I got *way* too much stuff now and I would walk right past something like this..... Ken.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained? Looked interesting to me, I'm the curious type. I wouldn't try this with old boats or factory machinery, but a 10" wrench isn't much of an imposition on my space. The human thrist for exploration and discovery, or something.

This isn't one of them, but weird stuff has followed me home in the past and proved its worth. Like when I got $950 for a box of old dental tools I got from someone who was tossing it.

GTO(John)

Ya see, there ya go... I have the opposite "luck"... It would have cost me $950 to get rid of a box of old dental tools ... Ken. (who also has a certain amount of oddball stuff follow him home)

At a flea market I would have given a couple of bucks for it. Just hang it on the pegboard so everyone that come into the shop wonder "what the hell it that"

BTW: I think the hydrant wrench is the right answer. Check out this sight. They say send them a picture and they will identify a hydrant. Maybe they would also recognize the wrench.