BT Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 I got this in a box of miscellaneous blacksmith tools at an auction. Anybody have any idea of what it is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irnsrgn Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 It appears to be a tire wrench for setting tires while hot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie Zietman Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 a very big bottle opener? it does look like it could pop tires off a wheel fairly easily, maybe that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irnsrgn Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 not for removing Archie, for stretching just a bit to help get the hot tire over the wooden wheel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BT Posted August 14, 2006 Author Share Posted August 14, 2006 I thought that is what it might be Jr. but the roller end had me wondering. The tire wrenches that I have seen prior to this one were all smith made affairs that looked like a mini canthook. Here are a couple from the COSIRA book on wheelmaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irnsrgn Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 If it looked like a mini cant hook, it was probably a spoke dog, for pulling the spokes together a bit to line up the spoke tenons with the felloe or the rim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BT Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 You are right again Jr. :-) I remember now the guy I saw using the mini canthook affair was putting fellows on a wheel. Now that I think about it, I don't think I have ever seen a live demo of a tire being installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ten Hammers Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 BT, come to this place Midwest Old Threshers and I can almost guarantee you will see a tire setting on Saturday of the show. North end by the train station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BT Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 That looks like a good show Steve. Do you demo there too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ten Hammers Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Yes, I have my trailer shop set up behind the Snipe Run smithy (between the fire dept and the smithy). Jens Butler ( Oakwood Forge ) came there last year for the first time and I am very suspicious he will be there again this year. . We do have fun. Kieth Sommer is the Threshers smith in the snipe run shop and he is one heck of a smith. Stop by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irnsrgn Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Its part of an old fashioned disc sharpener back in the days of horse powered machinery and small tractors, where the whole disc gang was put into a contrapsion that turned the gang slowly. and the tool in question was used in conjunction with another piece that held a cutting bit. The whatsit in question was used to apply pressure to the back side of the blade so the cutting tool on the otherside would cut. I found this one today stored in my aunts garage, he whole machine was there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BT Posted December 15, 2006 Author Share Posted December 15, 2006 Ah, nice to know for sure what it is. Thanks Jr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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