N8O Posted February 11, 2018 Share Posted February 11, 2018 Hello, can anybody tell me what this tool was used for? I can barely make out an atha stamp on it. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted February 11, 2018 Share Posted February 11, 2018 It's a ships maul, used for driving pins in & out of rigging, sometimes called a top maul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N8O Posted February 11, 2018 Author Share Posted February 11, 2018 Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stash Posted February 11, 2018 Share Posted February 11, 2018 I've also seen it called a riviters or a boilermaker's hammer. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 11, 2018 Share Posted February 11, 2018 All boilermaker's hammer's I have seen had had a rounded peen or face for setting the fire tubs. While it may have originally been used for ship work I have found them in Central Ohio and here in the desert in a mining area too. So a fairly wide spread item; However I was greatly surprised to not see it in the 1897, 1905 or 1908 Sears Roebuck catalogs; of course I only checked the index for hammers, sledges and mauls and skimmed a bunch of pages in those areas. If you do a net search on Atha ship maul you will see a bunch of pictures of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N8O Posted February 11, 2018 Author Share Posted February 11, 2018 Thanks Thomas Powers I bought it at an auction about a month-and-a-half ago. It was in a lot of tools. Well we have strip mines in Ohio, big shipping on Lake Erie and boiler makers around here. If that's the case what would be the purpose of the faceted sides? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N8O Posted February 12, 2018 Author Share Posted February 12, 2018 Okay did a quick Google search and I actually found some place that says the ship maul is used for plugging holes?! Anyways thanks for the information I didn't even know what the tool was called. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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