Name This Tool

[capucine]

What is a Ford wrench? never heard of this kind of wrench in my life!

[Herk7769]

Ford Wrench:

[Herk7769]

While I don't carry it in my camper, I have an old one that most likely dates back to the Model A Ford tool kit it came from. It sits in my garage tool chest and I use it quite often.

[capucine]

It looks like a tool that was invented before my time. A piece of collection.

[OldCoot]

They were also called a "monkey wrench". I have an old tire inflating tool my grandfather used on the farm that they had to remove a sparkplug from their car/tractor/truck and insert an adaptor into the sparkplug hole and let the engine pump up the tire.

[Herk7769]

Originally Posted by dunnnc

They were also called a "monkey wrench". I have an old tire inflating tool my grandfather used on the farm that they had to remove a sparkplug from their car/tractor/truck and insert an adaptor into the sparkplug hole and let the engine pump up the tire.

I thought a "Monkey Wrench" was a "pipe wrench" (does not have flat surfaces but aggressive teeth). Need to look this up to be sure.

HAH! We are both right!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_wrench

It refers to any adjustable jaw wrench apparently.

Oops I read that wrong. ONLY a flat jaw one is a monkey wrench.
A pipe wrench is still just a pipe wrench.

[fordmantpw]

Interesting...I've learned my new piece of info for the day...and it's only 8:15 in the morning!

So it looks similar to a pipe wrench, but with smooth jaws.

[TURBS]

Originally Posted by dunnnc

They were also called a "monkey wrench". I have an old tire inflating tool my grandfather used on the farm that they had to remove a sparkplug from their car/tractor/truck and insert an adaptor into the sparkplug hole and let the engine pump up the tire.

That's interesting!
In todays world you'd be hard pressed to find the spark plugs let alone if it even had one!

My dw has a hard enough time just PUTTING air in a tire much less overhaulin the engine to do it!

Example) the other day she says her tire light was on so she pulled up to the air hose in the shop and looks at all four tires and makes an educated decision on which one was infact LOW.
she then procedes to fill the one up that to the best of her knowledge looked low.
Hmmmm ............ she texts me later and writs I quote. "Tire light came on so I filled up the low tire but the lights still on please check it tonight"
So I get her tire gauge out of the ds door pocket and start from ds front 38
Ds rear 36 Ps rear 25 and finally Ps front 68
you get the point

[Herk7769]

Originally Posted by dunnnc

The monkey wrench is an adjustable wrench, a later American development of eighteenth century English coach wrenches. It was popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but is now used only for heavier tasks, having been mostly replaced by the lighter and sleeker shifting adjustable. The term monkey wrench is also used colloquially (and mistakenly) to refer to the pipe wrench, owing to their broadly similar shapes.

Ratchets, Sockets & Wrenches | Wrenches-Adjustable | Adjustable Monkey Wrenches, FACOM FA-105.280 | B334633 - GlobalIndustrial.com

Yea, I got that and posted in my edit.

[Rugged Brown]

We used Monkey wrench and Stillson synonymously in our neck of the woods. Never heard it referred to as a Ford wrench before.

[OldCoot]

Try these on for size. Can anyone identify them?

[Herk7769]

The top one is a saw tooth setter.

Drawing a blank on the other two.

[Herk7769]

The second one looks like a plumbers faucet stem wrench.

[OldCoot]

Herk, you are the first person I have shown that to that knew it was a handsaw tooth setter, amazing. I will wait a little while and let others guess the other two.

[LadyWindrider]

Wow, can't believe we went from installing an anode rod to setting saw teeth, and all the same thread. Maybe somebody needs to start a thread with old tools, and what they are

Could title it: Name this tool. First prize could be a free year on Forrest River Forums.

[Herk7769]

I agree. Now it has its own home.

[OldCoot]

OK, way to go Herk, here is a good one, name them all. They were some of my grandfather's tools I have had since his death in 1978.

[OldCoot]

This wrench came in the tool box with this car which we think is a 1909 Ford model R (note the RH steering) in which my grandfather and grandmother are sitting. The wrench must be one of the original "fit all" wrenches made. It has similar sizes on the reverse side to fit numerous other things.

[OldCoot]

This tool was used on old wood cook stoves. The pointed end end was used to lift the 4 round plates that covered the cooking surface and allowed the cook to put additional wood in the fire. The end with the rectangular slot is the end they used to insert over the shaker grate lever that stuck out on the bottom of the stove just above the ash cleanout door. It was then moved from side to side to shake the ashes down into a sheet metal pan which was then removed and the ashes were either thrown out or saved to make soap. The tool was usually stored in one of the back plates on the stove top. There was also a door under the cooking surface and above the cleanout door to allow for the initial loading of firewood, paper, kindling and starting the fire. I ate many meals cooked by my grandfather on this kind of stove.

[TURBS]

Nice history lesson!