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[crash325]

Lets have a little friendly competition between Red Neck Ingenuity And Yankee ingenuity. FRIENDLY IS THE BY WORD.

I'm going to start off with a few pictures. You post a few pictures of yours. Lets have some fun.

First is and easy out made from a R/R spike. Needed to get a shattered brass fitting out of a propane tank. Few minuets on the grinder & it worked to perfection.
Maybe a 1 time use.
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A socket for removing Lag Bolts out of R/R ties. These are lag bolts from He!!. Just a hunk of pipe, split & welded together. Holes are for concrete stake & most of the time a long piece of pipe was needed to get them started. Square hole, some what beat out, was for a cheater bar or impact wrench. I may weld an old socket there if needed. This simple tool has removed over 100 lag bolts.


More simple, useful & fun stuff later.. YOUR TURN

 

[don45640]

Okay...you'll just have to visualize this tool. Not hard to do.I can't post pics. Need to use a hacksaw but can't get in to the tight place to do it.
Yeah,usually you can dremel it if you OWN one,I know. But what I have done so many times is just break a piece off the hacksaw blade and take visegrips and clamp them on one end of the blade to secure it,using the visegrips as your handle.You can adjust the angle of the blade to fit the space you're working in,too. I recommend gloves in case of abrasion of some kind. don-ohio ^)

 

[PILOON]

Vice grips reminds me of using a pair clamped to an outboard motor to steer it as the factory handle was broken off.
(Maybe that's why I suffer from Renaud's syndrome in my left hand)

 

[JBourquin]

Ever try to break the bead on a motorcycle tire?

Before I had the tractor..

Also needed a blind hole bearing puller..

 

[schmism]

Ever try to break the bead on a motorcycle tire?

no but i have tried rusty old gravely tires

 

[schmism]

oh and what in the world do you do with lag bolts like those!

 

[Depmandog]

Okay...you'll just have to visualize this tool. Not hard to do.I can't post pics. Need to use a hacksaw but can't get in to the tight place to do it.
Yeah,usually you can dremel it if you OWN one,I know. But what I have done so many times is just break a piece off the hacksaw blade and take visegrips and clamp them on one end of the blade to secure it,using the visegrips as your handle.You can adjust the angle of the blade to fit the space you're working in,too. I recommend gloves in case of abrasion of some kind. don-ohio ^)

Or you can spend a few bucks and buy the tool....





Super handy! Have had one for 20 years, and just bought my son and son-in-law one for Christmas

 

[Tollster]

Vice grips reminds me of using a pair clamped to an outboard motor to steer it as the factory handle was broken off.
(Maybe that's why I suffer from Renaud's syndrome in my left hand)

Shifted a few motorcycles with those after the splines on the shaft stripped when I was younger.

 

[crash325]

oh and what in the world do you do with lag bolts like those!

Well the could be used as BIG lag bolts. But #1 goal was to get the plates ( 3 types that weigh 40 pounds or so) off the RR ties. So far the ties have been used as fence posts. The next use for them is a wall about 4' high around my black smith & welding area
One lag bolt is now used as a cold chisel. Square off the head with a little grinding and it fits a hole in my anvil.
Many others were cut up and used as feet on my compactor (sheep's foot).



The tool shown by depmandog, been around a long time happen to have one my self.

 

[don45640]

Yeah,Depmandog,I have one of those someplace, but my tool shed is a mess.LOL! Besides,those won't always work at the angle I need,so since I've always got about 4 pairs of vise-grips around,I just grab èm and go.
I gotta' get out there in the shed and organize about three hundred pounds of hand tools.Organization runs against my sloppy nature,though.LOL
don-ohio ^)