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Agree with Crow , its a "mad mick " or a Pick
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Yummyrum wrote:A Shifter , a Mattock and a Texta

In UnZud we used to call them a Cressent , a Grubber and a Felt Tip Pen ......Which was pronounced Falt Tup Pin :wave:
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Crescent wrench , grubbing hoe, marker.
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Yeah OK crescent wrench back home is a dated word for a variation of footprints where the curved top not the bottom jaw is what locks, ya never see em much anymore but SB prolly has six of em.
Here's a footprint
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thecroweater wrote:Yeah OK crescent wrench back home is a dated word for a variation of footprints where the curved top not the bottom jaw is what locks, ya never see em much anymore but SB prolly has six of em.
Here's a footprint
Looks like a bastard cross between a pipewrench and a pair of vicegrips
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Many years ago Dad walks in to the house where mum was talking to the neighbour's wife blood all over his face. They ask what happened. He was clearing overhead sprinkler jets and left his footprints on the ladder so they fell when he moved it, he says my footprint fell and hit me in the face, neighbour thought he was concussed. :lol: .
We call these things Stilsens ,pretty sure its what yonder are talking about when they say monkey wrench :think:
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thecroweater wrote:Many years ago Dad walks in to the house where mum was talking to the neighbour's wife blood all over his face. They ask what happened. He was clearing overhead sprinkler jets and left his footprints on the ladder so they fell when he moved it, he says my footprint fell and hit me in the face, neighbour thought he was concussed. :lol: .
We call these things Stilsens ,pretty sure its what yonder are talking about when they say monkey wrench :think:
Pipewrench or monkeywrench.
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jb-texshine wrote:
thecroweater wrote:Many years ago Dad walks in to the house where mum was talking to the neighbour's wife blood all over his face. They ask what happened. He was clearing overhead sprinkler jets and left his footprints on the ladder so they fell when he moved it, he says my footprint fell and hit me in the face, neighbour thought he was concussed. :lol: .
We call these things Stilsens ,pretty sure its what yonder are talking about when they say monkey wrench :think:
Pipewrench or monkeywrench.
If I'm not mistaken A monkey wrench doesn't have teeth and the head isn't curved... Those pictured are pipe wrenches.
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Oh OK well that sounds like what they use to call a monkey wrench here, was a very old tool with a thread and turn nut often under the jaw. I got one here somewhere that was Grandpa's took me some work to unseize it. Basically it seized on him so he used it as a bolt on a chookyard door , move forward 50 years I took it off cleaned the rust off and spent ages getting it working. He called that sort of tool a monkey wrench, I've never seen one likely to be much under a hundred years old.
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Crow , we used to call those stilsons in NZ too :thumbup: Good thing the Kiwis and Aussies agreed on some things :clap:

OK Pick the Matock out of these bastards ....I'm still learning Aussie
( The one on the right is what was in the other pic)
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Grubbin axe plumbers or miners pick and trenching pick :lolno:
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Stillson is a brand name, but even if your monkey wrench was made by Ridgid, you could still ask for the Stillsons and be handed what you wanted. I don't know what you would get of you asked for the Ridgids :D

The mattock has the wide blade.

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Prolly pipe expanders
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thecroweater wrote:Grubbin axe plumbers or miners pick and trenching pick :lolno:
Damn it :thumbdown: ...no Mattock ...I like NZChris's choice :D :ewink:

Well if I may be totally Non PC ,it was a Victorian Shiella that told me .....how's that for a complete cop out for totally ballsing it up :silent:

But then again they call Middy's Pots ......so what chance does a green Kiwi have when he asks for a six of Beer in a Victorian Pub ...well I found out :oops:
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Hoosier Shine9 wrote:a friend of mine calls this a Bridge Chicken
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and this a Tree Rat
I call the bottom one dinner
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crescent wrench here is also (rarely) called a thumb wrench, cause you use your thumb to adjust the size wheel.

those pipe wrenches up there are often called monkey wrenches, cause that's what you often find hanging on the end of one... :ebiggrin:

the footprint up there...we don't really have them. we use "channel lock" or "pump pliers" pliers that are similar. a number of years ago they introduced a pliers similar to that thing, calling it an improvement on the channel locks. i think the preferred term was "speed pliers"

as a respectable mechanic, you would own these tools but rarely pull them out, using the right tool for the job or risk being laughed out the shop. vise grips were your last resort before the hot wrench came out. (oxy/acetylene with a rose bud tip)
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'asks for a six of Beer in a Victorian Pub'

Well I live in Victoria but I don't drink beer....

I know a small beer is a pony...

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In SA the smallest measure was a pony but they went out with button up shoes, so the next regular size is a butcher then schooner (285ml) then pint and then a bucket (570 or an imperial pint). They are normal sizes and there are a few special sizes in certain pubs like a stein which is a litre.
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HDNB wrote:crescent wrench here is also (rarely) called a thumb wrench, cause you use your thumb to adjust the size wheel.

those pipe wrenches up there are often called monkey wrenches, cause that's what you often find hanging on the end of one... :ebiggrin:

the footprint up there...we don't really have them. we use "channel lock" or "pump pliers" pliers that are similar. a number of years ago they introduced a pliers similar to that thing, calling it an improvement on the channel locks. i think the preferred term was "speed pliers"

as a respectable mechanic, you would own these tools but rarely pull them out, using the right tool for the job or risk being laughed out the shop. vise grips were your last resort before the hot wrench came out. (oxy/acetylene with a rose bud tip)
Re Cresent: No one has called it a 'Shifter' yet......... the other great term for one of them is 'Nutfucker' :)

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BOTH=SUPPER!!!!!
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Hoosier Shine9 wrote:a friend of mine calls this a Bridge Chicken
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and this a Tree Rat
This is what I referred to as SUPPER
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Surprised you Aussies didn't mention this.
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thecroweater wrote:Oh OK well that sounds like what they use to call a monkey wrench here, was a very old tool with a thread and turn nut often under the jaw. I got one here somewhere that was Grandpa's took me some work to unseize it. Basically it seized on him so he used it as a bolt on a chookyard door , move forward 50 years I took it off cleaned the rust off and spent ages getting it working. He called that sort of tool a monkey wrench, I've never seen one likely to be much under a hundred years old.
crow your description sounds like a "ford wrench" this is the only one I could find on the net

that did not say " ford " right in the casting. http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/t ... Wrench.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
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ah yeah I guess that would be a modern version of it more or less. I was going to post a picture but I can't find it. There are quite a few variations of it but the one I have has a handle that is basically two say 3/8 rod bars (well one actually as it comes down bends up and then cross over twists) . One rod is attracted to the head and the other the jaw with thread and a turn nut I think is under the jaw. I also have a small one like you posted and it may well be an old car toolkit one.
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Had a couple of these gave one to EG and kept this, yaz know what it is?
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It looks like the hard work side of a grain mill. would have to see the other side to be sure.
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cob wrote:It looks like the hard work side of a grain mill. would have to see the other side to be sure.
Could be. Or a meat mincer ('grinder').

Unless you can see the other side....

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It looks a bit like a bean slicer, but not a model I'm familiar with.
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Still Life wrote:Surprised you Aussies didn't mention this.
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That's funny is what it is!
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That was a food grister for grinding seed and food, I got them to grist green malt, the have two iron ridged milling plates, one turns against a fixed one. An old fella restored them back to new condition.
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