Hello from Hazard!
We’ve got a new mystery to solve this week. Item No. 1274 comes to us from Moe Moore, of Greenwich, Ohio, and has been in the Moore family for close to 100 years.
The wrench measures 16 inches long and the diamond-shaped opening is 1 1/4 inch.
If you’d like to help Moe solve the generations-old family mystery and you know how Item No. 1274 may have been used, let us know by emailing us at editorial@farmanddairy.com, commenting on this Hazard A Guess? post or by sending mail to Hazard a Guess?, in care of Farm and Dairy, P.O. Box 38, Salem, OH 44460.
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It looks to me like a hydrant wrench for opening a hydrant or taking the caps off. Or a gas valve wrench. Mist likely a hydrant wrench.
Not sure they had hydrants 100 years ago. I’m thinking plow wrench
I’m thinking a plow wrench.
I’m thinking plow wrench?
Shaker wrench for a coal/wood furnace to breakup cinders to fall thru grate.
This wrench may have been used to remove or tighten the square nut used on heavy wagons during the age of horse power.
The wrench to tighten railroad bolts was about 7 feet long as I saw the guy doing that as a kid. He was called a “Gandy Danser”. Not a hydrant wrench as they are 5 sided. Most wrenches to empty furnace grates that I have seen were cranks which leaves the most obvious buggy/wagon nut wrench.
Richard Hill
Medina, Ohio