Today's junkyard find.

[Banjo picker]

I was using a drill like you posted a picture of back in the late 70's when the Tennessee Tombigbee waterway was being built.  I was drilling a hole in a form to install a she bolt and the drill got away from me.  I just back off and let it turn until it ripped the power cord out of itself.  Then it stopped.  Boss wasn't too happy, but I was not hurt anyway.  Banjo

[Kbeitz]

It's a beast....

[Darrel]

yes it is! And yours is set up so it can hurt two people.  :D Just like MM said.

[Darrel]

I was using a drill like you posted a picture of back in the late 70's when the Tennessee Tombigbee waterway was being built.  I was drilling a hole in a form to install a she bolt and the drill got away from me.  I just back off and let it turn until it ripped the power cord out of itself.  Then it stopped.  Boss wasn't too happy, but I was not hurt anyway.  Banjo

I'll bet the boss was happier then he would have been had you ridden it out!

Wow what a ride that would have been! :D :D :D

[gspren]

Kbeitz, they quit putting the enclosed triggers on drills because they held and broke fingers.

[Kbeitz]

They just don't make then to last anymore. I have one like this that I got when I was around 16 years old. It's still going strong today.

[Darrel]

PIn those days, Black & Decker meant quality.

[GRANITEstateMP]

Good score, That will be handy, Just have to be smarter than the tool to not hurt yourself with it. :D :D :D :D

I like to call that the 10% Rule.  You got to be 10% smarter than what your working on, or with... ;D

[Kbeitz]

Started the Bobcat for the first time today. Runs good. It has 3179 hours on the working clock. Is that a lot for this tractor?

[Peter Drouin]

3179 is not much, 

[DelawhereJoe]

A place I used to work for would basically wear out a forklift before it was paid off. 24hr a day 5 or 6 days per week, 1000 20lb LP cans per hour is what they would fill. They filled for both Blue Rhino and Papco, the boss was making money like crazy. Even his trash, the old brass valves and steel cans he could and would sell.

[Kwill]

 Got one of these kbeitz? Any idea what it does ?

 

[Darrel]

That is a lice nit comb for a hydraulic ram. 
:D :D :D :D :D

[Ljohnsaw]

I'd say it's missing it fuzzy covers - it's a Venetian blind duster...  It does have printed on it that it is a "heavy duty chain stretcher", though I'm not sure why you would want to stretch a chain ;)

[LAZERDAN]

It is to install and disassemble flat roller chain.  Mostly farm equipment.  makes life easy when you have one.  I have a couple.       Lazerdan

[Jeff]

Technically it's not roller chain. Flat detachable ag chain. The tool is called a detacher.  I have several sawmill stories regarding that type of chain, one includind a broken hand when i was holding the chain in the detacher and the guy swinging the hammer missed the chain by 6 inches.

[Kwill]

I wish I could find someone who needs it worse than I do  it's been setting here on the shelf and gets moved from shop to shop.

[Jeff]

There is pretty much at least one on every farm. Common name for it here is farm chain.

[Kwill]

Yeah a lot of that flat  chain used in my area 

[Darrel]

You can find them on sale on eBay starting at 7 or 8 bucks and going up from there. I saw one that looks like yours kwill, the seller called it a "vintage steel & roller chain detacher". Wanted $45.00 for it. 

[Kbeitz]

Ok... How does it work ?

[starmac]

The important half is not pictured, that would be the hammer.

[Jeff]

All it is is a holder. The different slots are for different size chain. You could do the same thing with a vice, but its hard to carry a vice out to where most of these chains break! You slide a link in the slot, bend the adjacent link so that the slot in it lined up with the end of the link you are working on, then you use a hammer to either beat the inks apart, or together.

The previous post was removed as it breaks our policy about linking to off site photos.

[Ed_K]

 Works dang good when your laying under a manure spreader fixin that dang wore out chain ;D >:( :(.

[LAZERDAN]

Kinda like this

Sawdust extractor - YouTube