What's Your Oldest Working Tool?

[tabs]

Originally Posted by onlycafe

i have a screwdriver that is older, and i use that much more often than this. but this is much nicer.

Serial number range on this Colt is around 315,000....give or take a few thousand.


I have a Padlock on my gate where the Patent date is 1905. I have quiet a few old Wescott Wrenches, A RR Pipe Wrench that all belonged to GP. I still even have his Mould making tools that he used at Ford. GP started at Ford in 1916 and retired in 1959. So a lot of the tools I have date from the turn of the century...1900 that is...

Every Ford car made between 1916 and 1959 had parts where GP made the moulds for them. GP did a lot of the moulds for restoration of stuff in the Henry Ford Museum.

[cgarr]

The old southbend still working great! Along with some of the tools from my Grandfathers machine shop.

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by onlycafe

i have a screwdriver that is older, and i use that much more often than this. but this is much nicer.

Those look like .45 Colt rounds. Unless I'm mistaken, and they are actually .44 WCF's (aka .44-40), they don't go with that Peacemaker. The only Peacemakers marked "Frontier Six Shooter" were .44 and .38 WCF's, meant to go along with Winchester's '73's and '92's. I do see five in the cylinder, so maybe the angle just makes it hard to see the bottleneck on them. Very cool gun at any rate.

If we are including guns as "working tools" (and why not?), I'll throw in my 1872 vintage Ballard Pacific in .45-70. Unrestored original condition. I still hunt with it regularly, having taken one of my biggest mulies with it, a non typical 5 x 7.

[RPKESQ]

Originally Posted by craigster59

I've got an old Thor drill I use every now and then and a Craftsman radial arm saw. I also have used this a couple of times, a Unimat hobby/jewelers lathe that I'm probably going to put on Evil Bay.

Care to sell that to me?

[JeremyD]

I just donated my oldest tool -it was a 1954 homelite chain saw. Blue and cream case. We referred to it as "the widowmaker"

No chain brake, no safety features, no kills switch - the throttle would stick on it all the time and you would have to pull the spark plug off it to stop it. Scared me everytime I started it.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by JeremyD

No chain brake, no safety features, no kills switch - the throttle would stick on it all the time and you would have to pull the spark plug off it to stop it. Scared me everytime I started it.

Good riddance...

My oldest "tool", dragging the ring She'll kill me if you ever sees this!

[dewolf]

Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena

How long is an "ion"?

LOL, sorry, meant aeon. Was a long day.

[steve185]

My 1950 Ford 8N tractor

[onlycafe]

"Serial number range on this Colt is around 315,000....give or take a few thousand."


tabs is right on the money.......... ser.#301xxx. manufactured around 1908.

[MT930]

1959 Evinrude light twin outboard motor.

[onlycafe]

just remembered another very useful old tool.

[Sapporo Guy]

? Sapporo Beer?



I want a Ford Tractor. I used to ride one when I was a kid. I liked how cute it looked next to the Fergy

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by dewolf

LOL, sorry, meant aeon. Was a long day.

Another long day?

Don't you mean eon?

hehehe

[K. Roman]

You could spell it either way.