Cleaning out the Barn

[miestro_jerry]

Guys,

Here is a whatzit for one and all:

http://anvilsandinkstudios.com/ironspeeders.jpg

I found these in my barn hiding in the overhead rafters. Are they crank starters for old tractors? or Are they speed wrenchs? or what ever? :D


Jerry

[Terry Lingle]

hard to tell from the picture but they look like awning cranks for sun shades they were fashionable before air conditioning. they look a little light for the vehicle cranks that I renember Also the ones I used did not have the rear handle as it would get interesting if the crank did not release from the crankshaft Terry

[qualls]

The top and bottom ones look like the speed wrenches that came with my father's cultivators for a Farmall C. They were used to attach/remove the cultivators. You could not get a wrench on them good, so that had the long handle. Then you cranked it down with an end wrench. I don't recognize the middle 2. Old tractor engine cranks are a lot shorter and have a slot that throws the wrench out of engagement when the engine starts. Yours would crank your elbow at 2200 RPM when the engine catches.

[Farmer]

The straighter ones look to be the crank off old bottle or sissor jacks

[miestro_jerry]

I should have put a yard stick or a meter stick in the picture, these are solid and smallest one is under a yard long, the other are at least a yard long. I am forwarding the imahe to Jay Leno and a couple of other places.

Jerry

[professur]

The straighter ones look to be the crank off old bottle or sissor jacks


That's it exactly. I've got a few myself.