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Come along on two pipe wrenches
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JL Sargent
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That'll work in a dangerous kind of way. People use truck cranes to break cylinder nuts all the time. Kinda like that but horizontal.
Junkyard
Senior Member
I see the clevis in the handle failing before anything else…..
OzDozer
Senior Member
Someones got a lot more faith in small D-shackles, than I would have!!
Birken Vogt
Charter Member
I don't see a lot of hazard in that arrangement. There is not a lot of spring in the wrenches, chain, or union, if anything breaks it is just going to go slack and fall to the ground. Keep toes out from under.
I work with pipe wrenches like that and it is always done with cheater pipes, you notice the longer wrenches do not have the swell/knob at the end of the handle like the shorter ones do, it is that way for a reason. 2 guys with cheater pipes, a lot more can go wrong involving them smacking each other in the face, than that come along keeping human flesh out of range.
I work with pipe wrenches like that and it is always done with cheater pipes, you notice the longer wrenches do not have the swell/knob at the end of the handle like the shorter ones do, it is that way for a reason. 2 guys with cheater pipes, a lot more can go wrong involving them smacking each other in the face, than that come along keeping human flesh out of range.
cfherrman
Senior Member
Those are cheap wrenches and not Ridgid ones, they will break
OzDozer
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This will be the next photo in the sequence ....
funwithfuel
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Meet a guy you oughta know.
I used to laugh at safety.
Now, they call me, Three Finger Joe.”
I wonder if Jim Stringer and the AM Band are still around? Doesn’t look like his FB page ha s been updated since 17.
donkey doctor
Senior Member
Pretty big come-along for the job. I only use a1/4 ton size when I take my wood hot water system apart every year to get the chimney cleaned. d.d.
funwithfuel
Senior Member
A couple a light hammer strikes around the edges, help rearrange the molecules so to speak. But in all honesty, I have rigged up even uglier apparatus than that. When in a pinch, you do what you gotta do.
funwithfuel
Senior Member
I've hung bucket pins off my crane in a choke sling to use as a hammer. I've reconfigured my crane block into a snatchblock to pull wrenches with single part line. At least the upside was my crane told me how much weight was "on the hook" so I could do hillbilly cyphering to come close to torque requirements. Yeah, I've done sketchy stuff.
But who among us, hasn't? Quarry guys, don't say anything. We know, we know.
But who among us, hasn't? Quarry guys, don't say anything. We know, we know.
cfherrman
Senior Member
On a Ridgid 24, I have 5' cheater pipes I used with them and I weigh 250 lbs
HarleyHappy
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Who here hasn’t broken a pipe wrench or 3, maybe a cast vice or 2?
cfherrman
Senior Member
If your breaking pipe wrenches your are buying the wrong ones, I have never broken a steel name brand one before and I have used 30' cheaters before (Ridgid 36" on that one, had 5' of tension on my end)
Edit I've broken the hook before I guess if you count that
Edit I've broken the hook before I guess if you count that