old tool no clue

[larry merlau]

what is this any ideas? got it at an auction and was in a box of gooddies.

[Keith Cope]

It looks almost like a gear or pulley puller, maybe. No idea, really, but it looks like a good one!

[Jim Young]

A pair of garden shears for a three handed person????

[Bonnie Campbell]

Sort of looks like a tire spreader to me.

[David G Baker]

Sort of looks like a tire spreader to me.

Bonnie,
The tool does look like it could work as a tire spreader. Good guess. Hope some one comes up with an exact answer. This reminds me of the "This Old House" guys at the start of their show where one of them has a tool and the other guys try to guess its use.
David B

[Dan Barr]

Hi, im zaphod, im from jupiter. i left this tool here about 40 earth years ago. lolololol

i have no clue.

dan

[David Wilson]

Not shure but it looks like a barbed wire fence stretcher?

[Mike Sheppard]

Larry
The bottom part looks like it's made to put a dimple in sheet metal, like in a standing seam. but I have no idea how it would be used or what the rest of it does. Having worked as a sheetmetal worker from 1954 till 1996 I have never seen one like this.
Mike

[Mitchell Andrus]

I think it's for mending/making chain. The hook (to the right) will latch onto the latest completed link, the middle "punch" closes the next link, the cutter.... well I don't know about that bit.

[Per Swenson]

Metal roof seam crimper.


Heh. Know it all hunh?

Nope, I found the answer elswhere.



Per

[Chris Padilla]

Mike was on the right track and Per swooped in and finished 'er up!

[David G Baker]

The new version of the metal roof seam crimper costs $2400. Looks like a tool that may be worth something.
David B