On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:49:44 -0700, Ken Cutt
wrote:

Tom Gardner wrote:
I went with a bud returning a 3/4" breaker bar. The counter guy
handed him a new one but held on saying: "I just gotta know, how
long was the pipe you put on it?" (six foot)

Biggest snipe I ever saw used was 30' length of drill stem . Five of us
bouncing on the end of that . Slipped over a 5' Rigid pipe wrench to
tighten a flare line on a drill rig . Anyone seen longer ?
Ken Cutt

Not longer but I have used a 20' piece with a come along to the
floor to break a nut on the back of a hydraulic cylinder piston. The
cylinder was out of a track hoe and about a 2" thread (it was metric
so I don't remember the exact thread size). Two hefty guy bouncing on
the end didn't break it but the come along did. I've got tie downs
embedded in the floor of my shop which I hooked the come along to. The
rod of the cylinder was held by inserting a piece of shafting the size
of the rod end into the big vise I've got and then chaining the other
end of the shaft to the 5" OD pipe heavy wall pipe shop support that
I've got the big vise mounted on. I probably would of broken the vise
if I'd just relied on it to hold the rod. I was using a 48" Rigid pipe
wrench on the nut.



Wayne Cook
Shamrock, TX
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