I found this somewhere, probably in a residential street. What is this?
The metal _hook_ is steel and swivels VERY freely in the plastic handle.

http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vf&...ile=To ol.jpg

Dan

On Jan 12, 5:29*pm, Dan Musicant ) wrote:
I found this somewhere, probably in a residential street. What is this?
The metal _hook_ is steel and swivels VERY freely in the plastic handle.
....
Rebar tie hook.

Rebar is tied together using ready-made wires w/ a small loop at each
end. Put the wire around the joint, put the hook in the two loops and
twist...

--

Is this a test? Or do you not know?

This tool is used to twist the tie wires used to tie rebar together. The
tie wires come with loops on each end, they are wrapped around the
intersection of two re-bars, then the tool inserted in the loops and spun
with a twist of the wrist.

I'll see if i can find a pic of the operation of said tool.

steve


"Dan Musicant" wrote in message
...
I found this somewhere, probably in a residential street. What is this?
The metal _hook_ is steel and swivels VERY freely in the plastic handle.

http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vf&...ile=To ol.jpg

Dan

Looks like a tool to unlock vinal sideing.
"Dan Musicant" wrote in message
...
I found this somewhere, probably in a residential street. What is this?
The metal _hook_ is steel and swivels VERY freely in the plastic handle.

http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vf&...ile=To ol.jpg

Dan

ok, here's a pic of the ties:

http://www.americanwiretie.com/wireties.htm

Here's one way they come packaged:

http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/mat/988074098.html


Hmmmmm. can't seem to find a pic of one of those tools actually being used.

steve


"Dan Musicant" wrote in message
...
I found this somewhere, probably in a residential street. What is this?
The metal _hook_ is steel and swivels VERY freely in the plastic handle.

http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vf&...ile=To ol.jpg

Dan

On Jan 12, 5:59*pm, "Steve Barker"
wrote:
....
Hmmmmm. *can't seem to find a pic of one of those tools actually being used.
....
I don't need no steenkin' pitchure...

Spent _FAR_ too much time over several summers at the bottom of trench
and elsewhere becoming all too familiar w/ their being used... :
( ( )


--

possibly a reamer?
"Dan Musicant" wrote in message
...
I found this somewhere, probably in a residential street. What is this?
The metal _hook_ is steel and swivels VERY freely in the plastic handle.

http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vf&...ile=To ol.jpg

Dan

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:51:51 -0600, "Steve Barker"
wrote:

:Is this a test? Or do you not know?
:
:This tool is used to twist the tie wires used to tie rebar together. The
:tie wires come with loops on each end, they are wrapped around the
:intersection of two re-bars, then the tool inserted in the loops and spun
:with a twist of the wrist.
:
:I'll see if i can find a pic of the operation of said tool.
:
:steve

That's cool, no I can envision it. Thanks. Makes total sense, and no, I
wasn't putting you on, I didn't have a clue. I asked a friend who I
think now should have known. He's owned two houses and done a ton of
work on each, including doing a foundation job on one, including pouring
concrete for a basement. He told me he loves to work with concrete, too.
I guess he did his ties without the benefit of this tool.

Dan
:
:
:"Dan Musicant" wrote in message
.. .
:I found this somewhere, probably in a residential street. What is this?
: The metal _hook_ is steel and swivels VERY freely in the plastic handle.
:
: http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vf&...ile=To ol.jpg
:
: Dan
:

Jewish nose pick?

"Dan Musicant" wrote in message
...
I found this somewhere, probably in a residential street. What is this?
The metal _hook_ is steel and swivels VERY freely in the plastic handle.

http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vf&...ile=To ol.jpg

Dan

For relief of constipation.

On Jan 12, 7:51*pm, G. Morgan wrote:
Ed Pawlowski wrote:

Well said. For a polack.

Dan Musicant ) wrote in
:

I found this somewhere, probably in a residential street. What is
this? The metal _hook_ is steel and swivels VERY freely in the plastic
handle.

http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vf&...se_JPGs&file=T
ool.jpg

Dan

Aside from what others have ID'd it as, it also looks like some of my
screwdrivers, awls & icepicks.

Wire-tying tool used with rebar for concrete - roads, slab
foundations, etc.

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:29:35 -0800, Dan Musicant )
wrote:

I found this somewhere, probably in a residential street. What is this?
The metal _hook_ is steel and swivels VERY freely in the plastic handle.

http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vf&...ile=To ol.jpg

Dan

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:29:35 -0800, Dan Musicant )
wrote:

I found this somewhere, probably in a residential street. What is this?
The metal _hook_ is steel and swivels VERY freely in the plastic handle.

http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vf&...ile=To ol.jpg

Dan

I used one of those for about an hour 40 years ago. Fortunately,
there was another guy on the crew who liked doing it, even though he
had to bend over all the time.

This was a 6 block section of the new West leg of the Dan Ryan
Expressway on the south side of chicago. Around 80th or 120th street.
It might have been given a name by now.

The asphalt was already down, and iirc steel walls on each side of the
area where the concrete road would be.

There were 6 or 8 of us and I and some others spent the start of the
day putting down the little 8 foot rods with 2 or 3 inch legs.

Then later we put down the 40 foot rebars that clipped into clips on
the first rods. For the last hour or two, in order to make 2 4-men
crews, our foreman Leon Daniels would work too.

That one guy spent all day tieing the two kinds of bars together with
your too.

He had to finish, iirc, or vandals might come by and tear things
apart.

One guy felt sorry for him and urged him to get the foreman to put him
on another job part of the day, but he said he liked it. He was
rather tall and thin.

I haven't seen the tool in use since then, or I wouldn't know what it
was either.

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:13:50 -0800, Dan Musicant )
wrote:

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:51:51 -0600, "Steve Barker"
wrote:

:Is this a test? Or do you not know?
:
:This tool is used to twist the tie wires used to tie rebar together. The
:tie wires come with loops on each end, they are wrapped around the
:intersection of two re-bars, then the tool inserted in the loops and spun
:with a twist of the wrist.
:
:I'll see if i can find a pic of the operation of said tool.
:
:steve

That's cool, no I can envision it. Thanks. Makes total sense, and no, I
wasn't putting you on, I didn't have a clue. I asked a friend who I
think now should have known. He's owned two houses and done a ton of
work on each, including doing a foundation job on one, including pouring
concrete for a basement. He told me he loves to work with concrete, too.
I guess he did his ties without the benefit of this tool.

Dan
:
:
:"Dan Musicant" wrote in message
. ..
:I found this somewhere, probably in a residential street. What is this?
: The metal _hook_ is steel and swivels VERY freely in the plastic handle.
:
: http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vf&...ile=To ol.jpg
:
: Dan
:

It looks like a tool used in carpet installtion of in weaving.

HtH

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On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:43:38 -0800 (PST), dpb
wrote:

On Jan 13, 12:28*pm, Jimw wrote:
...
I thought it was a cotter pin remover but you're probably right. *It
could double as a cotter pin removal tool though, at least for the
larger pins.

The loose swivel handle is the giveaway for the intended use...while
the hook works to grab the cotter, it would be a pita because of that
for the use other than simply a straight pull; the levering action
doesn't work well at all w/ one of these puppies.

OK, I guess the picture dont show the swivel part of it, but the hook
is similar to a cotter pin puller, but from the looks of it, probably
thicker.

"Jimw" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:51:51 -0600, "Steve Barker"
wrote:

Is this a test? Or do you not know?

This tool is used to twist the tie wires used to tie rebar together. The
tie wires come with loops on each end, they are wrapped around the
intersection of two re-bars, then the tool inserted in the loops and spun
with a twist of the wrist.

I'll see if i can find a pic of the operation of said tool.

steve

I thought it was a cotter pin remover but you're probably right. It
could double as a cotter pin removal tool though, at least for the
larger pins.

Jim


I've seen re-bar mentioned a couple of times, but it was also used to close
bags with a wire tie. Feed bags, seed bags, etc.

"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
...

"Jimw" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:51:51 -0600, "Steve Barker"
wrote:

Is this a test? Or do you not know?

This tool is used to twist the tie wires used to tie rebar together. The
tie wires come with loops on each end, they are wrapped around the
intersection of two re-bars, then the tool inserted in the loops and spun
with a twist of the wrist.

I'll see if i can find a pic of the operation of said tool.

steve

I thought it was a cotter pin remover but you're probably right. It
could double as a cotter pin removal tool though, at least for the
larger pins.

Jim


I've seen re-bar mentioned a couple of times, but it was also used to
close bags with a wire tie. Feed bags, seed bags, etc.

called a pigtail for obvious reasons, it is used to twist preshaped wires
around whatever. The wires can be bought in bundles, are about three inches
or so long, and have a loop on each end. They work very well, and are
faster and easier than rodbuster pliers, although they won't do anything but
the premade pieces of wire.

Steve

On 1/12/2009 7:14 PM Rose spake thus:

On Jan 12, 7:51 pm, G. Morgan wrote:

Ed Pawlowski wrote:

Well said. For a polack.

So I see you're the resident Nazi here. I'm a Jew; got anything to say
to me?


--
In order to embark on a new course, the only one that will
solve the problem: negotiations and peace with the Palestinians,
the Lebanese, the Syrians. And: with Hamas and Hizbullah.

Because it's only with enemies that one makes peace.

- Uri Avnery, Israeli writer and peace activist with Gush Shalom.
(http://counterpunch.org/avnery08032006.html)

On Jan 12, 8:01*pm, mm wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:29:35 -0800, Dan Musicant )
wrote:

I found this somewhere, probably in a residential street. What is this?
The metal _hook_ is steel and swivels VERY freely in the plastic handle.

http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vf&...Muse_JPGs&file...

Dan

I used one of those for about an hour 40 years ago. *Fortunately,
there was another guy on the crew who liked doing it, even though he
had to bend over all the time.

This was a 6 block section of the new West leg of the Dan Ryan
Expressway on the south side of chicago. Around 80th or 120th street.
It might have been given a name by now.

The asphalt was already down, and iirc steel walls on each side of the
area where the concrete road would be.

There were 6 or 8 of us and I and some others spent the start of the
day putting down the little 8 foot rods with 2 or 3 inch legs. *

Then later we put down the 40 foot rebars that clipped into clips on
the first rods. * For the last hour or two, in order to make 2 4-men
crews, our foreman Leon Daniels would work too.

That one guy spent all day tieing the two kinds of bars together with
your too.

He had to finish, iirc, or vandals might come by and tear things
apart.

One guy felt sorry for him and urged him to get the foreman to put him
on another job part of the day, but he said he liked it. *He was
rather tall and thin.

I haven't seen the tool in use since then, or I wouldn't know what it
was either.

The only re-bar tie tool I used (only once) was one that you hooked
in, pull two or three times and on to the next. The one in the
picture looks like it would be both much slower and awkward in use.

Harry K

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
"Dan Musicant" wrote in message
...
I found this somewhere, probably in a residential street. What is this?
The metal _hook_ is steel and swivels VERY freely in the plastic handle.

http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vf&...ile=To ol.jpg

Dan

For relief of constipation.



No, no, no, it's a hemorrhoid remover. You hook, twist
and yank it out.

TDD