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Technical Can anyone ID this weird kind of clamp??

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by inthweedz, Apr 15, 2020.

  1. sliceddeuce
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    And you and your relatives are exact clones as well?:rolleyes:
     
  2. Flathead Dave
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    Quick Click Shifter?
     
  3. Andrew Tebbutt
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    Hi there I’m from the uk just looking at your cramp I used something like this years and years ago , it’s a carpenters tool not joinery , I’m pretty sure it’s a column cramp , 4 of them connect together to go around the wooden shutter to hold it together while the concrete is poured then removed after the concrete has gone off




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  4. Andrew Tebbutt
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    The toothed blade clips onto the casting of another cramp at 90 degrees these a little spigot at the end of the casting and 2 retainers to hold it in place there not powerful cramps they just stop the formwork blowing apart under the load of wet concrete


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  5. 56sedandelivery
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    Yard art would be my guess; or, a rib spreader for heart surgery/coroner's office. When someone questioned the roofing shingles, I thought, "why would you climb onto the roof to take pictures of them?" I am Butch/56sedandelivery.
     
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  6. inthweedz
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    You could be on the right track there Andrew..
    True they are not a powerful clamp, even their construction is light..
    Would you know the ''official'' name of them so I can do a Google search??
     
  7. inthweedz
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    Had me laughting as well 56 (why would you go on the roof)..
    I took the pics on the paving stones by my junk shed..
     
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  8. well if your up there with your fiddle singing you could take the photo.
     
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  9. I am building a cutting board, and I could use a bunch of clamps like that.
    I have some long, turn of the century extendable wood clamps, and they all have a screw type tensioner.
    As a young teenager, I had a summer job building a brick building, and spent plenty of time running around on scaffolding while carrying bricks. The carrier I remember, looked like this. brick clamps.jpeg
    Bob
     
  10. Hnstray
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    That seems pretty 'modern'. I seem to recall brick layers 'back when' having helpers who brought bricks to them...called "hod carriers". As I dimly recall, a 'hod' was a wooden angled box like device in which bricks were placed and had a pole like handle on it. The 'hod' went on the shoulder and the pole was held by the carrier....as he ascended a ladder or scaffold to supply the bricks.

    Ray

    edit: found this on the internet

    brick hod.jpg
     
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  11. inthweedz
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    j-jock..
    When all the covid 19 is finished, and the freight starts moving again, you pay postage, and you can have these two..
     
  12. Ray,
    The picture of the carrier I posted, is functionally identical to the one I was using in 1958. There was another type of carrier I saw, which looked like scissor tongs, but the bricks hung down too far from the handles, they carried fewer bricks, and they did not grip as positively.
    I was working 3 stories up on a scaffold, and we used a hoist to bring the bricks up. My job was to unload the pallet and then use the carrier to move them to the point where the bricklayers were working.
    I have seen the type of carrier you referred to in pictures, but I am guessing that would have been used for small jobs like doing a house.
    Bob
     
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  13. Thanks for the offer.
    I love old stuff like that, and if the shipping cost isn't out of sight, I would love to have them. I still use a lot of antique wood and metal working tools that I have acquired over the years.
    If my cutting board project isn't done by then, you will need to keep me away from sharp instruments or I might intentionally harm myself.
    Bob
     
  14. Hnstray
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    @j-jock

    I certainly defer to your experience on this subject. The hod I recalled, and found online, is pretty old so far as I know. I am 76 and ‘think’ I remember seeing them being used during my childhood, which would be ‘40s thru early’50s. Now, whether I saw them first hand, or photos, is too long ago to remember accurately. I do know my maternal grandfather was a bricklayer, but he died about 1935, nine years before I was born. I did have other adult family in the trades in those days, so who knows the real source of my recollection. I was just thrilled to find I had not just imagined it. :D
    Ray
     
  15. I am the same age as you, and the only reason I would have noticed one, is because I had to work with it. I was working for a bunch of Italians, and they used a mix of old and new tools.
    Man, they sure made laying bricks look easy. The experience also convinced me, that it wasn't a trade that I would want to work at for a lifetime. The worst part of the job was, cleaning up the brick walls with muriatic acid.
    Bob
     
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  16. They almost give off a "farm implement part" or "slack adjuster-ish" vibe. You know?
     
  17. Andrew Tebbutt
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    I think probably in the uk they are column cramps but vintage ones at that in the uk it’s either shuttering or formwork cramp possibly


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  18. DIYGUY
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    Good that you saved them, but now you need to find two more to have a working set.
     
  19. inthweedz
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    Now you tell me DIYGUY, the dumpster that I saved these two from had many many more.. I only grabbed these two out of curiosity..
     
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  20. Thats not how a hoarder thinks o_O.
     
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  21. Boryca
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    I was hoping this was a solution, but I don't think so after a cursory search... [​IMG]
     
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