Help Please With Tools Found

[remtime]

Found this wrench in a remote area near the river. Also found a crowbar and an axle. The axle is wrought iron and resembles a wagon axle. The holes in the axle are punched and drifted for size. The crow bar has four ridges that run down the sides. It also looks to be made of wrought iron. The wrench has a shape of a diamond on the handle but can not make out any letters. What would a wrench like this be used for. Any body have info on the wrench or crowbar it would be very helpful to me so I would know what type of time frame I'm dealing with. In the area is also some hand made brick. Two rows of them and they are spaced about four feet apart and 8 feet long. I will try to get more pics and post.

 

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[mojjax]

That's an alligator wrench . No. 90 on this link :

http://home.southwind.net/~donhaury/nail-auction-2007/all-pics.html

 

[littleneckhalfshell]

From Wikipedia: "Alligator wrench: a formerly common type of wrench that was popular with mechanics, factory workers, and farmers for maintenance, repair and operations tasks in the days when fasteners often had square rather than hex heads. The wrench's shape suggests the open mouth of an alligator."

Also found as a comon item for railroad repairs from what I have read.

 

[chipveres]

Funny, the things one remembers. Thirty years ago I walked into a radio supply house here in Miami & asked for a pair of four-inch diagonal cutters. I was offered and bought a pair made by the Diamond Tool and Horseshoe Company of Duluth, Minnesota. It is such a peculiar name for a maker of precision tools that I still remember.

I Googled them and found their monkey wrench, and their chain wrench. But no alligator wrench. Still, if they made other adjustable wrenches, there is a good chance they made yours.

Chip V.