Tool of the Week

[Brigadier]

Slip a putlog scaffold bar over the handle and the nut is coming off or the stud will break.

And then walk away, leaving it for someone else to sort out

 

[pete01]

Whats a putlong? Summat to do with golf?

 

[pete01]

Its still a clamp.

 

[Koolpc]

Its still a clamp.

Reported

 

[Highway Man]

And then walk away, leaving it for someone else to sort out

Oh hell yeah

 

[Highway Man]

Whats a putlong? Summat to do with golf?

scaffold bar

 

[SPLINE]

scaffold bar

Sounds like putlog, a medieval building term.

 

[Deluks]

It's what Yorkshiremen say when they're cold.

"Putlog on't fire"

 

[JohnD]

It’s just an early Stillson

More like an early Footprint.

 

[Highway Man]

Sounds like putlog, a medieval building term.

correct, it is when scaffolding was used when they were made from wood, the putlog was the short section of scaffold that ties the main poles to the building, they would make a hole in the side of the building that the pole would fit into. The term was "put log in the hole" so hence the name putlog.

 

[Highway Man]

Its still a clamp.

Reported

 

[Highway Man]

More like an early Footprint.

Not at all. A footprint is the smaller and weaker version of the Stilson pipe wrench. The tool in question is an early adjustable spanner used for nuts mainly for British rail and steam engineering. and not a pipe wrench.