brass crowbar!?

I went to me friends parents house today to pick up an old v8 engine and some other various goodies they said could I scrap out. berried in one of their car ports we found a crow bar that had the the forks broke off the end and they said i could grab. I did not think much of it until I got all my scrap back to my house to sort out and noticed the green oxidized hue it had. Sure enough when I put a magnet to it it did not stick. after a but of scraping i saw that lovely gold color and set it aside. Has anybody ever seen one of these before??

Cool. I would hop onto one of the antique tool sites and see if someone ther can help you out.... could be a specialized tool too for something like in the oil/gas industry (non sparking).

Can you post a pic?

I work in the printing industry where a lot of inks and solvents are used so we have to use brass tools that are non-sparking (as mentioned). It could be an antique tool as well but being broke its probably not worth anything. Any chance you could post a picture of the V8 too? That may be worth more than scrap too if it's old enough and not beyond repair.

Possibly a fireman's tool too. A hose coupling wrench is a long brass bar with a "C" shaped end - does vaguely resemble a crow bar.

how much does that bigass......I mean big brass tool weigh ?????

his dad is a medic for the fire department...that's probably what it is. thanks! and it weighs a little over 8 lbs

I'd think brass would be too soft to use as a wrench so this is something new I learned, nice find!

Some years ago, while working for my dad at his yard, Union Pacific brought a load of rail steel and a bunch of other goodies from one of their near by yards. They had two boxes of brass and mixed in were these crowbars you are talking about. I can remember at least 20 of them, and they each weighed 20-30lbs a piece if i am recalling correctly. Not exactly sure of the application, but just that what ever they were doing, they did not want a spark. Needless to say, that was 50,000+ dollar check. The stuff these rail yards have is astounding.

zack

I used to work in injection molding and alot of the tools we had were brass. They make em out of brass so you don't damage the polished surface of the mold when you have to pry something out (like stuck on plastic). If railyards have them, they are probably for working on the big desiel engines to push stuck pistons out and the like so you don't scar up the cylinder walls.

Originally Posted by Derek Fay

I went to me friends parents house today to pick up an old v8 engine and some other various goodies they said could I scrap out. berried in one of their car ports we found a crow bar that had the the forks broke off the end and they said i could grab. I did not think much of it until I got all my scrap back to my house to sort out and noticed the green oxidized hue it had. Sure enough when I put a magnet to it it did not stick. after a but of scraping i saw that lovely gold color and set it aside. Has anybody ever seen one of these before??

I have one from the NAD(Naval ammunition depot)? It was made by the Beryl Co. Model B 10.

All of our brass tools here at work at made by Beryl as well.