Spanners, and More Spanners

One thing leads to another. Eddie has been working away in the Garage, and started cataloguing the spanners. So we went out on the web looking, and found George Radion's most excellent website on Australian Spanners. George is a most helpful person, one thing led to another, and he came visiting yesterday. So we went hunting for spanners in uncatalogued locations, other than the Garage.

This is just the start of what we found in the Blacksmith's:

Memo - Spanners are very heavy animals. You need a wheelbarrow when spanner hunting. The big one on top is an early Blacksmith's Wrench, but minus its wedge. We have since found another with a wedge.

George then spent hours, picking up each spanner, telling us what it was, while we wrote quick notes and tagged them. This is the wheelbarrow at the end of the day:

We have 54 different spanners tagged, with the blue box on the top being multiple buggy spanners still needing sorting, and spanners with no maker's name, which are not recognisable by George.

There were only a few he didn't know. This one (we have a couple) has him beat:

It is stamped 1918, with other numbers and letters, and is rather large - call back for the numbers soon. I will write them down next time I am out there.

Eddie sure has a lot of cataloguing in front of him, but we will have an excellent spanner display at the end. The Buggy Spanners are heading for the Wheelwright's (next to the Blacksmith's), and the others will be going to the Garage - unless we find their original machine.