A website for the sharing of information on all types of collectible wrenches
Check back often for Bus's irregular updates
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A Few of The Rare Farm Equipment Type Wrenches
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Late Breaking Wrenching News
UPCOMING WRENCHING EVENTS CALENDAR
Saturday, March 10. 2012 at 9.00A.M.Robert Burkey's Antique Wrench and Tool Auction - Carr Auction Gallery - 909 Auction Ave. - Larned, Kansas
The catalog is on the web at: Burkey Wrench Auction Catalog
Photos of all the listed lots are at Burkey Auction Photos
Photos can also be viewed as a slideshow, etc. at Burkey Auction Photos on Photobucket
Robert Burkey's collection of antique wrenches and other tools will be sold at the Carr Auction Gallery in Larned, Kansas on Saturday March 10, 2012. Sale will consist of nearly seven hundred cataloged lots plus approximately another one hundred unlisted box lots that were found too late to catalog.
Mr. Burkey collection consist of many farm wrenches plus examples from all other categories of collectible wrenches including: automotive, bicycle, mechanic's, hand forged shop made, etc. There is also a good selection of woodworking, household and farm animal tools plus several interesting "What's Its".
Absentee bid policy: Absentee bids may be submitted by mail, email, or phone. Bid by lot number, with a statement of the maximum amount you wish to bid for each lot. Also please indicate if you are willing to go "one increment higher" if your high bid is elsewhere on the floor. Your bid will be entered competitively at one bid increment over the next highest bid or 50 per cent of your maximum bid, which ever is higher. Thus you may purchase your item for less than your maximum bid. A 5% handling charge (minimum of $3.00 total) will be added to the selling price of winning absentee bids, plus shipping, insurance and sales tax if applicable. If insurance is not purchased we will not be responsible for loss or damage. Don't be afraid to submit "low-ball" bids. You could win some bargains.
April 20 & 21, 2012
Missouri Valley Wrench Club Spring Meet and Auction - York, Nebraska.
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Cutout Type Farm Equipment Type Wrenches
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MORE WRENCHING NEWS
New listings on Wrenches for Sale
I an still listing the consignment of over 300 wrenches. I won't be able to get them listed all at once as I am also working on the upcoming Fall and Spring Auctions, so keep checking the
Wrenches for Sale page.
I will try and list a few every week. There are numerous rare and unusual wrenches in this consignment
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Antique Buggy and Wagon Wrenches
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Wrenches for Sale
To Order Books on Wrench Collecting
If you have any interest in Deere Company wrenches, oil cans, seats, or tool boxes you should have the current edition of Wayne Dill's "John Deere and Merged Companies Wrenches, Tools, Oil Cans, Cast Iron Seats, and Implement Tool Boxes" - The current Edition 10 list contains 631 wrenches, 22 oil cans, 41 cast iron seats and 71 tool boxes. The list is updated whenever they are enough new entries to warrant a new edition. The current edition is No. 10, price is $20.00 postpaid. Contact: D. Wayne Dill - 584 Courtland Dill Road - Harrington DE - 19952-5666 - 302-284-4004 - email:dilldw@hotmail.com
If International Harvester wrenches (or tool boxes, seats, oil cans, etc.) are your thing then you need to contact Gil Irps for information on his "IHC Tools and Equipment That They Were Issued With" and his "IHC Tool List" which is updated every year. Contact: Gil Irps - 3156 Old Waldron Road - Kankakee IL 60901-6013 - 815-937-9698.
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Rare and Unusual Alligator Wrenches
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Information for Wrench Collectors
Links to Past Wrench Auctions Catalogs (We have prices realized and printed catalogs for most of these auctions See the Wrenching News Book Store for prices and ordering information or email or call for details)
Some Wrenching Links
The official site for the Missouri Valley Wrench Club by Newsletter editor Stan Schulz.
Lots of pictures of Carl's Tool Museum including tractors, gas station equipment, old wrenches, more tool links and an informative page on wrench standard markings found on old wrenches.
First-rate site for wrench and other antique tool collectors with a friendly and helpful discussion forum.
History and heritage of tools of Australia. Has several pages of wrenches pictured and identified and an extensive "Directory of Australian Tool Manufacturers and Makers"
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Rare Deere & Company Wrenches
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Other Tool Collecting Links
Note: I convert Gregor's monthly email of antique tool ads and schedule of upcoming events to html and host it on this website at the beginning of each month a few days after receiving it from Gregor. The antique tool event schedule is one of the most complete on the web and the ads are free to email subscribers. Contact Gregor at Email or phone 817-937-5475 for more information.
Quite a few wrench collectors/dealers and wrenches show up at Southwest Meets
New site from Mike Urness who manages several tool auctions a year. Mostly wood working tools but most auctions do have a few good wrenches.
Australia's premier antique tool site. Tools for sale, auctions and more.
Randy Roeder's excellent site on Miller Falls products. One of the best laid out and informative sites on old tools I have seen.
Tim Melcher's Winchester Site focuses primary on Winchester Store collectibles. Contains an excellent section on Winchester "Fakes" including wrenches.
The Old Tool Nut Journal is a monthly publication concerning old, antique and collectible tools plus tools for sale and wanted ads. Check out the web site for more information, more tool collecting links, and order a free issue.
Sure padlocks are tools and most tool collectors have a few (I have several hundred down from over a thousand). Excellent pictures of locks, safes, and advertising items from Dean's collection plus "caveat emptor" Let The Buyer Beware", an excellent section on reproductions.
A mostly woodworking tool site from the Lone Star State - Tools, Books, and Manuals for sale with a discussion board and an excellent list of links.
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Two One if a Kind Adjustable Wrenches.
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Unique Orphan (unidentified) Wrenches
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Rare Case Threshing Machine Steam Engine Wrenches
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donhaury@southwind.net
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Don "Bus" Haury
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Halstead, KS 67056
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Last Updated: Sept. 5, 2010
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