tool box hole
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Topic: tool box hole
Posted By: ac hunter
Subject: tool box hole
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 6:06pm
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Hello all, I've been busy for the last 8-9 months restoring the 1949 WD that my father purchased new. The other day my attention focused on the new replacement tool box waiting to be installed and the hole in the front of the box. Does anyone know the purpose of this hole? I grew up on WD / WD-45's and never could see a use for the hole in the front of the tool box. Unless it's an access for mice? |
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Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 6:13pm
| It's for the end of the grease gun to stick out. |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 6:36pm
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I thought it was for the wheel wrench to stick out ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 6:39pm
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Very interesting. I guess they didn't figure on your using the gun that came with the tractor. Our box was always full of tools and hitch pins so dad always had the grease gun on top of all that and the lid not closed. The original box had a hasp latch on it instead of the style they make now with holes for a padlock or hook. Wish they made a replacement with the hasp. Thank you for the reply. |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 6:45pm
| my bar for the wheel wrench used to stick out there till I lost it |
Posted By: PatrickBeth
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 8:03pm
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Always learning! |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 9:33pm
| Mine's had the gas gauge stick pokin' out of that hole for years!! LOL Never gets lost! |
Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 9:36pm
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It is made for letting the quail chicks out you catch when mowing hay as a kid!I caught several one day and put them in the tool box , closed the lid. Them little dudes jumped out that hole lickety split! ------------- No greater gift than healthy grandkids! |
Posted By: marion
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 9:38pm
| good place to let waspers in |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 9:43pm
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My dad said it was for the grease gun, but he always stuck it between the sc release lever and the shift tower. ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: Robert Musgrave
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 9:44pm
| Dad always kept a giant crescent wrench in the tool box--so big that about 2-3" stuck out through that hole. That tractor was parked in the barn at another farm and Dad and I were there for something. A big ground hog was in the barn right on the corner of the new (not yet painted) barn doors. They were pretty foxy, even fixed up with a flush hinged service door. Dad says, "Quick, hand me that crescent wrench!" Flings it at the ground hog, misses and shatters the bottom corner of the door. The ground hog saunters off, I wanted to laugh in the worst way, but thought the wrench would get thrown at me! That barn is now gone; some other people run that place. Sorry for the thread hi-jack, but can't look at the tool box and not remember that story. R. Musgrave |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 11:12pm
| I always heard the hole was for a grease gun to stick out. |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 12:21am
| it was for the grease gun hose to stick out, but they soon quit that cuz the dirt gathered on the end of the gun and not any wiped the dirt off before using it and that caused bearing/bushing failure sooner than was sposed to! then dirt/dust was also getting inside as was other things mentioned above! wasps being the worst! |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 12:22am
| yet....another use found for duct tape! |
Posted By: Allis dave
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 7:08am
| no, that's where the corn cob goes. |
Posted By: ChadB
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 7:25am
| It's been a long time ago but I think dad and grandpa always put the grease gun between the engine and frame on the D sires tractors. |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 7:37am
I think Steve is right. ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
SteveM C/IL wrote:Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 7:41am
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My father used to stick the handle of a Craftsman adjustable wrench out of the hole on our WD45,got mostly used as a hammer(LOL) |
Posted By: allisrutledge
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 8:14am
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Grease Gun. An old dealer in Plano TX ask me one time if I knew what it was. I got it right according to him.
------------- Allis Chalmers still exist in my mind and barns |
Posted By: jiminnd
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 8:30am
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I agree with gease gun, thats what ours was for. ------------- 1945 C, 1949 WF and WD, 1981 185, 1982 8030, unknown D14(nonrunner) |
Posted By: KenBWisc
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 8:42am
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Air hole for the 13 striped ground squirrels caught while plowing.
------------- '34 WC #629, '49 G, '49 B, '49 WD, '62 D-19, '38 All Crop 60 and still hunting! |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 11:22am
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For the end of a long neck. Ice on top if available!
------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 11:32am
| on WD/WD45 the grease gun lays on foot clutch linkage with pump end twd rear."Head" catches on clutch pedal arm |
Posted By: EPALLIS
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 8:20pm
| Just curious, was there a WD toolbox version made without the hole? I was always told you knew it was original with the hole and reproduction/after market with no hole? |
Posted By: Chalmersbob
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 9:40pm
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The hole is to allow mice to get into the box and pee all over your tools. Bob ------------- 4 B's, 1 C's,3 CA's, 2 G's WD, D14, D15, B-1, B10, B12, 712S, |
Posted By: JayIN
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2016 at 4:56am
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I only use my corn cob once! I dont put it back in the tool box. John Deere people do. ------------- sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?" |