Bung Wrench, Never Heard of Such a Thing
I go to the flea market every weekend and look for interesting stuff. On Saturday I came across a tool that I had never seen before. Naturally I bought it. My first impression was that it was some sort of implement tool. Back in the day when a farmer bought a piece of equipment they often came with tools designed for the item. I quickly moved off that idea because of the shape. It looked like a giant jack. For those of you who were born after the internet, there was a game played with small metal pieces and a ball. You threw the ball into the air and picked up a many Jacks as you could before the ball came down and you caught it.
An item shaped like a jack would not travel well with whatever implement it would have come with. So not an implement. I describe the item as well as I could and found similar items on the wed. This is where I discovered it was a bung wrench for removing the small plugs in the tops of barrels. Now I know.
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