'bout the oldest and meanest tool I've got is what my daddy called his "Kentucky toothpick."

It's actually an axle out of an old combine, somewhere around 1920 or before, about five and half feet long and a little over an inch and a quarter diameter. (I'm pretty sure daddy swiped it from his daddy, but grandpappy never complained.)

It's still got some "spline teeth" you can sorta see on one end, but the other end is hammered down to a "wedge" that you can poke into any little crack you can find next somethin' that's gotta move.

The first time I ever got to use it for somethin' serious was to inch a 23,000 pound punch press (on a couple or three inch and half pipe "rollers") about 30 feet into the shop after the haulers dumped it in front of the door.

I keep it around just for thinkin' 'bout all the sh*t I could move with that sucker - -

- - if I could still lift it.

John