Rare Ironworkers Rivet Throwing Tongs Style:Custom made Rare Ironworkers Rivet Throwing Tongs display stand unfortunate tragedy

unfortunate tragedy

Original 1873 Levi Strauss Rivet

(1st Qtr 20th Century

she operated for 14 years as the world's first peacetime hospital ship

Rare Ironworkers Rivet Throwing Tongs Style:Custom made Rare Ironworkers Rivet Throwing Tongs display stand unfortunate tragedyThrowing red hot rivets is a lost art. Custom display stands made for turn of the century Industrial Age tools. Industrial artifacts made into art objects. Before ironworkers used bolts to connect beams, they used rivets. The ironworkers worked in four man teams. When a rivet reached the required heat, the thrower removed it from the portable furnace with this long tong. Then, using the tongs, he threw it to the catcher, who caught it in a tin scoop.