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Richard Trethewey learns about one of the most important plumbing inventions: the Stillson wrench.
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One of the most important tools in the plumbing trade was invented over 100 years ago. Richard Trethewey meets Michael Fitzgerald, the enthusiast who uncovered this historical fact. The two meet at a museum that celebrates advances in plumbing, in where else? Watertown, MA.
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@POBulkhead 3 года назад

I still use my grandfathers 14" Stillson. I'm 61.

@tipperzack 3 года назад

More Tool History. Please and Thank You.

@craigkeller 3 года назад

Why interview the expert then talk through him?

@DCM8828 3 года назад

Yes. The interviewer was so eager to talk, he would hardly let the other guy finish a sentence. The whole thing had a womanish, rushed aspect. If an interviewer has to watch the clock, then he should solve the problem with editing, not with rushing the actual interview.

@Canopus68 3 года назад

A long time ago I was managing a vineyard in NH. A guy came to work for me for a summer. He was the great grandson of Mr. Stillson. Sadly he fell a tree on himself in his back yard and didn't survive. I love those wrenches.

@AgentOffice 3 года назад

😲

@Dragon-Slay3r 2 года назад

Lol

@bennyfactor 3 года назад

This is really cool! Like when Richard showed off the Trethewey-branded toilet that was 100 years old or something.

@ohyeahthatsright3155 3 года назад

I bet that’s seen a lot of sh1t in its day.

@t1n4444 3 года назад

100 years old?! Our lot used to just make a groove or slot in the castle wall and compose themselves over said groove whilst perched on a timber board with a hole ... wouldn't want to be caught short during a seige tho' ... enemy archer could give you a stereo vent ... However we discovered the flush WC just a little while ago so now most of us have indoor loos.

@Craigscompost 3 года назад

So informative, thank you! Richard and the crew are so knowledgeable! I love watching this show on PBS

@jiggingwithmatthew6271 3 года назад

I went to the plumbing museum last year with my shop and I’m only 15 so being able to see all the tools that people used when my parents whernt even born yet.

@elioselectric468 3 года назад

Didn't realize this museum is literally a mile from where I live. I may be an electrician but know and enjoy the plumbing trade very much.. I will be checking in asap!

@MildlySlopedRoofsKill 2 года назад

I just snagged a 24" Stillson at a yard sale for $10. It's going in my HVAC bag to have another life of usefulness.

@6atlantis Год назад

I’m currently restoring my great grandfather’s collection of Stillson and Ridgid pipe wrenches, patent date 1869.

@woezacardoza5659 3 месяца назад

I just bought a 12

@sleepforeveryone 3 года назад

Nice video! Learned something new! Richard and the TOH team are doing great.

@zekeabercrombie3583 3 года назад

That's my kind of place. Glad someone cares enough to preserve it.

@Peter-.H 3 года назад

Richard should run this museum. He has more knowledge about the history of those tools than anyone else.

@oldtwinsna8347 3 года назад

Richard's more interested in using the wrenches for everyday work than mounting on a wall and looking at them.

@jeffmoss26 3 года назад

Dude just pulls the pliers right out of his pocket lol

@AgentOffice 3 года назад

Concealed carry

@kangkim150 3 года назад

Certain breed of men. Just like how Hank Hill pulled out a mini WD-40 when his regular sized WD-40 got stuck.

@johnroberts9560 3 года назад

Hi TOH , thanks for showing us these kind of tools !!! 👍😊🔨🔩🔧

@pacificcoastpiper3949 3 года назад

I love the stillson wrench, very useful, very tough

@AlBeebe 3 года назад

love this type of content!

@tkjazzer 11 месяцев назад

Do they still make them? Or are vintage better?

@sapprdaddy 3 года назад

This was a terrific episode! !!!

@vxnova1 3 года назад

That’s amazing, we called that a Stilson in Ireland but a pipe wrench in Wisconsin

@aaronmusquiz7630 3 года назад

The best show in construction

@gonzalez519 3 года назад

Gotta love your “Pipewrench”, specially if it’s made out of aluminum 😅👍

@michellet_thatsme 2 года назад

I just discovered I have a stillson 10. Pretty neat ☺

@burntsider8457 3 года назад

A journalist who starts every sentence with an extraneous "so?"

@chrisno7495 3 года назад

I'm so happy to discover that my infatuation with wrenches and tool roots is shared by others!

@jfarinacci0329 3 года назад

Really good vid. thank you.

@cgriesemer 3 года назад

MORE TOOL HISTORY, PLEASE

@Lucastrujillo59 3 года назад

Great information and wonderful history Thank you for Sharing

@rupe53 3 года назад

What they fail to fully explain is how one jaw is fixed and the other moves. (besides the adjustment part) This is what makes the wrench bite into the pipe for a firm grip.

@timszon 3 года назад

I do not understand why people would dislike this video.

@danielbernier9115 3 года назад

Got a bunch of the wood handled style on the wall . Was hoping for some info on those as well . Lol time to do my own research. As Always thank you

@theJonnymac 3 года назад

that's what actually got me into this video too. I got some a garage sale, best wrenches I've used.

@danielbernier9115 3 года назад

@@theJonnymac I dig the vintage style with the wood inlay handles to think of the hard scrabble bastards using them back in the day puts things in perspective for me sometimes. Be Well ,Brother ✌

@ROGER2095 3 года назад

I was garbage-picking about 20 years ago and found 8 of those, all dirty and greasy. I cleaned them up and have been using them ever since.

@wtfbuddy1 3 года назад

Thank you for sharing

@heroknaderi 3 года назад

Interesting

@acmeopinionfactory8018 3 года назад

A plumbing museum in Watertown!

@DCM8828 3 года назад

I noticed in the Webster's New World Dictionary that there is an entry for "Stillson Wrench" but not for "Pipe Wrench". I never realized...

@scottmcfarland1177 3 года назад

Stillson best pipe wrenches ever made!

@Dragon-Slay3r 2 года назад

Double wave behind it

@tool69tool69 3 года назад

Can anyone recommend other great channels about tools and building

@user8ZAKC1X6KC 3 года назад

A wrench like that saved my life, because it didn't come off a pipe. No joke.

@MrJerry160 3 года назад

Can you please elaborate?

@ROGER2095 3 года назад

Saved my knuckles many times!

@mulimotola44 3 года назад

Thanks! Wish you'd show an actual example of how it was used.

@steakwilliams4448 3 года назад

It appears to be nothing more than an OG pipe wrench. Pipe wrenches are pretty self explanatory, and he covered the most important detail with the 3 points of contact. Knowing that, I’m sure if someone handed you some threaded galvanized or black iron pipe and fittings and a pipe wrench, you’d figure it out in a few minutes. They probably weren’t allowed to be actually using these historic items

@gusty60 3 года назад

How about some history on that Clayton & Lambert plumber's furnace on the bench.

@johnkrim8377 3 года назад

gusty60 , Had one like that 60 years ago to practice lead wiping for my journeymans test. Then I lent it to 2 guys I knew so they could practice . Somewhere along the line it got lost. 👷🏻

@briefcasefullofbacon7291 3 года назад

Lol I think you guys didn't update the description before posting.

@davebarnes1742 3 года назад

I have my dads who called them Stillison but are made by Record ,bit like circular saws are called Skill saws

@steverose7112 3 года назад

Pipe NPT threads are tapered at 3/4 per foot on diameter with is 1.7899 degrees per side. Anyone know who came up with this angle?

@SlabbinNCabbin 3 года назад

I’ve got some laying outside in the dirt, getting rained on. Just a bit of surface rust, and they’re like new still. Some good metal they used to make the wrenches.

@Wild_Bill57 3 года назад

This video is wrenching! .. thank you, no I don’t do two shows on Saturdays.

@serjstoned 3 года назад

“Shut up you. I’m the expert here”

@artjones2498 3 года назад

I always wonderd what that is called

@brettknoss486 3 года назад

Those pipe tongs look a lot like a Swedish pattern pipe wrench.

@cameronr7223 Год назад

That’s what it is, never heard it called a tong before lol

@maso3l 3 года назад

Well I have been calling them stiltsons for as long as I can remember, oops. I’m in Australia and the ones I have were made here.

@paullanducci440 3 года назад

Would have been nice to let the expert from the museum describe the wrenches.

@aaronmusquiz7630 3 года назад

Hey this old house

@aaronmusquiz7630 3 года назад

What

@abrahamedelstein4806 3 года назад

The Stillson pattern predates the Johansson pattern which is an improvement on the design.

@rexmundi8154 3 года назад

So, where are all the pipe wrenches going? We’ve been mass producing them for 100 years. I’ve never broken one. How are we not knee deep in wrenches?

@oldtwinsna8347 3 года назад

i see loads of them in antique shops for ridiculous prices.

@robertb.3651 11 месяцев назад

They go to Valhalla

@cbryantbear6498 3 года назад

Dont call a journalist, a reporter. Lol!!!

@RossMalagarie 3 года назад

One just reads what someone else wrote. One does investigations and looks for dependable/reliable sources then writes up a report, and usually reads it themselves. So yeah I can see the offense taken.

@doctirdaddy4876 3 года назад

call them useless above all else

@joedzny 3 года назад

No wonder everyone hates the media.

@maso3l 3 года назад

A quick correction from him too.

@jeffkurtock6726 3 года назад

Echoing Victoria Tennant in Steve Martin's "LA Story."

@corygriffiths4394 2 года назад

I just ordered a 48 inch pipe wrench lol

@ackack612 3 года назад

Who knew!

@theJonnymac 3 года назад

the pipe wrench definitely doesn't replace the smooth jaw version for working on couplings stuff that has a faces like a nut. The pipe wrench tears those up. but an interesting piece of history.

@theJonnymac 3 года назад

@@Kevin-mp5of yea it drives me nuts working after people like that

@t1n4444 3 года назад

@@Kevin-mp5of 😂😂😂 Thought it was just us! A lot of plumbers and sometimes sparkies use what we call water pump pliers ( Channel?) ... they can fffk up most nuts or soft pipes without trying ... a sort of "round over tool with added burring". Might be because some of these "craftsmen" have yet to equate a pipe nut with a "fit for purpose" open spanner??? Plus a lot of them forget it's soft copper pipes they are working with and you don't have to hang off the joint to get it tight. (We've all seen a hot water tank with a soldered flange buckled up or torn out.)

@t1n4444 3 года назад

@@Kevin-mp5of 👍

@theJonnymac 3 года назад

@@Kevin-mp5of the pride exists, I see it in some people I work with. In some cases, though I just see people that were never taught how to use tools in the best way.

@davidwells298 3 года назад

Tretheway done turned into Bob

@orijimi 3 года назад

I like how they purposely put the monkey wrenches in the thumbnail to trick us.

@DaddyBeanDaddyBean 3 года назад

I have a monkey wrench. Watched the video b/c I thought I would learn something interesting about one of my more unusual tools. Disappointed.

@Ricopolico 3 года назад

Don't lie to yourself, you're a REPORTER. Rich, Rich, Rich, you know the real secret is to first scrape all the dried plumber's putty out of the teeth.

@davidbreitwieser3591 6 месяцев назад

Cool video, but ridgid are better

@billw1044 3 года назад

And then the Iron Age arrived in the 1800s....

@barryhaynes103 3 года назад

It was pretty obvious who the subject matter “expert” is ....

@daveb8679 3 года назад

Agreed. A man speaking to a boy.

@plumbermike3246 3 года назад

I have so many of these 3” to 24” collection. I use them 2 to 3 times a week only bad thing is the Handel is narrow and will hurt palm ✋ so cheater is necessary love the show and appreciate the information. 29 years in plumbing trade

@davsim4116 3 года назад

Today it is simply known as a pipe wrench.

@joeyvanostrand3655 3 года назад

My dad used to threaten me with these all of the time. He died earlier this year. Been a good year so far.

@danielbernier9115 3 года назад

Had to LOL . I love my Dad , but ..... we All ,as young men had that thought at some point haha .

@danielbernier9115 3 года назад

And I Am Not Condoning Violence.

@gerardojimenez2940 3 года назад

Sorry for your loss!! it's funny how the oddest things can trigger a memory.

@akoznasovajusername 3 года назад

Every thing not 'made in China' is a good thing, actually.

@t1n4444 3 года назад

Crikey! I had no idea they still made all American laptops and smartphones these days. Well done you lot!

@dannyfleck9051 3 года назад

Random thought: they should be sponsored by knife companies and we can see what they all like to EDC. Richard strikes me as a Kershaw or CRKT guy.

@dannyfleck9051 3 года назад

@@brianglade848 lobstahs and Kershuaws

@WhamBang 3 года назад

*casually handles lead pipe*

@tjlovesrachel 3 года назад

Nothing wrong with it... it’s just a little lead

@ambplumbing6190 3 года назад

YO I WENT HERE BEFORE

@ambplumbing6190 3 года назад

@@Kevin-mp5of yes

@timboslice1979 3 года назад

I love this guy. A real journalist, such a rare breed it seems. I hope he never works for CNN or MSNBC. God bless him.

@hammasrandy 3 года назад

👍

@paulsawczyc5019 3 года назад

Oh yes they do slip.

@peterjanis2455 3 года назад

Cannistraro lol

@RossMalagarie 3 года назад

The Stillson Wrench is a name brand pipe wrench is what I always thought.

@cristianmunoz2480 3 года назад

That's just how peeps recognize some tools. People call an adjustable wrench a Crescent wrench. People call a reciprocating saw a Sawzall.

@alonzojohnson7955 3 года назад

😎

@HAL-dm1eh 3 года назад

Thanks to the MSM "journalist" isn't any better a label than "reporter". May not ever be able to recover the reputation of that profession.

@kkknotcool 3 года назад

I think reporter is the more admirable title. A reporter relays news to people. A journalist relays their take on news. A reporter give you the news and the news alone. We need more of that.

@paulm9639 3 года назад

When I was gr

@jimmydm3 3 года назад

You don't know a monkey wrench from a Stillson. And the guy didn't.

@entertainme121 3 года назад

same thing, no?

@adamfrost3976 3 года назад

I love this show but I hate when they bring in an “Expert” to explain things and the guys on the show do all the talking and don’t let them talk.

@grouchomarxist666 10 месяцев назад

"As the Iron Age came?" Richard, you're an accomplished plumber, but a pathetic historian. The Iron Age began in the second millennium before Christ.

@notgunnahaveit6132 3 года назад

social distancing.. nope face masks nope shaking hands nope.. this old house why are you not doing the mandated things the government and local athrories said to do