What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

Happy Caturday, everyone! :)

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What are we looking at, Ellis?
A bucket of rusty bull pins. Used with key plates and blank nuts for fitting shell plates together during tank building. Also used for iron working, but these pins are softer than what is typically used for iron working now. The harder pins for iron working make them easier to remove after lining up the bolt holes of a bolted connection in a steel structure. These softer pins deform more and can get stuck.

Bucket of blank nuts shown in the picture below.
Those pins remind me of my summertime iron working days. I hated being on those beams.
Great knife you have there.
I have some fond memories of hanging steel, but I much prefer working closer to the ground.

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A bucket of rusty bull pins. Used with key plates and blank nuts for fitting shell plates together during tank building. Also used for iron working, but these pins are softer than what is typically used for iron working now. The harder pins for iron working make them easier to remove after lining up the bolt holes of a bolted connection in a steel structure. These softer pins deform more and can get stuck.

Bucket of blank nuts shown in the picture below.

I have some fond memories of hanging steel, but I much prefer working closer to the ground.

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Thanks for ‘splainin. And for another look at your fine Texas Camp Knife.
 
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