My dad was a machinist for uncle sam and growing up we had an abundance of high end fantastic tools. The only thing my dad actually cared about were "the diamalloys." That's what he called 'em. The smaller snips, that are the perfect size for a small kiddo looking to make some action figure edits. They had mint green handles and I was convinced they came out of an old timey hospital. In a panic, I called him to ask about them a few months back, "What the hell were those things with the stinky mint green handles?" and he didn't even skip a beat "Diamond tools- Diamalloys...they cut shit they're not supposed to and they always feel the same as the last time you picked em up." And gave me the story about how they just kinda disappeared and how he and his brother got into almost a war over them. They both had hundreds.
I have several Diamond adjustable wrenches, And I love them. My father got me started with them in the 80's. I use them they are amazing hand tools. Thanks for sharing!
I was given an old used Diamond adjustable wrench when I was a kid putting a tool kit together. I still have it fifty years later and earned money with it.
I lived in Duluth 1975-77, the plant just a few blocks away from my apartment. Purchased a few Diamond-branded hand tools over those years and have them to this day... They're still as good as the day I bought them. Was sad to see DT go. :(
I remember throwing Diamond horseshoes at every family picnic for decades. We never could beat dad and Uncle Art. If they are looking down, I pray they are smiling.
This makes me both proud and sad as a Minnesotan, Diamond made excellent tools many of which are still on the job today. Corporate shenanigans ruined another one of the all time greats
I have my "special wide opening" 12" open end adjustable wrenches that I bought in the 70's at the refrigeration supply house. I also have my 18" and 24" open end adjustable wrenches....then the 4" that I have on my key ring...I can't imagine my life without them Thanks for the history lesson
I have several Diamond tools that I probably bought in the 70s. They are still some of my favorites, especially the nice slim adjustable wrench, and the "channellocks", Their groove-joint pliers is the one I keep in my truck tool-box, and is the one I prefer the most. The action is way smoother than a real "Channellock"( I have several of those). and the tool is lighter, and slimmer, but just as strong. All of my Diamond tools still look great after many years of use. They show no rust, and the green dipped on handle covers are still nice and secure.
what a wonderful video. I worked for a pluming, HVAC distributor from 1968 thru 1980 and we sold Diamond tools, especially their snips which were held in high regard. I still have a pair. Thank you
I still have my 10 piece Diamond electronics pliers in a small folding leather(ette) case that I in 1982. Thank you so much for doing this video as I was looking for more if these types of pliers and learning of Swamstrom makes my day!!!
I have a classic pair of Diamond slip joint pliers in my box and I treasure them.They are engraved R&G which is my late fathers workplace of 30 years in Amesbury Mass..They are easily 50+years old.
Great vid. I have a few diamond tools. I knew they were once known as Diamond-Calk brand. Did not know what a Calk was till this vid. I have probably have a half dozen different lineman’s pliers. My Diamond pair is still my favorite.
Mary's husband sezzz...Wow! mine was the first thumbs up this time and rightly so. I like your work and also Diamond tools of which I have many. Keep up the good work. Thanks!
I like the old Diamond adjustable wrenches. Som people collect them to hang on the wall, but I want them to use. Nobody makes heavy duty wrenches like that anymore.
When I was a teenager I read that a good set of cutters would last for decades. About 1981 I bought two S54 4" cutters. 1 pair I lost quickly, the other pair I lost 2 weeks ago. I was upset when I found that I couldn't get another pair , the Cooper Tools version didn't seem as good. A few days later I opened a drawer and they were hiding there. I'm happy to have them back. When it comes to cutting wire in tight places they are the best I have used. I have cut steel wire with them and they are still sharp. Thanks for the history lesson.
Used to own some of those beryllium alloy electronics pliers until they were stolen with a tool box in 2016. I sat down to reorder some, these were originally purchased at an electronic supply house, only couldn't find them anymore even in the Cooper Tools catalog. Seems weird to buy an established brand and shut it down. Smooth pliers.
The beryllium alloy rivet pliers were pretty cool. Triangle & Cooper went on a bit of a buying spree, picking up old tool brands. They wanted to consolidate all of them, and several brands got lost in the process...
I have a collection of Diamalloy tools. The Handy Boy is one of their most unique. For a short time they made it under the name Handy Man. Two sizes of the Handy Boy were made: DH-16 and DH-18 part numbers. I love Diamond tools and use them when possible.
I had a shop teacher at grand rapids mn in the mid 80s who had worked there and on the first day of class he would let you know that it wasn't called a crescent wrench around here it's proper name was an " open end adjustable wrench " .
I was issued a standardized tool kit and box when I went into electronics voc. in high school. Parents had to pay for the tools but it really payed off. One tool that still gets alot of use is a smaller sized Diamond adjustable wrench. Handier than the big Craftsman I have. The handle is dipped in green vinyl by the maker. Also the Xcelite tools I got then are damn handy and I used them at work for many years. None of my school tools said CHINA or TAIWAN. Although some pliers were from Japan I think.
Some clarification on the reason for auction: It was founder Otto Swanstrom's daughter and the estate of Otto's widow that decided to put their controlling shares in the company up for auction in 1981 (not John Swanstrom). Triangle couldn't secure commercial financing for $10 million of the purchase. Current interest rates were in the 20% range, so the City of Duluth, with an unemployment rate of 10.7%, offered the revenue bonds at 11% interest in order to salvage the deal. I believe the photo at 10:58 is from the Duluth News Tribune dated April 17, 1984. The remaining 400 workers (of a peak 850) had gone on strike after being asked to take a $6/hr. cut in pay & benefits.
I didn't know Diamond lasted that long. My only exposure to their tools is through 3 adjustable wrenches I have made by them. By far, these are the best adjustable wrenches ever made with the laws remaining tight and parallel under strong pressure that causes all others to spring and slip, or for their jaws to dent. Unbelievable performance for a type of tool which isn't supposed to be strong or good. I've always got my eyes open for these at yard sales and flea markets I go to.
I've got an old 8" adjustable wrench marked "Diamalloy" on 1 side & "Diamond Calk Horseshoe Co. Duluth, Minn." on the other side. It's got a 9/16" splined hole at the end of the handle. Thanks for the video.
I 1st started shoeing horses 40 years ago. Still have my old farrier tools & many Diamond rim shoes. They are the best for riding or driving a horse on varying surfaces such as pavement & rocky ground. Have many of the hand tools as well such as pliers, adjustable wrenches, etc. Sad that there no longer made in US! Guess my new ,old shoes will become antique collectables now that I no longer shoe horses. Still have my Thoroughbreds but their feet are so good & tough that for the small amount of riding I do now they don`t need shoes. Still use my American made nippers for trimming their feet though.
We used to have a hardware store; we sold pretty much the entire line of Diamond tools, and being a horse town, sold the shoes & farrier tools as well. The local farriers wouldn’t have any other brand of nippers.
@@halpadgett3166 The Diamond nippers for the price were very good tool. If used a lot they came to have the polishing of their competitors that had a much higher price.😃
I have some Diamond adjustable wrenches and groove-joint pliers from the 70s. I asked the tool supplier for a set of pitching horseshoes, but they said they'd have to order a lot of a dozen sets, so no luck there.
i have many diamond pliers ans cresent wrenches. fit and useability is top notch. finish is gererally fair to poor. extremely high quality materials. great tools to find at a pawn shop or yard sale.
I have alot of their tools. I find them at auction and I only live 65 miles from where the factory was. There use to be get togethers of the former factory workers. Don't know if they still do it. Duluth was a good spot because of all of the industry back in those days. They had shipping, railroads as well as all of the mining companies to target tools too. Their shoes and calks were in demand again for the mining industry in the early days as well as logging industry. For that matter caulks were good in the winter on Duluth streets. As to the company getting the city to pay for tooling and then leave they weren't the only ones. Jeno Paulucci did the exact same thing. They told the city they needed new equipment to keep the company goig. Soon after Duluth paid for it they took it to another state and ripping off the tax payers.
Thank you again please keep this series going I enjoy using oddball tools Bulletproof Wrench over at mass fabricator are some really unique tools that actually work better than the conventional he has sent me some for testing im an industrial equipment mechanic
I had a 12" Diamond crescent wrench that I inherited (liberated) from my father 50 years ago. It was stolen from me by a guy working on my property. Still chaps my butt.
In the mid 80's deer hunting in Minnesota in Pine County south of Duluth. We hunted public land along Minnesota Highway 23 that has a rail track running on the east side of the highway. One year I was walking the track, and I found hundreds of rough forged 9/16" Diamond combination wrenches that had fall out of a scrap metal train car. The wrenches were not machined or chrome plated, just rough rusty forgings. I brough a handful home, not sure of a plan for the wrenches. Being a Minnesotan I do own a couple of Diamond slip joint pliers and side cutters. High quality tools.
I have a 24" Diamond adjustable wrench. It's better quality than any crescent wrench I've ever owned. I use it for bending metal mostly. It probably weighs ten pounds or more.Very stout tool.
No. Haven't heard of them. I can add them to the list to research in the future. Could be one of those companies that only exists to fulfill .gov contracts.
It's possible. They likely had other contract manufacturers too. I haven't started digging into Indestro yet but I plan to do a full video on them sometime in the future.
@@ballinator Looking forward to Indestro , I have constantly bought forlorn machinist boxes & other tools . Just recently 2 separate scores had random Indestro wrenches in them, a brand I never seen and really enjoyed finding . Pretty nice quality and cleaned up well and have a new home in a vintage Waterloo machinist box that belongs to a specific lathe . Now I want to round out a set of them !
I'm sorry it's a 15-in and it did look brand new when I first got it but I've been using it every since it says diamond tool and horseshoe co Duluth Minnesota on one side the other side says diamalloy Forged steel made me USA
I"ve been throwing the DIAMOND( PICKNIK) , SUPER and now the TOURNAMENT Horseshoes for almost 50 years. I have tools made by Diamond. Can't get the shoes anymore except on line, but there not cheap and usually made in China, or if you happen to find a pair at a garage sale and they don't know what the value is.
The company made excellent tools until they were bought out in the early 1980s,they closed the Duluth Mn plant and everything went to South Carolina where the name meant nothing to the people that worked for the new owners,quality went into the crapper and the name became a joke
My dad was a machinist for uncle sam and growing up we had an abundance of high end fantastic tools. The only thing my dad actually cared about were "the diamalloys." That's what he called 'em. The smaller snips, that are the perfect size for a small kiddo looking to make some action figure edits. They had mint green handles and I was convinced they came out of an old timey hospital. In a panic, I called him to ask about them a few months back, "What the hell were those things with the stinky mint green handles?" and he didn't even skip a beat "Diamond tools- Diamalloys...they cut shit they're not supposed to and they always feel the same as the last time you picked em up." And gave me the story about how they just kinda disappeared and how he and his brother got into almost a war over them. They both had hundreds.
I have several Diamond adjustable wrenches, And I love them. My father got me started with them in the 80's. I use them they are amazing hand tools. Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
I was given an old used Diamond adjustable wrench when I was a kid putting a tool kit together.
I still have it fifty years later and earned money with it.
I lived in Duluth 1975-77, the plant just a few blocks away from my apartment. Purchased a few Diamond-branded hand tools over those years and have them to this day... They're still as good as the day I bought them. Was sad to see DT go. :(
I remember throwing Diamond horseshoes at every family picnic for decades. We never could beat dad and Uncle Art.
If they are looking down, I pray they are smiling.
I still have my Dad's Diamond Double Ringer horse shoes, cleaned them up and repainted them a few years ago.
Tools built for, and used to last by multiple generations. I have a medium sized collection, and still use some at work. Thank you.
I see this brand all the time at estate and garage sales. I now have many.👍👍
Good info. In my late grand fathers tool box, years ago, I found a pair of channel lock pliers marked as Diamond Horseshoe I still have them today
This makes me both proud and sad as a Minnesotan, Diamond made excellent tools many of which are still on the job today. Corporate shenanigans ruined another one of the all time greats
Diamond Hand Tools were my Dad’s favorite. I have his collection now. Great tools!
I have my "special wide opening" 12" open end adjustable wrenches that I bought in the 70's at the refrigeration supply house.
I also have my 18" and 24" open end adjustable wrenches....then the 4" that I have on my key ring...I can't imagine my life without them
Thanks for the history lesson
You're welcome! I need to track down one of those 4" ones.
@ballinator yes, I found it years ago....good luck on your hunt....
I remember driving past their facility in Duluth when I was a teenager in the 1970s. I still own an adjustable wrench made by this company.
I have several Diamond tools that I probably bought in the 70s. They are still some of my favorites, especially the nice slim adjustable wrench, and the "channellocks", Their groove-joint pliers is the one I keep in my truck tool-box, and is the one I prefer the most. The action is way smoother than a real "Channellock"( I have several of those). and the tool is lighter, and slimmer, but just as strong. All of my Diamond tools still look great after many years of use. They show no rust, and the green dipped on handle covers are still nice and secure.
what a wonderful video. I worked for a pluming, HVAC distributor from 1968 thru 1980 and we sold Diamond tools, especially their snips which were held in high regard. I still have a pair. Thank you
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
I still have my 10 piece Diamond electronics pliers in a small folding leather(ette) case that I in 1982.
Thank you so much for doing this video as I was looking for more if these types of pliers and learning of Swamstrom makes my day!!!
You're welcome! Yeah I was surprised to learn about that connection too.
One of my favorite tool brands!
Great video. I really appreciate the efforts you take to research all of the history and facts. Keep up the great videos.
Thanks! More videos are on the way.
I live in Minnesota and find used Dimond tools that look brand new all the time so I really thought they where still in business
I have a classic pair of Diamond slip joint pliers in my box and I treasure them.They are engraved R&G which is my late fathers workplace of 30 years in Amesbury Mass..They are easily 50+years old.
I still own and use two pair of Diamond brand lineman pliers, a pair of slip joint pliers, and I think a big adjustable wrench.
I will forever regret the day I cut a live piece of romex with mine. Still have them though; I haven’t found a more balanced pair of dykes.
Great vid. I have a few diamond tools. I knew they were once known as Diamond-Calk brand.
Did not know what a Calk was till this vid.
I have probably have a half dozen different lineman’s pliers. My Diamond pair is still my favorite.
Thanks! Yeah I wasn't sure what a calk was either until I started researhing for the video.
Mary's husband sezzz...Wow! mine was the first thumbs up this time and rightly so. I like your work and also Diamond tools of which I have many. Keep up the good work. Thanks!
I like the old Diamond adjustable wrenches. Som people collect them to hang on the wall, but I want them to use. Nobody makes heavy duty wrenches like that anymore.
Still have and use 2 Diamalloy 'Crescent' wrenches my Dad bought in the 50's.
Love hearing stories about Swedes in America, they're usually success stories.
Yes....like Todd Rundgren.
I found a nice like new diamond adjustable wrench in a bucket on the curb with a few vintage crescents and pipe wrenches
Nice find!
@ballinator I keep a lot of my weird vintage tools separate from ones I use those are used for special projects
Another home run! Thank you for everything you do
You're welcome! thanks for watching.
When I was a teenager I read that a good set of cutters would last for decades. About 1981 I bought two S54 4" cutters. 1 pair I lost quickly, the other pair I lost 2 weeks ago. I was upset when I found that I couldn't get another pair , the Cooper Tools version didn't seem as good. A few days later I opened a drawer and they were hiding there. I'm happy to have them back. When it comes to cutting wire in tight places they are the best I have used. I have cut steel wire with them and they are still sharp. Thanks for the history lesson.
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
Used to own some of those beryllium alloy electronics pliers until they were stolen with a tool box in 2016. I sat down to reorder some, these were originally purchased at an electronic supply house, only couldn't find them anymore even in the Cooper Tools catalog. Seems weird to buy an established brand and shut it down. Smooth pliers.
The beryllium alloy rivet pliers were pretty cool. Triangle & Cooper went on a bit of a buying spree, picking up old tool brands. They wanted to consolidate all of them, and several brands got lost in the process...
I am still looking for diamond linesman pliers SL56 SL57 SL58 model with green deeped handles
I still buy Diamond tools at garage sales, estate sales, thrift stores, and flea markets.
Love Diamond tools. Fantastic tools
St. Croix forge of
forest lake Minnesota, picked up where Dimond left off with the horse shoe and farrier tool manufacturing.
Interesting. Thanks for the info!
I have a collection of Diamalloy tools. The Handy Boy is one of their most unique. For a short time they made it under the name Handy Man. Two sizes of the Handy Boy were made: DH-16 and DH-18 part numbers. I love Diamond tools and use them when possible.
I'm def going to be keeping an eye out for one of those HandyBoy/Man pliers.
I had a shop teacher at grand rapids mn in the mid 80s who had worked there and on the first day of class he would let you know that it wasn't called a crescent wrench around here it's proper name was an " open end adjustable wrench " .
One of my favorites brands. If you look in my toolbox you'll see a lot of Diamond and Krauter.
My favorite pliers are made by Diamond.
I was issued a standardized tool kit and box when I went into electronics voc. in high school. Parents had to pay for the tools but it really payed off. One tool that still gets alot of use is a smaller sized Diamond adjustable wrench. Handier than the big Craftsman I have. The handle is dipped in green vinyl by the maker. Also the Xcelite tools I got then are damn handy and I used them at work for many years. None of my school tools said CHINA or TAIWAN. Although some pliers were from Japan I think.
Huge fan of the Xcelite stuff too.
Some clarification on the reason for auction: It was founder Otto Swanstrom's daughter and the estate of Otto's widow that decided to put their controlling shares in the company up for auction in 1981 (not John Swanstrom). Triangle couldn't secure commercial financing for $10 million of the purchase. Current interest rates were in the 20% range, so the City of Duluth, with an unemployment rate of 10.7%, offered the revenue bonds at 11% interest in order to salvage the deal.
I believe the photo at 10:58 is from the Duluth News Tribune dated April 17, 1984. The remaining 400 workers (of a peak 850) had gone on strike after being asked to take a $6/hr. cut in pay & benefits.
Thanks for adding this info! This fills in the missing pieces.
Thank you.
💎 tool, I grew up near them. Used their tools. ❤
I didn't know Diamond lasted that long. My only exposure to their tools is through 3 adjustable wrenches I have made by them. By far, these are the best adjustable wrenches ever made with the laws remaining tight and parallel under strong pressure that causes all others to spring and slip, or for their jaws to dent. Unbelievable performance for a type of tool which isn't supposed to be strong or good. I've always got my eyes open for these at yard sales and flea markets I go to.
This is my favorite youtube channel.
*Cracks one open*
Thanks. Cheers!
I've got an old 8" adjustable wrench marked "Diamalloy" on 1 side & "Diamond Calk Horseshoe Co. Duluth, Minn." on the other side. It's got a 9/16" splined hole at the end of the handle. Thanks for the video.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching. The splined hole sounds interesting. Wonder what that was designed for.
Sounds like my Diamalloy adjustable spanner, the 9/16 on the other end isn't "splined", it's a 12 point ring spanner.
@@101stuey yes. That's what I meant. That's how my wrench is.
I still use a couple Dimond farrier tools.
I have a full set of these adjustable wrenches, manufactured in duluth minnesota.
I 1st started shoeing horses 40 years ago. Still have my old farrier tools & many Diamond rim shoes. They are the best for riding or driving a horse on varying surfaces such as pavement & rocky ground. Have many of the hand tools as well such as pliers, adjustable wrenches, etc. Sad that there no longer made in US! Guess my new ,old shoes will become antique collectables now that I no longer shoe horses. Still have my Thoroughbreds but their feet are so good & tough that for the small amount of riding I do now they don`t need shoes. Still use my American made nippers for trimming their feet though.
Very cool! thanks for the info.
We used to have a hardware store; we sold pretty much the entire line of Diamond tools, and being a horse town, sold the shoes & farrier tools as well. The local farriers wouldn’t have any other brand of nippers.
@@halpadgett3166 The Diamond nippers for the price were very good tool. If used a lot they came to have the polishing of their competitors that had a much higher price.😃
I have some Diamond adjustable wrenches and groove-joint pliers from the 70s. I asked the tool supplier for a set of pitching horseshoes, but they said they'd have to order a lot of a dozen sets, so no luck there.
Def going to keep an eye out for a set of those horseshoes at garage sales.
@@ballinator I used to play horseshoes with my dad. The stakes in his set were Ford Model-T axles.
I have some of these, held up very wrll!
Well done…cheers from Orlando Florida…Paul
Thanks!
i have many diamond pliers ans cresent wrenches. fit and useability is top notch. finish is gererally fair to poor. extremely high quality materials. great tools to find at a pawn shop or yard sale.
I have alot of their tools. I find them at auction and I only live 65 miles from where the factory was. There use to be get togethers of the former factory workers. Don't know if they still do it. Duluth was a good spot because of all of the industry back in those days. They had shipping, railroads as well as all of the mining companies to target tools too. Their shoes and calks were in demand again for the mining industry in the early days as well as logging industry. For that matter caulks were good in the winter on Duluth streets. As to the company getting the city to pay for tooling and then leave they weren't the only ones. Jeno Paulucci did the exact same thing. They told the city they needed new equipment to keep the company goig. Soon after Duluth paid for it they took it to another state and ripping off the tax payers.
Thanks for the info. Looks like the Paulucci thing happened in '82, so around the same time period.
Thank you again please keep this series going I enjoy using oddball tools Bulletproof Wrench over at mass fabricator are some really unique tools that actually work better than the conventional he has sent me some for testing im an industrial equipment mechanic
You're welcome! More videos are coming. Those Bulletproof wrenches look interesting. AR500 steel.
Sounds like you're channeling your inner Dave Kendall, host of the PBS program Sunflower Journeys for a few decades.
Thanks? My delivery is inspired by a combination of video game lore videos and the old documentaries I used to watch on History channel.
That’s a hard calk 😂
I use a 12 inch Diamond adjustable wrench to change medical gas cylinders at work
Very cool. Always nice to see old tools still being used in service.
I still use Diamond brand tools !
Diamond caulk and horseshoe had manufacturing hear in toronto ontario canada 🇨🇦
I have a set of horseshoes that have toronto ontario on them
Cooper tools had a lot of companies under their umbrella herbrand bonney Utica. In the end, everything was balled up and became the apex tool group
I had a 12" Diamond crescent wrench that I inherited (liberated) from my father 50 years ago. It was stolen from me by a guy working on my property. Still chaps my butt.
In the mid 80's deer hunting in Minnesota in Pine County south of Duluth. We hunted public land along Minnesota Highway 23 that has a rail track running on the east side of the highway. One year I was walking the track, and I found hundreds of rough forged 9/16" Diamond combination wrenches that had fall out of a scrap metal train car. The wrenches were not machined or chrome plated, just rough rusty forgings. I brough a handful home, not sure of a plan for the wrenches. Being a Minnesotan I do own a couple of Diamond slip joint pliers and side cutters. High quality tools.
Very cool find!
Great video. 5:46 QUALITY is mis-spelled.
Thanks! LOL, yeah I need to work on a spellcheck script or something when I'm working on these...
I have a 24" Diamond adjustable wrench. It's better quality than any crescent wrench I've ever owned. I use it for bending metal mostly. It probably weighs ten pounds or more.Very stout tool.
Do you know anything about Graco and why you only see the government surplus sockets from them or if they made other hand tools etc?
No. Haven't heard of them. I can add them to the list to research in the future. Could be one of those companies that only exists to fulfill .gov contracts.
Swanstrom tools now I know where I can get american made tools still !
I collect Indestro Tools of Chicago. Judging from your story, can I assume my indestro adjustable wrenches and pliers were made by Diamond Tools?
It's possible. They likely had other contract manufacturers too. I haven't started digging into Indestro yet but I plan to do a full video on them sometime in the future.
@@ballinator Thanks for your response. By the way, Indestro made tool sets for Western Auto and Montgomery Ward.
@@ballinator Looking forward to Indestro , I have constantly bought forlorn machinist boxes & other tools . Just recently 2 separate scores had random Indestro wrenches in them, a brand I never seen and really enjoyed finding . Pretty nice quality and cleaned up well and have a new home in a vintage Waterloo machinist box that belongs to a specific lathe . Now I want to round out a set of them !
Good story
Thanks!
I have one of their horseshoe displays with 12 different styles of shoe
Very cool!
I thought they were around longer than that someone gave me a like brand new 12-in adjustable wrench 2010
Could have been new-old-stock? Does it say 'made in usa' on it?
I'm sorry it's a 15-in and it did look brand new when I first got it but I've been using it every since it says diamond tool and horseshoe co Duluth Minnesota on one side the other side says diamalloy Forged steel made me USA
I"ve been throwing the DIAMOND( PICKNIK) , SUPER and now the TOURNAMENT Horseshoes for almost 50 years. I have tools made by Diamond. Can't get the shoes anymore except on line, but there not cheap and usually made in China, or if you happen to find a pair at a garage sale and they don't know what the value is.
Very cool! I'll def be keeping an eye out for any Diamond horseshoes at garage sales.
Giant grip horse calk.....didn't that Mr Hands fella die of that?
Cooo, Loo, Coo, Coo, Coo, Coo, Coo, Coooo!❄❄
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What corporatism has done to industrial capability in this country reads out like a Greek tragedy. "We just can't make it here anymore"
Yeah, so many of these stories end up the same way.
The company made excellent tools until they were bought out in the early 1980s,they closed the Duluth Mn plant and everything went to South Carolina where the name meant nothing to the people that worked for the new owners,quality went into the crapper and the name became a joke
It figures you'd tell us about horse calks. Heh.Yes, I'm twelve
One of my favorite tool brands!