Cable Puller

[DavePEI]

Now, here is a tool I purchased yesterday that I have been looking for for quite a while at a decent price. For some reason, these tend to cost a lot of money = perhaps because farmers and others still find them very handy today.

It is a cable puller designed for pulling the wires on an open wire pole to tighten them. Farmers use them to tighten fence wirres and call them come-alongs. This one, however is stamped Bell System and came for a very reasonable price and shipping cost.

Dave

[DavePEI]

The two clips on either end, i.e. those which grip the wire itself, are called Buffalo Clips.

Dave

[teka-bb]

The two clips on either end, i.e. those which grip the wire itself, are called Buffalo Clips.

Dave

In the Netherlands they are known as "grasshoppers."

[Doug Rose]

Remco....I love the phone in your avatar, I have an Ivory one made by Siemans. Very cool "rotary phone."  ...Doug

[andre_janew]

A telephone lineman would sometimes leave his cable puller behind when the job was done.  A farmer would find it and use it to tighten fence wires.  More often, they would leave behind hardware like nuts and bolts, maybe some strap iron and angle iron.  Such hardware had a gray or dull silver finish to it.  If a farmer found such hardware, he would take it home and eventually find a use for it.  Sometimes you can find boxes of nuts and bolts that have the gray or dull silver finish to them at farm sales.