I work in Facilities Services at the university, and I showed it to a few mechanics, and 1 guy thought it was a special wrench for an old car AC compressor. Sounds fishy to me, but I just don't know what else it could be. What do you think?
Looks like a grinder wrench of sorts. Champion Irrigation is in LA - very well could be sprinkler/plumbing as fink said.
I agree with boristheblade, we have a similar wrench here for an old precision grinder in our shop. The hex end is for the center nut on the spindle, the two prongs are for the threaded washer that holds on the grinding wheel.
It's a sprinkler wrench for the old metal lawn sprinklers. The larger "forked end" tightens the entire sprinkler to the pipe and the hex-end is for installing/removing the top of the pop-up head when it gets clogged.
Spanner wrench used to turn fire plugs hydrants on off. One side takes the cap off the other turns the water on. Worked in the water dept years ago. That's my guess
To small for a fire plug. It's for removing large screw in plug on an oil drum. Small end for air plug. You put the spigit in before you use a drum turnner to lay drum on it's side.
Yep sprinkler wrench, I have one laying around in my garage somewhere. That wrench might even still fit some of the sprinkler heads around the university there.
similar to an older ac wrench..but they were not brass... and there would be no need for the box end wrench of that size.....but what do i know, could be........
Yup it's a sprinkler wrench. My mothers house still has a few Original metal Champion sprinklers from when the house was built back in the mid 70's.
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