Millers falls truck tools

This page serves as directory to an encyclopedic study of the Millers Falls Company, a hand tool manufacturer once located in Western Massachusetts. The site features a company history, biographies of figures associated with the business, guides to some of the its hand tools, and an illustrated list of publications it distributed.

A Massachusetts-based entity until , the firm was incorporated as the Millers Falls Manufacturing Company in , was renamed the Millers Falls Company in , and became a division of Ingersoll-Rand in The business relocated to New Jersey in following a leveraged buyout organized by Ray Sponsler, an Ingersoll-Rand executive. The new ownership changed the name to the Millers Falls Tool Company. Well I'm going to aproach this one with a little caution Elk Yeah Millers Falls made tools were good quality They still fetch a pretty penny or two at yard sales and flea markets.

They made some fine power drills too. I see them from time to time up at 'Rietta Ranch' and want to buy one Many homes were wired courteousy of the holes drilled by them But Alas Time marches on.

I hear you mention "Tools the Pros use" and at every turn you fail to mention one still around but walking on a slippery slope No self respecting electrician would own anything less than at least a couple of tools made by Klein Linesman' Pliers. At some point the decision was made to start producing the tools and offering them for sale at the big box stores.

The level of quality has slipped a bit but I couldn't do my job with dollar store junk tools. In the rare case if they broke in 'normal' use you throw it across the counter at the supply house and they gave you a new one. Don't know if HD or Loews' honors that part of Kleins' warranty All the quality name tools are now producing a lower line geared towards 'weekend warriors' It's just part of the bold new world we live in I'm a little jaded though when it comes to tools.

Where I live we still a few companies "holding on". How about another fine quality name for machinist tools The L. Starrett Company of Athol MA. EatenByLimestone Minister of Fire. Jul 12, 8, Schenectady, NY upstatepestandwildlife.

Most of my woodworking tools are from WWII and earlier. The hand tools are made well, although there are high end tools out of my budget made just as well if not better today. I tend to go for 40s to 50s power tools because I like the weight and the art deco like styling is kind of neat too.

EatenByLimestone said:. Click to expand Jan 21, Northern NJ. Thanks to my late dad and my husband's late grandfather, we have an huge array of tools from the 30's through the late 60's.

We thought we would never have a use for grandpa's 3 foot long stillson wrench that I can barely lift, but it has been used. I still have all my dad's tools in their original brown kennedy machinest's toolbox.

There are a number of Starrets in there. A nice set of Excel nut drivers and a bunch of Nicholson files. My son will get all these tools some day. We will never part with them, not only for their sentimental value to us, but it would cost a fortune to replace them! Anyone need a 15" long soldering iron? We got one. The cord is covered with woven cloth it looks like.

Hubby still uses it once in a while. What gets me really riled up these days are companies that have outsourced to China, sell me a lower quality product at the same price as when it was made in the USA. I guess they hope someone like me won't notice. This holiday season, I'm letting everyone know they should give my son gifts made in the USA. It's the only way I can have piece of mind because he puts everything in his mouth.

Back in the 80 before power mitei boxxes I was doing a complex multi piece pitcure moldings in this Doctor's house. Well I needed my benchsaw which unfortunately I had not loaded into the truck. So T ell the people it will be a couple of hours round trip home to get it. At that point he pipes up then why not use mine its in the cellar?

I tell him no thanks It will be quicker if I go home. He then tells me he is willing to pay me to setup his shop It took 3 days to essemble it all including the benches ans cases Believe me IT looked like the yanke workshop.

Every birthday and christmass for years his wife would buy top of the line quality tools Including a cabinate maker Uni saw. I mean at the time there was over 15k in tools in that shop maybe more. Till this day I think the only saw dust that ever hit the floor was from me. One would think this is a good thing but the opposite occured More demand expanded the market Expanded market lead to how cheap can we make these tools Same As Sears did moving purchasing to China instead of Miller Falls.

We have seen where companies will bastardize their name in efforts to appeal to a larger market Think of tools Home Cheap sells Key mentioned Ridgid got into the act expanding from making the best plumbing tools to a power tool line sold at Home Cheapo made in China You can have my 5 galon Ridgid shop vac Burned out in less than one year use. Still got the ealry 80's craftsman working.. I had the best laugh the other day this guy had a hammer that looked like it belonged in the Jetsons.

So I asked him how much it cost? The plant shown at top is the Millers Falls factory located in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Millers Falls acquired the property in when it merged with the nearby Goodell-Pratt Company. Formerly the chief fabrication facility for Goodell-Pratt, the Greenfield site served as Millers Falls Company headquarters from the time of its purchase until , when all aspects of the operation were relocated to Deerfield, just three miles away.

The factory shown at the bottom is the original plant at Millers Falls, Massachusetts, a site perhaps ten miles from Greenfield. Not pictured are any of the several smaller sites that the Millers Falls Company acquired at various times during its long existence.

The company picked up a small operation at Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, as part of the Goodell-Pratt merger.