No4 butt srew seized! Tool help...

[Peter Laidler]

Nigels photo shows the commercial 'de-luxe' version of the BRACES, hand, Armourers. The real McCoy were a tad more agricultural!!! No fancy wood top bit to push on....., it was just a round slightly dished plate. No fancy round wooden grip part either. You just gripped the steel and twisted it. With this tool and the various assorted 'bits' we had that went with the brace, you could enough leverage onto pretty much anything. Enough to stop the rotation of the earth I'd say

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[browningautorifle]

it was just a round slightly dished plate.

But that was supposed to bear against your shoulder or upper chest wasn't it? Thus the saddle affair. The one pictured resembles the user we had on the farm when I was young...was for use originally by the men when they built barns and such.