United States Steel, American Bridge Construction Division, painted their wrenches, tool sheds and gang boxes green way back. When I worked for them they had changed the default color to blue, as seen in the wrenches. That 1" hard that is painted orange I don't know about. I think that was a company color at one time, I never painted it. I just don't remember where or when I got it. Sizes were stamped in the shank of the wrench, 3/4 HS (high strength), 7/8 HS. If it was for soft bolts it wouldn't have the 'HS'.
Yeah, that is correct. Here are a couple of pix I took when I was a second year apprentice of two guys making some iron. When they made the one side the guy in the green shirt walked around the choker to the loose end where you see him in the last photo before he made that end.
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