The Vise Grip Company of Nebraska

The Vise Grip Company of Nebraska
Who would have thought? I can't imagine life without Vise-Grips! Back in the day when I worked in the field...and not in the office, I owned a dozen or more of these handy tools. When we were installing the panels that became the outer skin of the high rise buildings, we would clamp the panel to the frame work and then quickly release the crane to drop down and pick up the next panel. We would have a 2,000 pound panel, hanging hundreds of feet in the air...and secured by a dozen Vise-Grips. And just as you read in the story, we would sometimes simply the weld the vise-Grip into the structure rather than risk losing it's grip for a moment.