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Subject:Re: "Axle" wheel nut removal?
From:Mike S
Date:Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:32:15 -0500

At 09:02 PM 1/28/2009, David Beierl wrote...
>But with a nice long handle you don't have to pound them, just pull
>and/or jump on the handle.  The nice thing about them is there's no
>offset like you get with a socket.  The handle I put one, btw, was
>about five feet of half-inch plate four or five inches wide.

I assume you welded a handle on yours. They have a 1/2" square drive,
and I've twisted those clean off trying to remove axle nuts.

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