Oil field: And then it grew from there. The idea was to make everything fool proof, I had a friend I have lost contact with that went through life with a steel plate covering his brain, it had something to do the difference between cam- over and leaver lock, The instructions included a warning about wrapping a chain around the handle before turning it loose, he didn't, he turned his head. In those days the tool was called a 'binder'.
And then there is the Come-along, today everything is called a come-along in the old days the tool was fool proof, meaning if the operator did not know how to operate it he had to find the instructions or someone with experience, the come-along tool was made in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
F. Guffey