For Sale: Linesmans Pliers WITH Holder/Frog

[James P]

^ Similar to but not the same as the bayonet frog.

[Ed Storey]

As 'The Tales From the Supply Depot' website alluded to, this web Pliers Frog was a carry-over from the pre-SWW Battery Staff Equipment Web Equipment Set. I first encountered on of these web frogs back in the early 1980s when I purchased a M1910 Ross Bayonet with one attached and have left it as found, 'just in case'.

C419-4 Pliers Frog copy.jpg

C419-6 Pliers Frog with Pliers inserted copy.jpg

Ross M1910 Bayonet and Scabbard copy.jpg

[B. Harris]

Great additional information added on this thread.

[Chris Suslowicz]

Originally Posted by B. Harris

Great additional information added on this thread.

Picked up a new one at Beltring (which was far too hot) today, and the designation has now changed:

8465-99-973-6254 - FROG,WIRE CUTTER

Manufacturer is HFS and dated "90".

There's apparently another entry in the catalogue:

8465-99-973-6253 - FROG,WIRE CUTTER

But I have no idea of the difference (if any - it may be a typo, or for a different sized tool).

Okay:

8465-99-973-6253 - FROG,WIRE CUTTER equates to CN0960 (more properly to CN/AA.0960) which is the frog/carrier for the folding barbed wire cutters.
8465-99-973-6254 - FROG,WIRE CUTTER equates to CN0980 (likewise really CN/AA.0980) which is the carrier for a pair of linesman pliers.

Chris.