Abstract: A device for use in turning a nut relative to a bolt includes a first elongated inflexible member having a first handle end and a first jaw end. A second elongated inflexible member includes elongated members are pivotably connected to each other. Each jaw is dimensioned to engage in combination substantially the entire peripheral surface of a nut, but less than the entire surface of the head of the nut such that the jaws ends can not touch each other when the jaws are separated by a nut.

Abstract: An equine saddletree has increased strength and minimal torquing due to the alternation of the multiple wood layers with layers of graphite. The interior graphite layers consist of at least one layer of woven graphite sheet material having a warp and fill and extending from the cantle to the pommel. The woven graphite sheet placement on the wood layer defines whether the wood layer is considered a parallel or an angled layer. The parallel and angled graphite layers are alternated to form the saddletree. Additionally, each of the graphite layers has at least one strip of graphite tape covering the pommel, approximately perpendicular to the sidebars. Strips of graphite tape extend diagonally, in alternating directions, along each length of both the first surface and the second surface to prevent torque. A second layer of graphite tape pommel strips is applied to both the first and second surfaces covering at least a portion of the pommel.