Heavy-duty tool works better on heavier gauge wires. Slightly difficult to adjust and probably better suited for industrial use. The Vise-Grip brand is probably one of the most recognized trade names ...

Gary Oden has known for weeks that the plant where he has spent the last 19 years helping build Vise-Grips, one of Nebraska's most famous products, would be shutting down. But he still wasn't ...

An old GMT400-era GM pickup ended up high-centered on a highway divider after it escaped its driver’s control in Oklahoma City this week. When first responders came to clean up, they noticed that the ...

Pliers might not always be the right tool for the job, but they’ll save your skin more than any other. Last night, I got into an engine project where some rounded-off nuts and hot parts were a little ...

The world would be a far less efficient place without Vise-Grip locking pliers.A Danish immigrant blacksmith named William Petersen patented the concept in 1924 and started a family business that ...

Former Vise-Grip employees find hope -- and a job -- at reopened DeWitt plant Dave Rentschler can sense a buzz around DeWitt -- and it's again linked to a pair of locking pliers.

Newell Rubbermaid, the owner of the historic Vise-Grip brand and its plant in DeWitt, will tell the remaining 300-plus employees next week the plant is closing at the end of October, sources told the ...

The future of the former Vise-Grip plant in DeWitt is up in the air again just a few years after it reopened.