no, I’m not talking about crappy tool manufacturers.
In the bad part of town a guy was painting the outside of an apartment building with an air sprayer. His spray gun suddenly quit working. He gets down off his ladder and around the corner of the building to his compressor and it’s gone. The egg suckers stole his compressor while he was using it. Gawd awful, man.
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"Egg suckers"? Thats a new one to me!
I`m with you though, I think I`d mind less having my car stolen than my tools.
Ya work your tail of so you can purchase tools to go out and work your tail off so you can go out and purchase more tools to help work your tail off to go out.....you get the point!
Thats the reason I refuse to buy "hot" tools, regardless of the price. Somewhere out there is a guy who`s cursing the bastard who stole his Super Sawzall being offered to me at the incredible price of twenty five dollars! ("Yo man, it aint hardly been used!")
Lock `em up tight! (even while you`re still using them!)
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
"DO IT RIGHT, DO IT ONCE"
egg suckers was ####degrading term used to label the drifters in the old days that would sneak into the hen house at night and crack the end of the eggs open and suck out the yokes. You must be a city slicker or I was raised too rural.
what's so bad about saying 'an old'?
Hope he checks the local pawn shops and "parking lot shops". They're usually dumb and lazy enough to try and sell it a block away.
A few years ago I was doing some late work in a questionable neighborhood.....I heard something odd at the van right outside the door......some some dude trying to get a better look inside....I told him to keep moving.....he F-U'ed me.......and I remembered I still had my trim gun in my hand..............
people run pretty fast when ya hold back the foot and fire finish nails at them!
Guys at the police station right across the street didn't find it too funny.......but no harm no foul. I told them next time I'm switching to the framer!
They still didn't laugh! But my stuff wasn't messed with anymore. Jeff "That's like hypnotizing chickens........."
> Guys at the police station right across the street ....
Jeez, this happens with the police station across the street? How useless are those cops?
-- J.S.
A few years ago in the Willamette Valley a contractor had a pretty extensive new home construction project going. Materials and tools started walking off at night. It was in a rural area so law enforcement was hit or miss. After several incidents of theft, the victim got fed up and started staying over night at the job sight with his hand gun of choice handy.
He didn't have to wait long...a couple of nights as I remember. A noise woke him up; the thieves were already in the house, which was just roughed in. So he he calls his wife on a cell phone so she'll call the cops. By this time, one of them is upstairs near where he's bivouaced so he starts blazing away, shooting holes in the air and the sheathing and a revent or two. The upstairs thief panics and leaps out a rough opening from the second floor while his buddies hit the trail. The leaper is immobilized by a broken leg and a PO'd, hyperventilating carpenter waving a pistol.
The cops show up, the injured perp rats out his buddies and most everyone else rejoiced and lived happily ever after!
Measure it with a micrometer, mark it with a piece of chalk and cut it with an axe.
Notch,
Great story!
Next time you see this guy though, ask him why the hell he had his wife call the cops instead of dialing directly?
JayJ. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
"DO IT RIGHT, DO IT ONCE"
I think this was before the proliferation of cell phone towers and he was out in the boonies and didn't have a phone line to the project. (This was in the '80's and they were "mobile phones" then.Measure it with a micrometer, mark it with a piece of chalk and cut it with an axe.
I had a co-worker that got a gig restoring an old building in Moscow just after their last 'system' crumbled. A big western company was setting up shop there and they didn't trust the local contractors to renovate the offices.
He showed up with some of his own tools, but had the company arrange most of the heavy stuff. On the first day of work, some of the other western contractors offered to show him the local ropes. He thought it was a waste of time and went to work.
He and his crew spent a couple of hours setting up and prepping 3 stories of scaffolding and all of their plastering tools. They went across the street to a local pub for a bite. When they came back all their tools and scaffolding were gone.
As it turned out, there was a security guard on duty. He immediately offered to show them where their tools went, for a fee. After they succumbed to this, they were taken down the road to an office where they could buy back their stuff.
When they questioned the value of the security guard, he boasted that he did a good job telling them who stole their stuff!
My friend quickly joined the ranks of western contractors offering advice to the newbies.
I won't even comment on the reflection on the Russian culture of the time (I hope it's improved)...