“You might be a tool person if …. “
– Your children’s names are Ryobi, Makita and Paslode
– Your gambling addiction is betting on beltsander racing
– Your discover your spouse has put *parental controls* on the DIY channel
– You have to explain to your DW that ‘Blow Gun Kit’ on a Home Depot receipt doesn’t mean she has to ‘watch her back’ (true story ;o))
– You notice when Norm has lost weight
– You ARE Norm
Jeff
(feel free to add your own)
Edited 4/27/2007 2:59 pm ET by Jeff_Clarke
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If you bring the tools into th ekitchen at night to keep them warm instead of leaving them in the truck
If your bathroom is stacked ( stocked?) with tool magazines and catalouges
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If your bathroom is stacked ( stocked?) with tool magazines and catalouges
Mine has a year's selection of FHB or JLC on rotation for reading matter. There is a Milwaukee catalog down there somewhere. Please direct me to the Twelve Step progam. It meets at Home Depot? Tool Crib?The ToolBear
"Never met a man who couldn't teach me something." Anon.
"If you bring the tools into th ekitchen at night to keep them warm instead of leaving them in the truck"
That's nothin'. I kept my 18v kit at the foot of my bed for months, so they wouldn't think I abandoned them. It also didn't hurt that I had no other place to put them, since the garage was full of tools.
The truck I had stored in the garage to sell wound up being a tool shelf on wheels, to compliment the truck on the other side of the door.
When your boss asks to borrow your tools for a job, since he doesn't have one.
Edited 4/30/2007 12:37 am by SBerruezo
I've kept new tools in my bedroom, I have no idea why.
If you fore go food and clothing to buy more tools because you 'have to have shelter, dammit!'
However, if one designs to construct a dwelling-house, it behooves him to exercise a little Yankee shrewdness, lest after all he find himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clue, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, or a splendid mausoleum instead.
Parolee # 53804
If you put a new blade in your sawzall, with the ideal tpi, to butcher deer.
If you invite DW and MIL to your workshop to show them how fast and neatly you can cut up a lamb carcass into manageable pieces using your bandsaw.
If the bookshelves in your office have as many old Stanley planes as books.
If you have more than a dozen routers, each set-up with a different bit, or same bit but different depth, so you don't need to spend time installing/swapping bits, because "time is money".
If you have 3 drill presses & 2 milling machines or more, each set-up for a different speed, so you don't spend time changing pullies.
If when you can't find a tool but you have the money, you don't think twice about getting in the truck and going to buy another one, and calling it a "spare"
If when you can't find a tool but you have the money, you don't think twice about getting in the truck and going to buy another one, and calling it a "spare"
Uh-oh ... guilty as charged, sir!
Jeff
yup
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If you go on the internet using a screen name like' Sharp blade!
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....you ask one of your guys to grab the 10" circular saw. And he asks, "which one?".
Guilty as charged.
<< ....you ask one of your guys to grab the 10" circular saw. And he asks, "which one?". >> ROAR!!!
Justin Fink - FHB Editorial
Your Friendly Neighborhood Remodelerator
Edited 4/27/2007 1:15 pm ET by JFink
...you buy a tool because you want it, not because you need it.
... you keep tools that you no longer use, because you might just want it sometime in the future, even if it's a piece of cr*p.
a tool catalog arrives and you look forward to throne time
You named your cat and dog Porter and Cable.
You sharpen your chisels on the bar at your local watering hole.
When you travel to Europe, you check out museums and hardware/tool stores.
You clean your extension cords.
You collect and display vintage power tools.
...if you tell DW:"It's not how much it COSTS that's important - It's how much it's WORTH"
If 2 men meet and exchange dollar bills, they both go home with one dollar. If they exchange ideas, they both go home with 2 ideas.
if your wife already has graduated to understanding that a tool is NOT a cost, but an INVESTMENT
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Mine hasn't.(-:
A three-year-old boy was taking a bath. He looked closely at his private parts and asked, "Mommy, are these my brains?" His mother answered, "Not yet, honey."
yep, I have my wife understanding that now. Everytime I go to buy a tool I have told her its makes me money to have it!!!!!!!!!!
ScottScott Beckett's Handyman Service
Jack of all trades
"Can't never did anything but can did"
You named your cat and dog Porter and Cable.
I named my dog Dado. Too bad she turned out to be scared to death of any and all air tools.
"I named my dog Dado. Too bad she turned out to be scared to death of any and all air tools."
Yes, but will she chase rabbets?;o)
Jeff
You buy all your tools with a secret c.c. , throw away all the boxes, get them dirty and if the wife notices say " Oh, I've had that for years!"
You become a site super, don't even work with the tools anymore, and still can't get your yearly expenditures under $2500.
You honestly think other guys are way worse than you.
lol, never thought about it that way.
And boy does she love to chase them.
...when you buy THE *top end* hand tools and then buy the CHEAP versions for the "job site", because you don't want to ruin the good tools by using them.upinVermont
I do that too. buy craftman and snapon for me, and then I have a tool box of harbor freight to loan my buddies.
Hell, I dedicate a saw for the job, like a HF 99.00$ slider up on the scaffold..it falls off? No worries. It lives in the rain, sleet and snow...can't kill it.
All tools are an extension of our selves, if you think you can't be replaced..you are wrong.Parolee # 40835
Sphere writes://if you think you can't be replaced..you are wrong.//Weird. That's almost word for word what my wife said to me just the other night..."You are just an extension of me..." she said.I told her that I felt like a tool.upinVermont
Lithium Ion, ain't just for batteries. I believe a few dollops in the coffee pot, just might make her more conducive to forays into the realm of ....
Oh wait.. that's the necrophilia thread.Parolee # 40835
You might be a tool person if...
You import your dust pans because nothing local meets your requirements.
<http://www.mcfeelys.com/product/SW-0020/Shop-Scoop--Red>
The ToolBear
"Never met a man who couldn't teach me something." Anon.
"I named my dog Dado. Too bad she turned out to be scared to death of any and all air tools."
Yes, but will she chase rabbets?
ROAR! Good one!Pete Duffy, Handyman
>>>>>>>>You clean your extension cords.Do you have a can (or spray bottle) of "extension cord cleaner", labeled thusly? Answer truthfully. You may be the winner.http://grantlogan.net/
It's a concentrate that you mix with water in a 5 gallon compound bucket. Let the cords soak, but do wrap up the ends first and don't submerge them. Then use a scotch brite pad (blue, not green - too abrasive) to clean the cord. Then dry the cord on a specially designed drying rack. And once a month, I use armor-all to dress them up a little. How do you do yours?
And once a month, I use armor-all to dress them up a little.
There was no <G> behind that, you can't be serious???????
I never joke about my work.
>>>>>>>How do you do yours?I just let somebody borrow mine when they get dirty and I never have to see them again. Then I go get a new one.http://grantlogan.net/
I thought you were kidding!
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What is the concentrate? I've never cleaned an extension cord but they do get pretty nasty doing frame-to-finish. When you get to the finish stage you don't want to be dragging dirty old cords all through the house....
It's like the guy staring at the frozen orange juice mix._______________________________________________________________
Concentrating on the concentrate?
the can said concentrate_______________________________________________________________
you use oj to clean your ext cords?
However, if one designs to construct a dwelling-house, it behooves him to exercise a little Yankee shrewdness, lest after all he find himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clue, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, or a splendid mausoleum instead.
Parolee # 53804
He's gotta do something to earn a few bucks._______________________________________________________________
Do you have a can (or spray bottle) of "extension cord cleaner", labeled thusly? Answer truthfully. You may be the winner.
No. What do you use on your cords?
Does ArmorAll work?The ToolBear
"Never met a man who couldn't teach me something." Anon.
"You collect and display vintage power tools." HAA! I knew that there was a good reason to have that all metal "classic" skill saw up with all my other old skill saws in my 'parts' shelf!! I can display it!!
In your pocket, right now is a pocket knife that has cut wire, striped insulation, open packages, cut tape, pull whiskers and splinters, cut nails, cut cake, cut a branch, uncork a bottle, remove a bottle cap, change a light switch, jimmy a lock and shaved arm hair.
To rip a 4 X 8 sheet you have the option to use a table saw, portable table saw, skill saw, 12v or 18v battery saw or circular saw with choices of 40 blades.
Edited 4/27/2007 1:41 pm by Sungod
if you still know how to use a handsaaw, a two man buck saw, or an axe with finese.
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If you own:3 grinders
2 router sets
3 router tables
3 different voltage sets of cordless tools
3 stacked tool chests
more screwdrivers, wrenches and drill bits than you know...And, if you collect cool and odd hammers just cause you like they way they feel.Guilty as chargedJulian
Owning over a hundred antique slate hammers- and you only have two hands !
You've considered selling your truck to buy more tools.
If you are selling many many new in the box tools that you never used - knowing that you'll buy more tools with the proceeds...JT
When none of your guys work out of your truck and you spend most of your day going from site to site to see how things are going, but you have 5 wormdrives, 2 sawzalls, 4 nailguns, and numerous drills.
my problem, why shop is bigger than my house, and thinking about doubling the size of the shop
I'm going to go out on a limb here and I'm going to say that I have the perfect answer, are you ready...
You see a sign for a garage sale that says "tools". You go, look around and leave without buying a d#$& thing.
You have to have a sh#$load of tools before you can do that! “The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds..†– Hume
Flipping through ANY tool catalog, you can say "Got it" on EVERY page.
Um. Tool catalogs, dont even look at em anymore. I already have everything in there. Twice.
Does that qualify?
Real trucks dont have sparkplugs
Um. Tool catalogs, dont even look at em anymore. I already have everything in there. Twice.
I'm almost in the same boat. I still look at them, but then get a little bummed out because there are very few I don't have.
Starting to look at HVLP sprayers, laser levels, and other things to make life nice, though.Pete Duffy, Handyman
3 airlesses, suction feeds, siphon feeds, HVLP, conversions, pressure pot, touchups, airbrushes, . . .
*sigh*
Real trucks dont have sparkplugs
you have tools in boxes that you haven't opened yet because..............
...The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it. -Mark Twain...
Be kind to your children....they will choose your nursing home.
...aim low boys, they're ridin' shetland ponies !!
And Uh, duh, if ya got 17 sheds to store the tools in........
All hail the Shed!
Power to the shed!
However, if one designs to construct a dwelling-house, it behooves him to exercise a little Yankee shrewdness, lest after all he find himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clue, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, or a splendid mausoleum instead.
Parolee # 53804
you purchase a BIG flame thro...er, blowtorch because it is a multi purpose tool (with 2 types of fuel, of course).
1 - really necessary for creme brulee
2 - roasts red peppers magnificently when your stove is out of commission & you are waiting for a sale before you buy a new one
3 - weed killing & yard maintenance (prairie burning)
4 - you may need to blow torch some pipe or something down the roadRedbud almost ready to burst into bloom, SW of Chicago!!
- If while your friends/significant other check out the furniture at the antique shop, you're in the "back room" turning an old plane over and over again -justifying a potential use and then putting it in the pile of old tools you intend to buy.
- While at said shop you see something among the tools, don't know what it is and put it in your 'to buy' pile anyway. "Once I find out what it is, I'm sure it will be handy."
- You go to the box stores to buy a package of screws and end up in the tool aisle contemplating whether you should buy some more drill bits "just in case".
- You go out in the barn to get a tool for a job and find two more tools you forgot you had.
- You take your tool to the repair shop and are handed a sheet from the manufacturer "They're looking for the person with the oldest tool still in use, I think you might win."
- You will take down and attempt to repair tools prior to taking them to the repair shop, which of course require more tools to do that job right.
- When someone says, "If you don't use that tool much, you should probably just sell it." your reply is "WHAT???"
Edited 4/27/2007 7:04 pm ET by girlbuilder
-If you build into an estimate money for the specialty tool that the job is going to take, even though you think you might already have one and you can make do without one in the first place. And you still buy it, and don't use it, try it or even unbox it, because you know that you can do the job faster the way you've been doing it for the past 28 years. You still keep the tool though.
-If when you know you are going to have to use a miter box saw the first thought you have is "eeny meeny miney moe..."
-If there are 5 large fully equipped tool boxes throughout the house, garage and truck all containing the same full array of tools ready to tackle even the toughest, most intricate of jobs.
-You have standard and metric in every possible type of wrench made.
_If you are using antique tools that are almost 140 years old like a Bailey fore plane to flatten wide lumber.
-If you spend $125 on a block plane, and then decide that the $175 one is probably better and so you get it too.
-You have a full set of DMT diamond stones, a full set of full size Japanese stones, and a Tormek.
-Your truck has been dubbed "The magic truck of tricks", (as in Felix the Cat's magic "bag of tricks"), because you have compartmentalized it in such a way that it contains absolutely every tool and it's type that one could imagine.
-You own a $100 something dollar Veritas log scriber even though you don't scribe logs, and are going to start scribing logs when the ocean no longer meets the shore.
One never knows though....
Guilty on all of the above
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You have a full set of DMT diamond stones, a full set of full size Japanese stones, and a Tormek.
What? You don't have wet/dry sandpaper from 240 to 3000 grit mounted on 3 large chunks of granite, ready to sharpen the chisel (or two) in your framing bags at lunch time?
I was using a japanese smooth plane to clean up the joints on a deck handrail yesterday. They guy working with me, he's been a framer all his life, said "what's that thing called?"
He also started to pry off the lid of a can of anchorseal with the chisel I lent him, before I yelled at him. It may have been one of my rattier chisels, but still.zak
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John Ruskin
"so it goes"
>>> ... pry off the lid of a can of anchorseal with the chisel I lent him
You most probably are a tool person if you religously follow rule # 1 to NOT EVER lend ANY of your tools to ANYONE.
You most probably are a tool person if you religously follow rule # 1 to NOT EVER lend ANY of your tools to ANYONE.
Yeah, well I draw the line at being a tool person when it also means I've got to be a jerk. If he needs a simple tool, I can afford to loan an old one- he's not touching the two or three sets of nice chisels I have around- I barely let myself use those.zak
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John Ruskin
"so it goes"
...if you'll lend a tool out but go buy one before you'd borrow it.
However, if one designs to construct a dwelling-house, it behooves him to exercise a little Yankee shrewdness, lest after all he find himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clue, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, or a splendid mausoleum instead.
Parolee # 53804
Edited 4/27/2007 10:54 pm ET by rez
What is it with us? I'm the same way.
The one time I can remember "borrowing" something (chainsaw, it was offered, I didn't ask) the starter cord broke. Of course I fixed it. I know it would probably have broken no matter who would have used it next. I felt so bad about it I even bought a new chain for it, too.
That was 30 years ago. I've never borrowed or used someone else's tools since. I bought my own chainsaw the next day....The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it. -Mark Twain...
Be kind to your children....they will choose your nursing home.
...aim low boys, they're ridin' shetland ponies !!
Hey, now that's true. Or I'd loan a tool out, and use that as justification for buying a new one before the original is returned.
hmmm, maybe that's why I've got all them chisels. . . zak
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John Ruskin
"so it goes"
That's another good reason to keep all those old tools for when neighbor so and so shows up asking to borrow does he get yer bosch? no. yer Impulse? no. yer Fein? no. Craftsman router? YOU BETCHA!
be a beachbum
However, if one designs to construct a dwelling-house, it behooves him to exercise a little Yankee shrewdness, lest after all he find himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clue, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, or a splendid mausoleum instead.
Parolee # 53804
you have a tool thats too big for the shop
time to build a shed then! View Image
However, if one designs to construct a dwelling-house, it behooves him to exercise a little Yankee shrewdness, lest after all he find himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clue, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, or a splendid mausoleum instead.
Parolee # 53804
AMEN Brother , AMEN!
"Poor is not the person who has too little, but the person who craves more."...Seneca
How about taking on a job that you have never done, that you don't particuraly want to do, that won't make all that much money, just because it means you can buy some tool that you probably won't use much again, unless you do the same underpaid, no fun job again?
Now I just skip the job and buy the tool.
Peace,
Caseyhttp://www.streets.org
A good friend of mine says "No man needs a gun but once he has one he never has enough guns". Whats bad is to be that way, as I am, about tools also.
Casey... that's a good one right there. I just did that very thing with a slow week this winter. I sided a house that I had framed. I don't usually install clapboards, but I had nothing else going on that week so I took it. I made exactly enough to cover my expenses, pay my guys, and buy more aluma-pole gear. Didn't make a nickel except for what I spent on the staging I needed to do the job!View Image
"AMEN Brother , AMEN!"With that phrase a thought slowly percolating has come to full bloom in my head here.We have shed the veils and fog that separates us - all the politics, and predjudices, to come together in this most holy of worshipful places - a Tool Shed where we can admire one anotyhers tools and skills in using them and admitring them. A somewhat earthly religion this may be in how we lust after these extensions of our selves, whether we each are will ing to loan them out or to secure them to our hidden places.But a religion in which we all share regardless of our other inclinations, declinations, and abrobations, not to mention the inhibitions, exhibitions, and prohibitions that keep us apart in other ways.We are one
We are TOOL;)
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ommmmmmmmm
Now, no coveting and fondling of one anothers' tools allowed. ...The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it. -Mark Twain...
Be kind to your children....they will choose your nursing home.
...aim low boys, they're ridin' shetland ponies !!
That's darned poetical!
<sniff>
Forrest - wiping away a tear
ya, really was pretty good, aye?
be power to the Piffin
However, if one designs to construct a dwelling-house, it behooves him to exercise a little Yankee shrewdness, lest after all he find himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clue, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, or a splendid mausoleum instead.
Parolee # 53804
Are you implying that I'm a jerk? thanks.
No. . . I'm implying that in that situation, I would have been a jerk to let him stand there and watch me, when I could have loaned him a tool with no harm to myself.zak
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John Ruskin
"so it goes"
Zak, thanks for the clarification. I've simply been burned too many times with folks not caring for personal & valuable things I've lent them.
Sorry if it sounded like an offense- I know that comment has some truth to it, and it was funny. Every situation is different, of course- this time, I loaned him a chisel. And the dumb*** tried to open a can with it.
I may just have to be a jerk next time.zak
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John Ruskin
"so it goes"
That is exactly how I aquired one of my FAVORITE bench chisels. A long 3/8" bevel sided socket handled Gun steel, made by Winchester Arms, New Haven CT.
One of the guys in a past shop found it and was trying to pry open a can, and bitching cuz the tip chipped..and said, " man this screwdriver sucks"...I said lemme see that..I looked at it, went to my box, and gave him a brand new set of craftsman screwdrivers for trade..LOLParolee # 40835
Sphere,
That story brought back a memory . A few years before my father died he went gone over to help an elderly woman with some small repairs at her place.
He noticed she was weeding her garden using a 2" Greenlee socket handle slick. Next day he was back at her place with a very nice set of hand garden tools, traded her for the slick and sent it to me along with the story of how he had aquired it.
"Poor is not the person who has too little, but the person who craves more."...Seneca
you know you a tool nut when somebody borrows a high dollar tool and doesnt return it because, 1) you have more tools 2) you dont notice its gone for months.
He may have saved her from chopping off her toes too--socket slicks are notorious for falling out of their handles at inoportune times. (But you probably know that, being a tool person!)
...if, when watching a horror movie, you comment on what the tool was (year, vintage, model, make) how the tool was used incorrectly, what tool would have done better, and how the director should consult with a true professional (count my stitches) before they make the next horror movie...
If it was being used to dig up weeds, I get the feeling that the slick was not razor sharp, as it should be.
I always look at those douglas and pexto slicks on ebay. I want one, but I haven't gone for it yet. Used to use them a lot for trail structures, they're a great tool when you've got big timbers to use them on.zak
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John Ruskin
"so it goes"
zak,
By the time I received it one could have shaved with it. And it had a brand new hand crafted hickory handle . My father was , among other things, a Union Trained Wood Pattern Maker. He started his apprentice ship in 1928, kept up with his wood working until 2 years before his death in 2000 even though he went on to become a firefighter in 1939. When I was a kid he had me earning money turning lamp bases for a custom lamp maker .. I was paid $1.00 hour. at the age of 11, big bucks back in 1958. I have never been able to reproduce the edge he could put on his tools, nor match his quality of joinery. "Poor is not the person who has too little, but the person who craves more."...Seneca
Edited 4/29/2007 3:55 pm by dovetail97128
Wow- almost 70 years of woodworking. That's pretty amazing.
I can make a little bald spot on my forearm with my chisels, but I have much to learn about that yet. Some of the folks with the japanese tools here in the bay area are masters when it comes to sharpening.zak
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John Ruskin
"so it goes"
Gotta' brag on my mechanic grandad, too, here. At his funeral, we had two big pictures reproduced of him working at the bench.
At 10, in his father's Battery & Ignition (in Asheville, which he later took over).
At 92, at his own custom starter and alternator business.
82 years. Sheesh!
Forrest
when you lend tools and equipment out and tell them you'll get it back when you need it because you don't have room for it..... i have a 55hp 4wd tractor, a case 20/25 trencher with backhoe, jet ski's, commercial coffee grinders, commercial refrigeration equip, a 60qt mixer, and some pizza ovens... that are in friends use that i haven't seen in years....
i know i have a sickness for "stuff" but it could be worse
p
... your work truck is an 18 wheeler, so you can make sure you have the tool you might need at the job site
If you get 4-5 more miles per gallon when your truck has no tools in it. NAAAAA!!!! be like driving around neked.
I know my van is a lot quieter the rare occasion I have the tools out.
Kinda scares me when it's too quiet.
Now that you mention it, I felt nekked today. Took everything out of the van this weekend to make new shelves/storage. Didn't get finished, though, so for today's job, I just loaded up what I thought I'd need. Everything else is stacked in the garage (man that van holds a lot!)
Anyway, I had ALMOST everything I needed.
Be makin' van shelves tomorrow.Pete Duffy, Handyman
When you live in a condo in the city and buy another unit in the same building so you can keep expanding your tool collection and enjoy time fondling them without the disapproving look gaze of your significant other (BT DT)
...when the DW noticed one day that I had several circular saws... and she correctly noticed that a couple had blades on "the other side". Why? Because they make them that way for me to buy, of course. ...The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it. -Mark Twain...
Be kind to your children....they will choose your nursing home.
...aim low boys, they're ridin' shetland ponies !!
Lee Valley asked Me for a catalouge.
Now that's a good one!
DING DING DING DING!!!!WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!d:oDI don't Know what I am doing
But
I am VERY good at it!!
Honest to God, true story , I let my alum. brake press on a job site about 20-25 miles from my house and I needed it. What to do? My supplier is 3 miles from my house, NO BRAINER. New brake press time. Yes, the wife was very impressed.
I've since sold the first brake & even made a $50.00 profit over what I paid for it 14 years earlier.
on your trip through the Smithsonian... you can say....
"I have one of those"
more than 20 times.....
you might have a problem...
worse when you can say.... " and see where that bracket is.... mine still has the arm and the adjusting nut"
p
-The counter guy at the local tool store calls you to find out where to source a special tool for a customer... gotten that call
-you have all the tools needed for one specialty so you get a new specialty so you can buy more tools
-you think about buying a new house/major renovation just so you can have more space to store your tools
-you have the most posts in the 'What tool did you buy today?' thread.... wonder who that is btw
Edited 4/28/2007 10:49 am ET by restorationday
Include a tool budget in every job.
You have a notebook full of "the perfect tool box" design.
"you have a bald spot on your arm from demonstrating the sharpness of your chisels"
If you move your hound off the front porch where hes been chained to store more tools.
Tim
if your constantly getting calls from family and friends wanting to borrow specialty tools because their sure you have a couple lying around(and their usually right)
better than that... when you answer "yes" to the question "do you have" before you ever hear what it is they want....
when you buy a tool more than 4 years in advance of when you know you'll need it...
btw I did use my powercurber last week.... (purchased it about 4 yrs ago knowing exactly where i'd use it) man once you get the mix right and use the right size rock (3/8" & under) that puppy is sweet... 8ft of 9" high curb in about 45 seconds...
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Your wife realizes that the money you spent on your last trip to the woodworking show was enough to send the entire family on a cruise. Two weeks later, you buy a travel trailer.
Later that year, your accountant asks you "Are you aware that most of your overhead expenses went towards tool purchases?"
...when you just can't stop thinking about how useful a Jedi Light Saber would be on the job site.upinVermont
or if you own a four foot torque wrench
- You read through 103 posts and think "yeah, I need one of those too" 5 times.