Tales of the tool

BIG-TARGET · **Reply #150 on:** April 30, 2008, 04:53:20 PM

Bujt inspite of the foot. You can keep me down. Here's me at the Lobster House in Cape May NJ. My Proteous waistpack and 5.11 vest with a couple"spare"

MT/SAKs on me.

Just in Case!!

And of course the wound vac on my side $:-\$

Spoonrobot · **Reply #151 on:** April 30, 2008, 05:06:50 PM

What do you have hidden in that beard?

duckman1975 · **Reply #152 on:** April 30, 2008, 05:08:15 PM

Hello Big-target, nice picture! But any picture of the Lobster house special?

BIG-TARGET · **Reply #153 on:** April 30, 2008, 06:47:30 PM

Not the special. But What I ordered:
Blackened Mako shark steak, cooked on a plank, served with a ring of mashed potatos, vegetable"kabob" , and a broiled tomato with a spinach cream sauce

I decided that day to screw the austere diet the medical people want me on. Which basically boils down to salad and rice cakes.

Don't drink, don't smoke, live celibate,excersize until my heart explodes, and eat rice cakes,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I will still die!!!

The sad irony will be all my fat,lazy, chain smoking, drunken & debauched friends will be the ones crying at my funeral

Mike, Lord of the Spammers! · **Reply #154 on:** April 30, 2008, 06:52:31 PM

Those Proteous's are cool aren't they

, I wish I'd got mine in black rather than green

BIG-TARGET · **Reply #155 on:** April 30, 2008, 07:05:31 PM

Quote from: Spoonrobot on April 30, 2008, 05:06:50 PM

What do you have hidden in that beard?

I got my hair and beard trimmed yesterday yesterday. Drove my wife crazy going to Cape may with the beard, sunglasses and boonie hat. All I need was a big cigar, a funky foriegn accent and start yelling:"Down with the imperialist, yankee, gringo, DOGS!!!"

duckman1975 · **Reply #156 on:** May 01, 2008, 01:57:35 AM

Yeah I think you can look the part.

prime77 · **Reply #157 on:** May 06, 2008, 03:58:15 AM

My Wave got a good workout today. I used it to remove some bolts so I could change the headlight bulb on my Sunfire. Then I used the drivers so could clean the air filter on my lawnmower. It performed great.

ducktapehero · **Reply #158 on:** May 06, 2008, 04:35:06 PM

I used my Fieldmaster to take the legs off of my new grill yesterday so I could fit it in the car. I bought the last one at the store so mine was the display one so it was already set up.

Of course I got home and saw that Bass Pro Shops has pretty much the same thing 25 bucks cheaper so I'm gonna go look at that. If it's the same quality as the one I got I'll be taking the one I got back to Wal-Mart and getting the cheaper one. 994

ducktapehero · **Reply #159 on:** May 23, 2008, 10:03:59 PM

I went to the gas station today. After filling up my car wouldn't start. I opened the hood and used my Spirit to unhook one of the terminals on the battery and scrape off some of the green battery crap. Much to my chagrin my problem was worse than a bad connection. I had to get a jump start from someone else. I'm pretty sure that the belt to my alternator is slipping. It's been squealing and whining the last week but I guess my usual solution of turning up the radio when I hear weird noises didn't pay off this time.

Dunc · **Reply #160 on:** May 24, 2008, 07:41:18 PM

I've never posted in this thread before so heres a couple of light duty tales for my Spirit and Swisstool RS .
We bought our two daughters a trampoline

so first job was to move the washing line to make room for it . This is where the Spirits awl was used to start the hole for the hook and the pliers to bend the hook to stop the line falling off

Once the building of the trampoline started I soon realised that the holes for the springs were still blocked by bits of metal from when they were manufactured so the RS came in handy for cleaning out the holes , the prybar was just the right fit .

Eventually it was finnished and two very excited girls started to bounce

Dunc

Dunc · **Reply #161 on:** May 27, 2008, 07:56:54 PM

The amazing thing is it hasnt fell down yet

Dunc

Roadie · **Reply #162 on:** May 27, 2008, 08:00:21 PM

Quote from: dunc5 on May 27, 2008, 07:56:54 PM

The amazing thing is it hasnt fell down yet

Dunc

You must have done something wrong then! All trampolines are death traps......good fun though

Seriously though a good use of tools there

Leatherman123 · **Reply #163 on:** May 27, 2008, 08:38:15 PM

When I was a kid, I had one.. It was fun up until I tried to jump off the roof and I shattered my ankle!

ducktapehero · **Reply #164 on:** May 27, 2008, 08:39:51 PM

It's just a little thing but the water fountain at my church shot the water almost 6 feet in the air. I kinda poked around the hole with the awl from my Farmer. I guess it was just some calcium buildup because it scraped right off. Now it functions perfectly. I know, I'm a regular Bob Vila.

BIG-TARGET · **Reply #165 on:** May 27, 2008, 09:48:08 PM

Quote from: Roadie on May 27, 2008, 08:00:21 PM

Quote from: dunc5 on May 27, 2008, 07:56:54 PM
The amazing thing is it hasnt fell down yet

Dunc
The fact it is a death trap is the FUN PART!!

You must have done something wrong then! All trampolines are death traps......good fun though

Seriously though a good use of tools there

ultimaonliner · **Reply #166 on:** May 28, 2008, 04:40:32 AM

Quote from: BIG-TARGET on April 30, 2008, 07:05:31 PM

Quote from: Spoonrobot on April 30, 2008, 05:06:50 PM
What do you have hidden in that beard?

I got my hair and beard trimmed yesterday yesterday. Drove my wife crazy going to Cape may with the beard, sunglasses and boonie hat. All I need was a big cigar, a funky foriegn accent and start yelling:"Down with the imperialist, yankee, gringo, DOGS!!!"

lol

Spoonrobot · **Reply #167 on:** May 28, 2008, 09:17:50 AM

jock1 · **Reply #168 on:** May 28, 2008, 10:49:39 AM

Quote from: BIG-TARGET on April 29, 2008, 11:41:55 PM

(continued)
then after the dry gauze is applied. Cut the tape to the neccessary length to secure everything.
Apply clean dry socks over foot!!

BTW, to answer some questions. Yes this is due to diabetes . Plus,,,as an added bonus,,,,, included is the bottom of my foot with the wound-vac attached to it

Is anybody else hungry for rare steak?

ducktapehero · **Reply #169 on:** June 02, 2008, 05:33:48 AM

Well the tree rats(squirrels) have torn up my bird feeder. It's a wire one that holds a "block" of seeds. I used my Spirit pliers to bend it back into shape.

Friday I took my son to the park. It had a wooden play set and he got his 1st splinter. I used the tweezers on from my Fieldmaster to take care of that.

Friday evening I went to Rib Crib. It's a BBQ chain restaurant. It's OK, not superb but pretty decent for a chain. Anyway, they were having "all you can eat" ribs so I was pretty happy. Usually using my toothpick isn't a big deal but that night they definitely earned their keep. I was planning on drinking some beer later on that night but I got so stuffed there that the thought of eating or drinking ANYTHING about made me puke.

Of course being the man I am I was hungry about 3 hours later.

J-sews · **Reply #170 on:** June 02, 2008, 05:41:52 AM

Quote from: Spoonrobot on May 28, 2008, 09:17:50 AM

(Image removed from quote.)

Okay, it looks like we're in a bathroom stall, but what is that Paratool doing?

Spoonrobot · **Reply #171 on:** June 02, 2008, 06:09:14 AM

It's holding the door shut. Someone has taken to busting the locks off the stalls in the restrooms in the Library on campus. Since they're set to stay open inwardly when not in use there wasn't anyway to keep the door shut, save the Paratool. Let's say unlisted use #22; bathroom door latch.

Medic82 · **Reply #172 on:** June 02, 2008, 10:08:00 AM

Used the pliers on my Powerlock too scratch my back today

Mike, Lord of the Spammers! · **Reply #173 on:** June 02, 2008, 04:37:46 PM

Quote from: Medic82 on June 02, 2008, 10:08:00 AM

Used the pliers on my Powerlock too scratch my back today

Good to see you using your SOG hard

jock1 · **Reply #174 on:** June 02, 2008, 06:52:34 PM

I ahd to break into my own locker at work and made an awful mess but my Gerber 800 pliers were handy for bending everything back into shape

Medic82 · **Reply #175 on:** June 03, 2008, 08:54:28 PM

I never could have imagined I was going to use my MT for this.

There is a girl at work that had a piercing in her bellybutton for 10 years now, butt she have been wanting to take it out for some time. Butt the little balls at the end was stuck and she could not get it of, she been to piercing studios butt they could not twist it of either.

So the genius I am, I asked why they had not cut it right of. She simply replied “Why hadn’t they thought about it?”.
She was thinking out loud when she was going to do it, and eager to use my new Powerlock, I offered to do it for her. So she laid down on the sofa in the office and I went too work. Was a little bit worried that the gears where going to pinch her (have the old Powerlock) butt it turned out not to bee a problem, so after 2 or 3 seconds of squeezing it was cut right of. Didn’t use much force at all, don’t know what the piercing was made of butt the piercing was cheap according to her.

I just regret that this wasn’t caught on tape, would have made a killer video here.

So, removing piercings with a MT? No problem.

Dunc · **Reply #176 on:** June 03, 2008, 10:36:35 PM

Great story

Such a shame you didnt get a picture .

Dunc

Mike, Lord of the Spammers! · **Reply #177 on:** June 03, 2008, 10:44:58 PM

Yeah, best go and get her refitted with a belly bar, and film it this time

That's got to be the oddest use for a tool I've ever heard

Leatherman123 · **Reply #178 on:** June 03, 2008, 11:08:06 PM

Nice job! Yeah, it is an odd way to use a MT!

Anthony · **Reply #179 on:** June 04, 2008, 12:04:50 AM

ha see if you two can re-enact it

Today a eye hook popped out of a picture frame I was packing, so I used my Spirit to twist it back in.

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