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[pfrsantos]

The line to complain about me is over 50 years long.  Mom is in front and my wife is second.  Mom hasn't finished yet so your wife may be waiting a while for her turn. 

You're a smurfing genious if you've somehow managed to get them to wait in line! 

I didn't say they waited patiently. 

Yup, having to wait in line is the main reason they're there...

 

[Yadda]

The line to complain about me is over 50 years long.  Mom is in front and my wife is second.  Mom hasn't finished yet so your wife may be waiting a while for her turn. 

You're a smurfing genious if you've somehow managed to get them to wait in line! 

I didn't say they waited patiently. 

Yup, having to wait in line is the main reason they're there...

 

 

[G-Dizzle]

I almost bit off more than I could chew with the Sven Saw this time. Found a tree that was clearly on it’s last legs (hollowed out, bark fallen off in pieces, top sheared off, etc) but still had usable wood up top. I have been planning a few projects and figured this would work well.

The Sven saw, my only hand saw, just about met his match. The blade is pretty loose now even at the tightest setting. That’s to be expected I guess, since it was pushed past it’s intended use. The job would have been a lot easier if I could have safely sawed at the back end of the tree but it was leaning to far over to begin with.

[Mcfal12]

Recognizing this thread is older, but thanks G-Dizzle for unearthing it. Good read.  I particularly enjoyed the organization of the tools. My OCD kicks in when I see tools just thrown into tool boxes.

Here is a look at my 9 drawer 54” tool chest

[Mcfal12]

Organization of parts and screws

[G-Dizzle]

Organization of parts and screws

Nice! Honestly I missed the fact that the thread was so old

[Mcfal12]

Nice! Honestly I missed the fact that the thread was so old

Ha... is that cause a number of forums members spouse had put jinxes on you for ‘feeding our habits’?

[Syncop8r]

Organised. 
Do you like Irwin tools by any chance?

[Mcfal12]

Organised. 
Do you like Irwin tools by any chance?

How could you tell?

Irwin hand tools and Makita power tools!

[Grant Lamontagne]

A few weeks ago we were out of town and encountered a small problem with my Jeep.  Corrosion had built up on the negative terminal so bad that it was no longer connecting reliably.

Unfortunately I had taken my work box out of the trunk to make room for luggage and an extremely tiny dog that somehow manages to take up a whole pile of room.   

With the right tools the battery connector would be a simple fix, but as I had left the right tools at hoke I had to try and make it to a local hardware store, where I grabbed this Benchmark socket set.

It wasn't cheap, but it also wasn't pricey- I think k the whole set was about $20 USD which is pretty darned good. 

The set is well equipped, especially for the money, and it was definitely up to the job I needed it for.

It's going to live full time in the Jeep now, and not I  my work box.

And, surprisingly, i have yet to lose the 10mm socket!

Def

[Vidar]

And, surprisingly, i have yet to lose the 10mm socket!

Def

You just haven't needed it desperately enough yet. When the time comes it surely wont be there.

Even weirder I was doing some organizing of some spanners earlier today. One set was missing some sizes as can be expected for 20 year old sets which have been all over the place. But this is the weird part - it was the sizes that never gets used that were missing - 11mm, 12mm, 15mm. What is the universe up to now? Letting me keep the ones I actually use? Is this karma for the time I lent out that angle grinder that never came back? 

[Grant Lamontagne]

Oddly enough, the 10mm was the socket I needed!

And I almost lost it and more when I bumped it off my fender and I instinctively reached out to catch it and all the pieces went flying like in the 80's game Perfection.   

Why they make sockets and bits exactly the same color as the asphalt of parking lots, I'll never know.   

Def

[Vidar]

Oddly enough, the 10mm was the socket I needed!

There is only one explaination: You're being setup for a time when you need it even more. It just hangs around and waits for the worst time possible to be gone. If it can be gone in such a way that it maximizes damage then the universe seems even more happy at times. (I remember the time I didn't loose my car key, but instead broke it off in the gasoline cover while trying to fill much needed gas in the middle of nowhere. So then I had no key, no gasoline, and no way to fill it. I had plenty of time to explore the middle of nowhere before that was solved. Fun times).