Kow Farmer: Plowed-down collection

SweetFeet · Oct 15, 2012

Kow Farmer,

Husband's "plowed-down" tool collection. He got them all freed up and uses them. They live right in his tool box with his newer tools.

DISCLAIMER: The saying by the tools is NOT intended to be an affront to anyone with shiny tools or a nice, large shop. (Husband has the sign because he does all his work out of our little, old hog house turned into his shop - but he has a brother and a buddy who have both spent a small forturn building new machine sheds with a shop area in them... they have plenty of shiny tools - but neither guy really does any of their own mechanic/welding work to speak of).

60 acre hillside · Oct 15, 2012

When I worked for Allis Chalmers I used an old rusty pait of slip joint pliers to loosen or tighted the water valve stems on calcium choride filled tires. This pair of pliers had been plowed uo by me several years prior. One morning when the shop foreman was having a bad day I was using them to remove the cotter key on the front spindle of a new D-17, He gave me a super a-- chewing and told me to go buy a pair of pliers. I just went to my box and got my good ones but kept the old ones to this day. They were Sears or Montgmery Ward economy line Eclipse.Still use pliers and the tooth marks have healed and the shop foreman has died

Dick2 · Oct 15, 2012

All I ever dug up were harness rings, the iron collars off the end of single trees, and some Indian stone hammers. The last I knew the stone hammers were still in the old machine shed on the farm. Also found a flat stone once that the Indians had obviously used to grind seeds in.

mkirsch · Oct 15, 2012

What the h--- business was it of his what pliers you used to pull the cotter key as long as you got the job done?

Kow Farmer · Oct 15, 2012

SweetFeet,
Thanks for the picture of his collection. Looks like he did a great job of reviving the old tools. I thought about trying to revive the Vise Grip I found, but it was in too rough of shape. Thanks again.
Kow Farmer

ShadetreeRet · Oct 15, 2012

Interesting collection. I tend to keep stuff like that also. BTW, I LIKE his little sign! Lot of truth in that.

Greg K · Oct 15, 2012

Do we want to know how he died? ;> That's the job of a foreman, to make his bad day a bad day for everyone and to make sure no-one else ever has a bad day unless he makes it bad.

agpilot · Oct 18, 2012

Hi mkisch: Your comment about a forman not wanting old pliers used shows that you never worked for a very large high quality company. I did and you would either quickly give the old tools to the forman untill end of day to take home and then always use tools that you were told to use. In the auto industry there can be expensive recalls due to using poor tools. Your there to work as they tell you.. not as you want to. Big difference in views on how to get the job done. They win every time. You can and maybe should loose your job by not doing it their way. I hope you never work on building aircraft... ag

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