Toolbox Schmoolbox

[Rockyroad]

I love TBN and reading all of this stuff.

There are TWO truths that have to be brought out here:

#1 - There are NEVER enough tools. Keeping them in tool boxes on or off the tractor is besides the point. You can never have enough tools.

#2 - This is a mental condition. This has nothing at all to do with work, it is about having more toys and therefore more fun.

We ought to start a "support group" for guys trying to kick the habit. Meetings would start out:

"Hi, my name is Rockyroad and I am a cross-addicted tractorholic and tooloholic..."

My wife is a substance abuse counselor, and she says that this is part of a bi-polar disorder coupled with manic-depressive problems. She wants to put me on lithium pills, but I tell her I have lithium grease down in the barn in my pneumatic powered grease gun which is run by my 220 volt 80 gallon air compressor which runs my 1-ton pneumatic hoist, impact wrench, sander, die grinder, which are all needed to take care of my JD750, log splitter, lawn mowers (2), orchard sprayer, etc, etc, etc.

A headshrinker friend of hers says that the only hope for my addiction is to eat lots of Yoplait Bannana Yogurt, take up poetry reading classes, flower arranging, and have long walks on the beach at dusk having discussions about "relationships" and "feelings." Then maybe this will pass. She also has to stop being "co-dependent" and stop being an "enabler."

Bottom line: Don't listen to your wife, ignore the headshrinkers, and there are NEVER enough tools.

 

[Boondox]

<font color=blue>Bottom line: Don't listen to your wife, ignore the headshrinkers, and there are NEVER enough tools.
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Okay, those are all givens...but tell me more about that pneumatic grease gun! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif With 16 grease points on my backhoe it sounds like I could use one of them!

Pete

 

[Inspector507]

Boondox,
The pneumatic grease gun has been a God send......./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
And they're not that expensive either.

 

[hayden]

Or for Glenn, there are never enough dealers. To each his own.

 

[GlueGuy]

<font color=blue>Toolbox Schmoolbox

fancy-shmancy hydraulic rippers

I think we need to ask Muhammad to start a pig latin forum!</font color=blue>

I think those are English/Yiddish (Yidenglish?) /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[TonyC]

<font color=blue>I think those are English/Yiddish (Yidenglish?)</font color=blue>

Yeah, I guess they are more Yiddish like than pig latin. I guess the Yiddish language wouldn't endorse anything invloving pork!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Rockyroad]

Pete-

The pneumatic grease guns are available in any good auto parts store or Northern Hydraulics. Mine cost something like $20 or $25 a few years ago. I bought the flexible hose for the front of the gun which is great for getting into hare to reach places. It takes standard grease cartridges and a variety of different lubricants are available.

Of all the tools I put in my barn, the air compressor is one of the handiest. Someone gave me an old pneumatic air hoist that came out of a local factory when they shut down. It is a half ton capacity. I just hook it up to my air hose and pull the cord. Great for taking stuff out of the back of my pickup truck or lifting the rear of my riding lawnmower to take the blades off with my pneumatic wrench.

There are NEVER enough tools.

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

<font color=blue>"This discussion needs to stop before we completely blow our cover and our spouses figure out this is 100% about fun." </font color=blue>

Hayden, you need to make the following deal with your wife; "You don't read TBN and I won't read 'Cosmopolitan', OK? /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif