Comments on: And Your Little Hatchet, too!

By: Doranna

Doranna — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:29:40 +0000

The weird thing is, it’s still using the same handle and now it’s fine. That is, I decided to tap it back down and see about adding a screw to it. It tapped down very snugly and in fact wouldn’t even go down all the way, and now is quite tight.

I’m keeping an eye on it, of course…

Soon we may meet Mr. Mini-Mattock, and finding a handle for that one is turning out to be another story altogether.

By: Pete Granzeau

Pete Granzeau — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:11:21 +0000

One nice thing about using your grandfather’s hand axe–even though you get a new handle, it will still be the same axe. Be sure the wedge is driven firmly home when you replace that handle (although I am sure you did!).

By: Tori Lennox

Tori Lennox — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:13:18 +0000

I have my great-grandfather’s (or was it my great-great’s?) shaving mug and brush. The mug itself is very pretty. I should take a picture of it some day and post it on my blog…

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:33:46 +0000

I have some family tools, though the wonderful pair of pliers my mother made (yes, made!) was stolen after she moved up here. I still have the hammer and saw I was given at age seven (58 years ago) and a bit and brace that may have been my grandfather’s. My iron skillets are from childhood (from my grandfather’s hardware store.) A hatchet (not sure where it is.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:11:08 +0000

Actually one of my favorite things from long ago is the Revere ware double boiler. The pot itself was just the right size for the old wood cook stove. Lift the lid out and put the pot in the hole with a quart or so of water. As soon as the water comes to a rolling boil and drop in 3 heaping spoons of coffee and set it on the back of the stove to keep warm.

I still have the pot and have used it mainly for cooking rice, so it has been in more or less continuous use for about 65 years.

The hand saws I inherited along with the stanley planes are in my shop, seldom used these days. The axe that nearly severed my thumb when I was 11 years old is probably somewhere in my brothers barn.

Actually my favorite thing by way of tools was my dad’s pocket knife that someone stole many years ago. It was the same knife that saved his life out in the woods in Idaho, and no he didn’t fight a hungry bear with it.

By: Doranna

Doranna — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:00:56 +0000

Oh, Kristen, I hear you! I have a weedwhacker and a hard time using it because of my back/RSI issues. But once upon a time I cleared several acres of secondary growth with the BEST weedwhacker ever, kept the farm edges tamed–gas powered, saw blade tool…that thing was totally Tool Time…MORE POWER!

I *still* regret giving it up when circumstances required.

By: Doranna

Doranna — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:58:29 +0000

Peggy, we had one of those clocks! It never worked, though…it had wooden parts that kept it from being fixable. It was pretty much treasured anyway, though, so I know what you mean! Yours sounds wonderful…

By: Kristen B.

Kristen B. — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:46:16 +0000

I love your mantle! (Or is it mantel… I’m always confused.)

My elbows winced reading this. (Both have tendonitis, probably from overdoing something or other…)

When I moved into this place, my folks gave me their old classic WeedEater, a model that came out, I think, in the 1970s. Still works like a charm. However, for heavier brush, I purchased a roaring gas engine trimmer in the fall. Vrrrooooom!

By: Peggy

Peggy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:35:41 +0000

My mom and dads mantle chime clock given to them by my uncle, so everyone is remembered in the clock. I love hearing it strike and hate it when it needs repair. Fortunately I found a place that has clocks and fixes them. If I even have to evacuate the clock goes in the car right after the dog.