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Re: Strangest Thing Done With A Tool/materials
There's a website where they take tools and turn them into sex toys. They take a sawzall and instead of a blade they put (how do I say this without getting x-rated) a male substitute.
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Oh! That is too cool.
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Re: Strangest Thing Done With A Tool/materials
I've removed cabinets that were hung with a powder actuated nailer
I guess I'm not alone in carving up frozen meat with various power saws I've used (clean) putty knives as spoons I've used compressed air to blow subfloor adhesive into cracks that we couldn't get it otherwise. Kinda the reverse- I used my lunch spoon to dig wood shavings out of 2" diameter lag bolt counter sink holes- I got some funny looks from my coworkers because I was carrying a spoon in my tool bags. wrapped the end of a sawzall blade in tape to make a little handsaw Cut up a steak at lunch with a utility knife Pulled stripped screws with a drill by tightening the chuck right down on the screw it's self |
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Trade: home builder carpenter Central Alabama
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Re: Strangest Thing Done With A Tool/materials
my 22oz estwing straight claw hammer regularly gets used for a pick axe to dig a small trench or a hatchet for splitting shims or sometimes a pry bar. You just cant tear up an estwing!
Use my circular saw sometimes as a planer buy draging the blade sideways across the wood |
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Re: Strangest Thing Done With A Tool/materials
i always use my carpenters pencil to stir my coffee ,
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That is precisely how I de-deck a roof. One good swing to a seam with my 22-straight and a twist allows me enough room to get back under it easily and quickly! The problem is I seem to have misplaced it this week!!!!!
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Re: Strangest Thing Done With A Tool/materialsQuote:
Maybe try a warning first next time... you might have some workers stick around for a while
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Re: Strangest Thing Done With A Tool/materials
I have used my sawzall for cutting tree's in the back yard because i was to lazy to drive 10 miles to my other home for the chainsaw. It worked well too. I also saw a friend make a homeade mig welder that used a makita cordless drill for the wire feeder. The junk actually worked ok considering.
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Re: Strangest Thing Done With A Tool/materials
Growing up we packed our lunch when doing a roof I would peel and eat my orange first, to get tar off my fingers before eating my sandwich. Seen a guy put tar on a bee sting said it pulled the posion out. Watched my dad cover him self with WD-40 as a bug spray the bugs we're crazy that day.
The wind blew over our ladder, two stories up no one around my dad hooked the ladder with a chalk line and pulled the ladder up. |
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Re: Strangest Thing Done With A Tool/materials
had a guy who worked for me for 5 years, he was 61 when he started with me , he was a framer through and through, always had a but hanging from his lip, drank every night. in his younger years he hunted. he would use his circ saw for everything. he could build anything, just using a circ saw. one day i commented on the many tasks he was able to perform with a circ saw, he replied that on several occasions he had butchered a deer (just with his saw). his name was GIL , may he rest in peace
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Re: Strangest Thing Done With A Tool/materials
Added some equipment in a mexican resturant , watched them make refried beans with a 1/2 drill and drywall mud paddle
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Re: Strangest Thing Done With A Tool/materials
[quote=The wind blew over our ladder, two stories up no one around my dad hooked the ladder with a chalk line and pulled the ladder up.[/quote]
While pressure washing the exhaust system, the wind blew my ladder over, only 1 story up, but I did not want to jump. I used my pressure hose to snag the ladder and pull it up to me. Another time, the ladder blew down. I used the pressure hose to rappel down the wall. Then there was the day the ladder was blown down, but no hose. I jumped into a tree, got some scratches but went back to work. |
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I used to think so.......
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Re: Strangest Thing Done With A Tool/materials
Ran the battery down listening to the radio all day (before jobsite radios were cool)
Worked great once we added the wood as insulators. You'd be amazed at how many parts of a truck are metal and go SPARK and also how hot the banding gets.
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I used to think so.......
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Re: Strangest Thing Done With A Tool/materials
Let's see.
1. Grilled burgers one at a time over a jobsite fire on an old Irwin 7 1/4" saw blade that was held by a pair of vise grips, that were held by a pair of vise grips, that were held by a pair of vise grips. 2. Shot a duck with a bb gun (we all kept our air rifles within arms reach at all times while working...I was up on a 2x6 scaffold siding a house on Lake Conroe. Pulled that weapon out of the window, turned and blam.) Rule was if you killed anything...YOU HAD TO EAT IT. So why does mallard duck taste like liver and not chicken? Cooked it using the above method and ate it in front of the crew as per the "rules". Sure was bad for that dude that shot the Egret. (PS This was waaaay back BEYOND THE STATUTE OF DUCK KILLIN' LIMITATIONS for any Texas game wardens reading this) 3. My sis asked me to cut a stick lookin thing in half for her 2 German Shepard dogs. I thought it was strange to keep a stick frozen for your dogs. After I cut it with my DeWalt DW708 12" SCMS, she informs me that its a bull d*ck...
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Re: Strangest Thing Done With A Tool/materials
Wall, the only thing missing from that "jumper cable" picture is you rubbing your hands together like an evil (mad?) scientist.
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I used to think so.......
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Re: Strangest Thing Done With A Tool/materials
Actually, I'm the one behind the camera. That's my best friend, who seems less effected by Murphy's Law than me.
It seemed prudent at the time to actually get the truck running rather than chance a hydrogen explosion if I got directly involved. I'll take credit for the idea and the tools, but he did the deed. |
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Trade: home builder carpenter Central Alabama
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Re: Strangest Thing Done With A Tool/materials
Once a friend was beating the hell out of something with a 1/2" rachet wrench.(probably a stuck bolt or something cant remember). I said, hey thats no way to treat a rachet, use this, as i handed him a 12" crecent.
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