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No matter what one spends on equipment or hand/power tools...there's always ONE item that you'd be missing if you left home without it.
It's not the obvious drop cords, chargers for those battery users, wrecking bar or boom box...it's just that "Go To" tool that you never think about it until....you actually need it. Rarely need it very often...but cussin' yourself if you wind up without it when it would come in more handy that you ever thought it to be.
Just the tool/item or gadget if you want....or your rationale behind it having to keep it handy....even rarely used. But sho' nuff' the morning you leave it home and get to the job....you realize you're without; it's too far a ride back home to get it and back and you just find something else to do that day instead.
For me.....it's this magnet.
I snatched it up for $2.00 at an estate sale for a pal of mine that punched out from work about five years ago. He had the same terminal illness that I have....just think F.O. and leave off the G for Guy (which should get us past the censor). Foxtrot Oscar disease...it'll wear you down. So short cuts are in order.
The older I get that magnet comes in pretty handy. I was grateful for having this magnet clinging onto the side of my metal tool chest when I dropped a #2 phillips screwdriver bit that slid out of the DeWalt magnet adapter into my little DeWalt gyroscope screwdriver. The DeWalt adapter has lost it's appear to picking up things...or worse, holding onto 'em when I'm on a ladder....especially on a ladder over a planting bed. My ONLY#2 phillips in my van had launched out into space once it hit a rung and zinged off. However...I thought I caught a glimpse of it in a weedy little patch when it shuffled a weed stem while passing through.
I climbed down. Got my magnet loose...which ain't easy by the way....hitched a bit of rope to the handle and went fishing for that bit. In less than 10 minutes I'd snagged it and was back up on the ladder with a new magnetic adapter and finished up with a new connector. The hand grip magnet smacked back onto the tool chest and we all went home. This was yesterday and just brought about the great little gadget from my old pal (RIP) that made a real deal on it...posthumously.
The same use while doing ANY work...clearing a piece of old lumber full of nails; or pre-building a door frame...while set up on the driveway or worse, the turn-around at the garage doors where a FOD can be found with the pointy side showing to take out a tire. FOD hunts are fun and all....that's why I swing this magnet around me and especially where the driveway materials works up to the edge of the lawn or plant bed.
I'm sticking with this story.
What do you guys and gals keep on hand at all times?
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It's not the obvious drop cords, chargers for those battery users, wrecking bar or boom box...it's just that "Go To" tool that you never think about it until....you actually need it. Rarely need it very often...but cussin' yourself if you wind up without it when it would come in more handy that you ever thought it to be.
Just the tool/item or gadget if you want....or your rationale behind it having to keep it handy....even rarely used. But sho' nuff' the morning you leave it home and get to the job....you realize you're without; it's too far a ride back home to get it and back and you just find something else to do that day instead.
For me.....it's this magnet.
I snatched it up for $2.00 at an estate sale for a pal of mine that punched out from work about five years ago. He had the same terminal illness that I have....just think F.O. and leave off the G for Guy (which should get us past the censor). Foxtrot Oscar disease...it'll wear you down. So short cuts are in order.
The older I get that magnet comes in pretty handy. I was grateful for having this magnet clinging onto the side of my metal tool chest when I dropped a #2 phillips screwdriver bit that slid out of the DeWalt magnet adapter into my little DeWalt gyroscope screwdriver. The DeWalt adapter has lost it's appear to picking up things...or worse, holding onto 'em when I'm on a ladder....especially on a ladder over a planting bed. My ONLY#2 phillips in my van had launched out into space once it hit a rung and zinged off. However...I thought I caught a glimpse of it in a weedy little patch when it shuffled a weed stem while passing through.
I climbed down. Got my magnet loose...which ain't easy by the way....hitched a bit of rope to the handle and went fishing for that bit. In less than 10 minutes I'd snagged it and was back up on the ladder with a new magnetic adapter and finished up with a new connector. The hand grip magnet smacked back onto the tool chest and we all went home. This was yesterday and just brought about the great little gadget from my old pal (RIP) that made a real deal on it...posthumously.
The same use while doing ANY work...clearing a piece of old lumber full of nails; or pre-building a door frame...while set up on the driveway or worse, the turn-around at the garage doors where a FOD can be found with the pointy side showing to take out a tire. FOD hunts are fun and all....that's why I swing this magnet around me and especially where the driveway materials works up to the edge of the lawn or plant bed.
I'm sticking with this story.
What do you guys and gals keep on hand at all times?
