You can never have to many,lol

[Wild one]

 

[CanuckRam1313]

My name is CanuckRam1313, and I'm an addict!

I purchase way to many (legal) firearms, and I need help

Just this past weekend I dropped $3,000, after spending $6,500 the other week...........

Edit ** I did get a ton of Avion points though!

 

[Marshall]

I had a dealers / gunsmith licence of many years, working gunshows out of the farm shop.
So you have to buy more guns to have guns to sell, Not that she fell for that song and dance.

That Picture looks about right for me, use to have little shop, big shop, and the machine shed, and the tractors , so needed 3-4 sets of everything, then there was a great sale in town soooo
Plus getting older ,so you forget you already had one ( or2) of those , I was partial to 38/357,
with 45 as backup to the 9.

 

[Jeepwalker]

There was a guy who was a friend of my dad's. That picture reminded me ....one time my dad needed to stop over at this guy's place for some reason. 3-4 years ago. We did..and the guy was on his way there...so my dad took me back into his sheds and we kind of strolled around till he arrived. These were sheds like old 40x60' dirt-floor low-ceiling farm sheds you might see from the 1930's that had a bunch of tractors and a few old unrestored 40's pickups. The sliding doors probbly hadn't been closed in years.

I was completely struck by the incredible volume of tools sitting all over the place in one particular shed! No tool box or organization..just everything out in random. Hand tools, power tools, new tools, old tools, quadruples of some tools ...Every horizontal surface had tool sets and some had tool sets stacked on top of other ...like, socket-sets, and other tools. It's like he had every tool Harbor Freight ever sold. Tools on nails and hooks all over the place. And tools he'd gotten from farm or estate auctions over the yrs. I was afraid if I touched some of these tools balancing on other tools, I might start an avalanche chain-reaction in his shed!! He had a lot of old iron projects back there, some rare tractors ...projects that had long been stalled out.

I've worked at shops and known guys who've had a lot of tools, but this guy had them all over the place! Good thing he literally lived out in the sticks..bc anyone could walk in and just load them up. I wish I'd gotten a pictured, never crossed my mind at the time.

Anyway, the guy ..nice guy, passed away suddenly last year. But yeah that pictured sure jarred a memory!! Thanks!

 

[04fxdwgi]

Still using the Snap On wrenches and sockets and original ratchets my dad got during WWII. Easily distinguished by the nickel plating. Chrome was reserved for the ball bearing plants and military uses during the war. The war was only time Snap On didn't chrome plate the expensive tools except for the black stuff.

 

[crash68]

@Wild one you might have ADHD ..

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[Treburkulosis]

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My wife just called me out on this lol. So I started buying tools for our son. Now it’s not me that has the problem. That was not before I bought another socket set lol. I’ll sneak in a 1/2 set soon. I have always used craftsman and even tho people are all up in arms that it doesn’t say made in America anymore, they are still excellent tools. I will post pictures later in my thread of my two tool boxes that I just finished.

 

[BadHemi2014]

I bet he still can't find a 10mm socket.

 

[DILLIGAF]

I bet he still can't find a 10mm socket.

thats why you have multiples

 

[EdGs]

It's not hoarding if your stuff is really cool......

 

[Wild one]

It's not hoarding if your stuff is realy cool......

I wonder if i can tell the wife that and get away with it

 

[Treburkulosis]

I bet he still can't find a 10mm socket.

My son can find his couple of sets for now lol.

 

[Treburkulosis]

thats why you have multiples

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My wife got frustrated with me for buying a second second set of sockets this week. It is for this very reason lol. I really need to stock up on 1/2 I have a set, but it looks so weak lol. Nice collection!

 

[turkeybird56]

thats why you have multiples

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Nice, yeah them 10 mm sockets tend to just walk away, never to be found again. I got a bad habit of having to hunt for 1/2" sockets too and 5/8" wrenches.

 

[DILLIGAF]

With all these trucks im building. 21mm is the one I spend the most time looking for.

 

[Dodge 1500 4X4]

thats why you have multiples

Now that's organized!!!!

 

[DILLIGAF]

Now that's organized!!!!

I have serious mental problems . Kind of helps. LoL

 

[Marshall]

I wonder if i can tell the wife that and get away with it

Not a chance. I tried.
funny thing these days , I use to have sets up to 1 in drive, these days I am a 1/4 & 3/8” guy
Saves a lot of space.

 

[Treburkulosis]

So I am in the process of a deep clean/fix things in the house currently. I tend to do this every 5 years, but when I hit a new decade it gets bad. This is one of those times. I had to have a nice conversation with my wife after we already discussed why I wouldn’t have been able to have done several things I did with out my new tools. I had to address borrowing my tools and then returning them to the correct spot. I found them laying on our bed unattended for several hours. As I explained. I am glad she is enjoying our new investment, but we won’t be enjoying them for very long if she doesn’t return things like my screw drivers. I think the dollar signs clicked and she quickly went to the garage and put them back. I am so glad she is enjoying this money well spent lol.

 

[Jeepwalker]

I hear ya. I like to keep my best tool with me in bed when I sleep at night too!