Category Archives: Tools

ROAD TRIP!!! So, I jumped in the left-handed fargle-snorker and trucked on up to Clarksville on Saturday. The trip itself is kind of a big deal. It’s an old rig, yet brand new to me, so I’d no experience as … Continue reading →

Playing with the new toy…ur…tool…TOOL today. TOOL. Wanted to get used to the boom movement/bounce etc…since I haven’t been on a boom truck since my Llamco Electric days…gad…30ish years ago…and that was a squirt boom instead of a knuckle boom… … Continue reading →

Most of us that have aged beyond our second decade realize something about guys. They’re guys. Single minded. Determined. Sweaty. Messy. Passionate. We LIKE blowing stuff up. Pretty simple creatures. Our lives revolve around just a few things. 1) What’s … Continue reading →

Bucket truck…also known as the left-handed Fargle-snorker Sigh. I know. “Boys and their toys.” For what I paid I figure I can use it for what I need to get done now, and if it seems I’ve little use for … Continue reading →

Our first casualty on this project…my Skil Saw. An actual Skil brand Skil saw even. Dead. Spectacularly dead in point of fact. And at the tender age of only…(divides by pi, carries the two)…wait, what? Really? I’ve had that Skil … Continue reading →

Well, after spending several weekends of rooftop acrobatics getting this dormer ready for paint…lots of scraping, manufacturing new and repairing some fishscales, reattaching many of the rest, repairing the trim, and rebuilding the sills, I finally got to the point … Continue reading →

This is a Dewalt Sawzall…and when you feel the need to break one of these out, you are probably dreading the amount of work that is to come. Actually though, this thing makes any sort of difficult cutting challenge remarkably … Continue reading →

On a project such as this, I’m of the school that believes, “You can never have too many sawhorses.” My friend Mike got me a sawhorse kit for Christmas. This is a Harbor Freight sawhorse kit. Now…I figured something out…it … Continue reading →

This is a Painter’s Pry Bar. It’s used for removing trim, moldings, and other things that need a fine touch to remove without damage. It has a very thin blade for getting behind things, and is strong enough to get … Continue reading →

Santa brought me this for Christmas. (puts on his best “Dr. Evil” voice) It’s a saw! A saw with fricken lasers on it! (ends his best “Dr. Evil” voice…my wife’s looking at me all kind-of-strange like) This is a 12″ … Continue reading →