Thread: A sad case of HAD emerging...

Originally Posted by BobH

I get nervous when I see a lot of hammers in one spot. That was ever since Chieffy told me I was as closed up as a bag of hammers. Hate it when people try to sugar coat things.

Bob

My dad used to tell me that his younger brothers toolkit consisted of a bag filled with hammers.

If something didn't work, he began battering it with a tiny toffee hammer. It that didn't cure it, he moved up ... and up ... and up... right the way up to a huge lump-hammer. In the end he usually had a trip to the dump in store.

I visited him once - he had just bought a shop and was putting up a nice newly sign-painted sign board - with 6 inch nails. Around one nail head were 4 'half-crowns' (what we used to call the circular impressions left in wood by the face of the hammer when you missed the nail). The others were not much better. One had bent right over and he just banged it into the sign, sideways. He had also hit his fingers.

They don't make old fashioned workmen like that anymore - thank God!

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

They don't make old fashioned workmen like that anymore - thank God!

Regards,
Neil

That would be news to some millwrights I used to work with. Seem their motto was "If it doesn't budge get a bigger bumper bar".

Bob