pyotr filipivich wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" on Thu, 04 Nov 2010
19:36:44 -0400 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

I still have the same one handed down from my Father.

I was mowing lawns & working part time in a TV shop at 13 to buy
tools. I not only still have some of those tools, but the same work ethic
and would rather repair or build something than buy it.

I still have the tack hammer that I made in 9th grade metal shop. ;-)

I came home from woodshop after the first day and said to Dad
"They have straight nails!"

Back in the day, if I made something from scratch, I had to first
make my own scratch.


I had a neighbor with a produce stand when i was 10. All my lumber
came from produce crates.

About 50 years later, a lot comes from old pallets.


"Okay, what do we have in the wood pile, and what can we make from
that?"


Recycling, at it's best. I recently bought a router bit to make
tounge & groove boards out of scrap pallets. I have to replace the
floor in what had been a 'Florida Room'. I need about 400 square feet
of subflooring. I can make it, or spend more money and get 3/4"
plywood. What I save will almost pay for laminate flooring.


Lumber stores, that is where you go when you don't have the pieces
necessary at home.


Before the economy imploded I was picking up some 4' * 12' pallets
they shipped A/C units on. I could only haul a couple at a time,
because they were so big but the place was next door to a business that
I was doing free IT work for. I still have quite a few 4" and 6" wide,
12' long boards from them.


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