Oh, how I love my tools.

[shereads]

I love my electric reciprocating saw. I like to hold it as if it's an AK-47, attach a 50-foot heavy-duty electrical cord and discipline impertinent tree branches.

I love the new ceramic-plated Japanese flat iron that makes smooth hair possible in Miami.

I dislike vacuum cleaners of all kinds. They're cumbersome.

But I like my lawnmower. Mowing the lawn is one of the few jobs that has a beginning and an end, and isn't subject to anyone's opinion but mine. The day a client shows up in my back yard and says, "It's okay, but it would have been better if you'd left it half an inch taller," he had better hope my reciprocating saw isn't plugged in. I won't be held responsible.

Tools are power.

 

[Guest]

I love my weed-whacker. It's noisy and angry and ferocious. Texas chain saw massacre on a long pole.

I can tear the hell out of anything with that thing. Strip a tree limb, even out the hedge, humiliate the neighbors with our gorgeous edging. . . And it's very good therapy when you have anger issues.

I love our crew-cut lawn and the serious trench surrounding our house. Kind of like a moat that says - don't fuck with me.

Unless I wish it, of course.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I'm generally a Luddite. I only recently, with much resistance, purchased an electric mixer. But I do love my simple, human-powered tools. Put a garden fork in my hooves and I am a happy horse, feeling at one with nature as I muddle in the earth.

 

[Dar~]

I like my shortening cutter . . . .

I also like my rake

 

[carsonshepherd]

Before I had tendonitis as badly as I do now, I used to refinish furniture. I never used a power sander, only sandpaper. Nothing electric could be as satisfying as hand-sanding all that old wood to butter smoothness as I discovered the true color and nature of the wood under layers of old paint and varnish.

 

[jfinn]

Before I had tendonitis as badly as I do now...

Is that why you're holding your shoulder?

Jayne

I love my hammer gun. Makes me feel like Rambo.

 

[shereads]

I love my weed-whacker. It's noisy and angry and ferocious. Texas chain saw massacre on a long pole.

The Weed Whacker is a piece of work. I confess a preference for its big brother, the Bush Whacker. For reasons having little to do with shrubbery and a good bit to do with Shrub.

~ The Phantom Pruner

 

[shereads]

Before I had tendonitis as badly as I do now, I used to refinish furniture. I never used a power sander, only sandpaper. Nothing electric could be as satisfying as hand-sanding all that old wood to butter smoothness as I discovered the true color and nature of the wood under layers of old paint and varnish.

Oh, but with a power sander a woman with a few spare hours one weekend can remove the gloss from hideous faux-wood-grain kitchen cabinets and render them suitable to be primed and painted. The cheapest kitchen renovation in history, all thanks to a power sander.

I still regret returning the sander to its owner. I don't think he ever appreciated it the way I did.

I find that men tend to take power tools for granted. During an all-time morale low at the next-to-the-last failing company I worked for, I took my electric reciprocating saw to the office and offered my fellow layoff survive-ees a chance to discipline some scrap wood.

The one who had tried hardest to cultivate an image of machismo was the first to whimper, "It will get sawdust all over the carpet."

The rest of the boys suddenly remembered they had urgent things to do in their offices. They scurried away like roaches caught under a bright light, and closed their doors.

All but one. My friend K from the IT department donned the plastic goggles and the two of us took turns demolishing some boards.

And we did not clean up the sawdust.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Is that why you're holding your shoulder?

Jayne

I love my hammer gun. Makes me feel like Rambo.

snicker. No. That's why I make so many typos

 

[shereads]

snicker. No. That's why I make so many typos

Have you tried Black & Decker's new Typo-Whacker? It's not available in an electric version yet, but for people who don't find gasoline-powered tools more trouble than they're worth, I'll bet it's a blast to use.

I can hardly wait to see one in action!

 

[cloudy]

I adore my Makita cordless drill, with the screwdriver attachments. I can tackle just about any job in the house with it.

And, don't try to sneak it out of my toolbox into yours, either. I know the difference - mine is loved.

 

[jfinn]

snicker. No. That's why I make so many typos

That's a great excuse I'll have to remember that one if I ever post anything again.

Jayne

 

[BlackShanglan]

It's small and admittedly unmacho, but I love my little cordless Dremel tool. When you've got two hundred pounds of black-nailed dog in two decidedly inconvenient individual units, there's nothing like a Dremel to make nail-trimming managable. The SO and I work them as a pair - one of us Dremels, and the other feeds treats at a pretty much constant flow.

Shanglan

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I love this thread!

I asked for tools for my birthday. Vella and I have been looking at homes and want a fixer-upper to customize.

I'm sure my Dad got me the drill I asked for and he likely went crazy and got me a bunch of other neat stuff for my tool box. Mom & step-dad got me a very cool circular saw. It's laser guided. I also got a gift card to Home Depot and I'm thinking it's time for a tool belt.

The tool currently at the top of my list of tools to acquire:
*telescoping, compound mitre saw (Yeah, baby, Yeah!)

Sher, we'll be calling you when our trees need grooming.

~lucky

 

[Guest]

I love this thread!

I asked for tools for my birthday. Vella and I have been looking at homes and want a fixer-upper to customize.

I'm sure my Dad got me the drill I asked for and he likely went crazy and got me a bunch of other neat stuff for my tool box. Mom & step-dad got me a very cool circular saw. It's laser guided. I also got a gift card to Home Depot and I'm thinking it's time for a tool belt.

The tool currently at the top of my list of tools to acquire:
*telescoping, compound mitre saw (Yeah, baby, Yeah!)

Sher, we'll be calling you when our trees need grooming.

~lucky

i have all the tools we'll ever need for bush trimming

 

[lucky-E-leven]

i have all the tools we'll ever need for bush trimming

Stop telling the whole world our business!

I want to hear about the other power tools you've got.

~lucky

 

[Guest]

Stop telling the whole world our business!

I want to hear about the other power tools you've got.

~lucky

pick a color or battery size or well be here all day.

 

[minsue]

pick a color or battery size or well be here all day.

Blue


D

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Blue


D

 

[minsue]

Inquiring minds and all...

 

[Liar]

All I say is that there's nothing like a good screwing. I never nail, I screw.

 

[Honey123]

I like my hoe.

 

[shereads]

It's small and admittedly unmacho, but I love my little cordless Dremel tool. When you've got two hundred pounds of black-nailed dog in two decidedly inconvenient individual units, there's nothing like a Dremel to make nail-trimming managable. The SO and I work them as a pair - one of us Dremels, and the other feeds treats at a pretty much constant flow.

Shanglan

You can get black-nailed dog where you live? The dealers in my 'hood claim there hasn't been any authentic 'dog since the mid-eighties. How much does an individual unit go for?

 

[shereads]

I like my hoe.

Then maybe it's time to come up with a nicer pet name for her. Snookums has been done to death, but it's a start.

 

[shereads]

I love this thread!

I asked for tools for my birthday. Vella and I have been looking at homes and want a fixer-upper to customize.

I'm sure my Dad got me the drill I asked for and he likely went crazy and got me a bunch of other neat stuff for my tool box. Mom & step-dad got me a very cool circular saw. It's laser guided. I also got a gift card to Home Depot and I'm thinking it's time for a tool belt.

The tool currently at the top of my list of tools to acquire:
*telescoping, compound mitre saw (Yeah, baby, Yeah!)

Sher, we'll be calling you when our trees need grooming.

~lucky

Laser-guided? You rule!

Vella, don't yell "Incoming" while Lucky is using the laser-guided circular saw.