Traditional knives and tools

5K Qs said:
This isn't my tool, but this and many somewhat similar massive tools have been used/parked very regularly in my neighborhood over the past 2.5 years for several "infrastructure improvement projects". This particular machine is parked in front of our local branch of the public library about 2 years ago as a complete rebuild of Hall Street was nearing completion. (The knife in the photo IS mine, and it's a large Imperial toothpick, but it's not nearly as large as it appears to be. 🤓 )
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I had a digger like that parked opposite my house for about 10 days, locked in a large steel container. Every morning, the racket was incredible, as they drove it out. They were using it, with other machinery, to re-edge and re-surface local roads, but they then omitted to do any work on my road! 🤔
 
Jack Black said:
I had a digger like that parked opposite my house for about 10 days, locked in a large steel container. Every morning, the racket was incredible, as they drove it out. They were using it, with other machinery, to re-edge and re-surface local roads, but they then omitted to do any work on my road! 🤔
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I would have predicted that all the construction activity we've experienced in the past couple of years would have generated a lot of noise, but I seldom was bothered by the noise level inside the house. Occasionally, there would be some kind of pounding on/in the ground that was actually felt more than it was heard!
Here's another big tool that got plenty of use in reconstructing the street from its lowest substructure to its top surface. It's not a steamroller, baby, but it's close. 🤓
In the photo, it's parked near the venerable and infamous Miti-Mini Superette, a classic inner-city over-priced liquor store/ precursor to modern day convenience stores.
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5K Qs said:
I would have predicted that all the construction activity we've experienced in the past couple of years would have generated a lot of noise, but I seldom was bothered by the noise level inside the house. Occasionally, there would be some kind of pounding on/in the ground that was actually felt more than it was heard!
Here's another big tool that got plenty of use in reconstructing the street from its lowest substructure to its top surface. It's not a steamroller, baby, but it's close. 🤓
In the photo, it's parked near the venerable and infamous Miti-Mini Superette, a classic inner-city over-priced liquor store/ precursor to modern day convenience stores.
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When I first left school, I used to work on (fixing) this kind of machinery - known as 'heavy plant' here - even steam rollers (though they'd been converted to diesel by then)! :D :thumbsup:
 
Boattale said:
A few classic USA made tools that I've used a lot and never had a failure.

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Nice small grouping of some great tools. The Buck of course but those pliers with parallel jaws in the foreground are unique, and those black Craftsman pliers are another great addition. I have the full set of three: small medium and the large. The venerable “Crescent” wrench and oil can, love em. Off to the left another the “needle nose” vise grips. My father had a pair of those parallel pliers; somehow they got lost or sold along with the household stuff left after mom died. Ahhh nostalgia!
 
Thanks. They're all on the workbench full time. Just had to put them in a more or less arrangement for a photo. I agree with your great tools comment. They've all stood the test of time. I used to have a medium set of the Craftsman pliers but somewhere along the line they must have sprouted wings. Too bad, I really liked them too.
 
5K Qs said:
I would have predicted that all the construction activity we've experienced in the past couple of years would have generated a lot of noise, but I seldom was bothered by the noise level inside the house. Occasionally, there would be some kind of pounding on/in the ground that was actually felt more than it was heard!
Here's another big tool that got plenty of use in reconstructing the street from its lowest substructure to its top surface. It's not a steamroller, baby, but it's close. 🤓
In the photo, it's parked near the venerable and infamous Miti-Mini Superette, a classic inner-city over-priced liquor store/ precursor to modern day convenience stores.
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We have a group called Steamroller around here,they are all in their 70s.

When they rehearsed in a basement everything fell of the shelves in the shop above and the floor moved.

They where heavy and like an earthquake. 😂



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Johnnythefox said:
I thought I would introduce Gunny to some of my old tools.

He particularly liked the 1944 WW2 wire cutters,but he also admired the folding pocket file and the folding ruler as well. :cool:









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Nice 😎 Is that a Chesterman rule?

My finds from Leeds market, with Rosewood Big 'Un 🙂

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Boattale said:
A few classic USA made tools that I've used a lot and never had a failure.

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Some people don't like them, but I've always been happy with my Craftsman Robo grips.
I believe they were also branded by Crescent and Rigid.

Btw are those bernard patent pliers made by UTICA ?
I've only ever seen the Bernard's and later ones made by Sargent.

Fyi Sargent is still making parallel jaw pliers here in the USA, but they're an often overlooked company who really flies under the radar for some reason.
 
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