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Been an industrial mechanic for over 10 years now and have only seen a handful of snap on tools actually being used by anyone. When i have it was a specialty tool, they have nice crow foot wrenches. Though i have a set of Proto crow foot wrenches and they're fantastic.
I remember I was hammering on a fence in the backyard when my dad approached me. He was carrying a letter or something in his hand, and he looked worried. I continued to hammer as he came toward me. "Son," he said, "why are you hammering on that fence? It already has plenty of nails in it." "Oh, I'm not using nails," I replied. "I'm just hammering." With that, I returned to my hammering. Dad asked me to stop hammering, as he had some news. I did stop hammering, but first I got a couple more hammers in, and this seemed to make Dad mad. "I said, stop hammering!" he yelled. I think he felt bad for yelling at me, especially since it looked like he had bad news. "Look," he said, "you can hammer later, but first--" Well, I didn't even wait to hear the rest. As soon as I heard "You can hammer," that's what I started doing. Hammering away, happy as an old hammer hog. Dad tried to physically stop me from hammering by inserting a small log of some sort between my hammer and the fence. But I just kept on hammering, 'cause that's the way I am when I get that hammer going. Then, he just grabbed my arm and and made me stop. "I'm afraid I have some news for you," he said. I swear, what I did next was not hammering. I was just letting the hammer swing lazily at arm's length, and maybe it tapped the fence once or twice, but that's all. That apparently didn't make any difference whatsoever to Dad, because he just grabbed my hammer out of my hand and flung it across the field. And when I saw my hammer flying helplessly through the air like that I just couldn't take it. I burst out crying, I admit it. And I ran to the house, as fast as my legs could take me. "Son, come back!" yelled Dad. "What about your hammer?!" But I could not have cared less about hammering at that point. I ran into the house and flung myself onto my bed, pounding the bed with my fists. I pounded and pounded, until finally, behind me, I heard a voice. "As long as you're pounding, why not use this?" I turned, and it was Dad, holding a brand-new solid-gold hammer. I quickly wiped the tears from my eyes and ran to Dad's outstretched arms. But suddenly, he jumped out of the way, and I went sailing through the second-story window behind him. Whenever I hear about a kid getting in trouble with the drugs, I like to tell them this story.
Been an industrial mechanic for over 10 years now and have only seen a handful of snap on tools actually being used by anyone. When i have it was a specialty tool, they have nice crow foot wrenches. Though i have a set of Proto crow foot wrenches and they're fantastic.
I will raise you.
"Been an aircraft mechanic for 30 years and use Snap On everyday".
When you make a living using hand tools its stupid to use cheap ones.
Yes there are times you need a cheap Ford wrench, hammer or Crescent, but most days higher quality is better.
Snap on wrenches, ratcheting screwdrivers, sockets ext. are simply better. Yes they are stupid expensive but so are planes and lives.
I actually looked at the tree, and it's just an unfortunate stump.
The Gambia is a tiny country (population: 2.2 million) with a horrible past and incredibly warm, naive people.
We have been to the dungeons where slaves were held till the boats arrived, and it is very difficult to talk about the conditions in those places.
The river was used as a highway to transport some 20 million slaves to the Atlantic over the years.
Muslim slave drivers from the Arabian peninsula were bringing these captured people to the coast and selling them to European traders.
Everybody was in on it.
We go to places an average tourist wouldn't dream of. Actual villages, real problems.
What gets me is how genuine, trusting and open these people are.
We have been here for 25 days now. I have frogs in my bathroom, birds of prey in front of my room, crocs in the river and mosquitoes all over, but it is just a peaceful, nice place with wonderful people.
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