James
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| posted on 8/4/11 at 07:29 PM |
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Weird afternoon but Some Free Tools- result!
With the help of her automatic car the old lady opposite my parents has demolished half her garage- now rebuilt with electric roller door.
Seeing her in the drive I pop over just to have a chat and up close look at the new garage.
We get talking and I offer to move some boxes of what she calls "rubbish" out the way so she can get car in.
I point out that the boxes are full of tools and she might not want to get rid. She tells me I can help myself to anything I want (and any other tools
in the garage) as she can't use them and her son isn't practical at all.
Result!
Slide hammer, mitre frame, g-cramps, tap and die set, impact driver, imperial callipers etc. etc. so I was all happy!
Then she told me about how she'd had so much "junk" to clear out from her husbands workshop (he had a weird hobby of repairing old
hoovers- don't ask) and it'd taken 2 men and a massive van to take away all the tools and rubbish. Including a metal lathe and a wood
lathe! The thought of her paying someone to take away a lathe she'd have given me!  
Ah well, free tools! 
What was a bit weird was finding in amongst the tools about 20 Heaf test needles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaf_test
And more weird.... a bag of about 30 speculums!!! Hubby had been a Doctor... taking your work home with you???
Cheers,
James
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
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chrisxr2
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| posted on 8/4/11 at 07:35 PM |
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monty python
you lucky lucky barsteward
Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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SeaBass
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| posted on 8/4/11 at 08:19 PM |
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It's a classic issue. A friend purchased a house with fully stocked workshop that was seen by the seller as junk.
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BenB
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| posted on 8/4/11 at 09:15 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by James
With the help of her automatic car the old lady opposite my parents has demolished half her garage- now rebuilt with electric roller door.
Seeing her in the drive I pop over just to have a chat and up close look at the new garage.
We get talking and I offer to move some boxes of what she calls "rubbish" out the way so she can get car in.
I point out that the boxes are full of tools and she might not want to get rid. She tells me I can help myself to anything I want (and any other tools
in the garage) as she can't use them and her son isn't practical at all.
Result!
Slide hammer, mitre frame, g-cramps, tap and die set, impact driver, imperial callipers etc. etc. so I was all happy!
Then she told me about how she'd had so much "junk" to clear out from her husbands workshop (he had a weird hobby of repairing old
hoovers- don't ask) and it'd taken 2 men and a massive van to take away all the tools and rubbish. Including a metal lathe and a wood
lathe! The thought of her paying someone to take away a lathe she'd have given me!
Ah well, free tools!
What was a bit weird was finding in amongst the tools about 20 Heaf test needles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaf_test
And more weird.... a bag of about 30 speculums!!! Hubby had been a Doctor... taking your work home with you???
Cheers,
James
Well they do say you should never give up on gynaecology completely. Important to keep your hand in and all that
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 9/4/11 at 09:32 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by BenB
Well they do say you should never give up on gynaecology completely. Important to keep your hand in and all that
Doctor joke alert!
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Doctor Derek Doctors
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| posted on 9/4/11 at 04:14 PM |
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Just shows that its good to be nice to people.
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