Air gun ??

isawlogs · August 17, 2011, 02:41:09 PM

I know used it late last week ... Think I could find it today :

I spend so much time looking for tools, there is just not enough time in a day to do stuff anymore :-\

Raider Bill · August 17, 2011, 03:17:57 PM

And here I thought you were starting a thread about pellet guns. :D

isawlogs · August 17, 2011, 03:47:15 PM

Ah Bill, I got over them pellet guns a long time ago , the use of powder was awarded to me and never looked back.

Raider Bill · August 17, 2011, 05:08:44 PM

oh contraire my friend, I have a pellet gun that put's out 1400 feet per second It actually has a recoil pad. I also have armor piercing pellets if you can believe that. Fruit rats don't stand a chance.

red oaks lumber · August 17, 2011, 06:19:12 PM

to many beans gives you an air gun 8)

tcsmpsi · August 17, 2011, 06:43:21 PM

I don't even know how many I have....but, I can almost always find one. ;D

SPIKER · August 17, 2011, 07:29:08 PM

I can find every air gun I own usually when I'm looking for something else cause when I'm looking for them they seem to be camo color laying strategically under some thing that is just big enough to hide them but not big enough to force me to pick it up to look under them...

I looked for one 4 times this week, to blow dry some concrete prior to applying glue for a sill plate. gave up used my tee shirt. tossed tee shirt onto bench & knocked two blow guns onto the floor :

:D I hosed off the wood dust & swept it up but was wet enough to not grab the PL400...

I too initially though pellet guns, I have a 1000FPS Rugar that takes out wood chucks ;) It kicks some which makes it hard to keep aim due to the spring revers kick that buggs me but is very accurate.

mark

Raider Bill · August 18, 2011, 10:03:32 AM

Quote from: SPIKER on August 17, 2011, 07:29:08 PM
I can find every air gun I own usually when I'm looking for something else cause when I'm looking for them they seem to be camo color laying strategically under some thing that is just big enough to hide them but not big enough to force me to pick it up to look under them...

I looked for one 4 times this week, to blow dry some concrete prior to applying glue for a sill plate. gave up used my tee shirt. tossed tee shirt onto bench & knocked two blow guns onto the floor : :D I hosed off the wood dust & swept it up but was wet enough to not grab the PL400...

I too initially though pellet guns, I have a 1000FPS Rugar that takes out wood chucks ;) It kicks some which makes it hard to keep aim due to the spring revers kick that buggs me but is very accurate.

mark

Mines a Ruger too the Air Magnum.

Autocar · August 18, 2011, 04:32:29 PM

Don't feel bad I can't find half of my tools eather. I put them in a place where I can find them then forget where that spot is :D If I had a quarter for every time I walked to the house and asked my wife to come down to the shop and see if she see's it. Sometimes I look past it and just miss it.

isawlogs · August 18, 2011, 07:31:17 PM

:D :D
Lucky for you she don't charge ya dat quarter ;D

SwampDonkey · August 18, 2011, 08:03:13 PM

My mother's uncle had a place in his shop for every tool and nail and such. When he wanted to use something it was where it was suppose to be because he always put it back when done. ;)

isawlogs · August 18, 2011, 08:23:57 PM

I'm never done :

SwampDonkey · August 18, 2011, 08:30:21 PM

I'm not quite as organized, but not bad. Still there is stuff that goes missing. I have a drafting triangle that got miss placed last winter between here and the shop. You think I can find that thing, nope. And it was, I thought, sitting on my work table in the shop. :

isawlogs · August 18, 2011, 09:39:01 PM

good thing I have six chainsaws here, swear ta god sometimes those things have legs :

And those have a dedicated home ta boot. :-\

Carpenter · August 19, 2011, 12:22:21 AM

My Dad's shop is so organized he can tell in an instant if I borrowed anything!! Mine on the other hand, I wish it was so organized.

Coon · August 19, 2011, 01:39:20 AM

Hey you guys are lucky... you have garages to lose your tools in.....me I just have a redneck workshop that I can walk into turn around and walk out of.... It is supposed to house all of my tools ... usually the biggest tool in there is me. :D :D If I look for a tool today I might find it next week and by then I can't remember what I needed it for when I do find it.... It's a really vicious circle and part of the reason I bought a sawmill..... so I can build more room to lose things. ;) ;D

submarinesailor · August 19, 2011, 06:46:18 AM

Coon,

I know exactly what you are saying. And getting old isn't helping any at all.

Bruce

isawlogs · August 19, 2011, 08:04:52 AM

Most frustating thing about searching for the darn tools is that I remember what I used it for and when .. its where I put it down that haunts me :

:-\ the thought " I know I put it here " agravates me :D :D :D

SwampDonkey · August 19, 2011, 08:37:55 AM

Loosing that triangle pithed me off as if it was a $180 hand tool. You can't buy the duplicate anywhere in these parts. :D

Raider Bill · August 19, 2011, 08:40:55 AM

I set down my lighted magnified glasses 2 weeks ago. Still haven't found them.

isawlogs · August 19, 2011, 07:03:14 PM

If'n I was you maybe I would just about to be starting to think I may be wanting to look for a unlighted magnafine glasses ans still not find it ;D

Brucer · August 21, 2011, 02:28:09 AM

9 times out of 10, whatever it is, it turns out to be in my back pocket :D.

SwampDonkey · August 21, 2011, 07:00:13 AM

Well I got lucky. I was in Presque Isle, Maine yesterday and stopped into Staples and found my triangle on the rack. 8) The old one I had for 25 years. Pays to be brand loyal, they stick around. ;)

Magicman · August 21, 2011, 08:23:33 AM

Did you get two ??? Then you would have an extra one that you can't fine. :D

Woodcarver · August 21, 2011, 08:34:49 AM

I operate on the principle that if I have two or three of something I may be able to find one when I need it. Sometimes I need four. :D

Norm · August 21, 2011, 08:52:06 AM

I don't know about the rest of you guys but seems I spend most of my time looking for things rather than doing work. If I get really desperate I'll have Patty come out and find it for me. :D

SwampDonkey · August 21, 2011, 09:02:31 AM

Well yeah, I have two now. One is a 90,45,45, and the replacement one was for the 90,60,30.

I must have some how dropped in on the floor and shoveled it into the stove for fire starter. :

Magicman · August 21, 2011, 09:29:14 AM

Men can't find stuff because we know that it is lost. Women can find stuff because they know that it is there.

Patty · August 21, 2011, 03:06:36 PM

Nah, I think it because we women actually open our eyes, and lift stuff up and look under things, around things, above things..... :D Just kidding you guys, I can't ever find anything either up in my sewing room. Usually it takes Norm to find all the pins and needles I have dropped. Somehow they end up in the bottom of his foot.

ljmathias · August 23, 2011, 10:04:39 PM

My wife (God love her, as they say down here- so do I, actually) has been on a clean-up the house and make it a fit place to live kick lately, which means all of my carefully stacked plans, notes, magazines and books are now carefully stacked somewhere I can't find them. Course, it does take a load off, now that I don't have to worry about doing the work tied up in the plans... :D

She did the same thing last year with my collection of bottles and jugs of various plant and pest poisons- took them all off to various parts of various barns, and now I can't find my sprayer or any of the spray stuff. Invasives are thriving and almost everyday I think to myself, time to do something about that, but then I realize that would mean going out to buy all the stuff I know is around here somewhere. You might say, just ask the wife where it is; her reply would be, in the barn... which one? Where at in the barn? In what box, tub or trailer? with or without the labels and instructions?....

She's a firm believer in "use it or lose it" as far as my stuff goes... her stuff? That's a different question, cause she doesn't have "stuff," just treasures and keepsakes and gifts for the next grandkid's birthday and some of next year's Christmas presents and books that she's reading or read. Makes life interesting as long as you remember what's important, and it ain't stuff.

Lj

Raider Bill · September 14, 2011, 02:56:01 PM

Quote from: Raider Bill on August 19, 2011, 08:40:55 AM
I set down my lighted magnified glasses 2 weeks ago. Still haven't found them.

Found them yesterday finally. All I had to do was go buy another set and they showed up :

PC-Urban-Sawyer · September 14, 2011, 08:35:43 PM

Quote from: Raider Bill on September 14, 2011, 02:56:01 PM
Quote from: Raider Bill on August 19, 2011, 08:40:55 AM
I set down my lighted magnified glasses 2 weeks ago. Still haven't found them.

Found them yesterday finally. All I had to do was go buy another set and they showed up :

Bill,

They was right there beside the four tape measures I've bought...

Herb

davidlarson · September 14, 2011, 11:08:46 PM

For many years I had a workshop with tools scattered around, in such chaos that often I couldn't find the one I needed. Several years ago I inherited my father's workshop full of tools, so then I had some duplicates, and the problem only got worse. My usual work habit, often, was to buy a new hammer, bow saw, lopper, utility knife, screw driver or whatever, when after a serious search I couldn't find the tool I knew I had "somewhere."

My wife has a friend whose job is to help people who are not organized to organize their house or garage or workshop. She hired this woman and we went to work on my shop. For the first time in my life (I'm now 71) my shop is truly organized, and when I need a particular tool, I can find it quickly, so jobs get done much more easily. The embarrassing thing is that now I have 8 bow saws, 12 hammers, 13 utility knives, etc., etc., for everyone to see. I haven't had to buy any tools for quite a while.
This woman has changed my life -- at least the home handyman part of it. She seems to have many happy customers, but she says she declines to work for hoarders -- people who are pack rats, and can't throw anything away.

David L.

Al_Smith · September 15, 2011, 06:11:31 AM

I have to be one of the most unorganized persons on the globe .This is one reason I have just tons of junk ,more tools than you can shake a stick at .It's certainly nothing to be proud of just a habit that seems to be impossible to break . The only reason I can find anything is because I have so many duplicates .

Every so many years it all gets somewhat orderly but unfortunately doesn't stay that way very long .

Raider Bill · September 15, 2011, 10:08:53 AM

Quote from: davidlarson on September 14, 2011, 11:08:46 PM
For many years I had a workshop with tools scattered around, in such chaos that often I couldn't find the one I needed. Several years ago I inherited my father's workshop full of tools, so then I had some duplicates, and the problem only got worse. My usual work habit, often, was to buy a new hammer, bow saw, lopper, utility knife, screw driver or whatever, when after a serious search I couldn't find the tool I knew I had "somewhere."

My wife has a friend whose job is to help people who are not organized to organize their house or garage or workshop. She hired this woman and we went to work on my shop. For the first time in my life (I'm now 71) my shop is truly organized, and when I need a particular tool, I can find it quickly, so jobs get done much more easily. The embarrassing thing is that now I have 8 bow saws, 12 hammers, 13 utility knives, etc., etc., for everyone to see. I haven't had to buy any tools for quite a while.
This woman has changed my life -- at least the home handyman part of it. She seems to have many happy customers, but she says she declines to work for hoarders -- people who are pack rats, and can't throw anything away.

David L.

David, Does she travel I could sure use someone like that!

Another problem I have is..... [well one of many but that's a whole different thread] is that I take tools and equipment to Tenn and leave them or vise versa then spend time looking for it at the other place. Somehow all 3 of my 4ft levels are in Tenn and I need one here.

isawlogs · September 15, 2011, 12:08:27 PM

Bill, something tells me you will be the proud owner of four 4 foot levels in the near futur, if it ain't done yet. :P ;D

Al_Smith · September 15, 2011, 01:03:12 PM

Well my 4 foot level is one item I know exactly where it's at .I've got something like 120 bucks in that thing ,mahogany Empire with a case to protect it .Nobody uses that thing but me .What that thing would cost today I'd hate to guess but it's a good one .

beenthere · September 15, 2011, 01:14:11 PM

Al
I had one of those, and my son was using it to build his house. Had to keep all his tools in his SUV as couldn't leave the good ones at the construction site. One night, his SUV was broken into and all our tools were stolen.

Raider Bill · September 15, 2011, 01:44:05 PM

Quote from: Al_Smith on September 15, 2011, 01:03:12 PM
Well my 4 foot level is one item I know exactly where it's at .I've got something like 120 bucks in that thing ,mahogany Empire with a case to protect it .Nobody uses that thing but me .What that thing would cost today I'd hate to guess but it's a good one .

So I guess you won't be letting me borrow it for a weekend?

Al_Smith · September 15, 2011, 07:05:15 PM

Yeah sure but it would cost you more to drive up here than it would to buy a new level .That is of course unless you're one of those fortunate few with a oil well in the back yard .

Oh then you have to built a vacuum still ,filtration, permits ,EPA bs ,income tax,state tax ,sales tax ,carpet tacks and 10 thousand other nonsensical things just so you can use the oil .Maybe not a good plan .There's always flea bay . ;D

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