Tools?

spinners1 wrote:
We are full timers and do not have a home base. So I carry a lot of tools. In 10 years in addition to fixing or adding things to the MH, doing regular service and maintenance to the MH and TV, I have built two small wooden boats, and completely restored a 1972 18 foot Sea Ray I/O. This of course also means I have two boat trailers to maintain.

This requires pretty much a full work shop but I don't have that luxury. For a while I had a portable table saw I kept in a storage area where we keep stuff we want but don't have room for. I have since sold that. I am sure I have tools I haven't used in a long while, but I have found over my life that the minute I have gotten rid of a tool, I need it, and have to run out and buy a new one. So I never get rid of a tool unless I really have to. (like the table saw. Back when I first bought the MH and sold our house, I sold my band saw. But that's about it) I believe I still have a hammer my father gave to me when I was a teenager and I am now 70 so it's seen some use. I suppose I could rent a tool if I need to, or get one from the craft shop on Fort Lewis (I am retired military so I have that option) but I would rather just buy it and keep it. I guess it's an obsession.

You mentioned that hammer. My wife came home from work one day and said that a woman she worked with husband had died. She was sorting all the stuff out to have a garage sale and said he had like 16 or 20 hammers, I cant remember exactly. My wife was looking at me and I was looking at her and I didn't react, she says oh great how many do you have? I didn't say anything.