Carelessness/Stupidity/Old Age=bad afternoon at the range
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- bearandoldman
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Old saying in the service tech/mechanic business, "Never strain yourself by swinging too hard as it hurts your arm and destroys your accuracy just get a bigger hammer", maybe that is why I like the .45ACP so much.Bullseye wrote:This topic reminds me of an old saying, "If your tool box is only full of hammers, then its no wonder every problem that arises gets treated as if it were a nail."
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- Tigerbeetle
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Sorry 'bout the outcome...
I was going to suggest what I did to straighten an axle on my boat trailer one time. I had bent it big time backing into a curb or going over one with on one wheel or something similar. I jacked the trailer up, removed the axle, wheels etc, and took the axle to a buddy of mine that had a hydraulic press. A few gentle applications of a few pounds of pressure in the right places and I am still using it some 20 years later.
I have been lucky with my scopes I guess. Never had one knocked out of alignment nor bent. As the saying goes, "rather be lucky than good." TB
I have been lucky with my scopes I guess. Never had one knocked out of alignment nor bent. As the saying goes, "rather be lucky than good." TB
Work is for people who don't hunt, plink or fish. Now that I am retired, I hunt, plink and fish. Life is good.
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- bearandoldman
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to fix things. It is not the method used that counts it is the end results, eh?? I speak Canadian which is pretty close to Western UP, anything west of Escanaba eh.
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- Tigerbeetle
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Red Green
Truly one of the finest crafters of the home-fixer genre. Mays his re-runs go down in infinity, or obscurity, or something...
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- bearandoldman
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Actually we had to consult Red on that project, as my oldest sons wife is from the western end of the UP he feels as if we are countrymen.KAZ wrote:It is a good thing to be among fellow precision craftsmen who subscribe to the Red Green philosophy of dealing with life's challenges. Red would have approved of the wobble stablizer
You have great day and shoot straight and may the Good Lord smile on you.
Geeze! only pulled my finger out of the "dike" for a moment
to pick my nose and scratch my butt... (or was it the other way around)...
and got a flood of responses...
-- toy
a lot of those episodes were 'great' entertainment,
along with some useful ideas for some of my junk.
but my "favorite" was the Coffee-Machine-Lawn-Mower...
probably because I grew up tweaking those B&S engines...
and I could imagine my dad taking some engine and cleaning
it up and putting a coffee-pot behind a fake-shelf...
just to "make one"...
he once made me a little Book-shelf ornament...
a little stick-figure guy sitting on the "pot" reading a paper...
an effort of brazing and bending...
I looked and said... "uh... ok..."
He asked: "Don't you recognize the parts..." ?
it was made from Toilet-Parts...
I originally heard it as:
"to a child with a hammer ... the world is a nail"
to pick my nose and scratch my butt... (or was it the other way around)...
and got a flood of responses...
-- toy
a lot of those episodes were 'great' entertainment,
along with some useful ideas for some of my junk.
but my "favorite" was the Coffee-Machine-Lawn-Mower...
probably because I grew up tweaking those B&S engines...
and I could imagine my dad taking some engine and cleaning
it up and putting a coffee-pot behind a fake-shelf...
just to "make one"...
he once made me a little Book-shelf ornament...
a little stick-figure guy sitting on the "pot" reading a paper...
an effort of brazing and bending...
I looked and said... "uh... ok..."
He asked: "Don't you recognize the parts..." ?
it was made from Toilet-Parts...
Google: Maslow hammer nailBullseye wrote:This topic reminds me of an old saying,
"If your tool box is only full of hammers,
then its no wonder every problem that arises
gets treated as if it were a nail."
I originally heard it as:
"to a child with a hammer ... the world is a nail"