When your pretty daughter brings her new boyfriend home to meet you, you take him down to the barn, hand him this, and tell him to "cut a 5/8ths rivet block in that angle iron over there."
It's nonsense, but he won't know that, and then you can smile as he tries to "cut a rivet block."
You won't believe it, but I have one in my tool box.
ReplyDeleteI have one too. I believe.
DeleteOh, I would have been lucky to have a tool like that when I was working fences. Shit, I had to re use nails.
ReplyDeleteThat brings back memories of my youth,building fences on the farm with my Father using that tool.
ReplyDeleteI, uh, use mine for cutting rivets for building, um, armor and things...
ReplyDeleteEither steel rivets, nails turned into rivets, brass rivets or aluminum. All cut easy with this tool (and a supplemental hammer sometimes.)
And, it is just a damned handy tool. The hook is great for aligning holes in metal, the hammer end is great for light jobs.
Plus, it's a handy self-defense tool. I can tell, considering the number of times I've pinched the living snot out of myself after forgetting to use gloves...
You pass the test. You can date my daughter.
DeleteThank you for the offer, but my wife might have something to say about it.
DeleteI love fence plyers. They are like the original western multi-tool. One whack in the head with the beak end will beat out a Leatherman any day, haha.
I have a red handle set in the truck toolbox along with a small supply of the barbed wire V shaped nails.
ReplyDeleteWe had several. My father was adept at losing tools by not putting them away. Good excuse to head to town and buy another one.
ReplyDeleteAnd there is one in the truck, and one in the car down under the spare tire where my get home bag stuff lives.
ReplyDelete'Taint good at anything, but is adequate for a lot of jobs.
and one tool, not 8.
I've actually used 'em on fencelines too.....
Somewhere in the basement is my dad's old pair. It has the double grip on top, rather than the single. Unfortunately, there's no fence around my place, but I put it through its paces on the old homestead when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteI touched a nerve with this post, and I never really know when a post will do that. I am heartened by how many of us have one. We are one and all, without doubt, manly men.
DeleteLOL - Without a DOUBT, CW!
Delete10.5" is the Ladies model, chief. ( :) )
ReplyDeleteLineman's pliers do make a handy sap. I witnessed the crusty old timer lay a punk out with a pair. I imagine these would serve same purpose.
ReplyDeleteAll mine are painted florescent colors so they can be found easier in the snow/mud/grass/weeds and pickup beds. Same with the fence stretchers, cheaters and hammers.
ReplyDeleteBobwire chores rate right up there with cleaning up fresh calf scours on the pickup seat at night in a blizzard when the dome light quits working, the flashlight is dimmer than a candle, and you can't find your other glove and the mice have shredded the roll of paper towels and the Pendletons has leaked out of the flask because the cap gasket split the last time you took a nip. soapweed
I hope I never use one again
ReplyDeletePaul in Texas
I hope I never use one again
ReplyDeletePaul in Texas
I grew up on a cattle (not far from you C.W. over above Fiddletown) with barb wire fences. First time I used one I was about seven. Nothing better for pulling fence staples. Worked many a mile of fence pulling the slack out of sagging fence wire with one.
ReplyDeleteBig wine grape country now, that Fiddletown.
DeleteYup, same here. The old camp house down in Goliad had a couple pairs of those, properly 50+ years old, still laying around in the tool room. Used them a few times myself. No idea of how many other hands have touched them before me.
ReplyDeleteLOL, last count I've got about 7 pairs of fence pliers: a pair in every vehicle, the go bag, one in each tool box, one in the range bag, and a spare... all with florescent pink duck tape on them so they don't wander off and get lost. Fixed a lot of fence and assorted other things with those handy dandy all in one tools.
ReplyDeleteThe fence will be a little bit higher than that. And we're planning to added some decorative lattice or something like that to the top of the fence. So, that will make it seem even higher. local fence installers
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