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Welcome Forum => Welcome Board and Introductions => Topic started by: Downwindtracker2 on December 09, 2019, 11:31:24 PM

Title: From BC
Post by: Downwindtracker2 on December 09, 2019, 11:31:24 PM

Any time one gets to talk tools , it's interesting. Since my first tools now rate as vintage, it's even old tools. I came over here to read JimC post on Craftsman teardrop ratchets. Of course mine doesn't really fit, chuckle.

I'm a retired millwright, so I've used tools to make my living. Even before I picked up a trade, in fact, I bought tools with my first pay cheque .

Title: Re: From BC
Post by: Papaw on December 10, 2019, 06:25:31 AM

Welcome to Tool Talk !

Title: Re: From BC
Post by: gibsontool on December 10, 2019, 08:17:51 AM

Hello and welcome from British Columbia.
 When you say from BC do you mean British Columbia? and if so where do you call home. I live in Prince George.

Title: Re: From BC
Post by: Downwindtracker2 on December 10, 2019, 10:38:41 AM

I'm in Abbotsford, in the Fraser Valley, but  I spent 10 years three hours north of you, left in '86.

Title: Re: From BC
Post by: gibsontool on December 10, 2019, 12:36:31 PM

I'm guessing Chetwynd or maybe Dawson Creek. I spent close to a year in Chetwynd back in 1980, I was one of the crew building West Fraser sawmill.

Title: Re: From BC
Post by: Downwindtracker2 on December 10, 2019, 02:27:49 PM

I was millwrighting  at Canfor then.  I walked in and applied as a carpenter/millwright. They hired me as a millwright, that was my start pulling wrenches.

Title: Re: From BC
Post by: p_toad on December 10, 2019, 04:28:00 PM

Glad to have to you here with us.   Hope you stay and share some tools (well, pictures  :tongue:).

Title: Re: From BC
Post by: mikeswrenches on December 11, 2019, 05:49:59 AM

Hi, and a warm welcome from sunny Florida.

Mike