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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Branson on May 06, 2012, 02:44:38 PM

Title: Four tools from the dump
Post by: Branson on May 06, 2012, 02:44:38 PM
Here's the lot, except for the extension lopper.  A "YANKEE HANDYMAN" #133H, and a YANKEE No. 30A, both by North Brothers.

Title: Re: Four tools from the dump
Post by: 1930 on May 07, 2012, 05:13:39 PM
What a nice little plane
Title: Re: Four tools from the dump
Post by: Dakota Woodworker on May 07, 2012, 06:24:59 PM
I like all of those kind of tools.  Nice finds there, sometimes the dump has some great stuff.
Title: Re: Four tools from the dump
Post by: 1930 on May 07, 2012, 06:43:18 PM
Quote from: Dakota Woodworker on May 07, 2012, 06:24:59 PM
I like all of those kind of tools.  Nice finds there, sometimes the dump has some great stuff.
Quite a few years ago I used to bring my beach chair to the local salvage yard ( it had its own little pond :) ) and set up there for the day, I go out roaming a bit and then sit and relax for a few hours awaiting more junk to be rolled in.

Good old days before marriage
Title: Re: Four tools from the dump
Post by: Branson on May 07, 2012, 07:17:34 PM
Quote from: Dakota Woodworker on May 07, 2012, 06:24:59 PM
I like all of those kind of tools.  Nice finds there, sometimes the dump has some great stuff.

The Yankees were pretty much throw-ins.  The hatchet...  different look, still sharp(!) and I had nothing like it.  I am constitutionally unable to resist an edged tool.  The plane... never saw one like this before, and it's usable as is (I'll make it better!).  This particular dump is my (and my wife's and my elder step-son's) favorite shopping center!  Non tool acquisitions this past Saturday included an over the refrigerator cabinet for $5, and for the same 5, several good books (one on tool sharpening) and a copy of Lawrence of Arabia in video.