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Offline Nolatoolguy

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Saved from the dump
« on: August 17, 2013, 10:46:09 PM »
I haven't been hitting sales these past weeks as school is expensive. Luckily my tool fix has been solved for the week. 


If some of you remember a while back I helped a elderly lady clean her husbands garage. All of his woodworking tools were auctioned off. She since passed and the family gave me these before they were taken to the dump.















I also got a ton of wood and hardware. The real jackpot is all the hardware, I have to back tommorow with my truck to pick it all up.
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Re: Saved from the dump
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2013, 11:00:04 PM »
Great haul, and you deserve it for the help you were to her.
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Re: Saved from the dump
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2013, 02:30:27 AM »
WOW!! great haul, great tools, please show photos of hardware when you get them...
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Re: Saved from the dump
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2013, 07:48:29 AM »
sweet!
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Re: Saved from the dump
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2013, 09:33:34 AM »
Wow!  A great reward for good deeds.
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Re: Saved from the dump
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2013, 10:17:17 AM »
I'm liking those Herbrand DBEs...
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Re: Saved from the dump
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2013, 12:31:39 PM »
Very happy for you, sir!

It's a great day when one saves vintage chrome form the scrap heap.
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Re: Saved from the dump
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2013, 05:32:35 PM »
That Crafty Toolbox is a treasure. Must be from right after WWII when they stopped using the underlined logo. I thought that all of that style had red backgrounds.
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Re: Saved from the dump
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2013, 10:27:30 PM »
Thanks guys, the hardware and wood was alot for me. Most of it was nice hardwood boards, mostly walnut and cherry, and then there was a stack vermeer three feet high. The family previously threw all the hardware in buckets an bins. I had a truckbed full of containers of screws, nails, hinges, etc. then a few buckets on the trailer. Most was new in the package. I have no real use for 25lbs of 3/4 inch brass wood screws. You can tell he liked to buy his hardware in bulk, lol. I took multiple loads to a guy I know who does custom woodworking. He made a deal with the family and I got a portion as well along with I kept just tiny bit for myself.

Here is some wood, most of the bottom stuff is destin for a bonfire later this week.










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Re: Saved from the dump
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2013, 10:30:16 PM »
Sorry for the poor qaulity pictures, there from my phone.






It all cleaned up well after dusting the wood off its really got a nice grain.

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Re: Saved from the dump
« Reply #10 on: August 19, 2013, 03:23:50 AM »
WOW!! beautiful wood..
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Re: Saved from the dump
« Reply #11 on: August 19, 2013, 11:08:00 AM »
Quote from: lbgradwell on August 18, 2013, 10:17:17 AM
I'm liking those Herbrand DBEs...

+1, very nice set of vintage Herbrand long and short pattern DBE's; excellent wrenches.

The Crafty chest is a very worthy piece too and looks to be in pretty good condition with a nice patina... in other words, a KEEPER.  The Crafty logo on the front cover was used between about 1945-1959.
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Re: Saved from the dump
« Reply #12 on: August 19, 2013, 01:50:26 PM »
Nice wood!
I lost 2/3rds of all my premium wood in fire #2
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Re: Saved from the dump
« Reply #13 on: August 19, 2013, 04:59:53 PM »
I'm drooling over the hardware.
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Re: Saved from the dump
« Reply #14 on: August 19, 2013, 08:35:10 PM »
Its hard to tell how much value you have in the hardware, screws,& nails.
Fasteners have really gotten expensive over the past few years, better hang on to them.
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