Re: FOUND A HANDY SHOP TOOL

My brother built one just like it. He used it to handle rattlesnakes. No fooling. George

I've found the business end of a shovel to be a more cost-effective and permanent solution to that problem. :-)

of those things without remembering my dear, departed great aunt.

She jumped out of a hay loft as a girl, and dislocated both of her hips. Nobody ever noticed. The balls on the ends of her femurs wore new sockets into the bones of her hips, and she got around pretty well for awhile. Eventually, the awkward angle of her legs blew out her knees, so she had to get knee replacements done back in the '60s. She had huge railroad track scars from the middle of her shins halfway up her thighs. This bought her some good years, but not many. By the '70s she was having real trouble getting around again. She spent most of her life dependant on a walker. Eventually got the hips replaced, but it was too little, way too late, and she never walked without pain.

She used those things to get to cans on the top shelf, to get pans out from under the cupboard, etc. and so forth. She had a dozen of them.

I miss you, Edith. You picked a strange messenger.

Sounds like the one my brother tells, about the wife who came home with

I use a similar device to pick up pine burrs. My pickup magnet is a 3/4' rare earth magnet on the end of a length of broomstick. Not only picks up dropped screws but finds odd bits of metal, metal shavings and filings that I wish had stayed lost.

|In article , | snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net says... |> My brother built one just like it. He used it to handle rattlesnakes. |> No fooling. George |> |> | | I've found the business end of a shovel to be a more cost-effective and |permanent solution to that problem. :-)

That's what I use too. A square one of course.