Tell us about your relationship with your favorite tool.

[Nanoose]

5 Christmases ago my son gifted me with a new wood splitting maul and I kind of felt like an ingrate because I din’t like the fiber glass handle (I always had wooden handled tools). I evenshally got around to using it (maybe just so I could tell the boy I used it) and the very first piece of wood split so easy I started thinking some kind of Christmas majic was happening. The more wood I split the more I started thinking maybe it wasn’t Christmas majic maybe it was because that maul was well desined and it felt good in my hands and by the end of the day I was singing Juke Box Hero as I slit wood – but it was a maul that felt good in my hands.
Juke Box Hero has always been speacial to me because it was the song that melted my fears that my sons would inhairate the Country music gene from their mom (they loved Juke Box Hero. Cheers!

[ECO]

I've never been able to form a good relationship with a tool or anything else. I treat my tools like crap, more of my yawd tools are outside in the weather than in my shed. If my power tools last 1-3 years it's a miracle!

BTW, my really nice hickory shaft pitch fork is great for getting under the ice that forms on my driveway.

[Wahoo]

I've got a Detriot's bad side of town-era US Army E-tool (entrenching too)--part shovel, part pick, part skull-crushing weapon when your fighting hole is overrun by the enemy and your M-16 jams--that I keep in the trunk of my car along with my machete, a hatchet, Browning .25 semiautomatic...the usual tools guys tote in their car trunk. I wouldn't part with my E-tool for any amount of money. Certainly not less than $50. Or a couple of buds of high grade...

[ECO]

I've seen the trunk of Wahoo's car and other than the bags of lime, a bag of top soil and a small bag of grass seed....his shovel is not really out of place. If you can ignore the random comments about "hopefully you like a shallow grave cause my back hurts", the shovel, lime, top soil and grass seed should not scare you.

[Wahoo]

Eco's just fibbing about the bags of line and dirt, but let me tell you a true short story. When my son made it thru bootcamp at MCRD Parris Island, I drove down to the low country of South Carolina for the graduation ceremony. The day before the dress parade ceremony, the recuits are permitted a couple of hours of on-base liberty to be with their families, have lunch in the picnic area, etc. I'd brought a cooler of drinks and two pounds of steamed shrimp, and when I opened the trunk of my car to take out the cooler, my son jumped back in surprise. "Jesus," he blurted, "you've got a friggin' arsenal in here!"

[Wahoo]

I've seen the trunk of Wahoo's car and other than the bags of lime, a bag of top soil and a small bag of grass seed....his shovel is not really out of place. If you can ignore the random comments about "hopefully you like a shallow grave cause my back hurts", the shovel, lime, top soil and grass seed should not scare you.

Eco, don't even joke around about shovels and shallow graves. That almost got me banned from another Jamaica forum.

One of the daily topics was: What's the first thing you do after sex?

My reply was, "Quickly refill the shallow grave."

Some people failed to see the humor.

[ECO]

My reply was, "Quickly refill the shallow grave."

Some people failed to see the humor.

See, that proves you are a Marine since a normal man would fall to sleep and fill the grave after a proper nap.