Dad's tools!

[Andy4639]

As a young boy I got my ass whopped a lot for using my dad's tool and not putting them back in the box. I worked on my bike and would leave them laying on the drive way. He would come home and whop my ass. I finally started putting them back but not every time!

My dad bought this cabinet in the 50's when he started working at the Chevy dealership in Yazoo City Mississippi.

So here is what is left of his 1950's craftsman tool box. I took these pictures last weekend 9-15-20. It's hanging up still in his garage. One day it will be hanging up in my garage I hope. Not all of those tool are craftsman but he does have some of the original ones.

I now understand why he whopped my ass for leaving them out.

['63GENIII]

I think its a DNA deficiency of all gear head kids. Just two weeks ago I found the short 7/16 socket that Ive been missing for two years. In the banana plant mulch in the front yard no less....I'd already bought a replacement when OSH closed here.

Most of the time I look in the boy's room. Craftsman never guaranteed that id find the tools in his room, but I do every time! Always working on his BMX, trading, swapping and changing parts for better ones. Guess I can't complain too much. Most of his buddies are playing minecraft or other games while he's wrenching. Could be worse.

One day I'll pass on my empty tool box to him

[special-K]

"Put them back so I can find them just as easy as you did"... My broken record scold

[Keith Seymore]

It's getting to where I set my tools down and they evaporate.

I spend most of my time looking for a screwdriver or wrench I just had in my hand.

I did find a long lost screwdriver in the trunk of my son's car. The bad news is: the more I think about it the more I think I am the one that left it there.

K

[special-K]

Oh sure, misplacing tools. I'm doing that constantly. I'll be looking and thinking "Takes 20 #+*! minutes to find the #+*! tool to do the #+*! job that takes 5 #+*! minutes". It's not all bad, though. It gives me someone to talk to when there's no one else around.

[Andy4639]

I have that problem also. I'll set something down and a minute later it's gone are it's not where I'm standing and I have no clue where it went. This guy is always around to when it happens.
I wouldn't have it any other way either. The other day he came walking in the house and had one of my little speed wrenches in his hand. I asked him what he had he said one of my tools. I asked him what he need for he said his train wasn't working he was going to fix it. So we did!

[100%Chevy]

When we 4 boys were teens,we always used dad's tools,all the time.
My dad would yell at us--" Everytime I want to work on my car,I have to mow the grass and find my tools!"
He finally had to lock them in the trunk of his car!
When I was 12,( in 1965) I bought a set of tools at Western Auto.I still have most of them.they are called Westline brand.
I have my dad's tools too.
Mike.

[blazer2007]

I remember my nephew as a very young boy playing with my brothers tools and he was having fun putting them all in the tailpipe of his 56 ford truck

[67C10Step]

Oh man, does this thread really hit home. My son is now gone to college and I bought my wife her own set of "house tools" so mine don't walk around or off nearly as much as they used to.

On another "Dad's tools" note: While in the process of tearing down the rear end of my truck the bolt on the frame side of the panyard bar was 15/16". I went to my bigger wrench drawer and the 15/16" I have is a Snap On that I got from my Dad. I smiled and quietly said "Thanks, Dad" as I walked across the shop with it in my hand.

My father passed away at the young age of 56 back in 2003. Many of the tools I still use today he bought for me or I got from him when he passed. Somewhere I have a complete SK 3/8" ratchet and socket (with metal box) set that I managed to piece together from all his tools. One of the neatest and most used is a device from Snap On that when you put it on your 1/2" breaker bar it becomes a ratchet.

[Killer Bee]

my dad was the same way and so am I, the key is organization..

my kids may think losing mom's tupperware is bad but they know the toolbox rules

and I firmly believe they'll appreciate it when it's all theirs..

[Malibu Monte]

I found this tire spoon in the road the other day and stopped and picked it up. Got home and my son said that is cool Dad what is it for, I told him it was for fixing tires. Next thing I know he has claimed it. He also claims all of my "smaller" wrenches. I try not to be too hard on him about it, I am just glad he is interested in the stuff.

[Lemield]

My dad (who I lost in 2002), was always telling me to put the tools back. His rule was when you are done, wipe the tools off and put them back where they belong. For the most part I did pretty well...To this day, I will wipe the tools off and put them back so that the next time you have a clean tool that you can find.

Fast forward to May 2019, I had to sell my Moms house to put her in a memory care facility. I got my Dad's triple decker Craftsman tool box full of tools....Well...I have a ton more tools than my Dad ever had so I sold the whole setup (minus some sentimental value tools) to a friend here at work...he and his son are now using them.

[Killer Bee]

Originally Posted by Malibu Monte

I found this tire spoon in the road the other day and stopped and picked it up. Got home and my son said that is cool Dad what is it for, I told him it was for fixing tires. Next thing I know he has claimed it. He also claims all of my "smaller" wrenches. I try not to be too hard on him about it, I am just glad he is interested in the stuff.

very cool but if he's anything like mine, better check you lugs and every nut n bolt that wrench fits regularly

[Malibu Monte]

Originally Posted by Killer Bee

very cool but if he's anything like mine, better check you lugs and every nut n bolt that wrench fits regularly

Good point! I will have to watch out for that. A while back my in-laws were babysitting at my house and they caught him taking off light switch covers with his toy screwdriver!

[GOPAPA]

Andy,that is really neat to have that many tools that your dad had.. my dad was a Monkey Wards tool buyer,, I have a box end wrench that is a Wards Lake side ,,and i had a few more wrenches that I gave my son that were his and they had something like master inscribed on each wrenches
..

[rsavage]

Andy - love that you still have your Dad's tools. My Dad was a carpenter. I have a lot of his wood working tools that remind me of him. When I was a kid, me and my bestie built forts all over the property. My Dad must have had 15 hammers - which I lost through time. I had to resort to using a 2 lb brass hammer. I keft it laying in the grass. The next time my Dad mowed the lawn, he hit it with the lawn mower and it bent the crankshaft ruining the mower. My butt was sore for awhile.

[Andy4639]

Love hearing all these stories. I'm very gratefull to have him still.

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by Andy4639

Love hearing all these stories. I'm very gratefull to have him still.

You be lucky. My dad died at the tender age of 58 from tobacco use, in '88. My mom died in y2k from tobacco use as well. We sold off most of their possessions at that time, and now I'm drawing a blank on where my dad's tools went, 19 years later. I got the '60s Craftsman drill press and planer-molder, but he had a ton of tools. He had a side business upholstering pre-war vehicles and had some make 100% on the interiors at Concours d'elegance. A Pierce Arrow sticks in my mind as an example that the owner and my dad found enough pictures to make the interior that nice.

[Chevyland]

Very cool thread

My tool box would be a downer
If I posted it here

[special-K]

My dad was totally unorganized with his tools. He was like the kid who never put anything back. And he'd go nuts looking for them too. I learned from that what not to do and from observing how guys did in their shops, which is where I spent a lot of time. Tools are one place I've been accused of being anal. It's just get a method and stick with it.

Hey! I just spotted the phillips head under the bed I was using last month out back on the BBQ

[67C10Step]

Reading through the additional posts reminded me of the conversation my wife and I had that made me decide to purchase her a set of house tools.

I was working in my shop and found a screw driver in the adjustable wrench drawer and a pair of pliers in the socket drawer. Hmmm, strange things are afoot at the Circle K. Wife comes out to the shop and I ask, "Have you been borrowing my tools?" She replies, "Yes, how did you know?" To which I reply, "Because a few of them were in the wrong drawers." Her response was, "You know what drawer every tool is in?"

Right then I knew to promote domestic tranquility and just get her a simple set of her own.

[Andy4639]

I have also made my wife a little tool kit in the laundry room for house work. She and my daughter both use it as I when working inside.
I will be making Rhett a small tool kit as well for him to have. He loves being in the garage with me and playing.

[CG]

My stuff is always a mess. Every once in a while I get frustrated and gather it all up in a pile and reorganize it. Funny thing is Im missing my ten millimeter (cliché I know) box wrench.

Long after I was gone and living my own life my dad would come by and see a socket here or there in my garage and accuse me of taking his sockets. Good grief dad, Ive been out of the house for 20 years, have a ton more tools than you ever thought of having and you think my craftsman socket belongs to you?

[jeffahart]

Originally Posted by Andy4639

As a young boy I got my ass whopped a lot for using my dad's tool and not putting them back in the box. I worked on my bike and would leave them laying on the drive way. He would come home and whop my ass. I finally started putting them back but not every time!

My dad bought this cabinet in the 50's when he started working at the Chevy dealership in Yazoo City Mississippi.

So here is what is left of his 1950's craftsman tool box. I took these pictures last weekend 9-15-20. It's hanging up still in his garage. One day it will be hanging up in my garage I hope. Not all of those tool are craftsman but he does have some of the original ones.

I now understand why he whopped my ass for leaving them out.

Super cool... I want it!

j

[Andy4639]

Originally Posted by jeffahart

Super cool... I want it!

j

Thanks man.

I have seen them for sell on the net before.
Money want buy this one though, not form me anyway.

http://jijuhiloqa.co/wall-mounted-to...hanic-mount-w/