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[Ralph Oborn]

In many ways I can see this group also in this discussion
about hammers or cameras or backpacks or GPS or......


http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/03/hammerforum-com


Enjoy


Ralph

[Segraves]

This is off-scale hilarious. Thanks, Ralph. :)

Post by Ralph Oborn
http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/03/hammerforum-com

[Ralph Oborn]

Read the comments!!!!! at the bottom and keep going back...

For example....
Who needs all these fancy titanium hammers and steel nails? Back when
I started woodworking we just used mortise & tenon joint and
dovetails. That’s what real carpenters did, and that’s what they still
do.


Ralph (trying to put things in perspective)

PS one of the neat things about this particular forum is the "hike
your own hike" perspective.

Post by Segraves
This is off-scale hilarious. Thanks, Ralph. :)

Post by Ralph Oborn
http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/03/hammerforum-com

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[DonL]

Speaking of hammers, I once took a light-weight plastic mallet I'd bought from Campmor, for driving tent stakes along in an area that I remembered as having a _very_ hard surface for getting tent stakes into the ground.

I got kidded and laughed at about the "unnecessary piece of junk" I brought along, until it turned out that each and every tent owner eventually came over and borrowed that mallet in order to erect their tent.

Then we discovered a cache of empty tin cans some slob campers had
left in a fairly large pile there in the wilderness, and the group decided to cart them all out. Guess what was used to smash those cans flat so we could do that? :^)

Cheers, Don L.

[Ralph Oborn]

Post by DonL
Speaking of hammers, I once took a light-weight plastic mallet I'd bought from Campmor, for driving tent stakes along in an area that I remembered as having a _very_ hard surface for getting tent stakes into the ground.
I got kidded and laughed at about the "unnecessary piece of junk" I brought along, until it turned out that each and every tent owner eventually came over and borrowed that mallet in order to erect their tent.
Then we discovered a cache of empty tin cans some slob campers had
left in a fairly large pile there in the wilderness, and the group decided to cart them all out. Guess what was used to smash those cans flat so we could do that? :^)
Cheers, Don L.

You used a tent stake hammer to smash cans?????
That is just wrong.
Of course you should have used a specialty can smashing hammer.

(waiting for someone to jump in and say "in my day we smashed cans
with our feet..... bare feet......hurt like hell but we did it
anyway....... can't trust them hammers....... )

But in this group with it's muliple use ethic, folks would probably
insist that the hammer also serve as a fire lighter, bear bag, spork,
rain hat, and river forder.


Ralph

Post by DonL
Speaking of hammers, I once took a light-weight plastic mallet I'd bought from Campmor, for driving tent stakes along in an area that I remembered as having a _very_ hard surface for getting tent stakes into the ground.
I got kidded and laughed at about the "unnecessary piece of junk" I brought along, until it turned out that each and every tent owner eventually came over and borrowed that mallet in order to erect their tent.
Then we discovered a cache of empty tin cans some slob campers had
left in a fairly large pile there in the wilderness, and the group decided to cart them all out. Guess what was used to smash those cans flat so we could do that?  :^)
Cheers,  Don L.
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[Ivan Hazelton]

...and you try to tell the
young people of today that and they won't believe you.

-Ivan Hazelton

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(waiting for someone to jump in and say "in my day we smashed cans
with our feet..... bare feet......hurt like hell but we did it
anyway....... can't trust them hammers....... )
Ralph

[John Smith]

We used our foreheads to smash cans, and a good claw hammer can also be used to dig catholes.

john the xcar


You used a tent stake hammer to smash cans?????

That is just wrong.
Of course you should have used a specialty can smashing hammer.

(waiting for someone to jump in and say "in my day we smashed cans
with our feet..... bare feet......hurt like hell but we did it
anyway....... can't trust them hammers....... )

But in this group with it's muliple use ethic, folks would probably
insist that the hammer also serve as a fire lighter, bear bag, spork,
rain hat, and river forder.

Ralph

[Karl Gottshalk]

Absolutely hilarious, good to see that other groups with different
obsessions act the same.

[Cara Lin Bridgman]

A.W.E.S.O.M.E!!!!!!!!!!

As is this quote from the comments:
'Going to save me hours, Every reply ready and waiting.
I’ll just cut and paste the approiate line in my threads.

Job done.'

Post by Ralph Oborn
In many ways I can see this group also in this discussion
about hammers or cameras or backpacks or GPS or......
http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/03/hammerforum-com