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Showerthought: I finally counted every hammer in my rack and hit 41, that number shocked me
I was cleaning the corner of my garage last Saturday and decided to count every hammer I own, just for fun. I figured maybe 20, but the real number came out to 41, and that's not even counting the ones in the truck. Some are from my grandad, some I forged myself in the backyard, and a few I picked up at a swap meet in Cheyenne for two bucks each. Back when I started at 16, I only had one cross peen and I thought that was plenty. Now I've got ball peens in four sizes and I still reach for the same old one every time. What's the weird one in your rack that you never use but can't seem to get rid of?
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samk7710d ago
Funny thing about the number 41 is that it sneaks up on you in stages. My dad had maybe 6 hammers his whole life and knew where each one was, but somewhere along the way hammers quit being tools and turned into souvenirs. Here is the angle nobody talks about: every one of those 41 is a little memory of a project or a person, so the count is really a count of jobs you finished and folks you knew. That drawer full of extras is basically a photo album that weighs 60 pounds. The one I never touch is a stubby tack hammer with a cracked handle from my uncle's estate, useless for anything I do, and it stays because throwing it out would feel like throwing out him.
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