[AT] Pitchforks - new vs. old.

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Not to long ago my Father in law got a whole box of different sized hammer 
handles at an auction.  The box had any size you could ever want, or need. 
I don't know how much he paid, but if I know him it wasn't very much.

David D. Gibson
1941 Allis Chalmers B
1942 Allis Chalmers C
1947 Allis Chalmers C
1948 Allis Chalmers C
1972 Allis Chalmers Homesteader
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 3:08 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Pitchforks - new vs. old.


>I just went through the "handle problem" a couple of weeks ago, Farmer.
> I was only looking for a hammer handle to replace the one that broke on
> my favorite cross peen machinist's hammer, but I couldn't find any
> carried by the local retailers.  I complained about the situation with
> my cousins out in Colorado, and they kind of blinked in disbelief.  Ace
> Hardware stores west of the Mississippi (or at least in the high plains)
> carry a full range of replacement handles for everything under the sun.
> Not only was I able to buy a handle out in Wray, Colorado, but it was
> sized specifically for the hammer that I was working with.  But you're
> right -- the price was more than the cost of a new hammer, if you want
> to call the stuff that's currently available a "hammer."  The new stuff
> sure doesn't have the quality of the old True Temper brand from several
> decades ago.
>
> Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Indiana
> Robinson
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 11:11 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Pitchforks - new vs. old.
>
> On 25 Mar 2005 at 11:23, DAVIESW739 at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Boy sure took you a long time to learn that the  old stuff is a lot
> better
>> than that junk they sell now a days.
>>
>> I have an  old 4 prong pitchfork that I use daily to feed with its ten
> time
>> better than any  new one I know I have tried them too. I even spent $8
> to get a
>> new handle for it  last summer.
>>
>
>
>
> Hi Walt:
>
> It took me a long time because I have a good supply of the good
> old stuff and seldom
> have occasion to use the new stuff.   :-)
> Dang !!! handles are getting high though. I priced one not long
> ago in a farm store and
> it was higher than a new tool with a comparable handle. I watch for flea
> markets where
> some guys sell seconds from the handle factory.
>
>
> -- 
> "farmer", Esquire
> At Hewick Midwest
>      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
>
> Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish
> Highlands,
> Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. Here 100
> years
> before the revolution.
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
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