pretty cool

[muddy]

Been putting off sorting thru grandpa's old tool box for awhile now. Found stuff I don't even know what it is. Grandpa did everything by hand, including picking corn, building the house and furniture, and just about everything in between. Some got pitched but most went back into the battered old steel tool box that barely even closes properly. Its sad, everything in his toolbox can tell amazing stories yet I'm only familiar with a few of them. The old wooden hammer we did 4H projects with, the "I 'heart' farming" button he and I won at the fair, and the old fillet knife we used on many a fish.

Biggest surprise were the pristine 1939/40/41 truck registration papers rolled up inside a metal automobile lamp repair kit from another that same time.

 

[203ntyp]

That is cool. I like finding old tools and old memories, you never know what you may find. I found an old hand made hoe that was my grandfathers, hand shaped metal and an old limb with knots all over from who knows what? I finally tried it out in the garden this year, wow, easiest hoeing if ever did, best garden tool I own now!

 

[moosehunter]

Thats pretty cool Matt. I remember as a small boy playing with all the tools in grampas tool shed which really was an old chicken coop I think. A dirt floor and a couple of planks fashioned into a work bench served as a resting place for hands full of tools that I had no idea what they were used for. I wonder how long grampa spent looking for tools after we left the farm to go back home...................

 

[Skully]

I just love finding that kind of stuff! My dad kept all of his receipt stubs from selling furs back in the 70's & 80's. I found them in his trapping basket rolled up in an old bread sack. It is amazing how things have changed. I am thinking of putting them in some kind of frame with some old pics of him running his trap line. Cool stuff Muddy! :way: