Grrr!

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:08 am

haha

The first Modis i purchased was about 8500 bucks

which is more than i've ever purchased a vehicle for

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:14 am

I brought home 1500+ bucks in tools just to work on another KK in less than 7 hours.... Sad thing is that is not a lot of tools

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:22 am

1500 in tools?

Now that i'm not buyin Snap-On and buying Greatneck or Northern Tool equipment, i can get a lot of tools for 1500 bucks

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:40 am

no snap off stuff in the bucket... some mac, matco and a chunk of it is my makita impact

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:43 am

i've switched all of my electrical stuff to Rigid, their high torque cordless drills are the *#*&!!!!

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:13 am

man the price of tools has went way up since I started buying them in the early 70s, then if you had $500/$750 tied up in tools you were one he77 of a great mechanic, you had everything you ever needed. :lol:

Now days you have to have 5000 just tied up in the tool box before you start buying tools :shock:

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:41 am

thats about what my main tool box was when i was at the diesel shop, friggin 6000 dollar tool box

i beat the crap out it, hit it with trucks, set it on fire god knows what else and when I left I still got 6000 for it

Boiler · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:19 am

tommudd wrote:

man the price of tools has went way up since I started buying them in the early 70s, then if you had $500/$750 tied up in tools you were one he77 of a great mechanic, you had everything you ever needed. :lol:

Now days you have to have 5000 just tied up in the tool box before you start buying tools :shock:

Hey Tom, how much was a loaf of bread? :lol:

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:28 am

Boiler wrote:

tommudd wrote:

man the price of tools has went way up since I started buying them in the early 70s, then if you had $500/$750 tied up in tools you were one he77 of a great mechanic, you had everything you ever needed. :lol:

Now days you have to have 5000 just tied up in the tool box before you start buying tools :shock:

Hey Tom, how much was a loaf of bread? :lol:

bread 19 to 35 cents and I pumped plenty of gas at 39/40 cents...high test at that. Quart of Valvoline oil 79 cents, spark plugs 70 to 90 cents

best thing is I still have most all of my tools I bought back then, sold off my big ( for then) tool box since a big tool box does not make a real mechanic ( thats what the old timers said when I got "the big tool box" ) :wink:

Thats back when a car pulled in you listened to the engine and could tell what was wrong, didn't have someone hooking up a heart monitor to it, charging you 200 bucks and then saying well you need 500 more dollars worth of repairs. Very few real mechanics left in the world today....most only are trained to replace parts..rant over :lol:

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:16 pm

no heart monitors

but a stethascope helped, or a good thin long screw driver

Guest · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:54 pm

JeepinJarhead03 wrote:

no heart monitors

but a stethascope helped, or a good thin long screw driver

ThunderbirdJunkie prefers a prybar. A good one, with the tang that extends through the end of the handle.

Snap on...Blech.

oddball · **Posted:** Sun Jun 07, 2009 9:46 am

tommudd wrote:

best thing is I still have most all of my tools I bought back then, sold off my big ( for then) tool box since a big tool box does not make a real mechanic ( thats what the old timers said when I got "the big tool box" ) :wink:

Thats back when a car pulled in you listened to the engine and could tell what was wrong, didn't have someone hooking up a heart monitor to it, charging you 200 bucks and then saying well you need 500 more dollars worth of repairs. Very few real mechanics left in the world today....most only are trained to replace parts..rant over :lol:

Yeah but c'mon tom, some of those old timer's were just cranky, didn't like change, and felt threatened by the younger guys. :lol:

One time while working out at one of our smaller quarries (which also sold retail products) on a Saturday and this old guy was buying stones for his daughter's new home. I had parked my front loader outside the scale house / office and was heading inside when this guy stopped me to chat. He told me he had retired as a Operating Engineer (about 15 years ago at that time) and asked if he could peek inside my machine. The old guy had no problem climbing the ladder to look inside but I had to laugh when he said, "&$#(!&!, you've got everything in here but the kitchen sink!" - Referring to my air ride seat, CB, stereo system and AC in the cab. :lol:

I suppose it's only a few short years until I become a cranky old timer too. :wink:

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:53 am

Jeepinjarhead,

Is your project going to have refrigeration to it also? Gotta keep certain things cold. No, not that thing. No shrinky dinky. :lol:

chava_olllllllo · **Posted:** Sun Jun 07, 2009 2:11 pm

tommudd wrote:

Boiler wrote:

tommudd wrote:

man the price of tools has went way up since I started buying them in the early 70s, then if you had $500/$750 tied up in tools you were one he77 of a great mechanic, you had everything you ever needed. :lol:

Now days you have to have 5000 just tied up in the tool box before you start buying tools :shock:

Hey Tom, how much was a loaf of bread? :lol:

bread 19 to 35 cents and I pumped plenty of gas at 39/40 cents...high test at that. Quart of Valvoline oil 79 cents, spark plugs 70 to 90 cents

best thing is I still have most all of my tools I bought back then, sold off my big ( for then) tool box since a big tool box does not make a real mechanic ( thats what the old timers said when I got "the big tool box" ) :wink:

Thats back when a car pulled in you listened to the engine and could tell what was wrong, didn't have someone hooking up a heart monitor to it, charging you 200 bucks and then saying well you need 500 more dollars worth of repairs. Very few real mechanics left in the world today....most only are trained to replace parts..rant over :lol:

LOL exactly what my dad said when we purchased my KK can not agree with you more though. :cry:

All these computers on my car makes me uneasy.

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 07, 2009 2:35 pm

Tokyojoe wrote:

Jeepinjarhead,

Is your project going to have refrigeration to it also? Gotta keep certain things cold. No, not that thing. No shrinky dinky. :lol:

Duhhh!!!

Gotta keep the beer..errr birdseed chilled

zzack92 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:50 pm **Posts:** 371

JeepinJarhead03 wrote:

i also feel tarded for not recognizing Bruce Campbell in Burn Notice as the dude from Army of Darkness/Evil Dead

can't believe it took an entire season for me to realize this

I.LOVE. Burn Notice!

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:57 pm

Bruce was excellent in Army of Darkness.

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:34 pm

ya seen all of the AOD / evil deads?

it's pretty halarious to watch them all in a row, and see how they 'screwed' up the story line in the differing movies that had the same story

Grrr!

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