On Jan 26, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 05:53 PM Monday 1/25/2010, Julia wrote:
I love wearing a Workman model Utilikilt and sticking a hammer in
the tool
loop, just so *I* can answer the question, "How's the hammer
hanging?" (Of
course, it doesn't happen often, and is more likely to be a rubber
mallet,
the sort that's useful for pounding tent stakes into the ground.)
Julia
Some places the ground is hard enough to make a rubber mallet
useless for that purpose. Carrying a sledge hammer of sufficient
size in a tool loop on an article of clothing more commonly worn in
these parts, however, might lead to one being the subject of the
tune made popular recently by commercials for _American Idol_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMwhl4IrPNc
)
. . . ronn! :)
I've been known to use 60d bridge spikes, due to two things rather
common in the places I've had to camp in Texas: 1) buried bits of
limestone, and 2) caliche. Driving those usually doesn't require a
sledgehammer, but it often requires a 2 lb crosspeen hammer.
(It's rather interesting to both hear and feel one of those little
rocks splitting under the spike when I drive it in. Under similar
conditions, I have actually snapped the top off of vendor-supplied
plastic stakes, and remember hearing a flying bit of one whizzing past
my ear Hollywood-ricochet style once. That was shortly before i
switched to bridge spikes, which don't break. Even if they are
sometimes pure *#&^$&* to pull up.)
"Oh yeah? Well, I speak LOOOOOOOUD, and I carry a BEEEEEEEger stick --
and I use it too!" **whop!** -- Yosemite Sam
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