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I just bought a new transmission for my tow-behind rototiller. Both sides of the housing were cracked. To buy the housing parts would have cost nearly $600. To buy a complete transmission with new gears, bearings, chain, etc., was $250. Lucky, if it had been made by Toyota you would have had to hock your house for the repair. My point is that they don't want to stock parts, just the whole item. Like shovel handles, they don't want to waste space in the store for low profit parts. They either don't sell them or they jack up the price to an unreasonable level. They don't want to stock all those individual transmission parts so they price them way higher than they're worth. I understood your point...but I own Toyotas and it amuses me to point out just how damnably expensive anything with the "big T" on it is in comparrison to anything else.
These are my opinions, feel free to disagree.
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If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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Oh man, I have a definite weakness for old catalogues!
These are my opinions, feel free to disagree.
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If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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Blew my mind, the first time I saw roofers climbing on to a roof with shovels. WTF? These shovels had a straight edge with teeth and a D handle. They were quite handy at stripping the shingles and felt off the wood surface. Years later, I was on one of those crews, and used the same type of shovels. It took shingles, felt and nails in one pass.
An unemployed Jester, is nobody's Fool.
the only real difference between a good tracker and a bad tracker, is observation. all the same data is present for both. The rest, is understanding what you're seeing.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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I have a few shovels and hard tine rakes with broken handles and noticed a replacement handle is more expensive than a shovel.
I have a post hole digger and a sharpshooter that have 1.25" 16ga steel tubing handles so I don't throw the tools away but I am sure a lot end up in landfills.
So what's behind the cost, lower demand for handles due to cheap throwaway tools? Hmm. I think I've broken maybe 1 handle in my lifetime. IMHO maybe they're breaking because the owner's trying to do more with the tool than it can logically handle.. Ya think?
Ex- USN (SS) '66-'69 Pro-Constitution. LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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So, what y’all northern folks call a grubbin’ hoe? Edit! Btw, the tool I’ve spent many miserable hours usin’!
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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I was dragged grudgingly to a thrift store last summer to look for a chair to wait it out while the women folk filled bags with stuff we don't need. To my surprise I found this gem. Couldn't find a price anywhere on the thing, and finally summoned a worker there. It was written in black marker...no, not $200, or $20, the shovel...er, spade, was a whopping $2! I'd fill the pickup bed with them if I could find more.
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Me, I just call a spade, a spade. ... About those spades... There was a construction site next to a convent. Workers being who they are, the language was pretty rough. Some of the nuns in the convent were offended by the language and finally one young nun went to the mother superior to complain. Mother Superior listened to her complaint then said "Sister Mary, these are good, hardworking men who simply call a spade a spade." "But Mother Superior, that's the problem. They don't call a spade a spade. They call it a f...king shovel."
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Me, I just call a spade, a spade. ... About those spades... There was a construction site next to a convent. Workers being who they are, the language was pretty rough. Some of the nuns in the convent were offended by the language and finally one young nun went to the mother superior to complain. Mother Superior listened to her complaint then said "Sister Mary, these are good, hardworking men who simply call a spade a spade." "But Mother Superior, that's the problem. They don't call a spade a spade. They call it a f...king shovel."
An unemployed Jester, is nobody's Fool.
the only real difference between a good tracker and a bad tracker, is observation. all the same data is present for both. The rest, is understanding what you're seeing.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Agree. I needed to replace an axe and a maul handle recently. The store where I bought those implements carries handles but had none that fit my heads. No one seems to warehouse much anymore, but they will gladly assure a delivery in 5 to 7 days. If that was what I wanted, I'd do the order myself.
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Boy, you guys really like shovels.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Wife's dad used to do a bit of genealogy research which often involved looking over old last will and testaments. Apparently common hand tools were prized and valued possessions back in the old days as each tool was included and itemized by detailed description separately in wills with names of who was supposed inherit what tool.
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Boy, you guys really like shovels.
Right? a shovel thread will get more hits than a pussy thread.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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When I get a shovel for the orchard.....usually at the flea market....I’ll clean all the dirt out of the socket and let it dry. Then I turn the shovel upside down and fill the socket with a two part epoxy. If a lot of space I add BBs. Good epoxy is pricey. Tape the other end shut if too loose.
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God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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Boy, you guys really like shovels.
Not me! I'm a hydraulic man. The shovel went into obsolescence once the backhoe was invented.
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It's tough to open corrugates in a wet field with a backhoe. A bit tough on the crop.
A shovel thread gets legs, because some of us are more familiar with a shovel than with the alternate subject mentioned.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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Sharpshooter Always called that a track shovel. What we use to clean the mud out of the tracks on bulldozers in winter so it wouldn't freeze in the sprockets. To me, that is a trencher. Tile spade around here.
Grammar is important. Capitol letters are the difference between "helping your Uncle Jack off a horse" & "helping your uncle jack off a horse".
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