A guy and his toolkit

g'em

I have a toolkit - it was given to me by my ex-housemate who thought I'd be able to use it when I moved into a place on my own.

I put my hand it in once and cut myself on something sharp in it and it's now considered by me to be a little bag of evilness.

It's put to great use when I have to ask friends to do DIY type stuff around the apartment though. They hammer/ saw/ hang/ fix and I cook stuff to eat afterwards. It seems like a great deal to me. And in fairness I can help moving heavy stuff. I'm awesome at that :pac:

MadsL

and two, yes count them, TWO sheds for the tools that don't fit into the toolboxes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLjS3gzHetA

Luxury! I'd love a shed me.

johnayo

And just remember......................When the wheelbarrow needs fixing...........real men lie down under it to carry out the repair.:mad:

DublinWriter

Confused about wires wrote: »

Don't know how common this is, but my boyfriend has a box full of wires. Scart leads, rgb cables, various plug leads of old electrical items, I dunno what else, it just seems like a big bunch of wires to me!

The Golden Rule is that you'll only need something the week after you throw it out.

That female XLR to female 5-Pin DIN adaptor? I'm gonna need that someday, biatch!

Stheno

Cicero wrote: »

In other parts of TGC, I've come across some posters who think it's acceptable....nay..... a 21st century necessity...for the woman in their lives, to maintain control over the household toolkit..

.....spanners, wrenches, oily ball bearings, screw-drivers, Stanley knives as well as shovels, rakes and other implements of destruction.... all under the control of the female in the household...

Is a guy's life really worth living if he can't wreck the entire back garden with 6 tons of Bryko Gold pebbles or knock down an entire supporting interior wall without working under supervision from his female partner?

My drill bit set and screwdriver set have disappeared after the bf went on one of his cleaning rampages

Galvasean wrote: »

You know you are a real man when you have in your possession a stick... which is used for the sole purpose of stirring paint.

Ya need to keep it cleanish tho!

krudler wrote: »

or a rag, all men own a rag for cleaning assorted things, applying paint stripper, polishing random stuff, wiping off excess paint. :pac:

Mine also disappeared in the tsunami that was himself cleaning.

Count Duckula wrote: »

In my soon-to-be home my girlfriend will own the toolkit and do all of the DIY and I will sit around eating chocolate and being scared of spiders

Wouldn't have it any other way.

It's birds with himself, a few weeks ago I get a call in work, now we never ring each other in work, so I guessed it was important.

As follows:

Me: Hello?
Him: You know I am afraid of birds?
Me: No
Him: Well there is one in the house, what do I do?
Me: Open all windows and doors, and bird will fly out?
Him: Can't.
Me: Why not?
Him: Can't go into bird room.
Me: ok, well that's what you need to do? otherwise just wait till I get home and I'll deal with it?
Him *sulky tone*: Ok
Me: Your laptop in there?
Him: Yes.
Me: Well do as I suggested or else wait.
Him: Ok.

Cicero wrote: »

I once considered buying one of these in Aldi when they were on sale for about EUR70...


...until it dawned on me..."I don't have any trees in my garden...":(

I did too, we have leylandi that need taming and a climbing ivy from neighbours that needs removing

cedan wrote: »

Seriously lads, no one has mentioned a vise grips????

Literally the only tool you will ever need. Makes all of the following tools totally redundant:

pliers
snips
spanners from 1mm to 32(approx)
same goes for sockets
Hammer
clamps

The list is endless! An entire toolkit for around 15 or 20 quid! And it fits in your back pocket:D

You forgot that they are good for opening stubborn bottles?

staker wrote: »

I only recently finished building a workshed,only to have her indoors trying to slip her way in with the wash basket and hoover.
"OUT OUT" I says,none of that gurrly stuff in here.
Not impressed:pac:

I built a shed, and now himself indoors has taken it upon himself to heap random household crap in it I'd visions for that shed, not piles of carpet and junk, I thought shelves, toolkits, order and calm.

Plus a comfy chair for those reflective moments.

Cicero

One of the best kitchen knives you can buy..Henckel Chef's knife..the balance, the sharpness of the blade...the knife does the work and you get to keep all of your fingers....

-Trek-

The only knife you'll ever need

From stripping wires to cutting steak.

Coriolanus

Cicero wrote: »

In other parts of TGC, I've come across some posters who think it's acceptable....nay..... a 21st century necessity...for the woman in their lives, to maintain control over the household toolkit.

Name and shame.

Cicero

Nevore wrote: »

Name and shame.

I'll go check to see how much they'll pay me to keep quiet-if they refuse, I'll be back with the names

Kiva.D

Hmmm, I didn't realize men felt this way, op.
I've always had to fix things (like most women) and have accumulated a tool kit (not a pink one) out of necessity, not out of a possesive need to supervise men or construction projects. I would like not being the one to fix things, alas, the men in my life have never been adept at repairs.

Cicero

Kiva.D wrote: »

Hmmm, I didn't realize men felt this way, op.
I've always had to fix things (like most women) and have accumulated a tool kit (not a pink one) out of necessity, not out of a possesive need to supervise men or construction projects. I would like not being the one to fix things, alas, the men in my life have never been adept at repairs.

...while I started this thread with a certain "tongue in cheek'ness", now that you ask, it would probably feel a bit weird as a man, not being able to do basic DIY and having to depend on a female to do it for me..."honey, will you fix the shed door please?"...naw, can't get my head around that...:p

Kiva.D

Cicero wrote: »

...while I started this thread with a certain "tongue in cheek'ness", now that you ask, it would probably feel a bit weird as a man, not being able to do basic DIY and having to depend on a female to do it for me..."honey, will you fix the shed door please?"...naw, can't get my head around that...:p

I wish I knew more men like that - I consider it rather chivalrous.
I just fixed the back gate and the toilet (yuck) while my male housemate watched TV...

Cicero

Kiva.D wrote: »

I wish I knew more men like that - I consider it rather chivalrous.
I just fixed the back gate and the toilet (yuck) while my male housemate watched TV...

no doubt he has other talents like flower arranging...:D

Eric Cartman

I still believe a propper toolkit is a mans reserve , that said I dont let most people touch my tools

Sky King

Is it possible that the men who are 'into' toolkits are those that typically spend every day in front of a computer, and are desperately clinging to a romanticised manliness, i.e. the essence of owning a toolkit as opposed to the everyday practicality it affords?

Like, I can't really see a blockie or carpenter being so um...into their shed and their tool kits... Maybe they feel like that about computers or business cards.

Just a thought!

Eric Cartman

kilkenny flyer wrote: »

Is it possible that the men who are 'into' toolkits are those that typically spend every day in front of a computer, and are desperately clinging to a romanticised manliness, i.e. the essence of owning a toolkit as opposed to the everyday practicality it affords?

Like, I can't really see a blockie or carpenter being so um...into their shed and their tool kits... Maybe they feel like that about computers or business cards.

Just a thought!

I like my tools a lot , but they still get some fierce abuse on a daily basis , at the end of the day theyre still tools

MadsL

I still believe a propper toolkit is a mans reserve , that said I dont let most people touch my tools

I like my tools a lot , but they still get some fierce abuse on a daily basis

I think we all know where this is heading......

JayEnnis

kilkenny flyer wrote: »

Is it possible that the men who are 'into' toolkits are those that typically spend every day in front of a computer, and are desperately clinging to a romanticised manliness, i.e. the essence of owning a toolkit as opposed to the everyday practicality it affords?

Like, I can't really see a blockie or carpenter being so um...into their shed and their tool kits... Maybe they feel like that about computers or business cards.

Just a thought!

No. I've been mad about tools since I was a kid and didn't have the internet, I'd always work on my bike and then progressed onto cars/mx bikes/downhill bikes. My grandad handed me down all his tools as well so I can basically do anything that needs fixing at the age of 19. I care for the tools but at the end of the day they're going to wear out.

sentient_6

cedan wrote: »

Seriously lads, no one has mentioned a vise grips????

Literally the only tool you will ever need. Makes all of the following tools totally redundant:

pliers
snips
spanners from 1mm to 32(approx)
same goes for sockets
Hammer
clamps

The list is endless! An entire toolkit for around 15 or 20 quid! And it fits in your back pocket:D

While i agree somewhat, there are places a vice grips just cant go that a long nose sorts nicely.

I might as well have surgically attached a long nose to my hand in the last place i worked.

Owen

I've thousands spent on tools, but my favourites are my late Dad's hammer and vice grips. Bless his cotton socks, there were the only 2 things he knew how to use. I'm still fixing his screw ups over at Mum's house 20 years on :pac:

Cicero

"Dads toolbox" was a sacrosanct place - he always said, "Son" (well, he didn't say "son", I'm just doing that for effect)...he said "Son, never lend out your tools to anyone"...thought at the time "feic, ure a stingy so-and-so..."...years later, from experience of lending out various bits and pieces, I know exactly what he meant...lawnmower returned in bits....ladder broken....wheelbarrow rusted and full of dried cement...hell, he knew what he was talking about....

Coriolanus

Cicero wrote: »

"Dads toolbox" was a sacrosanct place - he always said, "Son" (well, he didn't say "son", I'm just doing that for effect)...he said "Son, never lend out your tools to anyone"...thought at the time "feic, ure a stingy so-and-so..."...years later, from experience of lending out various bits and pieces, I know exactly what he meant...lawnmower returned in bits....ladder broken....wheelbarrow rusted and full of dried cement...hell, he knew what he was talking about....

This. A hundred times this. I'd lend out my stirring stick and that's about it. Surrender all hope of getting anything back in the original state.

Stheno

Cicero wrote: »

...while I started this thread with a certain "tongue in cheek'ness", now that you ask, it would probably feel a bit weird as a man, not being able to do basic DIY and having to depend on a female to do it for me..."honey, will you fix the shed door please?"...naw, can't get my head around that...:p

As I posted tongue in cheekness but in my house the tools, drills, screwdrivers, tape measures, hammers etc are mine.

His OCD has resulted in them being in hibernation

Cicero wrote: »

no doubt he has other talents like flower arranging...:D

Tsk, tsk, I regularly get lovely flowers from my OH and on my lazy days after I've slaved away replacing lamps he arranges them most decoratively

kilkenny flyer wrote: »

Is it possible that the men who are 'into' toolkits are those that typically spend every day in front of a computer, and are desperately clinging to a romanticised manliness, i.e. the essence of owning a toolkit as opposed to the everyday practicality it affords?

Like, I can't really see a blockie or carpenter being so um...into their shed and their tool kits... Maybe they feel like that about computers or business cards.

Just a thought!

I was a destructive child I took stuff apart to see if I could put it back together, and developed a love of tools at that point.

I think the key thing if you are into tools is that you know what you do and don't have and it's maddening to think that x tool is in y place and then it's not And god knows what's happened to it

I'd a similiar issue one year when the OH's kids had a party and in some drunken game saw fit to hide all the knives in the house, including my €50 plus per knife cooking knives (I like cooking)

They were so drunk when they hid them they couldn't remember doing it, I held them hostage until they were found.