Friday, September 19, 2008
The Week in Tools: Toolmonger Top 5
Toolmonger: "It’s been a busy week here at Toolmonger. If you’ve been spending time in the shop — you should! — and you haven’t had a chance to keep up with Toolmonger this week, we suggest you start with these posts, which our readers helped to select"
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I was impressed by the "Shop Storage Cabinet" that Tool Monger built for this weeks round of Top 5. All too often are we struggling for places to put things, or to find the right place to put things. Nothing ever is really the right size, or at the right height, or is secure enough, or accessible enough. One of my favorite things to do in a new theater or shop is figure out how they organize themselves. How are their meat racks built? What's their rigging box look like? What's the deal with tool storage? Its fascinating to me; all the different approaches toward organization and accessibility you can see. I'm always impressed by the innovation and creativity our shop craftsmen and stagehands come up with -- we really are a very unique and enterprising group of people.
Yeah, space organization is always impossible to manage. The pipe cutters though are pretty standard, just with handles now. It just looks like a c-clamp pipe cutter except with your hand. Not impressed.
The sweeper looks like an interesting tool that can be handy to quickly sweep up messes outside, or around the shop. Although it looks like it might be a little flimsy. The "O" handled shovel looks like it is much easier to use than a standard shovel. IT look very durable and rugged. The tube cutter is also very cool and looks like a handy tool to have. I have a similar tool, but this one look much better.
I think the 0-handle shovel is pretty cool. It's great that people are still looking for ways to make technologies better, even technologies as entrenched as the shovel. Certainly most things can be improved if somebody just puts their mind to it. I'm interested to see what else this company does to make existing technologies easier to use.
I would buy the pipe cutters if i was doing a job that necessitated it for sure. Prefer hand tools that can be operated by one hand rather than the normal three for some older models. As for the broom, it's...kinda cool. I guess if you have a disability or something but still love yard work it would make sense but just buy a dang broom and be done. Not impressed.
How lazy are we getting as a society? We can't even sweep the sidewalk anymore apparently. I get the appeal of a snowblower, snow is heavy. But really is it that much work to sweep something? One the same topic do we really need an ergonomic shovel. The same basic design has worked thus far, why go and screw that up. Sometimes the consumerism in this country is just mind boggling.
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