Project "49 No Buck$"

[OrrieG]

That is way cool. All of my carpentry tool boxes are very vintage, passed down from previous generations. Every signigicant building I have been involved with has a bottle with my business card and a note on my involvement hidden in a wall for someone to find in the future. When I did some remodeling on my Dad's house last year I found his "makers mark" behind the medicine cabinet from the 50's when he remodeled the place. I like doing historic building work because we always find cool things. On new buildings the crews think the masonry block is for disposal of beer and pop bottles.

[OKGMC4]

The truck is awesome and you have to have about the coolest job ever. Really neat about the toolbox!

[Groyd]

Who would've thought you could make a toolbox look cool?

Well done.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by OrrieG

... On new buildings the crews think the masonry block is for disposal of beer and pop bottles.

That's not new Orrie. My Dad passed away in 1990 but he was a mason all his life and every block wall he ever built "on the side" - meaning weekends, had beer cans in the block cells. Of course those old Coors, Hamm's and Burgermeister cans had the old triangle shaped opening in the lids. That was before the pop top.

P.S. Thanks for writing "masonry" blocks. So many people say cinder block and NO ONE uses "cinder" block anymore or really ever in the West. Cinder block was made in part from industrial waste.

[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena

P.S. Thanks for writing "masonry" blocks. So many people say cinder block and NO ONE uses "cinder" block anymore or really ever in the West. Cinder block was made in part from industrial waste.

Oh, I had it hammered into me in school. Also the difference between cement and concrete.