http://www.galesgalley.com/catalog/item/609822/243534.htm It's called
Xtend-A-Hand. This site prices them at $23, which is a lot pricey.
I've got a bad back. If I drop something metal in the shop, I've
got a large speaker magnet, on a string, I use to pick it up. But, if
it's something the magnet won't pickup, I'm SOL, and gotta get down and
grab it. The getting down isn't bad, it's the getting back up.
I'd seen something similar, but couldn't find any locally, so
checked eBay. They had these at about $5.99 each, plus shipping. I was
looking for a bit better price, and found cases of 24, going for about
$34.99, plus shipping, whch came up to just under $50, total. So got a
case. Figured I could have one or two in the house, one in the truck,
couple in the shop, and give some away.
Got them the other day. Wish I'd ran across them before. Earlier
this evening I spend about 15 minutes picking stuff off the floor of my
shop. I couldn't have done as much in two hours before. They aren't
going to last a lifetime, but they're good enough to last quite awhile,
if you don't abuse them too badly. Then I'll always have a spare or
two. And, no, I'm not associated with them, just a happy customer, as
they say. I also was able to get at two video tapes, without moving my
stacked bookcases. At last.
Another tip. I keep diluted Titebond for gluing paper onto wood.
I've gotten in the habit of prying up the top with my pocked knife
blade, when the glue sets, and makes it hard to pull the top up. It's
in a regualr Titebond bottle. The knife is too dull to cut the plastic,
but the other day, the top had split. Then next time I tried to open
it, the spout broke off. I had an empty salad dressing bottle, and
tried the cap, and it fit. But, later I found an empty French's mustard
bottle, with the turn spout cap, and it fit too. So now I don't have to
worry about my glue drying out, and I've still got a spout.
JOAT
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of
enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT
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"T." wrote:
>
>Snip
>
> I'd seen something similar, but couldn't find any locally, so
> checked eBay. They had these at about $5.99 each, plus shipping. I was
> looking for a bit better price, and found cases of 24, going for about
> $34.99, plus shipping, whch came up to just under $50, total. So got a
> case.
Sounds like the one my brother tells, about the wife who came home with
3 mail boxes. They were on sale.
I use a similar device to pick up pine burrs. My pickup magnet is a 3/4'
rare earth magnet on the end of a length of broomstick. Not only picks
up dropped screws but finds odd bits of metal, metal shavings and
filings that I wish had stayed lost.
--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA
...........................................
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surprised.
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Tools like that have been commonplace and found in stores that sell products
for the disabled for years. I own three variations of your example. As small
as picking up a dime from the floor or a different grabber for changing a
light bulb that is normally out of reach, it's all just matter of asking the
right person what they use. :)
"T." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> http://www.galesgalley.com/catalog/item/609822/243534.htm It's called
> Xtend-A-Hand. This site prices them at $23, which is a lot pricey.
>
> I've got a bad back. If I drop something metal in the shop, I've
> got a large speaker magnet, on a string, I use to pick it up. But, if
> it's something the magnet won't pickup, I'm SOL, and gotta get down and
> grab it. The getting down isn't bad, it's the getting back up.
>
> I'd seen something similar, but couldn't find any locally, so
> checked eBay. They had these at about $5.99 each, plus shipping. I was
> looking for a bit better price, and found cases of 24, going for about
> $34.99, plus shipping, whch came up to just under $50, total. So got a
> case. Figured I could have one or two in the house, one in the truck,
> couple in the shop, and give some away.
>
> Got them the other day. Wish I'd ran across them before. Earlier
> this evening I spend about 15 minutes picking stuff off the floor of my
> shop. I couldn't have done as much in two hours before. They aren't
> going to last a lifetime, but they're good enough to last quite awhile,
> if you don't abuse them too badly. Then I'll always have a spare or
> two. And, no, I'm not associated with them, just a happy customer, as
> they say. I also was able to get at two video tapes, without moving my
> stacked bookcases. At last.
>
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> My brother built one just like it. He used it to handle rattlesnakes.
> No fooling. George
>
>
I've found the business end of a shovel to be a more cost-effective and
permanent solution to that problem. :-)
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 06:00:37 GMT, Mark & Juanita
<[email protected]> wrote:
|In article <[email protected]>,
|[email protected] says...
|> My brother built one just like it. He used it to handle rattlesnakes.
|> No fooling. George
|>
|>
|
| I've found the business end of a shovel to be a more cost-effective and
|permanent solution to that problem. :-)
That's what I use too. A square one of course.
T. wrote:
> http://www.galesgalley.com/catalog/item/609822/243534.htm
Congratulations, JOAT. You're officially a geezer now. I can't look at one
of those things without remembering my dear, departed great aunt.
She jumped out of a hay loft as a girl, and dislocated both of her hips.
Nobody ever noticed. The balls on the ends of her femurs wore new sockets
into the bones of her hips, and she got around pretty well for awhile.
Eventually, the awkward angle of her legs blew out her knees, so she had to
get knee replacements done back in the '60s. She had huge railroad track
scars from the middle of her shins halfway up her thighs. This bought her
some good years, but not many. By the '70s she was having real trouble
getting around again. She spent most of her life dependant on a walker.
Eventually got the hips replaced, but it was too little, way too late, and
she never walked without pain.
She used those things to get to cans on the top shelf, to get pans out from
under the cupboard, etc. and so forth. She had a dozen of them.
I miss you, Edith. You picked a strange messenger.
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
Sun, Jan 4, 2004, 1:15am [email protected] (Silvan)
claims:
Congratulations, JOAT. You're officially a geezer now. <snip>
You're obviously getting me confused with someone else.
I miss you, Edith. You picked a strange messenger.
Again, your're obviously getting me confused with someone else.
Either that, or, you're as crazy as a shit-house rat.
JOAT
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of
enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT
Web Page Update 4 Jan 2004.
Some tunes I like.
http://community-2.webtv.net/Jakofalltrades/SOMETUNESILIKE/