hammer practice

My grandson spent yesterday with me on the farm. Here is how the day went. First we moved a big rock with the tractor. We put the fork lift on the 3 point hitch by using the crane in the barn. He operated the crane until his arms got tired. Next I asked him how much he would charge to mow for me. He asked if I expected the family discount. After mowing we went to Home Depot to buy some landscape rocks to make a wall higher. While at Home Depot I asked him if he would rather have an Eastwing hammer or get paid. He chose the hammer. We came home and built the wall and then practiced with the new hammer. We started out with some sinkers I had laying around. They were a little hard to nail, so I found a box of one inch roofing nails. Success. He couldn't turn loose of that hammer. We went to show it to my neighbor, Dan. When I took him home last night he went running to show Daddy. I am about half worn out. Ellis
 
You may be tired but think about the memories you made together. He will have that hammer for life. Every time he uses it he will be thinking of you.
 
What a great post!Thanks so much for sharing that great day with us,keep adding to his tool collection,,he needs a nail apron or tool pouch now! If you live close I have many cans of nails he can have for free.
 
Just make sure he knows hammers are for nails. Do not use them on rocks, bricks, etc. Nothing will screw up a perfect hammer quicker. Also do NOT hit a hammer with another hammer.
 
Ah yes, an Estwing hammer. My grandpa gave my twin brother and I a box of random nails and 2 2lb hammers and told us to pound away at nails in a a big wooden cable spool. He told us that using the big hammers would teach us not to hit our fingers. Well, it taught me! My brother still always has at least 2 black fingernails lol. Once we could drive nails with the big hammers, he gave us a regular claw hammer, and an Estwing framing hammer to use, much better. I still have the Estwing framing hammer and use it quite often 25 years later.
 
My 4 year old grandson took my small ball peen and started hitting the front tire on the tractor,about the tenth hit it was his forehead that stopped the rebound. He really tried not to cry. :)
 
My BIL came over one day and he had 2 black eyes and a knot in his forehead. I asked him what happened and he said that they were sitting in the lunch room at work and the tables were cement. He had a hammer and was bouncing it off the table top. He hit it harder that usual and it came back hit him in the forehead and knocked him off the bench. I told him I had a hammer and would he show me how it was dione. He called me a name. I guess that means no
 
My son is 28. I told him he needed to come outside and help me. We winched a car on to a trailer and then I moved it to the garage so that we could use the impact wrench to remove the wheels. I expected them to be rusted tight and that the impact would not remove them. He proved me wrong. I went to get a couple of hammers to dislodge the wheels from the drums, again, he proved me wrong by getting them off. I acted like he was so lucky, and that I will need to have him help me more often. I wish I had done it that way 15 years ago.
SDE
 
(quoted from post at 12:59:53 07/12/16) My grandson spent yesterday with me on the farm. Here is how the day went. First we moved a big rock with the tractor. We put the fork lift on the 3 point hitch by using the crane in the barn. He operated the crane until his arms got tired. Next I asked him how much he would charge to mow for me. He asked if I expected the family discount. After mowing we went to Home Depot to buy some landscape rocks to make a wall higher. While at Home Depot I asked him if he would rather have an Eastwing hammer or get paid. He chose the hammer. We came home and built the wall and then practiced with the new hammer. We started out with some sinkers I had laying around. They were a little hard to nail, so I found a box of one inch roofing nails. Success. He couldn't turn loose of that hammer. We went to show it to my neighbor, Dan. When I took him home last night he went running to show Daddy. I am about half worn out. Ellis

Ellis,someday (many years from now of course) when you're lying there with the oxygen hooked to you on "high" and the nurses hovering...smoothing your sheets and takin your temp and shooting those drugs into your i.v. you can close your eyes and picture that fine young man banging away.. probably with his tongue out of the corner of his mouth and a look of total concentration screwed onto his face. What a totally satisfying memory and I'd be willing to bet that that now full grown man standing quietly in the corner with the other relatives is having the same memory flash through his mind.

you did good, Ellis.. you did good

John
 
Great story. When I was younger dad was building a shop. He went and bought two new hammers both of them were Plumb with the red wooden handles. He used one and gave the other one to me so I could help. I liked to hear that hammer ring while driving rails. That was around thirty years ago and I still have my hammer.
 

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