Yesterday, wife and I drove up to our youngest son's place, he invited us up for a grilled steak meal, something about Mother's Day.
Somehow, later in the afternoon, the discussion got around to tools and how expensive they were.
He is a mechanical engineer, 42 years old, making more money in one year than I ever did in 5, but, that is ok with me, he is the one with the degrees in math and physics.
Anyway, we got around to talking about tools that I owned that I have not used for several years, one being my chain hoist.
I bought it in 1970 to lift the engine out of my 1965 Impala Super Sport, the car I still had until I gave it to him last fall and he is now putting disk brakes on and lots of other small upgrades.
For some reason that I do not remember, we were talking about what style of chain hoist I had, he did not remember ever seeing it.
I told him that I had one that had two pulleys at the top, one at the bottom and one long continuous chain.
He had no idea what I was talking about.
We went to his computer, I was going to show him a picture of that style chain hoist.
We could not find one.
The current day chain hoists all seem to have a single 10 foot length of chain with a hook on one end, then some kind of gear mechanism that is powered with either a lever, a lightweight chain, or maybe an electric motor.
Well, we finally found some pictures of hoists like mine, but, it disturbs me greatly that they use the words "Vintage" and "Barn Find" in the descriptions.
What happened to being able to go down to the local hardware store and buying a chain hoist that was like my dad had and my grandpa?
The pictures were on an ebay site, if you scroll part way down there are 4 pictures of chain hoists like mine.
They are on the ebay site at:
https://www.ebay.com/p/?iid=252917533506&lpid=82&&&ul_noapp=true&chn=ps
I suppose it is another one of those things I do not like, a sign of the times, things change and I looked for a while and could not find a new "Old Style" chain hoist anywhere on the internet this morning.
I bet that the majority of all the members here own one of these and never considered that things evolve and now tools like my chain hoist that I bought in 1970 are now considered "Vintage".
Somehow, later in the afternoon, the discussion got around to tools and how expensive they were.
He is a mechanical engineer, 42 years old, making more money in one year than I ever did in 5, but, that is ok with me, he is the one with the degrees in math and physics.
Anyway, we got around to talking about tools that I owned that I have not used for several years, one being my chain hoist.
I bought it in 1970 to lift the engine out of my 1965 Impala Super Sport, the car I still had until I gave it to him last fall and he is now putting disk brakes on and lots of other small upgrades.
For some reason that I do not remember, we were talking about what style of chain hoist I had, he did not remember ever seeing it.
I told him that I had one that had two pulleys at the top, one at the bottom and one long continuous chain.
He had no idea what I was talking about.
We went to his computer, I was going to show him a picture of that style chain hoist.
We could not find one.
The current day chain hoists all seem to have a single 10 foot length of chain with a hook on one end, then some kind of gear mechanism that is powered with either a lever, a lightweight chain, or maybe an electric motor.
Well, we finally found some pictures of hoists like mine, but, it disturbs me greatly that they use the words "Vintage" and "Barn Find" in the descriptions.
What happened to being able to go down to the local hardware store and buying a chain hoist that was like my dad had and my grandpa?
The pictures were on an ebay site, if you scroll part way down there are 4 pictures of chain hoists like mine.
They are on the ebay site at:
https://www.ebay.com/p/?iid=252917533506&lpid=82&&&ul_noapp=true&chn=ps
I suppose it is another one of those things I do not like, a sign of the times, things change and I looked for a while and could not find a new "Old Style" chain hoist anywhere on the internet this morning.
I bet that the majority of all the members here own one of these and never considered that things evolve and now tools like my chain hoist that I bought in 1970 are now considered "Vintage".