Re: Ag. Shop tools

Posted by AG in IN on February 28, 2012 at 21:24:20 from (67.236.98.214):

In Reply to: Ag. Shop tools posted by dave2 on February 28, 2012 at 19:26:20:

AllisG said: (quoted from post at 04:26:20 02/29/12) In my High School Ag shop we have less useful tools then the math class. Our shop doesnt even have a ratchet. We have all these big wrenchs that are atleast over an 1 or 2 inch size that was given to use by the local factory. We basically have a bunch of sockets with no ratchets and a bunch of wrenchs that are useless on almost all of the projects we have. This is not that we dont have money, but it last a week and then people steal the usefull stuff. The world has really gone down hill when we steal tools striaght from our own schools. P.S.- This is tractor related because my project is a Allis WC and now i havew to do that at home cause we have no tools! :x

Sadly, some people steal and some people destroy what isn't theirs. If someone gets away with either today, they'll try it on a larger scale tomorrow. Some people don't have an ounce of respect for something that isn't their own, and some never will.

At least you still have an ag shop. I went to a high school that was built in the middle of a cornfield. It had no ag class, no ag shop, and no local FFA chapter while I was there. In the late 90's the construction class turned the part of the ag shop that had been unused for over a decade into a weight room so the high school would have an excuse to provide a "teaching" position to a new football coach.

Most of the metal and wood shop machines when I was in high school (1996-2000) was what survived from when my dad was in high school ('67-'71). What wasn't worn out was destroyed by then current or past students. Some idiots would try to take the teeth off of the gears on a South Bend lathe on purpose. We didn't have a tool room, tool boards, etc, because we had few hand tools. A couple of screwdrivers, files, crescent wrenches, pliers and a hand hacksaw or two was about all that could be had in the metalshop. Nobody ever seemed to know of what happened to all of the hand and specialty tools from the ag shop. They probably went home with someone or several people over the years, and I wouldn't blame this all on students, either.



The school's logic wasn't much better. A 10 lb. box of welding rod was supposed to be enough for 20 kids for a semester. I must have welded a dozen broken desks back together as my welding project because there was no other material available to work with.

Best wishes for you and your WC. If you do bring your own tools to school, stamp, paint, or somehow mark them so you know their yours. Take them with you when you leave each day. If someone will steal from the school, they'll steal from you.

AG

This post was edited by AG in IN at 22:06:33 02/28/12 2 times.

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