I believe Eve was much more of a spineless little creep than Adam. Adam thought he was doing something to please his spous. Look who Eve was trying to please, a nasty snake.
From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jewel Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 5:19 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Tools and those who manufacture them Well, my knowledgable man did come in this morning, and made a very simple suggestion which isn't going to cost me a single cent and means that I can use the tool. The rod that one drops down through the centre of the handle does not serve any essential purpose as it is only used to push weeds off the fork or dirt out of the planter, and this I can do, perfectly well, with my own delicate little paws, so the rod has been permanently removed. Eve had Adam kicked out of the garden? I don't think that Eve can be held entirely responsible. The fact that Adam was a spineless little creep played a major part in his eviction. He didn't have to eat the fruit when his better half invited him to do so! Jewel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Hodges" <tomhod...@fuse.net <mailto:tomhodges%40fuse.net> > To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 6:47 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Tools and those who manufacture them First you insult all men, and then you say you have a man coming by to fix the tool for you. What's up with that. Also, us men may have spent more time working on and perfecting garden tools, but, some woman, way back at the beginning, went and got us kicked out of the garden. Touche. From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of Jewel Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 7:59 AM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Tools and those who manufacture them I can only think that the garden tool I am about to describe must have been designed by a man. I say that as I cannot believe that a woman could be so * STUPID! The background: Some years ago, there came onto the gardeners' market a very handy-dandy cultivator called a Garden Claw. It consisted of a T-bar handle and stem and at the bottom was an array of slightly bent spikes. One jabbed this into the soil and turned it around and around, so creating a very nice tilth. I didn't buy one at the time, and when I did go to, they were no longer being manufactured. I asked the boss of one of the local engineering firms if he could make one of these tools, and he said, that as it happened, his boys had made some but he thought that what he had had a higher price tab on it than I would want to pay: $250: he was quite right. However, his secretary had told him that she had seen, in a mail order catalogue, a tool with four interchangeable heads that might be just what I wanted. I rang the company and found that it cost only $60. Now you're talking! Well, the tool arrived today, and without having seen it, at the price, I thought that it might be made of rather poor quality steel, or aluminium, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that the steel was very solid, and here we come to the design fault, and what a fault it is! Now for the description: We have the T-bar handle, and down the centre of that, goes a steel rod that is supposed to have a spring on it. I couldn't see what benefit the spring afforded, so I didn't bother putting it in the assembly. Well, I did, but it was then that I figured that it was nothing but a nuisance so took the tool apart and removed the spring. Now this rod that goes down through the stem emerges at the bottom and goes through the centre hole of the three that are there and match those that are on the head. The two outside holes are for the bolt and wingnut that clamps the head to the handle. This is the theory, but it only works in two of the four heads. In the other two, where there should be a centre hole, there is solid steel, beneath which is the stem of the head on the end of which is the blade. Another fault is that the plate to which one bolts the head, rather than being flat is concave, and the bolts that are provided are too short. However, I found some slightly longer bolts among my spares. I rang Enovations, the firm that sold this tool and asked the woman I spoke to if anyone had ever actually inspected the goods that they advertise? for this tool, or half of it at any rate, is, as it stands, completely unfit for the job. I said that half of it was fine, so could I get a partial refund, rather than returning the entire tool? She said that they didn't give partial refunds, so just return the whole thing and they would reimburse my Mastercard. I really don't want to do that as I can see that with a simple, but perhaps, expensive modifications, the tool would work beautifully. The modification would be to drive a reamer through the plate and down through the centre of the stem that I mentioned above, but how much would such a modification cost? Murray will come around and take a look at it and let me know. It shouldn't cost too much, but such a modification should never had been necessary. I imagine that the tool is manufactured in China, and for the life of me, I cannot fathom why such a glaring fault was not picked up by quality control! 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