Ladies, do you like power-tools?

My daughter bought her dad a nice power drill years ago. I have an electric one too, nice for a back up.

I noticed with the kids sometimes you have to just spell it out to them. They sure can't take a hint.

Sure they can, they just usually misunderstand what your talking about and you end up with a sewing kit instead of a tool kit.

Here's a picture of a pretty purple power drill, tell them you want it.

Do you still like purple?

Hey, above this in the other post I referred to Mel buying her dad a power drill, I am referring to Wade anytime I use the expression dad or father.

I do still love lavender, and i knew perfectly well who you were talking about when you said DAD.

That is so cool, I've only become more interested over the past few years. I think it's because I can't get the hubby to odd and end things around here.

He'll do them, just not when I want them done, better to just do it myself.

*lol*

I have the same attitude. I can't seem to get hubbs to do it when I want it done so I might as well do it myself and get it done when I want it to be done. I have to give him credit though, he works 12 to 14 hour shifts as a sub-contractor in the towing industry and still finds time at least to cuddle and play with his children and that take precedence over house renovations or repairs.

I see your point completely about potential for injury. My uncle ended up with over 200 to 400 stitches when he had an accident with a circular saw a little over 2 years ago. Bloody well scared the living daylights out of all of us when it happened. He wasn't paying attention cutting up scrap wood and he ended up slicing his leg up the thigh in the front and narrowly missed major blood vessel but unfortunately will be unable to heal completely from the nerve damage that it did. He destroyed most of the major nerve tissue in his thigh because of the accident. The safety guard was jimmy rigged (by him) to not come down to make jobs faster (he's a mechanic and renovations contractor) and he was extremely fatigued when he was working with the circular saw when the accident happened.

That is so true, power tools can be very dangerous. Actually any tool can be dangerous. When I worked a mobile home plant I can't count the times I fumbled a hammer when working on something over head and bounced the thing off my skull, or jabbed a screw driver in my hand.

I'm sorry, I had a chuckle at the last statement because I've watched hubby do that on occasion too! I agree with you, why do we need pink power tools - the regular colored ones work just fine and what is with trying to feminize power tools with the color pink?

Girls, your right, we don't need pink. But it sure comes in handy when the husband will take an extra hour looking for his tools that he has scattered here and there.

My husband won't be caught dead in the front yard using anything that is pink. So that means when I need a tool, it'll be right where I left it.

He has always had an aversion to pink.

Chainsaws are scary, but I would love to have my own. We live in the country and I have all these little oak trees out back that need thinning and I want to use them for firewood.

Sometimes I sit on my backsteps, look at all those little trees, and just think about having all that wood for the winter.

These trees won't ever amount to anything because of the other around them.

Nail guns, is there anything cooler lol. So far I haven't come up on any projects that require a nail gun. Most of what I do is puttering around here.

Bingo! You hit the nail on the head, I'd rather do it myself too then wait on my husband to it.

I have always used a little electric weed-eater. I don't mind dragging the cord around with me, it beats dealing with trying to get a gas one to crank, not to mention they are no where near as heavy.

Sometimes I will even go to get some of my father-in-laws extention cords so I can reach the very edge of the property. I finally decided to just get weed killer for that. I hate the way grass grows all in the fence line, it doesn't matter how much I cut my grass and weed-eat, it looks scruffy if there is a lot of grass in the fence and it's impossible to get it all with the weed-eater, not to mention it eats up the line.

My little weed-eater cost less than $30.00 and it has lasted about five years so far, I have more than got my money back out of it.

I agree, and now they come in so many 'pretty' colors.

Sometimes it's just easier to do it ourselves lol