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paul wheaton wrote:I remember when I lived in a community about five years ago, I had more tools than everybody else combined. And all I asked is that people asked me before using my tools. Which they didn't do. And I frequently found my stuff abused and laying about.
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Mike Cantrell wrote:I wonder if it's a matter of perspectives/experience. Until I started accumulating any tools of my own, they just didn't carry much significance to me. I didn't have any concept that they mattered much.
Mike Cantrell wrote:After I started getting some of my own, trying to do hard jobs with inadequate tools and wishing for better ones, saving up for expensive ones, lending them and feeling the worry... after that I developed a sense of respect. And appreciation. But until that happened, it just didn't register with me. Had no meaning, like the way plants along the road were just a green wall before I learned which ones were which.
Maybe if your old colleagues had no experience with tools (wouldn't be surprising since, as you mentioned, they hardly owned any), maybe if they had no experience with tools then tools didn't carry much weight in their minds. Maybe they take a paper towel to wipe up a spill, maybe they take enough nails to build a shed, and the two are roughly equivalent to them.
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R Scott wrote:When I worked on a fence crew, we each had our own "blaze" combination of stripes (duct tape or spray paint) on the tool. High contrast obnoxious colors so you could see them easier when dropped in the tall grass. And everyone knew their own mark.
+1 on the lending library. Different crew, but all the common tools had the pegboard with silhouettes to know quick when something was missing. Each crew member had several tags--we had to put one of our tags on the peg for the tool when we borrowed it. If we got caught with a tool without our tag on the board, we lost a tag (so we couldn't borrow as many tools at a time) and had to donate to the tool and beer fund (only spent on beer if the tools didn't get broke).
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R Scott wrote:When I worked on a fence crew, we each had our own "blaze" combination of stripes (duct tape or spray paint) on the tool. High contrast obnoxious colors so you could see them easier when dropped in the tall grass. And everyone knew their own mark.
Paul Redmond wrote:
R Scott wrote:When I worked on a fence crew, we each had our own "blaze" combination of stripes (duct tape or spray paint) on the tool. High contrast obnoxious colors so you could see them easier when dropped in the tall grass. And everyone knew their own mark.
A customer of mine used the color code to differentiate her and her husbands tools. Over the years if one or the other couldn't find thier tool, they grabbed the appropriate spray paint and after a few min. of dry time, went back to work. Now when a tool gets scratched or just used, you can see how many times it changed ownership.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." --Mahatma Gandhi
"Preach the Gospel always, and if necessary, use words." --Francis of Assisi.
"Family farms work when the whole family works the farm." -- Adam Klaus
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all the common tools had the pegboard with silhouettes to know quick when something was missing. Each crew member had several tags--we had to put one of our tags on the peg for the tool when we borrowed it. If we got caught with a tool without our tag on the board, we lost a tag (so we couldn't borrow as many tools at a time) and had to donate to the tool and beer fund (only spent on beer if the tools didn't get broke).
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Julia Winter wrote:
all the common tools had the pegboard with silhouettes to know quick when something was missing. Each crew member had several tags--we had to put one of our tags on the peg for the tool when we borrowed it. If we got caught with a tool without our tag on the board, we lost a tag (so we couldn't borrow as many tools at a time) and had to donate to the tool and beer fund (only spent on beer if the tools didn't get broke).
I love the tag idea, especially the part where a breach of trust leads to decreased privileges (you give up a tag, so you can't borrow as many tools). Of course, there needs to be a plan/system for restoring tags, or else your most impulsive group member will end up with none!
The silhouette board is not a new idea, but there's a reason it's so popular. It works. Adding the tags is a stroke of brilliance. One glance at the board and you know whom you need to find for the tool you are seeking.
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Ken Peavey wrote:
I've seen guys throw a $700 drill motor in the slop, then polish their $8 trowel to a high sheen. That motor didn't cost them a dime. If they have to buy another trowel, that's some fishing tackle they have to give up. It is difficult to inspire the men to concern themselves with the company tools, when they know the company will simply buy another one. What I do is personalize the tool: "This is your hammer. You have to turn it in at the end of the day, but in the meantime it's yours."
Ken Peavey wrote:Along with cultivating crops, cultivate the notion of taking care of those tools.
QuickBooks set up and Bookkeeping for Small Businesses and Farms - jocelyncampbell.com
Seed the Mind, Harvest Ideas.
http://farmwhisperer.com
Sustainable Plantations and Agroforestry in Costa Rica
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R Scott wrote:When I worked on a fence crew, we each had our own "blaze" combination of stripes (duct tape or spray paint) on the tool. High contrast obnoxious colors so you could see them easier when dropped in the tall grass. And everyone knew their own mark.
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