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  1. 8th August 2007, 11:00 AM #1
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    Default What Happens to Your Toys?

    Have you made any plans for your prized possessions to go to a good home or worthy person when you finaly kick the bucket?
    Is there someone who will take over your tools and equipment and keep producing after your gone.
    Have you a family member or dear friend that will cherish and continue to use your equipment.
    Will the recipient promise to keep them in manner in which they deserve.
    Rather than have your cherished tools deteriorate, or be sold off to an uncaring person, have you considered donating them to a club, school, charity. to continue producing and helping others?
    Often I see advertisements where somebody is wishing to sell gear from a deceased estate and wonder what value has been put on the items.
    Have you made any plans? What are they? Maybe we all should give this some serious thought.
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  3. 8th August 2007, 01:05 PM #2
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    Nope, none of the above.
    If it goes against the grain, it's being rubbed the wrong way!
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  4. 8th August 2007, 01:24 PM #3
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    Hopefully mine will go to my boy or my grandson but not for a long time yet.

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  5. 8th August 2007, 01:59 PM #4
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    I intend to wear mine out before I go.

    Back to work!

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  6. 8th August 2007, 02:21 PM #5
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    I will take them with me.

    Back to work!

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  7. 8th August 2007, 06:13 PM #6
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    I am teaching swmbo to use them so she will take over, on this note I must start building coffins.
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  8. 8th August 2007, 06:16 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by HappyHammer View Post
    Hopefully mine will go to my boy or my grandson but not for a long time yet.

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    Same two boys LOML or grandson
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  9. 8th August 2007, 06:26 PM #8
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    I'm prepared to volunteer as a bequestee....if that's of help to anyone.
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  10. 8th August 2007, 10:27 PM #9
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    None of the above and I won't care because I'll be dead
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    I inherited my dad's tool set, and a couple of grandad's too, a very precious connection in my opinion. My young fella is too young yet, so I don't know if he'll turn out to be a shed dweller, like his forebears. Chances are he'll inherit a reasonable tool collection, as the girls haven't shown too much interest so far. No use handing it down if there is no interest or passion.
    I have thought about donating my set of 50 or 60 handmade tools, which I'd like to see kept intact, to a local craft museum for their collection. They have an operational forge that is part of an educational program, and is where I learnt blacksmithing. Might be nice gesture to return the fruits, as it were.

    Cheers,

    PS I'm not really interested in what happens to my power tools, there doesn't seem to be the same personal connection with them...anyone else feel the same?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Andy Mac View Post
    PS I'm not really interested in what happens to my power tools, there doesn't seem to be the same personal connection with them...anyone else feel the same?

    I have my dad's B&D power drill it is special as I bought it for him many years ago in the 60's, it's steel case the sort that can be repaired bushes bearing etc been repaired once in all that time. If my other power tools last well it will be up to whom ever remains generally I used to by quaility, now days even big bucks doesn't mean it will last to next week.

    Both boys and daughter like tools she sells them they use them.

    1st Grandson only 7 weeks old will have to wait and see.
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  13. 9th August 2007, 03:29 PM #12
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    I will have my sons divide the tools in the shed as they see fit.

    (Some might say revenge?)
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  14. 9th August 2007, 03:40 PM #13
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    RRich - If you have a pair of dividers, they can have one each!

    Sorry for that - just Yanking your chain.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Linden Hardy View Post
    RRich - If you have a pair of dividers, they can have one each!

    Sorry for that - just Yanking your chain.
    Are you saying they should divide them up between them?
    I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

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    Personally, I don't care. I won't know, I'll be dead.

    I'd like to think that my father's and grandfather's tools would pass on to someone who'd appreciate them, but I'd only be fooling myself if I believed that. Even now, my bros nick bits'n'pieces from my shed to make a quick buck. Lost a bloody marvellous set of spokeshaves that way. Unfortunately, I can't prove it... but on the few times I've caught them at it they've come back with "it's just a bit of old tat, not worth anything." Yeah? Then are they pinching it to sell down the market, huh? Not worth anything, my asre!

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