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Personally i'm torn between the classic Stirrup Pump


http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/Images/Stirrup_pump.jpg


and the Garden Flame Thrower.


http://www.grizzlycentral.com/forum/attachments/great-outdoors/6145d1248574752-what-coolest-tool-you-have-flamethrower09.jpg


I'm not sure which i'd rather own, just for the sake-of-owning-one.


( I think the flamethrower is edging it - tho in my dream i'm floating down lordship lane in a canoe during a flood, I see that well know Dub-Duo bobbing along in their silly truck but they've snagged them selves on a lampost outside the ED Deli. The not bald one is trying to fish a soggy loaf out of the flood water with a colander on a stick, he panics and tries to hide under the damp tonneau cover. But too late, I pull the Garden-Flame-Thrower up and pump the trigger - and a 40ft flame licks across the water, torching the sound system and truck into dust. And as I float by the not bald one & the nearly bald one bob in the murky water - eyes blinking, smarting from the heat - all in slow mo.

"Why" they mouth


"Why not, it's my dream" I mouth back, giving the trigger one last blast & setting the hanging basket on the lampost alight..)

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My tool of choice is a big feck-off cleaver that I use for almost all cutting in the kitchen, I'll post a photo later.

I swear by the mean Mother, which has chopped and peeled its way through many a beast and vegetable, and also the odd finger. Still sharp after 15 years. Bought in NE Thailand.

Also cuts Japanese knotweed and carpet underlay.

KidKruger Wrote:

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> My tool of choice is a big feck-off cleaver that I

> use for almost all cutting in the kitchen, I'll

> post a photo later.

> I swear by the mean Mother, which has chopped and

> peeled its way through many a beast and vegetable,

> and also the odd finger. Still sharp after 15

> years. Bought in NE Thailand.

> Also cuts Japanese knotweed and carpet underlay.


how do you sharpen it?

C'mon PR - that's not a tool. Someting to fix the bike perhaps?


Anyway, I'd nominate two things. First, a polishing mitt - keeps shoes shinier than ever before:


http://www.bexley.com/Bexley/CMS/Images/Produits/GantLustreur/vGantLustreur_marron.jpg


And then something I desire - an adze. It's like a curved axe used for hollowing out wood. You can make a bowl or a canoe.


http://images.greenmanbushcraft.co.uk/1/4a18dGutter-Adze-short-handle.jpg

david_carnell Wrote:

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> http://www.bexley.com/Bexley/CMS/Images/Produits/G

> antLustreur/vGantLustreur_marron.jpg

>

> And then something I desire - an adze. It's like a

> curved axe used for hollowing out wood.


>You can

> make a bowl or a canoe



You're a genius David


That's the canoe in my dream surely.


(watch out the pesky dub-duo, dreams can come true!)

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