THE BACK STORY - I Love making things and using my Father's and Granfather's tools I feel a connection to them.
Grandpa K worked for the Ford Motor Company before serving in the U.S. Army in World War I. He used this T-square while stationed at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. After his service, he graduated from Dental School and had among his many patients, members of the Ford family. In his retirement he taught himself lapidary; a natural outgrowth from making dentures. He just loved details.
The ball peen and claw hammer was my Grandpa Jack’s. He worked for a Wire Mill near Rochester, PA maintaining and rebuilding the wire making machines. He upgraded the entire factory from flat leather belt driven motors to V-belts, a major improvement. He had a very firm handshake.
Dad was a boy during the Depression, served in the Navy during World War II and the Korean War, after his service he became a chemist for GM and taught me many things at home, including wiring, plumbing, carpentry and masonry. He did all the repairs around our house growing up. I remember Dad using Grandpa Jack’s hand saw to cut a sheet of plywood when we replaced some rotten sheathing as we reroofed my childhood house. He cut a straight line with this saw better than his circular saw. I will always remember him telling me, “Let the saw do the work.” He did it all.
He was always saving and doing the best with what he had, building things thing the right way so they would last and always thinking of how something could be useful in the future. He was green out of necessity. For example, when my folks added onto their home in the 60′s, Dad saved the leftover bricks in the crawl space. He knew he may need them someday and he was right. In the 80′s Dad and I reroofed my childhood home and the chimney needed restoration too. Dad went back to crawlspace and pulled out those bricks and we rebuilt the chimney. We then took those old bricks and made them a part of a rip-wrap border to help control erosion along the stream in our back yard.
The ball peen and claw hammer was my Grandpa Jack’s. He worked for a Wire Mill near Rochester, PA maintaining and rebuilding the wire making machines. He upgraded the entire factory from flat leather belt driven motors to V-belts, a major improvement. He had a very firm handshake.
Dad was a boy during the Depression, served in the Navy during World War II and the Korean War, after his service he became a chemist for GM and taught me many things at home, including wiring, plumbing, carpentry and masonry. He did all the repairs around our house growing up. I remember Dad using Grandpa Jack’s hand saw to cut a sheet of plywood when we replaced some rotten sheathing as we reroofed my childhood house. He cut a straight line with this saw better than his circular saw. I will always remember him telling me, “Let the saw do the work.” He did it all.
He was always saving and doing the best with what he had, building things thing the right way so they would last and always thinking of how something could be useful in the future. He was green out of necessity. For example, when my folks added onto their home in the 60′s, Dad saved the leftover bricks in the crawl space. He knew he may need them someday and he was right. In the 80′s Dad and I reroofed my childhood home and the chimney needed restoration too. Dad went back to crawlspace and pulled out those bricks and we rebuilt the chimney. We then took those old bricks and made them a part of a rip-wrap border to help control erosion along the stream in our back yard.
THIS IS WHERE MY LOVE OF BUILDING AND BEING GREEN STARTED FOR ME.
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