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1. 
   MarkH | Apr 08, 2008 04:22am | #1

   Square?

2. 
   EricPaulson | Apr 08, 2008 04:26am | #2

   Cell phone of course............  ( ~:

   [email protected]

    

    

    

    

1. 
   RedfordHenry | Apr 08, 2008 04:30am | #3

   Pack of Camels.

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   Heck | Apr 08, 2008 04:38am | #4

   Good answer.

   'Grandpa was a carpenter,

   he built houses, stores, and banks

   Chain smoked Camel cigarettes

   and hammered nails in planks...' 

   Hello?Is this thing on?           

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   RedfordHenry | Apr 08, 2008 05:22am | #7

   He was level on the level

   Shaved even every door.

   And voted for Eisenhower

   Cause Lincoln won the war...

2. 
   Jer | Apr 08, 2008 01:47pm | #9

   "Grandpa wore his suit to dinner
   Nearly every day
   No particular reason
   He just dressed that way
   Brown necktie and a matching vest
   And both his wingtip shoes
   He built a closet on our back porch
   And put a penny in a burned out fuse."

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   Jer | Apr 08, 2008 05:04am | #5

   The Stanley #1 plane.

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   DougU | Apr 08, 2008 05:19am | #6

   I'm sure I'm wrong but I use the other pocket for a knife.

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   Piffin | Apr 08, 2008 06:32am | #8

   Mine was for the utility knife

    

    

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6. 
   PhillGiles | Apr 08, 2008 05:24pm | #10

   It probably depended on what you were doing, and what was your role. I know some guys carried block planes, my grandfather's leads carried adjustable bevel gauges/markers.

    

   Phill Giles

   The Unionville Woodwright

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   Hudson Valley Carpenter | Apr 08, 2008 06:49pm | #11

   The first old-time carpenter I worked with used a 6' folding ruler and carried it in the larger right leg pocket so, of course, I followed suit.  Later on, when I discovered the many advantages of using a 12'or16' (the longest then available) tape measure, I quit carrying the folder and began using the smaller pocket for my utility knife. 

   Since then I've always used the smaller pocket for that knife, sometimes with a small block of wood in the bottom to make it easier to get hold of the knife.

   As I recall, it was an either-or proposition with those two pockets.  If you carried a folding ruler in the larger one, that made the smaller one too tight across, to get a utility knife or anything other than a pencil, into it.

   
   

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   Edited 4/8/2008 11:53 am by Hudson Valley Carpenter

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   Piffin | Apr 09, 2008 06:28am | #12

   I always preferred the folding rule in my hip pocket. You are right, both tools made it uncomfortable. I put the list of things to do in the taller side pocket 

    

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8. 
   Jim_Allen | Apr 09, 2008 06:40am | #13

   Cell phone. They were ahead of their times.

   Bob's next test date: 12/10/07

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   mesic | Apr 09, 2008 06:48am | #14

   That's the pliers pocket and I still use it that way. Too naked without it!