Re: New tool
[Re: Trapper JT]
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11/24/18 11:55 AM
11/24/18 11:55 AM
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Like others have said take a file to it. I cut my hand pretty bad the first time I tried to use mine. Also mine mushroomed the first day on the line. Metal is way too soft and not good for rocky ground. Like most combination tools it's not the best for any one purpose. I now carry a trowel and hammer.
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Re: New tool
[Re: Trapper JT]
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11/24/18 10:01 PM
11/24/18 10:01 PM
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There must be a wide range of quality or lack of quality depending who makes these. Like I said above, I had mine 10-12 years and it's all I use for making dirt-holes and driving stakes. Other than the head weld starting to crack after about eight years, I've had no issues with mine.
Eh...wot?
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Re: New tool
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11/24/18 10:24 PM
11/24/18 10:24 PM
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Had one and did not like it for any of the 3 purposes it was designed for.
I cut the blade off, trimmed down the hammer head, and welded a "T" handle below the remaining hammer head. I turned it into a great T handle trowel that you can pound on with a real hammer.
Nowadays it just don't pay to be a good 'ol boy.
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Re: New tool
[Re: Arkansas87]
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11/26/18 03:27 PM
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Heat treat the surface of the hammer head that you use to pound stakes in.if you got a cutting torch or know someone with one heat the surface up red hot then quench in a bucket of water.do that a couple of times and it will harden it and no more mushroom.you can Eaven do that to the edge of the claw to save it from rocks and such dinging it up. I Eaven do My stake drivers that way too.you can do this to anything you pound with a hammer as long as it's steal and has a descent carbon content which most tools do.but if it's a tool that's already hard dnt do it cause it will crack or chip off Unless made of high carbon or tool steel, and I doubt it, this won't do a thing to help.
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Re: New tool
[Re: Trapper JT]
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11/26/18 04:04 PM
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It's not a bad tool for the price..I like a bigger trowel and a slightly better hammer, but it's a good remake tool.
Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
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Re: New tool
[Re: Trapper JT]
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11/27/18 08:23 PM
11/27/18 08:23 PM
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zook
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My dad made me one years ago based off that design. I painted it safety orange so when I set it down its easy to find and keep on trucking. I use it like crazy, love it.
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Re: New tool
[Re: Trapper JT]
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11/27/18 08:32 PM
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Just use it.Anything else youl figure out on your own.
Last edited by upstateNY; 11/27/18 08:33 PM.
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Re: New tool
[Re: Trapper JT]
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11/27/18 09:59 PM
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Seems like its a love it or hate it tool. I'm in the "love it" camp.
Eh...wot?
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