Craigslist thread

[sotc]

Aparently we lost our craigslist threads in the swap over.
Anyone seen such an odd contraption as this?
http://medford.craigslist.org/tls/2130376736.html

 

[SoonerFan]

Where is the ignition switch???

 

[Cut4fun]

Looks like a collectors item for a axe man.

 

[NickfromWI]

I'd pay $20 for it.

 

[Dave Shepard]

I've used a similar tool. Works good on straight grained wood. But so does an axe.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I wanna see the owner's manual.

 

[Cobleskill]

I tried one a friend owned 20 some years ago. It either splits it or stops dead without burying itself. What I didn't like was the jolt it gave you when the wood didn't split.

 

[stig]

True that.
It was a hit with homeowners around here for a while. Trouble is, you REALLY have to hit hard and committed with it to get it to work, and most of them didn't have the muscles for that.
So the popularity didn't last long.

 

[Tree Reb]

They tried selling them here about 20 years ago as well.

No match for curly Grey Box.

 

[Al Smith]

That contraption was marketed under the trade name of "The Axe " . Didn't work worth a damn .Typical of some P T Barnum type trying to reinvent the wheel .

 

[Old Monkey]

Wasn't that the Lickety Splitter?

 

[High Scale]

My neighbour has one of those, his is Swedish made.

 

[FJR]

My dad has one. It is quite odd.

 

[sotc]

Trouble is, you REALLY have to hit hard and committed with it to get it to work,

Thats true with any maul. Swing hard and it goes easy

 

[Bodean]

The latest thing to do in Oakland is post a good deal on a car on Craigslist,
Then when the buyer comes into the neighborhood with a few thousand dollars, they are promptly beaten up and robbed.

They say it's up to six times now.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Well.... the location Oakland..... Ummmmmm.... Yeah... Cash probably a bad idea.

 

[Old Monkey]

I got my truck in Oakland off of eBay. Oakland can be a scary place. Alameda, a bridge or tunnel away is much nicer.

 

[MasterBlaster]

That was where the Enterprise rested, back in the day. I got most of my ink from a tattoo parlor there, Ricky's. Evidently he's still there, but it can't be the same old man that tattooed me over 30 years ago. He was + sixty back then.

 

[1savagehunter]

My neighbour has one of those, his is Swedish made.

WELL THEN THAT WOULD MAKE IT A GOOD ONE ?????

 

[sotc]

http://medford.craigslist.org/pts/2158864494.html

 

[CurSedVoyce]

DO we have to climb the tree to get it?

 

[pigwot]

We might assume the seller meant 'winch', but what if it is one of those new-fangled, Japanese-produced robots that look like, walk and talk just like a human...
perhaps the advertiser meant "electric wench"!
An electric wench named, Dezerae...

 

[bill22]

http://orlando.craigslist.org/cwg/2156506691.html

 

[SkwerI]

That is freaking awesome, Bill. We have to save that one for posterity.

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[pantheraba]

haha...good snag. I usually bypass this thread but that ad is priceless.