What Manly Things Did You Do Today?

Gaff tape is very different from duct tape. Mostly because gaff tape is matte textured, can be slightly stretchy, and is cloth based (and the adhesive comes off of things if you take it off reasonably quickly). Duct tape has adhesive from hell, is slick, and doesn't stretch at all.

I spent years in theatre - you use both, for different purposes. Lots of people have come up with reasons for it being called 'gaff' tape, but oddly enough, nobody seems to have looked at the oldest, most obvious one. A 'gaff' is a long pole - for fisherman, it had a big sharp hook. In theatre, it was also a long pole, used to reset lights and other things in the infrastructure above a shoot. I think the tape predates theatre, and is named more after the fisherman's tool - cloth wrapped around the handle to make it easier to grip. (A gaffer is either an old man in the UK, or (now) a chief lighting technician).

That reminds me, I've had a roll of yellow gaff tape waiting in my 'to buy' list for a while, I should do that. I need something better than electrical tape to put in my network wiring toolbox.

 

"Here. Hold my beer."

 

Hey, it's no worse than when I fixed a woman's tailpipe with a coat hanger so she could get home.

 

I had a 96 Forerunner, that all the tailpipe hangers failed ... I used the heavy zigzag wire from a chainlink fence. It out lasted the Forerunner.

 

Is * that * what the kids are calling it these days?

 

Handy women too!

 

Yup - that's why my wife married me, I suspect.

"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
"If it ain't broke, you're not trying"

And, of course.
Quando omni flunkus, moritati.

 

Put a starter on a ‘99 4Runner. The Hanes manual, that is usually very helpful, said nothing about all the stuff you gotta take off to get to the starter. Hallelujah! It’s done!

 

I remember when starters were a 15 minute job and plugs were 20minutes. Now to change the plugs in my Tribeca they just about needed to pull the engine.

 

Hrmph . It used to be that oil pans could be dropped in less than 30 minutes, so it was worth doing if you let the oil change run a bit long. On a bunch of the GM cars, you had to lift the engine to be able to drop the pan. They put a crossbar directly underneath it. My Pontiac Vibe is a PITA to change the serpentine belt, but at least you can change the starter reasonably quickly.

 

Yesterday, I went for a shoot and then stopped by the hardware store on my way home. Bought some pipe insulating foam, because you can cut it to length and use it to cover your bow stabilizers. (This keeps them from getting scratced up, in your bow case.)

 

Decided to get off the couch today and change the tires over. Time for the studs to go into storage for the spring/summer. Found out when I unbagged the summer tires, Honda wrote RF on two of them. WTH.
I think I got em right. Fingers crossed.


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Threw out some clutter from the apartment....I've taken to do this each Sunday. I must admit, what got me going with this was all the "clutter" my sister and I had to get rid of from our Mom's house.

 

Back to 12 hour workdays after taking a week off to nurse my wife. She had a total knee replacement last Monday. Today was only 10 hours as I took her to the Doctor and physical therapy.

 

Took the trash to the curb.... (I have a slipped and herniated disc in my lower back, so it was a feat for me.)

 

Lots of yardwork, concreted up a birdbath, helped my son fix a flat on his bicycle and cooked up a pork loin and rice.

 

Impressive @Troy M.

 

Dug up the wife's small garden and fixed the water hose for her- mothers day tomorrow gents.

 

Assembled new deck furniture (one piece 3 times, finally getting it right on 3rd try...), cut up big cardboard boxes for recycling, installed new line in weed trimmer, used weed trimmer, walked the dogs, and watered my wife’s flowers!

 

Being an awesome dad... the manliest thing you can do!