[Shop-talk] A life changing experiance

[Kent Sullivan]

While we're on the topic of new (to at least one person) places to buy cool
gear, I recently got a catalog from these folks:

http://www.forestry-suppliers.com/

I ordered a shovel and they sent me their printed catalog. My oh my... As a
friend said, "That's bonafide tool porn!" <g>

--Kent
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Karl Vacek
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:06 AM
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Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] A life changing experiance

Tractor Supply is OK, but if you think it's Mecca now, you'd better take a 
tranquilizer before you go to Farm & Fleet.

And for my personal all-time grand prize for specialty stuff there's 
Stedman's in Stuttgart Arkansas.  They have things I haven't seen for 
decades, and things I've only seen in mill supply stores -- stuff straight 
out of McMaster-Carr.  Power transmission stuff, irrigation stuff, and more.

Heavy hardware - not much on hinges for cigar boxes, not most of the 
packaged doodads that the hardware department at Home DIpstick carries, not 
a lot of Chinese crap, and not lots of the big brands of imitation tools. 
It's an old-time hardware and supply store.