Have you ever needed to get something repaired, and - when you figured up the cost of the materials and tools you were going to need - found it would cost the same to:
a) hire a professional to do the job, or ...
b) throw it away and buy a new one?
If your answer to that dilemma was, "I'd better get started right away. When I'm done, at least I'll still have the tools." ... well, I think you understand where I'm coming from.
Consider this:
"What's the last thing a redneck says?"
"Hey, watch this!"
Most folks think that's funny. At the Chicken Militia, we post it as a reminder of what can happen when you become careless ... even for a moment. When you engage in hazardous activities, you must be willing to accept the possibility of injury ... even serious or fatal injury. It's no joke when you're working at the top of a telephone pole in 30 degree weather and it starts to snow, or when you're working around heavy equipment (in our neck of the woods, a metro rail worker was killed by a ballast spreader yesterday), or even when you're fixing your own car in your own driveway. The hazards are real, and you need to be careful; even so ... accidents happen. If you consider the reward of saying, "I did it myself" to be worth the risk ... well, then I guess you're one of us.
So open an ice cold beer when the job is well done. Here's how we do it at the Chicken Militia: Lineman's pliers, thank you very much. Yes, this works surprisingly well. Just hook the wire cutting part under the edge of the bottle cap and it pops right off.
I hope that clarifies matters for everyone.
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