Tool kits, then & now.

[Old Mod]

Didn't have a squeegee like that was handed a length of rubber to make one, and where's your mixing stick, pointing stick, hacksaw, wooden float and small boat level

Yep you're right about squeegee, that's the oldest one I could find. And I did look at my boat level and wondered whether to include it, and believe it or not I did consider putting in a mixing stick haha
But I don't believe I had more than what you see above. And a mixing stick would have been sourced on site. And yes the squeegee would have been a rubber blade, but hey, my memnory isn't what it used to be Dave. 🙂

 

[Albert]

And you would be lucky to have a sponge like that🙂

 

[Blunt Tool]

And you would be lucky to have a sponge like that🙂

Yeah I know, bloody Toffolo used to source sofas from homes that the auld biddies had went to meet their makers and the sponge smelled of *** and other things

 

[Blunt Tool]

And their pyjamas to buff up the walls

 

[Albert]

And their pyjamas to buff up the walls

We used wet towels to wash of floors or sawdust.Sponges as stated from old
seat cushions or gray corrugated foam from the lagging

 

[Blunt Tool]

@3_fall your threads been jacked and it wasn't me this time!! 🙄

 

[Old Mod]

You should know better Mark!

 

[Blunt Tool]

You should know better Mark!

He was advertising fake passports,money and other things on the rug pushers site aswell Marc!

 

[Old Mod]

He was advertising fake passports,money and other things on the rug pushers site aswell Marc!

Who Mark? Haha

 

[Blunt Tool]

6 months trial to see if you were Suitable to serve your time, after 6 months trial sign your papers for apprenticeship of 3 years then you were given your tools then was £2.00 per week off pay for them.
1x 600 mm green canvas tool bag with zip.
1 hickory handle heavy hammer.
1 pin hammer.
1 tungsten tipped chisel.
1 cold chisel.
1 rubber mallet.
1 6mm tyzack steel serrated trowel
1 10 mm tyzack steel serrated trowel
1 tyzack steel trowel
1 spear and Jackson hacksaw and 3 blades
1 pair steel pincers
1 pair tungsten mosaic snips
1 bal tungsten scriber
1 wooden float
1 pair tin snips
1 600 mm Rabone Chesterman box level
1 Rabone Chesterman small wooden boat level
1 plumb bob
1 tyzack guager
1 length black rubber to make a blade squeegee
1 Rabone Chesterman metre wooden ruler