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1WorldHope

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5. Can you imagine what is was like to live in that era?

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Thu Jun 26, 2025, 05:35 PM

Jun 26

You have to make the tools, make the bricks, cut down the trees and make them into lumber.
I have often looked back at my dad building our house and having to use a hammer instead of a nail gun.
How could humans be so creative and so cruel at the same time?

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some tools made by my blacksmith great grandfather: [View all] Ptah Jun 26 OP

Pretty cool. I have a hatchet my grandfather forged. rsdsharp Jun 26 #1

So cool! sdfernando Jun 26 #2

Like my husband's family Marthe48 Jun 26 #4

Kicking for Ptah's great grandfather democrank Jun 26 #3

Can you imagine what is was like to live in that era? 1WorldHope Jun 26 #5

Very cool Ptah Clouds Passing Jun 26 #6

Cool! Did your grandfather live in the same town you live in? MLAA Jun 26 #7

Hang on to them gilligan Jun 26 #8

!!! Kali Jun 26 #9

Very nice! H2O Man Jun 26 #10

Turnpike in 1790. Wow. And the stagecoach station. So cool to live with history! Evolve Dammit Jun 26 #11

Definitely! H2O Man Jun 26 #15

That is really cool. I unearthed two millstone halves that were used as fill material. Evolve Dammit Jun 27 #22

Love this. What is the bottom tool used for? Bristlecone Jun 26 #12

Ace hardware calls it an Adjustable T-Bevel Ptah Jun 26 #13

Used to mark angles H2O Man Jun 26 #16

I appreciate that. I have my grandfather's tools Bristlecone Jun 26 #17

My grandfather came to H2O Man Jun 26 #19

Beautiful! KT2000 Jun 26 #14

Real works of functional art. Can you imagine how long & hard he worked to become this proficient? The hardest is to NBachers Jun 26 #18

I have a number of my Grandpa's things Unwind Your Mind Jun 27 #20

I also have this clothes iron made by my father's other grandfather! Ptah Jun 27 #21

Real artisans Beringia Jun 27 #23

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