65 year old photo of a plumber.

[WaterTight]

Alternative thread title: 'Tamz, circa 1990's.'

 

[macackau]

I bet that Stilson had zero play/movement in it!

 

[Best]

I bet that Stilson had zero play/movement in it!

So true. That very same Stilson could well be about today still being used by someone. It won't have been made in China.
That blokes hands look large and tough.

 

[macackau]

Yeah, Stilson is for show, he probably used his hands to tighten joints!

 

[WaterTight]

Yeah he could beat Fred West in a thumb war.

Part of a series called Small Trades by photographer Ivring Penn, hundreds of photos. Shot in London, Paris and somewhere else - I forget. That plumber was from New York.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=irving+penn+small+trades&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYlKzm5aDNAhVlK8AKHchzDzQQ_AUICCgB&biw=1366&bih=633http://

 

[WaterTight]

I'd love to travel back in time and show that man push fit and flexi's and see what he thought of them. Watch as he flipped them about in his leathery spades of hands and tell him that it's now possibe to do everything from changing taps and running the pipework for an entire house with 3 tools and 2 weeks of training.

 

[Best]

I'd love to travel back in time and show that man push fit and flexi's and see what he thought of them. Watch as he flipped them about in his leathery spades of hands and tell him that it's now possibe to do everything from changing taps and running the pipework for an entire house with 3 tools and 2 weeks of training.

I wouldn't tell him that while he had those big Stilsons in his hand though!

 

[WaterTight]

I wouldn't tell him that while he had those big Stilsons in his hand though!

If someone suggested an in promtu photo shoot of you as a tradesman and told you to bring along a tool that represented your trade what would you bring?

 

[WaterTight]

I reckon I'd bring along my metre long 25mm SDS drill bit (which i bought for one job and never used since) loaded into my SDS, slung over my shoulder.

 

[plumben]

If someone suggested an in promtu photo shoot of you as a tradesman and told you to bring along a tool that represented your trade what would you bring?

I'd bring my pipe bender or if I was feeling funny a bucket and mop

 

[Masood]

I'd bring my pipe bender or if I was feeling funny a bucket and mop

Same here. I think above all else it's being able to use a bender that sets professionals apart from DIYers.

 

[tamz]

True Mas. I rarely bend unless there is money involved
Btw the guy in the picture reminds me of Archie, one of my tradesmen, baldy wee crabbit bstd that he was. Taught me everything he knew. For all the good that done me lol

 

[Best]

I agree it has to be a pipe bender. Or a Surefire torch. Both of which keep you apart from the push fit diyers.

 

[kay-jay]

Id take a dustpan and brush just so i wouldnt get confused for an electrician

 

[jtsplumbing]

Wonder what these guys would think of todays standard tools- Analyser , Multi-meter, Lap top/Tablet Mobile phone ?

 

[Howsie]

If someone suggested an in promtu photo shoot of you as a tradesman and told you to bring along a tool that represented your trade what would you bring?

The apprentice.

 

[Best]

Wonder what these guys would think of todays standard tools- Analyser , Multi-meter, Lap top/Tablet Mobile phone ?

I bet it would be, - " What use are those? You can't even hammer a nail in with them!"

 

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Poor lad looks like 13

 

[Ermintrude]

If someone suggested an in promtu photo shoot of you as a tradesman and told you to bring along a tool that represented your trade what would you bring?

A very large copper mallet

 

[Masood]

Poor lad looks like 13
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That moustache!!!

 

[Best]

That moustache!!!

It is actually where he keeps his steel wool.