15 SIMPLE Reasons Your Grandfather's Tools Lasted 50 Years and Yours Won't Last 5

Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLostHandyman?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Start Saving Money By Fixing Everything Yourself Ebook: https://forgottenhandymansecrets.netlify.app/ In 1961, a finish carpenter in Grand Rapids bought a Stanley hand plane for about four dollars. He used it nearly every working day for forty-one years, and when he died in 2002, the blade still took a shaving thin enough to read through. We didn't lose tools like that because they wore out. We lost them because somebody figured out there was more money in a drill that dies than a drill that lasts. Here are 15 reasons your grandfather's tools outlived him — and the plainest habit of all, the thirty-second one you can still do tonight. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craftsman_(tools) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_fitting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forging