"Made-In-Secret" Tool Holder

"Made-In-Secret" Tool Holder FARM SHOP Tools 34-5-39 "I made sure to clean up the kitchen so my wife won't know what I did until we get the next issue of FARM SHOW," says David Novotny, West Fargo, N. Dak., who made a pvc pliers holder in the kitchen when his wife wasn't home. Like a lot of people, Novotny carries a pair of pliers in his back pocket when working around the farm. But he has to take the pliers out when he sits on the metal seat on his old tractor. So he made a pliers holder that bolts onto the tractor fender. Here's how he did it: "I cut an 8-in. length of 2-in. dia. pvc pipe and wrapped the pliers in several layers of aluminum foil. I heated the oven to about 350 degrees and put the pvc pipe inside to make it more flexible. Then I put on gloves and filled the kitchen sink with cold water. "I took the pvc pipe out of the oven and put the pliers in it, squeezing the pipe around them. That caused the pliers to form fit nicely inside. Then I dunked both the pipe and the pliers in the cold water. I drilled a 1/4-in. dia. hole in my new pliers holder, and after a little whittling with a knife I bolted the holder to the tractor fender. "Now whenever I sit down on the tractor seat I just drop the pliers in the holder, and grab it when I hop off." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, David Novotny, 407 Ramona Ave., West Fargo, N. Dak. 58078 (ph 701 730-8627).

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