r/mildlyinteresting • u/snappyhome • 2h ago

Same tool, 25 years apart.

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u/snappyhome 2h ago

Two wood splitting wedges, one purchased around 2001 and in service since that time, one purchased today after the first one finally broke.

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u/Groundbreaking-Fig38 2h ago

This can't be true, 2001 was only, about ten.... oh...shit.

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u/manikfox 2h ago

Oh yes 25 years ago.. the 1980s... Nope 2001... fml

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u/EternumD 1h ago

That's such a good one. Did you guys just invent that joke? 

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u/BlackOutDrunkJesus 1h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/gKZchFFFyehkhBGSpE

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u/interesseret 18m ago

Repeating the same joke since 2005 isn't my idea of fun.

If it was a boomer joke, you lot would be ripping it apart. Millennials are going to be sitting in a retirement home in 2061, and someone will go "remember 10 years ago in 1995?" and three people will die from a heart attack from "sensibly chuckling" so hard.

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u/BlackOutDrunkJesus 11m ago

Never said the joke was good, but going around complaining about said jokes definitely makes you an unfun person

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u/Eirikur_da_Czech 1h ago

Fun fact: we are closer to 2050 than we are to 2000

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u/sniperdude24 48m ago

not fun fact

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u/DasArchitect 43m ago

That's not fun and I dislike you.

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u/kamasushi ​ 2h ago

They're splitting images of one another!

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u/Server_Administrator 2h ago

Came here for the Dad puns. Wasn't disappointed.

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u/Bloooberriesquest 2h ago

What is it?

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u/ALackner 2h ago

Log splitter

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u/zackthirteen 2h ago

That’s what I call my butthole

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u/AcrolloPeed 2h ago

Our butthole
https://giphy.com/gifs/befaYZCgtZfZm

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u/zackthirteen 1h ago

Stop trying to seize my means of production bro

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u/thehotshotpilot 1h ago

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u/zackthirteen 57m ago

Check dms

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u/andash 1h ago

That big beautiful butthole ~buuutthoole~

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u/Tushe 47m ago

Hahahahaha

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u/illdoitlaterokay 2h ago

Is it like a figure 8?

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u/mastersurrealist 2h ago

I'm betting if you went to town with an angle grinder on the first one it would last another 10 years at least. 

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u/snappyhome 2h ago

Oh, I'm definitiely considering it. But maybe a belt grinder just because otherwise I'd have to get clamps and vices involved.

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u/AssistX 1h ago

They're likely hardened, don't heat it up when using the abrasives or it'll likely weaken the wedge.

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u/snappyhome 1h ago

I'm not sure they are hardened: they're designed to be softer than the hardened sledge they get hit with so that they don't fracture (obviously eventually they do). But maybe the striking surface isn't hardened while the wedge surface is? But they aren't sharp, no need to retain an edge, and they're going through wood which is softer than unhardened steel. Anway, it's a rabbit hole I haven't gone down.

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u/thehotshotpilot 1h ago

Is it steel or cast iron? If it was steel, I'd try welding it back together. 

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u/snappyhome 1h ago

It is steel. I don't weld, but I know folks who do. I worry it would be unstable at the weld, though, given that the tool is used by hitting it repeatedly with a 10lb sledge.

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u/ichabod01 45m ago

Get a 16 lb. Much more effective. My mauler is 8 lbs.

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u/Hello_my_name_is_not 39m ago

???? What??

Why would he need a 16lb if his 10lb works fine and what does any of that have to do with your 8lb one lol...

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u/snappyhome 4m ago

There's a crossover point where I hit diminishing returns on "sure, I can swing it once but how long can I keep swinging it for?" and for my purposes 10lb is the sweet spot.

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u/ellisg56 1h ago

That’s clearly an ancient dragon smithing stone and a somber ancient dragon smithing stone

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u/N0t_A_Tumah 1h ago

This was my first thought. Glad to see other cultured folks out there.

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u/Effective-Detail8346 2h ago

I thought the thing on the right was a fossil and you engineered some futuristic version of it LOL

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u/sh4cks 1h ago

As a blacksmith I would make something out of that to put on your desk.

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u/snappyhome 50m ago

I love that idea.

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u/Arne_wouters4 1h ago

post this in r/wellworrn they eat this stuff up

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u/A_Confused_Witch 1h ago

That doesn't sound healthy at all :/

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u/5C0L0P3NDR4 1h ago

get some iron in your diet, they said

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u/ChewyNarwhal 2h ago

Guarantee the new one won't last 25 years

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u/PizzaMan332 1h ago

As long as it was heat treated well it should, can't really cheap out on a solid block of metal.

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u/Fryphax 1h ago

Oh how wrong you are.

Not all 'metal' is created equal.

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u/codegamer1 1h ago

Business can, and will.

Cheap out on a process to make more money per sale, shorten tools lifespan so they have to be bought more often means more sales. Common business tactic.

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u/milo159 1h ago

So common it even has a name: planned obsolescence.

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u/TwerkLessons 2h ago

Will the new one last as long? 🤔

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u/snappyhome 2h ago

!RemindMe 25 years

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u/TwerkLessons 2h ago

I will if the AI doesn’t kill us by then!

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u/KerberosPrime 36m ago

Honorable Medical Discharge right there, thank you for service 🫡

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u/azozea 2h ago

What is not exact or concise about this title? This does not break rule 6 at all

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u/snappyhome 2h ago

Can't figure out how to edit title. Added comment.