Retiring The Old Hammer

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

In my job, transporting for Trimac Transportation, Freon gas to the Daiken Air Conditioning plant, in Waller, Texas, I had to use some company issued tools. One of the tools that I needed was a brass hammer. Now they are called Spark resistant hammers, but still a brass hammer, just more expensive. Below is a picture of two hammers, the top one is the new one, and the bottom one is the old one!

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Years ago the bottom one looked just like the top one. When I see the old hammer, I see my own personal work history and hard work over the years. Everyone else just sees an old dirty used up hammer.

I got the new hammer just a few weeks before my retirement from my career in driving. I really ordered it for my replacement. I took this picture myself on the back of the container chassis on which the ISO container sat upon.

I really enjoyed my job moving Freon to the plant. It was one of the best local routes that my company ran. I retired soon after, a little over a year ago. I found this picture and thought about what this simple tool represented to me and wanted to share my thoughts.