Thread: My Grip Tite Arrivec

I paid for the thing Friday morning and it was in my mail box this
noon. It looks fine. I have tried picking up some jars with it and
it works wonderfully. I think it will save my hands.

The seller wrote to me to ask what was so wonderful about the Grip
Tite. I explained that it was an antique and only one other had
appeared on Ebay in the last year. I'm not sure she will understand
the explanation I gave here about how it works.

Guess I will have to go out and pick the rest of the muscadines
tomorrow (if it doesn't snow) so I will have something to can.

--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:35:09 -0500, George Shirley
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Congratulations, you are now using equipment that probably older than
>some of the folks on this newsgroup. Practice with jars full of cold
>water and with a lid on them to learn the proper technique for lifting
>with it. I

snippies

I had to look, I was so curious... looks like a surgical instrument
from the 1800's!

It seems very sensible, but wouldn't your hands slip on the metal when
you were picking the jars out of a BWB and got steam on it?

snow
nosy parker

[email protected] wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:35:09 -0500, George Shirley
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations, you are now using equipment that probably older than
>> some of the folks on this newsgroup. Practice with jars full of cold
>> water and with a lid on them to learn the proper technique for lifting
>> with it. I
>
> snippies
>
> I had to look, I was so curious... looks like a surgical instrument
> from the 1800's!
>
> It seems very sensible, but wouldn't your hands slip on the metal when
> you were picking the jars out of a BWB and got steam on it?
>
> snow
> nosy parker
Dear Nosy Parker: No, been using ours for more than forty years, bought
it new in the mid-sixties for 50 cents at the local Farmers Mercantile
store (still in existence and has been since about 1910). It is designed
to make gravity and weight work for picking up the jars, doesn't get
slick at all in my experience. IMHO works a lot better than the newer
clamp jobbies with the plastic on them. YMMV

In article <0VCNk.53186$[email protected]>,
George Shirley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Nosy Parker: No, been using ours for more than forty years, bought
> it new in the mid-sixties for 50 cents at the local Farmers Mercantile

Careful o' them banana peels, Jorge. '-)

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"George Shirley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:0VCNk.53186$[email protected] ..

> Dear Nosy Parker: No, been using ours for more than forty years, bought
> it new in the mid-sixties for 50 cents at the local Farmers Mercantile
> store (still in existence and has been since about 1910). It is designed
> to make gravity and weight work for picking up the jars, doesn't get
> slick at all in my experience.

> IMHO works a lot better than the newer
> clamp jobbies with the plastic on them. YMMV

The clamp jobbies are fine if you have strong hands. Of course, you
have to be doing something regularly to keep your hand and arm
strength up. I find that controlling a 500 pound motorcycle at 70Mhp
on a daily basis to be adequate for this. YMMV. ;-)

Ted

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> "George Shirley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:0VCNk.53186$[email protected] ..
>
>> Dear Nosy Parker: No, been using ours for more than forty years, bought
>> it new in the mid-sixties for 50 cents at the local Farmers Mercantile
>> store (still in existence and has been since about 1910). It is designed
>> to make gravity and weight work for picking up the jars, doesn't get
>> slick at all in my experience.
>
>> IMHO works a lot better than the newer
>> clamp jobbies with the plastic on them. YMMV
>
> The clamp jobbies are fine if you have strong hands. Of course, you
> have to be doing something regularly to keep your hand and arm
> strength up. I find that controlling a 500 pound motorcycle at 70Mhp
> on a daily basis to be adequate for this. YMMV. ;-)
>
> Ted
>
>
If God had meant for mankind to ride on two wheels he would have never
let Henry Ford invent the automobile. I was involved in a driver study
some years ago Ted. There was some proof that car and truck drivers
expect to see cars and trucks on the highway but didn't even notice
murdercycles. I'm glad you enjoy it but it's not for me.

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:16:05 -0800, "Ted Mittelstaedt"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>"George Shirley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:0VCNk.53186$[email protected] ...
>
>> Dear Nosy Parker: No, been using ours for more than forty years, bought
>> it new in the mid-sixties for 50 cents at the local Farmers Mercantile
>> store (still in existence and has been since about 1910). It is designed
>> to make gravity and weight work for picking up the jars, doesn't get
>> slick at all in my experience.
>
>> IMHO works a lot better than the newer
>> clamp jobbies with the plastic on them. YMMV
>
>The clamp jobbies are fine if you have strong hands. Of course, you
>have to be doing something regularly to keep your hand and arm
>strength up. I find that controlling a 500 pound motorcycle at 70Mhp
>on a daily basis to be adequate for this. YMMV. ;-)
>
>Ted
>

I'd rather have the grip tite

snow

"George Shirley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:4yYNk.56946$[email protected] ..
> Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > "George Shirley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:0VCNk.53186$[email protected] ..
> >
> >> Dear Nosy Parker: No, been using ours for more than forty years, bought
> >> it new in the mid-sixties for 50 cents at the local Farmers Mercantile
> >> store (still in existence and has been since about 1910). It is
designed
> >> to make gravity and weight work for picking up the jars, doesn't get
> >> slick at all in my experience.
> >
> >> IMHO works a lot better than the newer
> >> clamp jobbies with the plastic on them. YMMV
> >
> > The clamp jobbies are fine if you have strong hands. Of course, you
> > have to be doing something regularly to keep your hand and arm
> > strength up. I find that controlling a 500 pound motorcycle at 70Mhp
> > on a daily basis to be adequate for this. YMMV. ;-)
> >
> > Ted
> >
> >
> If God had meant for mankind to ride on two wheels he would have never
> let Henry Ford invent the automobile. I was involved in a driver study
> some years ago Ted. There was some proof that car and truck drivers
> expect to see cars and trucks on the highway but didn't even notice
> murdercycles.

We know. :-)

Any skilled biker is well aware that they are invisible. When you start
riding you either deal with this, or you end up getting hurt or killed. It
is a matter of focus when your on the bike, you see. There's no such
thing as autopilot on a bike. I've already
been there and done that, I've been riding since the late 80's.
Unfortunately,
every year there's a few riders killed who didn't learn this.

Ted