Hammer Hanger
F
ORTY-PLUS YEARS AGO, when I was an apprentice, all tradesmen
wore overalls. An old-timer showed me the trick of inserting the
hammer’s handle into the side opening at the hip below the buttons.
Always handy, the hammer’s handle hangs along your leg without
interfering with movement.
Years later, after the overalls era had passed and leather aprons
appeared, I found the hammer loops on the aprons were often in the
wrong place for me. So I bent up a piece of^3 ⁄ 16 -in. wire into a hammer
hanger like the one shown above. The hanger slides over your belt to
any position you prefer—in my case to the spot where I carried my
hammer years ago. Most important, you can drop the hammer in the
hanger without looking and retrieve it just as easily.
—JEROMEJAHNKE,Milwaukee,Wisc.
CHAPTER THREEBend wire to
make a hammer