Question of the "NIGHT" 8/7/08?

What is wrong with you? You could have at least stranded us on a tropical Island where we could cut up trees. And does the tool come with a power generator? If not… a chain saw so I could at least cut dead wood into planks and make rustic furniture. And a plane. O.K. So that’s two tools.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

I agree, you can’t ask a bunch of woodworkers an “only one tool” question and not give them any wood! But okay…

If I found myself stranded in the middle of the desert, I’d choose to have with me a shovel. It’s good enough as a weapon, you can shade your head with it, and you can use it to search for buried treasure while you wait to die of heat stroke.

-- Eric at http://adventuresinwoodworking.com

A single tool, a “mechanical implement, usually held in the hand {Oxford dictionary}” well how about a helicopter with a full tank of gas and the GPS set to the nearest pub for a cold beer! If the other guys can build some fires and make some smoke, with their shovels, axes and chainsaws, I will pick them up on the way, but only if they want a cold beer?

A helicopter is a tool (it moves things from A to B, like a wheel barrow, but with a few extra parts) and you certainly have to hold it with your hand to fly it.

-- Tony - All things are possible, just some things are more difficult than others! - SKYPE: Heron2005 (http://www.poydatjatuolit.fi)

I would like a fork, so I could eat my way out of the dessert, mmm strawberries, oh you said desert…um, um, um, my towel, cause there would be copius amounts of sweating, you can blindfold yourself and not see the danger or immiment death, you could store dried out sauces on there for nourishment, you could towel whip someone, use it as a flag to raise awareness of the dangers of getting yourself stranded in a desert in the first place.

-- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com

To Easy a Question;

A satellite cell phone with GPS. ”You could call Rocklers and have them deliver all the tools and supplies you would need !”

-- Jeff T in Westport CT.

To borrow a slang term from my 19-year-old daughter, I’d hope for a “tool” driving a dune buggy to take me back to civilization.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

If I was stranded in a desert, in the SW, I would want a screw driver so I could tighten a few loose screws.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

I would want the Swedish Bikini Team.

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

Rich is right…. according to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy a Towel is the most massively useful thing you can have with you.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A138232

seriously.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

lol…well it worked…I am in my classroom for the first time in a long time…and I am LAUGHING…usually this is a depressing day…lol…

Ok…so the question was DUMB…DADOO is ahead…(since I am the judge and jury)...When OBI comes up with tonights question he can pick the winner…

Of course we have not hit evening yet…so hopefully some more responses…this idea (question of the night) came after a looooong read…and I was tired…lol…but I got what I needed….a LAUGH from all of you…

cant wait to laugh later tonight when I check…

But OBI…tomorrow nights question is for you to come up with…and make it much better then mine…please…;lol

-- Matt, Napa, CA...119 days to sanity...

A tonka dump truck…. all that sand and no toys, come on…

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

a helicopter is a kind of tool eh. oh wellAlistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

.......................without the bikinis.

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

I would want the Hawaiian Tropic Bikini Team, they are already tanned so you don’t have to worry about them whinning about getting sunburned like you would with Dadoo’s ideal “tool”.

BUT, if I had to have a tool-tool I would pick a good ole army e-tool (entrenching tool), so many uses: so little time.

-- Adrian ..... The 11th Commandment...."Thou Shalt Not Buy A Wobble Dado"

I’d want (no surprise, here) a Shopsmith. The single tool thats actually 5 woodworking tools in one. I’m not really sure just what I’d do with the 5 tools in the desert, but at least I’d have gotten the most bang for my buck. -SST
...by the way…methinks you have waaaay too much time on your hands….

-- Accuracy is not in your power tool, it's in you

...and 5 gallons of chocolate syrup and a paint brush.

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

hmmmm…. I think I’d have to have my FUBAR with me.

-- http://www.heartofsackville.ca/

HA…fubar…I was thinking of the movie “Saving Private Ryan”....isnt that the word they used all the time…

Dadoo…lol…beyond that no comment…

SST—-less time by the minute…the annual sadness is hitting…but i still made a pen today!

-- Matt, Napa, CA...119 days to sanity...

I choose Tony’s solution!

-- Chris