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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:06 pm
by seanandruby
i have reached that annoying stage which comes round every so often, the one where i am between holes on my belt. It is on the inward journey. You know what it is like when for days you keep meaning to make a new hole. Instead you soldier on and go to the next one in. every time you bend, or, sit you almost pass out. So i go one hole less, now with the combined weight of loose change, mobile phone, tape measure, boat level in back pocket, drawings, pencils, chalk and the sweets you cant eat because they have melted, screwed up and covered in cement dust ( sound familiar? ) the jeans keep falling down. hoist them up a thousand times a day usually when the hands are full of mud, concrete or shite. at last i got around to making a hole using the usual nails, tin opener, pointing trowel and screwdriver. just got back from casualty after stabbing meself in the process. the belts not the same now ( never is for some unknown reason. ) anyway as always decided to get some bracers and after a few agonising days realised why i stopped wearing them.... my flipping nipples are killing me. :p
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:18 pm
by Ted
Get an elasticated belt to hold your trousers up.
Then get a tool belt with tape measure holder, nail pouch, hammer holder et/whatever which you wear on top when using tools.
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:35 pm
by seanandruby
elasticated belts, now why do they remind me of the old " snake belt " that were around when i was a kid? no thanks. a tool belt in a trench when laying pipes? Awkward. i wear one when i'm shuttering etc. thanks anyway. Got corn plasters on me nips as i wear in a new belt. 
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:57 pm
by Tony McC
A snake belt was one of my proudest possessions when I was a kid. My Mam bought it for me on Leigh market when I was about 7 years old and I persisted with it as my wasit (and the rest of me) expanded, until I went up to grammar school and the belt was stretched to buggery and back. I even tried to salvage the 'snake' fitting and attach it to a new belt, but it didn't work.
However, there are elasticated belts that may be just the job for your problem, Sean. I have one 'for best', which means it comes out with the weddings/funerals/christenings suit that I have. It's a standard leather belt, with a standard metal buckle, but there's a very short length of very strong laccy, no more than 30mm, at the buckle end of the belt. This allows its girth to expand by 30mm or so, which I find is awful handy when I need to sit down and the beer gut slumps downwards, putting additional pressure on the belt region.
It saves having to 'slacken off' after a big dinner or a skinful of ale, and is actually quite comfortable, without ever feeling that your britches are about to plummet downwards without permission. Got it from Marks about 3 years ago - 15 quid.
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:38 pm
by seanandruby
thanks for that my search is on. watch this space.
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:17 pm
by Ted
seanandruby wrote:elasticated belts, now why do they remind me of the old " snake belt " that were around when i was a kid? no thanks. a tool belt in a trench when laying pipes? Awkward. i wear one when i'm shuttering etc. thanks anyway. Got corn plasters on me nips as i wear in a new belt.
I too just think of those but guessed a mre modern alternative might be available now.
And there is, according to Tony.