Remember the travelling tool sales?

[Diggin It]

Sort of a forerunner to the HF stores. Chas. Homeier was one, but there was at least one more that I can't remember the name of. They'd put signs up all over when they came to town. They'd set up in K of C , Rotary Club or other Civic Center type halls that rented space. Sometimes just in big tents. In some, you'd walk through a display area with a checklist on a clipboard writing down item numbers. Then you'd pay and go out to a semi trailer where guys inside would fill your order. In others, you'd carry a basket and pick things off the stacks.

 

[ArlyA]

I still have a metric wrench set I bought from a traveling sales "whatever you call it" back in 1980. They have a life time warranty, which I thought was a joke. But I don't believe I ever broke one!.

 

[Turbys_1700]

20 plus years ago I purchased a 1/2 inch air wrench off the Homier truck. It's been a really good unit rated at 450 ft pounds of torque. All metal construction and very reliable.

 

[BHD]

there was a group called Cummins tools and I think there was a group before them, I think there gone now, but there junk was worse than harbor freight, when they were in business,

I ended up with some of the tools after a friend died, the head of the hammer I was using to hammer in a staple broke the head in half, had some pry bars, from the same thing, most bent and straightened out when used, (to pry off hub cap).

I went to one of there sales when they called it an auction, they tried to auction the junk off, hardly any one would bid on any thing,

I do not know if they went belly up or not, but I have not seen them for many years,

 

[EddieWalker]

I went to one about a dozen years ago, or more. I saw a lot of things in their flyer that I wanted, but when looking at them in person, I walked away. Kind of what happens when I go to Harbor Freight.

 

[RandyT]

Homier doesn't have to have traveling tool sales any more when they are selling their products through Home Depot, Menards, and Rural King.

 

[rangerfredbob]

They had some stuff that was ok, I have some stuff that I bought from them that still works just fine... I kinda miss them, haven't seen one in these parts for 12 years or so.

 

[Diggin It]

Of all the things I found and bought there that most people would never have expected, I have a decent Oak dining room table with 6 chairs. I didn't remember that was where I got it until I was going through some old files a while back and found the receipt.

 

[Dwellonroof]

Buffalo was a brand here before HF

 

[4get gto]

there was a group called Cummins tools and I think there was a group before them, I think there gone now, but there junk was worse than harbor freight, when they were in business,

I ended up with some of the tools after a friend died, the head of the hammer I was using to hammer in a staple broke the head in half, had some pry bars, from the same thing, most bent and straightened out when used, (to pry off hub cap).

I went to one of there sales when they called it an auction, they tried to auction the junk off, hardly any one would bid on any thing,

I do not know if they went belly up or not, but I have not seen them for many years,

Cummins are the same ones I remember. Traveling town to town. I think they were men that ran the carnival rides in the summer time.. Quite the bunch....!