It’s located in a warehouse not far from Charlottesville downtown mall – an amazing collection of tools. There are, of course, hammers, wrenches and saws, but you can also borrow kitchen devices like a food dehydrator and a pressure canner, automotive, gardening and plumbing tools. There’s a battery-powered lawn mower, a walnut cracker, carpet cleaner, post-pounder, pressure washer, wallpaper steamer and so much more – overseen by volunteers like Kate Scales.
“Tools are a thing that it makes a lot of sense to collectively own,” she explains. “For example, someone just returned a giant drill press. Who needs a drill press in their house all the time?”
And, she says, it was not so difficult to assemble this collection…