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Bears don't like Stanley
Last summer on a fishing trip in Algonquin Park my son and I had a confrontation with a Black Bear. We were in the interior portaging to a sight that I like to camp, when a Bear came out on the trail. We had been resting in a clearing and our packs were a hundred yards away from us. The Bear came out of the woods and started to root into our bags. All we could do was watch from where we were. The Bear must have smelled some spilled coffee on my Stanley container because he pulled it out and started to chew on it. For a good 15 minutes he tried at that container, then finally gave up going back...
READ FULL STORY My 3.5 million mile Stanley
After 22 years of long haul flatbed trucking my Stanley and I retired. My Stanley as been by my side for more than 3 1/2 million miles, 1 hurricane, 2 tornados,3 earthquakes and countless snowstorms. My good buddy Stanley has been used to hold a flashlight while I put on tire chains, held engine parts and even used as a hammer in times of need. Stanley was filled over 8,640 times and has poured more than 2,160 gallons of truck stop coffee and has been hugged by more waitresses trying to get the well sealed top off than I can count. Thank you Stanley, I'll take you fishing now.
Topics: Working, Built for Life
READ FULL STORY Still going. . .
I just bought my first Stanley thermos, a 17oz soup jar I use at the office. However, I still have the first one I got 19 years ago, given to me used by a coworker who got it used himself. I've used it to tap in nails, hold blueprints down in the wind, prop up joists when I needed an extra hand, and occasionally even carry coffee in it on the morning ride in to work. It's one of the few things left that still measure up to its words.
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READ FULL STORY The Legend
When I was 6 years old my father went to USA for work from Poland where we had communism and there was nothing in the stores. He was there a year and a half and when he came back in 1987 he brought a green Stanley Classic Vacuum Bottle. It was something and I was amazed by this. He used to say that this Stanley is so strong and hard that even a tank could run over it doing no sign of damage and I believed him. My father used to work at construction in many European countries and also had own company and he was using this Stanley every day. At the morning he was pouring the tea to have somethi...
Topics: Built for Life, Family
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Memories of my father...
I grew up seeing the green Stanley thermos around the house and it became synonymous with my father. We had several different Stanleys, a ~2 quart for his tea or whatever was the choice of the day and a wide mouth that he used for carrying soup. I remember seeing it in a VW Camper that we owned, on the desk at his workplace (towerman for the railroad) and sitting on the console in the camper with steam coming out on a cold winter day after sledding. I always said I'd buy one, and over the years I've had a few thermoses from other manufacturers, but just not the old green Stanley. I just ne...
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Over Three Milloin Miles!
For over thirty years, my stanley was always beside me in my truck. It was always filled when I left the house, and was filled up every time the truck stopped at a truck stop or conveinence store. I cannot tell you how much coffee has been held by my Stanley, not just in the truck, but was a great companion in the deer stand, NFL football games in the winter, Ice Scating, Sleigh Riding, Fishing, anywhere I went, my stanley stood by me! It has fallen and rolled down the truck steps, fallen out of deer stands, lost in the snow, stepped on and kicked, and she never stopped working, was always th...
READ FULL STORY Growing Up With Stanley.
From the time i was a little girl I can always remeber my mother packing my dads lunch for work. Everyday i would wait for him to get home. When he would get home i would carry his green lunch box in the house and put it on the counter. It was a part of my life for 24 years. My Father always came ready. Many times out and about in the winter he would pull out a "Big Stanley" full of hot chol. and we would sit and drink it.Over the many years of my childhood my father would collect all the stanleys he could. At yard sales, online, any where he could find them. He would often tell me...
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READ FULL STORY Stanley thermos survives fall from Motorcycle at 70 MPH
In 1970 while riding my motorcycle to work the bungee cord holding my Stanley thermos broke dropping it onto the middle lane of the interstate highway I-26. I stopped and started to walk back to it when it was clipped by the left front wheel of a truck. The thermos flew into the brush in the median. After about 15 minutes search I found the cap was dented, but the thermos was intact and my coffee was still warm.
Topics: Travel
READ FULL STORY Stanley and the dozer
I learned about the legendary green Stanley thermos while working for a construction company. My boss always carried his coffee in a Stanley. Every morning he would grab his Stanley and climb into his bulldozer and go to work. One day it was particularly hot and he had the doors open for ventilation. Naturally the rough ride shook his Stanley thermos right out the door. He hadn't noticed until he after he had already backed right over it. He jumped out and picked it up. There was a nasty dent right across the middle of it from the dozer tracks. He unscrewed the top and poured himself a...
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READ FULL STORY Its badge of honor is a bullet graze
My Stanley classic bottle has endured 10 years of extreme abuse across the US, Mexico, Central America, Chile, and Peru. While it is now officially the ugliest thermal bottle on the planet, it works like the day it was purchased. Its badge of honor is a bullet graze obtained on a construction site in Guatemala during a robbery attempt. I plan to be buried with Stan.
Topics: Working, Travel, Built for Life
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