Tractor Supply is OK, but if you think it's Mecca now, you'd better take a
tranquilizer before you go to Farm & Fleet.
And for my personal all-time grand prize for specialty stuff there's
Stedman's in Stuttgart Arkansas. They have things I haven't seen for
decades, and things I've only seen in mill supply stores -- stuff straight
out of McMaster-Carr. Power transmission stuff, irrigation stuff, and more.
Heavy hardware - not much on hinges for cigar boxes, not most of the
packaged doodads that the hardware department at Home DIpstick carries, not
a lot of Chinese crap, and not lots of the big brands of imitation tools.
It's an old-time hardware and supply store.
> After the class, I was driving back home and I noticed a "Tractor Supply
> Store" on the road. I saw an "open" sign and I decided to check it out.
>
> I walked in the store, and I realized, I was home! This store was
> AWESOME.
> As I walked up and down the isles, my heart was racing. At more than one
> instance, a tear came to my eye!
>
> It was like a Home Depot, without all the "girly" stuff! Oh, the prices
> are matched to most catalog companies!
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