Harbor Freight Tools that don't suck

[BravoXray]

Nice work. I like your dados .. for the dividers.

Thanks, I get it from my maternal grandfather, he was a carpenter.
I like the challenge of cutting everything accurately so it all fits together snugly. I use Titebond for the glue up.
The dado I use is kept set at the right width permanently. I have another I use for other projects.

 

[bmaverick]

I use the magnetic 24-inch bar that is sold to hold hand tools off the back wall of the work bench as a magnetic bar sweeper. It's been a life saver to wand an area and snag what was dropped.

1-magnetic bar
1-paracord as a strap

Works great!

 

[California]

I use the magnetic 24-inch bar that is sold to hold hand tools off the back wall of the work bench as a magnetic bar sweeper. It's been a life saver to wand an area and snag what was dropped.

I cut one down and welded it on top of the Q-hitch to hold clevises, pins, clips. It works great. No more dropping cad-plated (blonde) clips down into knee high dry (blonde color) grass! I posted this photo here a couple of years ago, here it is again.

 

[rbstern]

I cut one down and welded it on top of the Q-hitch to hold clevises, pins, clips. It works great. No more dropping cad-plated (blonde) clips down into knee high dry (blonde color) grass! I posted this photo here a couple of years ago, here it is again.

Love that idea. Nice.

 

[5030]

Mine go in my pocket or the tractor tool box.

 

[John_Mc]

All the HF stores here ask for your phone # here which links to your email

^^ They ask, but I never give it to them.

Not a chance I'm giving my phone number to HF. It has never stopped me from getting the sale price on something.

 

[Travelover]

Not a chance I'm giving my phone number to HF. IT has never stopped me from getting the sale price on something.

You don't need to give them your real number - it is just a reference.

 

[SoCalRedTractor]

I was wrong about everything being 20 miles, this one is five miles from the port.

ICTF-JPA: About

And your second link describes the specialized 20 mile corridor that goes over to the main railyard.

It looks like those facilities have alleviated some of the chaos that existed last time I was working down there.

After some more reading - I think part of the chaos, cost, smog, traffic, near Port of Los Angeles is because the long freight trains carrying hundred of containers cross-country don't quite reach the port, but instead, most containers are transferred to trucks for 'last mile' entry to the port.

Hey somebody who knows more about the subject, please share what you know!

At any rate, the present slowdown there which leave ships anchored waiting offshore, may be part of HF's problem staying stocked.

No. You are correct. The port drama will never really be alleviated; the freeway system can't handle the volume in/out of there and the logistics once inside the port area for the truckers is out dated, so to pick up/drop a conx, a driver has to wait in numerous lines to get to person at a computer terminal at a desk, that, from what I'm told (I'm in transportation/logistics safety) may or may not be manned by someone with any sense of urgency, so, yeah - once they play in traffic to do the 5 miles, they get to deal with even more joyfulness.
Cannot speak to the conx ship offloading issues - that has been going on for a couple years since the dock strike drama and the trucker strike drama.

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[California]

No. You are correct. The port drama will never really be alleviated; the freeway system can't handle the volume in/out of there and the logistics once inside the port area for the truckers is out dated ... (I'm in transportation/logistics safety) ... so, yeah - once they play in traffic to do the 5 miles, they get to deal with even more joyfulness.

Thanks for the update! Your insider's perspective brings a sharper focus to the issue.

 

[5030]

I see now that on HF reviews, you cannot post anything negative, has to be positive or no post a review. Only negative spot is the star review, thats it. Not that I have issue because I don't, but it seems pretty one sided.