Your favorite tool and why?

[jwnge]

Mike I'm with you. I'de like to have a buck for every time my wife helped me with a project when I needed a second set of hands. It's nice when your wife is also your best friend too. Mine's a keeper!

You guys are right about the wife. Always there to work hard along side and cuddly too...40 years and countin....

 

[gabby]

28 volt Milwaukee cordless 1/2" impact wrench!!

Before that, my favorite tool was my corded 1/2" impact wrench.
gabby

 

[czechsonofagun]

French farmer's knife Laguiole in my right pocket - for last 12 years. Lot of different knifes before that one since I was 8 years old or so.

Grafting knife used to be my favorite for a very long time.

 

[Bedlam]

I can second the wife as a "tool" I think id starve if it werent for her.

 

[3RRL]

Rob you beat me to it. My CC is my best AND worse tool.

Great Robs think alike...hahaha
I bought one of those Harbor Freight watch case openers. It works great. I couldn't open one of my watches to change the battery...had no spanner wrench that adjusted to it and I didn't want to make one. $4.95

 

[rutwad]

WD-40 and Duct tape.

If it moves, but shouldn't- Duct tape

If it doesn't move, but should- WD-40

 

[goaliedad]

Rutwad- I would add a pair of vice-grip pliers to the list. back when i was playing with dirt bikes you never left without wd-40, duct tape, vise grips and a spare spark plug!

today my favorite tool is a 50 plus year old Craftsman table saw- yes, it was my dad's. I can't count the times my mother said, "If you had all the wood Ernie cut with that saw...." Sure would be nice to have a nice new Unisaw with an accurate fence, but the old Craftsman will always have a place in my shop.

 

[cp1969]

A good, sharp pocket knife. Handier than a pocket on a shirt.

 

[California]

The tractor. Its brute force trumps hand tools (which are also nice).

Today's project: I'm removing a flat tar and gravel roof. I shovelled the gravel into old buckets and garbage cans, then lifted them off the roof with the loader and carried them 200 ft.

That was hundreds of lbs handled effortlessly. I hate to think of carrying those buckets down the ladder and across the yard one by one. This is the best tool I ever bought.

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[gizmo]

I have to change my favorite tool selection. I just got an auto dimming welding helmet. How did I ever weld without this thing. It is now my favorite tool.

 

[BBates1962]

I guess I would have to say my favorite tool is my brain, I try to use it at least one time a day to make my work easer, today I used it to remind myself that I cant drive a nail with a hammer, so I had better get out the air framing nail gun to hang that picture for the wife.

 

[patrick_g]

I have lots of favorites but if I had to just choose one... I guess my original variety Leatherman multi-tool which I like to have on my belt and use daily. It isn't the best at anything but a good enough tool you have with you is better than a perfect tool miles away.

Pat

 

[have_blue]

It's a draw. I'm helpless without any of them. When using any of them, I think they are my favorite at the time.

Mitutoyo 6" dial calipers
Gertsner walnut tool box
HF 1/2" impact wrench
HF 1hp floor drill press
HF 2hp 8gal air compressor
CH tire infator w/gage
Home made small copper hammer
Home made HSS bench knife
Home made 6" dia. hardened steel surface plate

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[Defective]

have_blue,

I think I've just fallen in love with your toolbox. More pix please...

 

[billbill1]

Gearwrench make a set that's almost the same. People that have them really like them.