« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Your most usefull tool?  (Read 3491 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Rex in OTZ

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • A Real Regular
  • ****
  • Posts: 986
Your most usefull tool?
« on: September 15, 2010, 08:22:25 AM »
I thought I'd share a odd little tool that I find is really handy in my carryround, I find lots of uses for my home made copy of a Snap-On hose tool, it's really handy getting hose on and off and ligning up sheet metal, plastic, removing window weather strip.
Logged

Offline james

  • Trade Count: (7)
  • A Real Regular
  • ****
  • Posts: 798
  • Gender: Male
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2010, 05:28:32 PM »
If I have my pants on I have a Swiss army knife with me.  It's my favorite and most used tool.... It's also why I can't fly commercial airlines.
Logged

Offline SteveHawaii

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Avid Poster
  • **
  • Posts: 217
  • Gender: Male
  • Having fun at the Koko Head Shooting Complex
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2010, 05:36:22 PM »
Yea, I guess if it's the one I use the most, it's the Swiss Army knife in my pocket.  Otherwise, it's the tool appropriate for the task at hand.  Improvising is OK, but nothing beats using the right tool for the job.
Logged
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Offline Rex in OTZ

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • A Real Regular
  • ****
  • Posts: 986
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2010, 11:08:10 AM »
I do like 6" needle nose vice grips they fill in real handy.
My other pic is the Dewalt demolishon saw (dewalts version of the Saw-z-all) if I had to replace it I'd get another Dewalt or mabe a Makita both with the  blade quick change feature (current one manual change)
Swansons Speed Square
Fluke 87 multimeter
Logged

Offline chefjeff

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 472
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2010, 12:04:22 PM »
Definitely the swiss army knife. Like James ,if I'm not "de-briefed" I have one handy.During hunting season, a model with a sawtooth blade is in service.
Logged

Offline Capt Rick Hiott

  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Avid Poster
  • **
  • Posts: 109
  • Gender: Male
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2010, 12:18:53 PM »
I dont go anywhere without my Leatherman Surge!
 I have two of them!!!  What a great tool!!

Logged
Capt Rick Hiott
Charleston,SC

Offline cwlongshot

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (158)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9907
  • Gender: Male
  • Shooting, Hunting, the Outdoors & ATVs
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2010, 12:23:55 PM »
There is so many... my pocket knife, my leatherman...
 But the first thing I thought of when I read the title was my 12V Hitachi impact driver. Its SO handi, plenty powerful and light enough to use allot without fatague. yet power to drive a 5/16 6" long lag bolt beneath the surface of a 6x6 timber. If you use a batt drill allot and do not have a impact, go get one!!

CW
Logged
"Pay heed to the man who carries a single shot rifle, he likely knows how to use it."

NRA LIFE Member 
Remember... Four boxes keep us free: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

Offline billy_56081

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (5)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8575
  • Gender: Male
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2010, 12:31:45 PM »
Leatherman kick. Saves me a lot of added miles in life.
Logged
99% of all Lawyers give the other 1% a bad name. What I find hilarious about this is they are such an arrogant bunch, that they all think they are in the 1%.

Offline Empty Quiver

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2847
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2010, 12:43:36 PM »
I don't do much with tools anymore but at one time a 40 oz blacksmiths hammer was my most useful tool. With that and a pair of giant water pump pliers and a bundle of wire ties I could get about anything up and running around the fertilizer plant. Now days I get a lot of good out of a Leatherman Surge.

I have seen a bunch of mechanics who carry a pick of some sort usually a beat up straight screwdriver in a shirt pocket. Our mechanics get a lot of good out of LED Stinger rechargeable flash lights, you won't catch them without one on there hip.
Logged
**Concealed Carry...Because when seconds count help is only minutes away**

Offline Drilling Man

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3636
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2010, 12:52:01 PM »
Quote
Your most usefull tool?

  Depends on the day...  Some days it's this,



  Other days it's this,



  Lately it's been this,



  Like i said, it all depends on which day.   :)

  DM
Logged

Offline Rex in OTZ

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • A Real Regular
  • ****
  • Posts: 986
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2010, 11:53:27 AM »
I work quite a bit away from town and mostly off grid, having a good reliable generator to supply the tools one needs to get things done, electric impact driver, chop saw, 4" grinder, 7"skill saw.
The Honda EU series is a good choice the EU2000 is a little light weight, the EU3500 would be my next buy,
Hi-Lift wagon jack, they will take a chunk outta you if you dont pay attention, very flexable to use, lifted buildings with cheater bar, used as a wood clamp and wire strecher, used to pull steel fence posts.
Petzal LED head lamp
Racheting cable puller (4000#) used for clamping, pulling, hoisting, removing/intstalling motors, used a puller and boat anchor to extract a sno-go from river overflow.
Logged

Offline scratcherky

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (7)
  • Contributor
  • *****
  • Posts: 350
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2010, 06:13:33 AM »
5 in 1 painters tool!
Logged
Don & man's best friend
Still looking at the green side of sod

Offline gypsyman

  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4852
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2010, 10:38:31 AM »
Probably my flashlight. Hate to wake up and turn lights on in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. Keep a flashlight on the dresser, so as to not trip over one of the dogs, or tv tray in the middle of the living room. Don't really care if I step on the cats tail, he really makes a loud meow when I stepped on his tail once. I think he hears me coming and hides behind the couch until I go back to bed. ;D gypsyman
Logged
We keep trying peace, it usually doesn't work!!Remember(12/7/41)(9/11/01) gypsyman

Offline Rex in OTZ

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • A Real Regular
  • ****
  • Posts: 986
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #13 on: December 16, 2010, 08:56:22 AM »
Wanted to jack the equipment yard gate so we could keep it plowed, needed to re-set the hunges higher up the posts, found the neighborhood dogs had used it to mark and was froze in block of yella ice.... :-\

Today its the Hi_lift jack and a reddy heater with duct

2 sections of 8" duct with a swivel elbow is handy in thawing vehicles as well can swivel up/down/side.....Honda is handy as you can, If it was much colder though, I'd have to put it in a box as they ice up the breather and quit, in the box they stay warm and may rebreath some its warm exhaust keeping it toasty....learned that years back out on the open frozzen tundra years ago preheating a cold aircraft.
Logged

Offline chefjeff

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 472
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #14 on: December 16, 2010, 10:24:11 AM »
In my tri-fold wallet I carry a swiss logic tool. Credit card size. Also a round toothpick and a very small drill bit,sharp. The bit is for when you get a mashed fingernail. If you use it one time you will appreciate it.
Logged

Offline Rex in OTZ

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • A Real Regular
  • ****
  • Posts: 986
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #15 on: April 06, 2011, 10:36:11 AM »
Just saw a article of a guy useing old golfballs for file handles drill a small hole and tap shank in.
Logged

Offline squirrellluck

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • A Real Regular
  • ****
  • Posts: 642
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #16 on: April 06, 2011, 04:53:23 PM »
Probably my case trapper. Always in my pocket and gets a lot of use daily. Next is my long shaft 2/4 and 5/16 nut drivers and needle nose pliers. In my right hip pocket all day.
Logged

Offline 45-70.gov

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (7)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7009
  • Gender: Male
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #17 on: April 06, 2011, 05:42:10 PM »
Re: Your most usefull tool?
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

my credit card

a credit card and a 357mag........you can handle anything
Logged
when drugs are outlawed only out laws will have drugs
DO WHAT EVER IT TAKES TO STOP A DEMOCRAT
OBAMACARE....the biggest tax hike in the  history of mankind
free choice and equality  can't co-exist
AFTER THE LIBYAN COVER-UP... remind any  democrat voters ''they sat and  watched them die''...they  told help to ''stand down''

many statements made here are fiction and are for entertainment purposes only and are in no way to be construed as a description of actual events.
no one is encouraged to do anything dangerous or break any laws.

Offline gcrank1

  • Trade Count: (24)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7644
  • Gender: Male
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #18 on: September 10, 2011, 02:24:57 PM »
My wife..........
Logged
"Halt while I adjust my accoutrements!"
      ><   ->
We are only temporary caretakers of the past heading toward an uncertain future
22Mag UV / 22LR  Sportster
357Mag Schuetzen Special
45-70  SS Ultra Hunter with UV cin.lam. wood
12ga. 'Ol' Ugly OverKill', Buck barrel c/w  SpeedStock  and swap 28" x Full bird barrel, 1974

Offline Rex in OTZ

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • A Real Regular
  • ****
  • Posts: 986
most usefull tool?
« Reply #19 on: September 20, 2011, 09:48:06 AM »
The computer has helped allot doing jobs I hadent attepted before, You-Tube is too, seeing it done in front your eyes is bout the best short of hands on experence. the hardest part of the job is the indecision starting a course of action, once committed its not so bad.
Logged

Offline 45-70.gov

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (7)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7009
  • Gender: Male
Re: most usefull tool?
« Reply #20 on: September 20, 2011, 06:32:35 PM »
Quote from: Rex in OTZ on September 20, 2011, 09:48:06 AM
The computer has helped allot doing jobs I hadent attepted before, You-Tube is too, seeing it done in front your eyes is bout the best short of hands on experence. the hardest part of the job is the indecision starting a course of action, once committed its not so bad.


did that 2 weeks ago on brakes


my problem is getting lost  here and on you-tube once i sit down
Logged
when drugs are outlawed only out laws will have drugs
DO WHAT EVER IT TAKES TO STOP A DEMOCRAT
OBAMACARE....the biggest tax hike in the  history of mankind
free choice and equality  can't co-exist
AFTER THE LIBYAN COVER-UP... remind any  democrat voters ''they sat and  watched them die''...they  told help to ''stand down''

many statements made here are fiction and are for entertainment purposes only and are in no way to be construed as a description of actual events.
no one is encouraged to do anything dangerous or break any laws.

Offline Rex in OTZ

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • A Real Regular
  • ****
  • Posts: 986
Not a Tool but Tool storage
« Reply #21 on: October 12, 2011, 05:20:00 PM »
I bought a 1950's era Filing cabinet from a trucking company going out of business auction mounted on 3" steel casters, the top two drawers were for file card's, Once the cabinet made it home it sat in the shop for a bit and in the end stay'd there, My kid brother started filling the top drawer with every drill bit we ever scrounged up, the second was full of punches & chisels and the other side the divider was hand Rasps & files and file card, the big file drawers were perfict for the circular saw and all its plywood, abrasive, and carbide  blades and wrench & attachments (Speed square in there too), The Electric Impact driver and the boxes of sockets and extension bars fit rite in there with it, the Jig saw and electric drills and 4" electric disc grinder, the drill chucks/ grinder disc tool and all the jig saw blades all sat snug in there.
 
It is mobile and keeps everything in some semblance of order.
Logged

Offline gcrank1

  • Trade Count: (24)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7644
  • Gender: Male
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #22 on: October 13, 2011, 10:01:49 AM »
Man, I'd hate to have that fall over on me...... ;) .
Logged
"Halt while I adjust my accoutrements!"
      ><   ->
We are only temporary caretakers of the past heading toward an uncertain future
22Mag UV / 22LR  Sportster
357Mag Schuetzen Special
45-70  SS Ultra Hunter with UV cin.lam. wood
12ga. 'Ol' Ugly OverKill', Buck barrel c/w  SpeedStock  and swap 28" x Full bird barrel, 1974

Offline atitagain

  • Trade Count: (67)
  • A Real Regular
  • ****
  • Posts: 800
  • Gender: Male
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #23 on: January 07, 2012, 02:03:59 PM »
I think my most useful tool just might be my brain.
Seems like I have to use it every single day.
Logged
I carry a single shot.
'cause it only takes one shot.

Offline Empty Quiver

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2847
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #24 on: January 07, 2012, 02:44:05 PM »
Quote from: Rex in OTZ on April 06, 2011, 10:36:11 AM
Just saw a article of a guy useing old golfballs for file handles drill a small hole and tap shank in.
I'ma gonna steal that. What a good idea.
Logged
**Concealed Carry...Because when seconds count help is only minutes away**

Offline Reverend Recoil

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 253
  • Gender: Male
Re: Your most usefull tool?
« Reply #25 on: January 13, 2012, 07:41:07 AM »
One of the most useful tools is the file.  The file is the only tool that can reproduce itself.  With a file you can cut a chisel.  With a chisel you can cut another file.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »