Favorite Pry Bar

BigMarv1085 · Sep 1, 2012

Reading the post below made me wonder if any of you have a favorite pry bar. I have 2 that are made of old buggy axles about 5 foot long. One has a pointed end and a wedged end, the other is wedged with a blunt end. You can bust through granite rocks. Excellant when digging post holes.

PJH · Sep 1, 2012

I have a buggy axle like you mentioned - rounded on one end and 1" square on the other. Makes a real good post tamper. Good steel.

Speaking of buggy axles - while cleaning my old cistern a few years ago, I noticed that someone had used a buggy axle or two as reinforcement in the concrete top. They were obviously laying on the bottom form when they poured the concrete.

Puddles · Sep 1, 2012

I use one of these for most things.
http://www.ironworkergear.com/kleinroundsleeverbar30inx78india.aspx

And one of these for the other things. :lol:
http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200326320_200326320

glennster · Sep 1, 2012

the old torsion bars from the chrysler front suspension make a good persuader, also i have a couple square axles of of disk gangs, flatten the end up, they work good too.

ASEguy · Sep 1, 2012

Ditto what glennster said. Torsion bars.

Zachary Hoyt · Sep 1, 2012

I have a 1" round bar about 3' long with a flattened slightly bent end and a pointy end. It is my favorite bar for general prying and also for chipping ice off concrete.
Zach

Uncle Ernie · Sep 1, 2012

This is my favorite for moving or lifting something.
If it doesnt work I break out the 6ft. Swede...ya ya that'il move er...
4 footer

Anonymous-0 · Sep 2, 2012

The closest thing, that looks like it will take the load!

showcrop · Sep 2, 2012

I have a pretty good selection. The largest has a bevel at the business end so that it acts like a tooth on a bucket. It is about 50 inches and weighs about twenty lbs. I have two of what my father always called crow bars. Then I have a wonder bar, and the old buggy axle that I found about 40 years ago and dragged behind my truck on pavement to put some sharpness on one end.

Doc in WV · Sep 2, 2012

I have a track alignment Bar

The gandy dancers used it...heavy but effective!

Ultradog MN · Sep 2, 2012

My favorite is a 5' bar.
It's in my pickup at all times.
Amazing how often I use it.
Moving a trailer over that last inch so it sits on top of the ball hitch, breaking out concrete, removing tie rods on a tractor, chiseling ice,
etc, etc.
My next favorite is a wonder bar. I couldn't do my work without one.

Goose · Sep 2, 2012

I had one, once, but I loaned it to a friend and he screwed it up.

Mike (WA) · Sep 2, 2012

My favorite was one my dad had made at Coolidge Machine when I was 4 or 5- I got to watch. Bar was hexagonal stock, about 3/4 inch diameter, pointed on one end, spade on the other. That was the cool part for a kid- heating the end in a forge and "blacksmithing" the spade end.

Used exclusively for digging post holes in our rocky soil. Don't know what ever happened to it, dad gave away a lot of stuff to opportunistic strangers toward the end.

BigMarv1085 · Sep 2, 2012

There is a part of a old buggy axle sticking out of the old milk barn foundation at my dads. Tried pulling it out before but must be stuck pretty good.

GordoSD · Sep 2, 2012

It's in my shop. 66 inches long 1 1/8 diameter, hex, point on one end like little blunt axe head on the other. weighs about 20 lbs.

ihman73 · Sep 2, 2012

We made one out of a feederhouse jackshaft that had a bearing that went out and wore a spot in off our 1460 combine. Point on one end and a wedge on the other. Would like to make another but the extra shaft we have is just that. An extra, if I made another pry bar I'd need a feederhouse jackshaft.

OLWHDA · Sep 3, 2012

I have one made out of an enclosed drive shaft outta some old car or pickup, that is what my late father told me anyhow, pointed on one end and square on other end. approx 5 ft long.

TIMAR · Sep 3, 2012

OTC flat one end point on the other. Chrome vandium. Found on the hwy 20 yrs ago

Mike (WA) · Sep 5, 2012

Glad you found it. Thanks. Send it back, COD. Pronto.

jose bagge · Sep 6, 2012

My favorite "big" pry bar is made out of an F150 drag link. We used to change out a lot of these back in the day, and almost every mechanic in the shop had one like it for prying around on LBJ jobs or on coil springs.

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