Geo-TH,In

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Another gift I never use. Like the jawhorse.

Post your useless tools, tools you were given and never use.
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Not useless, just not for all things. When I changed oil on car or truck the dogbone wrench was the goto tool. For the newer cars the wrench comes in metric also.
joe
 
I also had one once. Carried it in the tractor & used it a time or two. "Planted" it somewhere. Would just be my dumb luck to find it someday !! If only I could find my 24" Rigid pipe wrench.
 
I use my two dogbones a lot. I have metric and SAE. I like that they are open so a long bolt can pass through and you can get, most of the time, past the long bolt down to the nut.
 
Tendency for relatives looking for a gift for a handy guy is to see something on TV that looks cool to them and buy it for you. Trouble is, most of that stuff is for folks who have no tools. That dogbone wrench isn't of much use to anyone who already has a socket set- no ratcheting capability, and pretty clumsy in actual use. The one application I can see is like old-9 said- when you're crawling under something and don't know what size you'll need. In that situation, I just take my 1/2 drive socket rail and ratchet, and I've got the right tool.

I've pretty much told everyone not to get me any tools- The only things I need are specialized stuff that no one has ever heard of.
 
Look up knuckle buster in the dictionary and you will find a picture of a dog bone wrench. I had two, standard and metric. I used one of them once and promptly skinned two knuckles. Next step was the cut off saw to cut them into pieces and put in the scrap pile. Too each his own....


OTJ
 
Geo,

About 10 years ago both my wife and daughter bought Craftsman "self-adjusting" "Vise-grip" pliers. I tried and tried to use them, but never had any success. They are still in one of my tool boxes. Maybe someday I'll figure out how to use them, or not.

Tom in TN
 
I have one and its not totally a useless wrench it just depends on what your working on. To me the most worthless wrench is those battery operated adjustable wrenches. I have been given several of them and they are junk.
 
I keep those in tractor and combine tool boxes. I wouldn't use one every day but they have helped me out of a bind. They are less bulky than the equivalent sockets and lots cheaper.
 
I bought a tubing bender at Oriellys 2 weeks ago to bend a short piece of hydraulic line, kid said it would work. It self destructed. tore it apart and clamped the wheel in the vise and bent the line around it.
 
Yes, they are great for doing oil changes. We have one on each of the 4 drain caddies.

MY cross wrench is a craftsman that is 50 or so years old. No one else gets to use it as it is at the house.
 
Being a 6 point makes it even more useless. The new ones that are some good have a magnet built into the handle and the "sockets" do both metric and standard and even help get out a rounded oil drain plug.
 
Stephen, Recently sold $1500 worth of tools. They weren't useless, just haven't used them in 25 years. Many tools for flat head engines, valve grinders, valve spring compressors. So now they are useless to me, not to the person who bought them.

I find no need for some new tools that I already have tools that can do the job better, ex, sockets and open end wrenches work better than this knuckle buster which I soon learned has limited applications because of limited space. geo
 
I keep one like that in my tractor just in case I'm out and away from the barn and something happens. Haven't needed it though.
 
I have a Craftsman version of those from the early 1960s that was given to my Father.

I agree. It is just about useless.

Dean
 
Daughter got me one by B&C for Christmas when they first came out. Tried it once. It's been in the tool box ever since. B&D has a large ring around the head, only go where there's lot of room. I put it in my wife's tools, she put it back. Another one is the Husky reversible pliers, needle nose/lineman. Most uncomfortable grip.
 
I bought one of those when I started farming from scratch in "72...too broke to buy good stuff. Kept it in the AC D17 toolbox. Still have it. Interesting when I saw an ad for a "new" tool in Farm Show mag years later.
 

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