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Dick2

10-04-2004 04:33:05

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What were your Dad's favorite tools? My Dad's were CeeTee pliers, 12" Crescent and box end wrenches that I thought were awkward to use.

What are your favorite tools? 6" slip-joint plier sold by JC Penney, combination wrenches and impact wrenches (both air & electric) and sockets.

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markct

10-06-2004 09:31:51

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

i think i may have found a new favorite tool, just yesterday my portable bandsaw came from harbor freight, its not a name brand one just one of the 60 dollar chinese ones, but i have found it to be so handy for cutting everything you could imagine, angle, notches, all sortsa stuff, so much nicer than running the portable 14 inch abrasive saw cause ya dont have a huge shower of sparks, and it doesnt shake you to bits like the sawall, i think that when this one finaly craps out i will buy a brand name like a porter cable

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Slowpoke

10-15-2004 01:32:42

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to markct, 10-06-2004 09:31:51

Hey, turn that orange thing back in and get one of the stand mounted metal cutting band saws. On sale now for $150. Much more accurate angles and square cuts AND it will take STANDARD size blades in a number of different teeth. Unless HF has changed the blade size, you will only get blades (one type) from them. They are an odd size not available anywhere else. I speak from experience.
With a little ingenuity, you can do lots more with the fixed mount saw.

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Larry LeatherMan

10-05-2004 12:29:28

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

I read this thread pretty quick. But I don't anybody's favorite was one them leatherman like multitools. I'd call that dinky tool box on my red ford a joke. But I bought a $6 chinese multi-tool the otherday and put it in there.

So far I've used it to kill weeds before they went to seed.

Nobody loves these multi-tools?

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Frank M

10-12-2004 19:14:19

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Larry LeatherMan, 10-05-2004 12:29:28

I like mine. At the moment I"m carrying, not one, but two of the Leatherman Super tools. Sometimes I need pliers AND a screwdriver. They have saved me a lot of steps running to the toolbox.

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Fawteen

10-05-2004 02:55:38

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

I have a handful of my Dad's hand tools. He was a maintenance man at Federal Mogul, as well as an electrician and a farmer. His name is engraved on all his tools in script, no less!

Prolly my favorite is a Miller hacksaw. I've never seen another hacksaw frame as stiff as that old thing. You don't have to worry about the blades flexing and flopping, that's for sure!

Like the other fellers said, I think of him every time I use that saw.

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paul

10-04-2004 20:05:22

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

Dad carried a pliers, pocket knife, & watch with him. He often had a wooden folding ruler along.

His favorite tools were the pliers, hammer, and torch, about in that order. Once in a while an adjustable wrench or the box ends got involved.

--->Paul

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farmerbill in ny

10-04-2004 19:15:13

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

When I was about 15 I bought a wooden creeper and my father took a liking to it and made 3 or 4 of them to give to his friends(he loved woodworking).The one I bought is long gone but I still have one that he made,he used deerskin for the headrest.My 17 year old son was using it the other day and complaining about it not being low enough to the ground.I tried to explain to him what was special about it but he did'nt get it.Someday he will,I know the older I get the smarter my Dad gets(he's been gone for over 20 years now)

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MarkB_MI

10-04-2004 18:44:16

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

My dad never left the house without a pair of CeeTee pliers in his overall pocket. They started making CeeTees cheaper in the '70's and he was constantly breaking them.

My favorite tool is a pair of miniature Vise Grip pliers. They've gotten me out of a lot of jams. They're small enough to get into places you can't get to with pliers. They'll grip the head of a stripped out phillips screw and turn it out when nothing else will.

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James in North Carolina

10-04-2004 18:11:32

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

Mine would be a pair of linesmen pliers with an unreadable name on them. My dad had them since I was born and gave them to me a couple years ago.

Second would be my Bonney offset box end wrenches. James

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jhill

10-04-2004 18:00:21

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

My dad was a carpenter for 42 years. Built everything from houses to log cabins to churches and barns. His favorite tool was his hammer. We buried it with him. The funeral director sent me a note. He said if dad did as much good with it in heaven as he did in Milford then heaven must surely be a better place...

As for me my favorite tool is my hot wrench.

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Leland

10-04-2004 17:42:26

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

Worked for a demo company found out my favorite tool was a wrecking ball. And could that ball swing.

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GeorgeH

10-04-2004 17:27:50

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

Hands down my multimeter.

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Midwest redneck

10-04-2004 17:10:49

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

My favorites. 1. Series 1 Bridgeport bought new in 1974. 2. Lodge and Shipley lathe (manufactured in June 1969). 3 6-12 Boyer shultz surface grinder. I use these at work everyday I dont know what I would do without them.

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Dug

10-04-2004 16:59:42

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

Dick,

Unquestionably, my favorite toll is my 3 lb hammer purchased at Cummins for $8.99. It's great for both fine tuning and major adjustments to most anything on the tractor, barn, house or wifes car.

Dug

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Redmud

10-04-2004 09:55:17

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

Back in the mid 60's I was working for Douglas Aircraft out on the left coast, I bought a craftsman roll away and filled it with craftsman tools. most mechanics back then wouldn't own craftsman tools, most had Snap-on and made jokes about my craftsman tools. then about 1988 I bought a new rollaway that I can't see in the very top of the top box unless I'm on a ladder, and I'm 6 foot tall. the new one is red and the old one is ugly gray, has lots of dents and little of the gray paint left. And now I have a grandson in school at U.T.I in Houston, He called me about a month ago and ask if he could have my roll away and tools now that I'm retired, I told him that I would clean the old gray one up and put me a few tools in it to use around the shop and he could have the new rollaway. He said he didn't want the new rollaway, he wanted the old one and the craftsman tools. {I'll be danged if I know} And as favorites tool's go,I don't think I could point to one and say that's my favorite, they were all favorites. And now it's like Allan in Nc said, it's this dang computer.
Redmud:

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RayP(MI)

10-04-2004 08:58:37

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

My favorite tool? Based on the many uses it gets, a Dremmel Moto tool has to be on the top of the pack.

My favorite tool from my dad is his Stanley carpenters hammer. Wooden handle, just the right balance, doesn't beat you to death, and I would be broken hearted if it got lost!

If you want to be remembered, leave your tools to your heirs. Every time you use it, they'll remember you. My tool box has numerous tools bearing names: Dad's wrench box end wrench set, Uncle Frank's wrenches, Uncle Paul's screwdriver, etc.

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mud

10-04-2004 08:50:23

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

my father worked on the railroad, and cut trees for spare cash. i have his axe. wish i had his 50s
mcculloch chainsaw.

over the years he bought a lot of tools for me at yard sales, flea markets, and such. i think of him frequently when i work with those tools. i miss him.

he was never a rich man, but wealthy in other ways.

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chet-okla

10-04-2004 08:46:39

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

My best tool is my brain, eyes, and ears. But the most important, is commen sence. These let me know whitch tool to use and the corret way to use them. Buy good tools for any job you doing. Use the right tool, for the right job. My dad was a auto mechanic,he believed in that, and I learned from that. He died in 1974 at 53. I am 53 now an only 1/2 as smart as he was.I still miss him. Just to let know, getting teary eyed, so by for now.

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Jim@concordfarms

10-04-2004 08:07:38

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

Dad's most used tool was his welding helmet. He worked as a welder for a stone co. when he wasn't farming. He spent untold hours building up worn surfaces on dozer blades, shovel and dragline buckets, and rock crushers. My favorite tool of his was his gloves. They always had that just right smell of gasoline, welding smoke, grease and cow manure that always reminded me of him. Even today, I'd rather wear a pair of his old gloves than my new, clean ones.

My favorite tool is my Starrett 6" dial calipers. I'm a machinist when I'm not farming, and I carry them around the farm too. Drive myself and everyone else nuts with my measuring things around the farm to .001"! Jim.

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Mike M

10-04-2004 07:56:17

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

B F H and a torch

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Rauville

10-04-2004 07:42:26

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

Probably not my most used, but certaintly my most loved tool is a 15" Crescent wrench that belonged to my Dad. He bought it new in 1946, and thought enough of it to put his name on the handle with a arc welder in a precise, narrow bead, which he then ground down.
I can't pick that tool up, without having a memory of him.....

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Ludwig

10-04-2004 06:53:54

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

My favorite tool right now is my 1/2" Crapsman ratchet. Just the other day I was taking some bolts off my snowmobile trailer, they had been painted and didn't want to move, so I put a 3' cheater bar on and stood on the bar. Broke the bolts which was really quicker and easier than undoing them. A 3/8" ratchet wouldn't have ratchet pawls left after pulling that trick, (I've broken several that way) the 1/2" works just fine. Plus 1/2" drive sockets are so big that even cheap ones work reasonably well. The bulk of my 1/2" drive sockets are from The Job Lot discout store, I think I paid $4 for a set of 8.

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Indydirtfarmer

10-04-2004 05:57:22

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

In our family, there has been several things passed from one generation to the next. One is the farm. I'm the 6th generation, my son will be #7. Sinse my grandfather, every one of us has been involved in an "off farm" venture. My father ran a successful small construction company. He always considered himself a carpenter, just as much as a dairy farmer. He LOVED doing woodwork. He had a BlueGrass Hardware 12 oz. claw hammer he'd use when doing trim work. I still have it, wood handle and all.
I was "employed" with him, while going to school also.(if you can call slave labor that) I used a BlueGrass 16 oz. hammer. I have it in a place of honor, right next to dads hammer.
Fortunately, there has also been a strong work ethic handed down through the generations. They say hard work never killed anyone. I'm here to tell you that it prolonged the lives of a few people I know. John

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Nebraska Cowman

10-04-2004 05:33:11

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

My dad's favorite tool was and still is a pencil. He might of only got to the eighth grade but he ain't no dummy.

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John A.

10-04-2004 04:48:24

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

Dick2, I agree with your Dad, Mine is a 6" pair of CeeTee pliers w/a scabbord on my belt.
Later,
John A.

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Allan in NE

10-04-2004 04:46:06

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Re: Favorite tools... in reply to Dick2, 10-04-2004 04:33:05

Hi Dick,

Don't know about the 'most favorite' tool, but my "best" tool is this darned computer, believe it or not. :>)

Allan

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