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big tee

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Saw this on Big Iron auctions today--It is up to $20,250!!--Can you live in these?? I promise I won't bid against you...Tee
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Looks like Kents only smaller. If your bidding on it, I will quit. Been getting any rains your way Tee? .4 yesterday and .3 last night. Everything is coming up pretty good with the heat the last couple days.
 
I see a lot of folks questioning the money spent on good tools, but any farmer farming enough to live on has many times as much money in their tools and likely make less net profit every year. Anyone who works with tools daily knows name brand tools like SnapOn and others are more than worth the money. If not you would see smart mechanics working with cheap tools.
 
Lately as I no longer farm but have a nice garage Ive gone through and sorted and arranged my 50 YEAR TOOL COLLECTION...Although NOT a professional mechanic having farmed and been a farm tractor and impelment dealer I accumulated a good set of tools. I have some Snap On but mostly S&K, Mac, Craftsman, Husky, Proto, Belknap, Kobalt, etc etc which served me well no problems. HOWEVER MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE ARE WILLIAMS I think they are the best quality of any brand I own

To each their own choice of tools, I have mine you have yours

Best wishes to all, be safe be kind be polite and I hope n pray for the USA especially the economy and record high gas and inflation grrrrrrrrrr Together we can get through this

John T
 
Williams now owned by Snap-on! Excellent tools and not compromised. Still serving the industrial tool segment. Jim
 
Thanks for the info Jim, I heard something similar once before but had no idea they were still in business. Regardless I still consider them the finest I own and search them out at tractor shows and swap meets wherever I go. I prefer those with the gun blue/gray cast looking finish prior to their manufacture of their chrome (like everyone else) Super Wrench series......

John T
 
Well done John.
My socket sets are a mish mash but all old names. Thorsen, SK, Proto, Craftsman, etc.
I think I have one Snap-On socket in the bunch.
I bought a set of Williams Superwrenches at an auction years ago. The small ones were missing out of the set but I have 5/8 to 1 3/8.
My favorite Williams wrench fits Everything on my old lathe.
1/2 square and 7/8 open end.
It weighs nearly a pound.

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Those are the wrenches I was talking about with a sort of gun blue and gray cast finish BEAUTIFUL lol

I will take a few pics of some and post mine soon

John T Loves Williams Tools
 
I've tried a lot of tool and ended up with mostly Snap-On. If I were to do it all over again, I would have nothing but Snap-On ratchets.

I also would have nothing but Proto sockets, can't justify Snap-On prices on sockets.
Beagle
 
I have a customer who bought three of them. One for him, and the other two for the help(incentive)
 
My curiosity::: I have an older ratchet handle that has a 3/8 inch square hole in the middle. Would this be for the same thing as in your picture?

It came to me with a 3/8 inch square piece about 2 inches long, so I can use it that way with normal sockets.

Dennis M. in W. Tenn.
 
And I read where Harbor Freight owns Snap-On now. Maybe that is why their tools are a bit better than they used to be. Would be foolish for them to offer the Snap-On in their store.
 
A person can make a living with midrange tools and does not need to buy from the tool truck. Most millwrights do just fine with SK, Proto and the like. But the tool truck is convenient. Also the financing is the part that gets real expensive.

That said, when someone is enrolled in tech school, they can buy tool truck tools for half price or less. If they have a little money saved up they can set themselves up real well before graduation.
 
I love Williams tools also,was at an auction about a year ago and bought a big box of Williams wrenches,went from 1/4 up to 1 1/2 inches and some extras.Surprising how many there hadn't heard of them.
 
Hi Mel--Most crops are looking pretty good around here-Most corn got planted the first week in May and the beans followed--A week or two later than most years. Had some good rains since and now we have the heat. I saw Delores' comments about the Crooks pull--Looks like ya all did good!--Lucky ABE wasn't there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!--Ha Ha--See Ya---Tee
 
Sounds like an old ratchet without the reversing part/You used it with the square poking out one side,then flipped
it over and pushed the square out the other to use it in the opposite direction.
 
Googel is your friend and NO HARBOR FREIGHT involvement in snap-on.. Snap-on is a public traded stock owned company. Harbor Freight is a very closely held private family business.
 
Snap-on is a publicly traded company and the only two significant shareholders are Vanguard group & Blackrock with only 20% combined. Individual shareholders account for less than 10%, the rest is over 1k other institutions with very small percentages.

BTW, have you heard of Vanguard group or Blackrock inc, look them up, it's kind of scary. They own, or have large chunks of all kinds of businesses worldwide. They are both extremely large entities with their hands, power and influence in just about every type of business worldwide and growing rapidly. Don't think they also don't hold power and influence at all government levels too.
 
I made living last 30 years working a a mechanic I use snap on ratchet and there tool box not like the one showed ..I use the ratchet because I get fix or replaced off there mobile truck have lot different brands tool over the yeas but any time I see a Williams wrench I try to buy it. Local cool mines used them but If I needing a new wrench I been going with the smooth polished John Deere tools ty do good job life time warranty and germination is as good as snap on when lost in a field
 
The Green Power machine showed what it had on that track. Abe would have just been blowing smoke I'm sure but it would have been good if you could have made it.
 
Do you need a CDL to move that thing ? I'm sorry, but I've been a heavy equipment mechanic for over 40 years and I never needed an tool condominium like that. Not only that, How much do you have to make in wages to justify buying that tractor trailer ? Like a very smart man once told me ; Any duma** can spend money...
 
(quoted from post at 10:40:02 06/16/22) Do you need a CDL to move that thing ? I'm sorry, but I've been a heavy equipment mechanic for over 40 years and I never needed an tool condominium like that. Not only that, How much do you have to make in wages to justify buying that tractor trailer ? Like a very smart man once told me ; Any duma** can spend money...
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Roy Suomi would you please contact me via email. Someone shared a extremely informative post of yours on the jd crawlers site and I would love to ask you a question or two about a 450c I recently bought being its quite obvious youre very experienced. Sorry to try to get ahold of you like this but it wouldn't let me pm you so I just found your last post and replied. Email is [email protected]. I'd surely appreciate it.
 
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