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Honestly the last 500 mile road trip I took the only tools I had were the Leatherman Rebar that’s always on my belt but I see your point. If it makes you feel better buy these along with a cheap 6 in 1 screwdriver and a pair of slip joint pliers and put them in a Klein zipper bag.

I’ve got a 2011 F250 with a Leer DCC cap on it. It’s my work truck and it’s full of tools. My starter went out sitting in a friends driveway. I called for a tow. My friend was shocked and offered several times to go get parts or give me a ride to the parts store. I’m pretty much of the opinion...

Actually broken, probably a dozen assorted hand tools in the last 15 years or so. Worn out, probably twice that many in the same time frame. Drill bits and screwdriver bits are consumables

Let’s just say chain link fence top rail isn’t a suitable cheater pipe. It doesn’t bend it kinks and folds in half. I can also confirm that a Gearwrench 3/4” ratchet is stronger than a 4 foot piece of 1-1/4” gas pipe. The fact we had a 65 horse tractor pushing against the pipe with the loader...

Skip the hose clamps use pex crimp rings

I sold a Willaims 50666 set a few days ago and it really got me to thinking. That set rode on my work truck for years and only got pulled off because it had gotten to the point where I really wasn't using it. Impact sockets had pretty much taken its role and truck space is limited and precious...

Metabo HPT is the same thing that used to be sold as Hitachi. Metabo (Germany) is every bit as good as Hilti and has a similar price point

What you’re describing is common to find on heavy equipment service trucks. Heck I’ve seen 20 pound sledges with 18 inches or so of gas pipe welded in for a handle. You can’t swing a full length handle under a dozer and track pins don’t come out easily. Those tools will separate the men from the...

The Metabo is all right. Unless they’ve improved it in the last couple years the cord is pretty stiff and cheap feeling and will quickly become tangled as you’re using it. I think the best cheap grinder on the market right now is the 7 amp Bauer. I’ve accumulated atleast a half dozen 4 1/2”...

I’ve used multi tools from a dozen different manufacturers. Some are better than others. Some cut faster, some vibrate less, but in the end they all did the job. Reciprocating saws on the other hand are either good or underpowered garbage. There is no in between and I’d go so far as to say a...

I get that. The market is so saturated with imports it’s getting increasingly harder to weed out the decent from the junk. That being said foreign manufacturing and metallurgy has came a long way in recent years. About a month ago I ordered a 15/16” wrench from Amazon. It was a JETECH brand...

Yeah the boxes look like they might be half decent but you know we will likely never see them in stores where you can check them out in person. Honestly Duratech isn’t half bad. It’s about like Pittsburgh Pro in my experience. I’ve got some of their larger combination wrenches and they’ve been...

I’ve got a pair of 460 Channel Lock pliers which are similar in size to those Cobras. I find use for them a couple times a year. But when you need them nothing else will work. They stay on my work truck along with two 18 inch adjustable wrenches, two 24 inch pipe wrenches and a 36 inch pipe...

I don’t understand the whole Icon business model. They’ve been successful and people seam to like them and I’m fine with that but it really makes no sense to me. It’s also strange to me that Harbor Freight compares Icon to Snap-On, seems they should be comparing to Blue Point or Williams Taiwan...

I’ll buy all the channel lock blue at $2 each even if I have 10 identical sets already. The small pipe wrench is a steal at $2 even if it’s Chinese no name but it’s the right color to be a Ridgid. I see several wood chisels that are plenty good enough to be beaters in a framing belt. I’ll take...

19 years in the trades and by far the best hammer I’ve ever owned. Total impulse buy. If I lost it today I’d have another before I go home.

Heres what I did for my impact sockets. This is the SAE set. I’ve got a similar setup for metric. Used 1x1 aluminum angle pop riveted to the bottom for dividers. There’s a couple extensions a universal and a ratchet in there too. Set goes all the way from 3/8 to 1-1/2 in shallow and 7/16 to...

For my uses I’d skip the wrench sets and replace them with three adjustables. A pair of 10s and a 6. I’d add a stiff 2 inch putty knife, a nail set a single 3/16” pin punch and an 3/4” wood chisel. Other than that looks good. I could get some work done with that assortment. Probably need the...

That’s where I get with tool bags. The big giant bags are a total pain and I’ve quit buying them. It’s hard to build a tool kit to cover everything without needing a service truck to haul it. I’ve found what works best is several small bags one for general tools and then several more job...

My service truck is in the shop. This is what I threw together so I can keep working the next few weeks. It’s a surprisingly small amount of tools versus what’s normally on my truck. Also threw a drill, reciprocating saw, oscillating tool, and grinder in a milk crate with batteries and...