Tool you have owned the longest.

Gort the giant robot · Jul 28, 2012

I know it's been asked before. What tool do you remember owning the longest. I have a large file I have owned since 1966. In 1966 i also traded a used 1/2 inch drive drill to a friend of mine for a new Wards 1/4 drill he had. I used the drill to drill a hole in the file i talked about earlier. Got a 5/16 hole drilled and burned up the new Wards drill in the process. About a month later the used drill my friend got in the swap died also. The real strange is that 46 year later i still have that burned up Wards drill. I have a large pipe cutter that i bought up valley in St.Helena California in 1970. Jaws open to 2 inches. A wooden handled no name phillips screwdriver that i got in 1970 also. A Yale & Towne 1/2 ton chain hoist i bought from a milkman. I have a set of tools in a plastic tool bag for a 1965 Honda 90 motorcycle that was totaled when a deer kissed it. The bike was a friends and long gone, but i have the tools from it. I have had the tools since the early 1970s. What do you all have ?

Gort.

joshmodelskidoo · Jul 28, 2012

a china pair of torx screwdrivers that were not included with the craftsman set i got a few yrs later. i just replaced those cman with gear wrench screwdrivers. i think i was 16 when i got those torx and im 32 now. nothin like the 40+ yrs of yours but i do have some tools that are that old

Motor-Mechanic · Jul 28, 2012

Got a bunch of tools i bought as an apprentice which are now 25 years old. Also have a hammer that i've owned for 28 years.

lilredex · Jul 28, 2012

This is my first. It belonged to my Gramps and was given to me (1946) to pound shingle nails into a board. This kept me busy and out of the way!!

Harley94 · Jul 28, 2012

I've go a 1/2" dr Bonney A707 ratchet and an Indestro Super 2736 3/8 dr flex head ratchet along w/other tools from back in 1963 that I still use today. I've been really fortunate not to break or misplace very many.

NC-Fordguy · Jul 28, 2012

I still have most of the crafty set I started out with back in the 1970s, Lost a few, broke a couple. Still use them to this day

OccupantRJ · Jul 28, 2012

As a 12 yr old, I cut grass and saved enough money to buy a SK socket and ratchet set, and a pair of Vise Grips. The socket set was $13, and the grips were $2.45. They are both in the toolbox that I carry in my truck to this day, and that was 47 years ago.

lotsoftools · Jul 28, 2012

I have most of the Craftsman tool set my grandpa gave me 25 years ago.

darkk · Jul 28, 2012

My oldest tool is a Snap On body mans short pick hammer. I've owned it almost 45 years and it has served me well. It is my favorite hammer.

TDLMOMOWERS · Jul 28, 2012

I still have a Fleet, 3/8 drive socket set, that I got by saving Top Value Stamps in the late 60s. The sockets run from 3/8 to 3/4, plus a 13/16 spark plug socket. I still have the little pear shaped rarchet and a 3" extension. I have used these hard over the years and they are still in good shape. I wish I still had the little red plastic box that they came in, but it bit the dust many years ago when the hinges on the lid broke.

Cameronl · Jul 28, 2012

lotsoftools said:
I have most of the Craftsman tool set my grandpa gave me 25 years ago.

Dad gave me a Craftsman set for Christmas when I was a teen over 30 years ago. Still have it.

PCO6 · Jul 28, 2012

Here's my first ratchet. I bought it at Canadian Tire as part of a 158 (or so) peice, all you need "Master Mechanic's" kit. :lol:

I was about 13 at the time. I probably stopped using it at about age 15. I am now 60 and it still works ... some times better than I do! The brand is SWT.

chris142 · Jul 28, 2012

I bought an ir231 around 1988 and still use it daily. its never been opened up.

Beaumont67 · Jul 28, 2012

On ~1975, I bought new:
(with my summer job money, for a rust repair rebuild & body & paint...on a 1966 Plymouth Valiant)
- UNITOOL 1/2" drive sockets and wrench set
- tin snips
- welding & "C" clamp Vise-Grips

Off the snap-On truck, I bought:
- an auobody hammer, with hickory handle (still my favorite tool ever, wish I had bought more)
- screwdriver with interchangable bits, in the handle
- spark plug gapper
- electrical wire strippers/crimper
^^^^ There went 1 weeks pay, quick...LOL... :rolleyes2

From Sears Canada, mail order catalogue:
- electric 7" grinder/polisher (2 speed)
- electric sheet metal hand shear & nibbler

egnorant · Jul 28, 2012

I got to play with Dad And GDads tools from a very early age.
First I remember was a screwdriver that I used at age 5 (1965)to "help" fix a waffle iron.

During my cleanup of the storage/shop building I rediscovered the old Oxwall screwdriver with interchangeable bits. For years I remember it due to the bent shaft of the standard bit shaft and the Phillips bit that always seemed near.

Cleaning just last Wed I found another shaft that appears to be a nail puller along with the wall rack. I wonder what the 4 shaft is?

MY first tools was an old SK 3/8 sockets and ratchet in the original box that I got in 1971. My mythical old mechanic boss said I needed a good set of tools.

He told me he brought this set with him from Colorado in 1951.
My cleanup has found all the sockets, but the box and ratchet remain unfound.

Bruce

lilredex · Jul 28, 2012

Look familiar? Have only the one and its been in my toolbox since the late fifties. No idea where it came from, might have found it on the roadside also.

Provincial · Jul 28, 2012

I still have the tools a family friend gave me for Christmas in 1964. It consists of 1/2" drive sockets, two breaker bars, an open gear P&C ratchet, and a few combination wrenches. Mostly P&C and Thorsen brand, with some Plomb thrown in. He bought it all at pawn shops.

I have made a living with these tools, sometimes full time, but mostly incidental to my work from the time I got them. They work as well now as the day I got them.

sometoyotaguy · Jul 28, 2012

I have a cheap socket set, that my parents gave me when I was about 10. I still have the box, and most of the sockets. I'm not sure what happened to the ratchet. It probably died at some point.

jeffmoss26 · Jul 28, 2012

I was given these when I was four. Still use them regularly.

I've also got some screwdrivers and other wrenches somewhere.

Alan Douglas · Jul 28, 2012

I was probably 5 when my father gave me a set of nesting screwdrivers: each one threaded into the next, with knurled brass handles, and I think there was a hammer head that went on last. I still have the next-to-smallest screwdriver. No idea where the others went, but probably got lost assembling Erector sets in the cellar.

ndoran · Jul 28, 2012

I have a Stanley smoothing plane I got for Christmas when I was twelve back in 1972, I have my grandfathers hacksaw I inherited in 73 and a rip saw that belonged to one of my great grandfathers.

otis66 · Jul 28, 2012

I bought my MAC Flex-Head ratchet in 1982-1983 while in high school.

skyking · Jul 28, 2012

The SMALL one between my legs !!! :lol_hitti

Seriously ,my safety wire pliers and a roll of stainless safety wire "given " to me when I left the Navy in 1975.

jeffmoss26 · Jul 28, 2012

HAHA here we go again

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