Do you still use a breaker bar ?

[BiggityBen]

i have that same Snap On 1/4 drive 9" length breaker. it's pretty handy.

i have broken 3 different Harbor Freight breaker bars, i have no idea how anyone trusts them. I now have exclusively SK and Snap On breaker bars which have given me 6 years of regular use and no issues to date. i broke my 3/8 pittsburgh breaker, maybe 15" if i'm roughly estimating, on my first use on a seized aluminum electrical lug. they are pure junk.

that said i'll generally use an impact if it'll fit.

 

[DaveInPhilly]

I use my 1/2 drive all the time. My longest ratchet is only 15" (maybe 18"?) either way, the breaker bar earns its keep.

I just used a 3/8 drive breaker bar for the first time ever. My wife's Sienna uses a cartridge type oil filter with a reverse threaded drain plug that accepts a 3/8 drive. The dealer changed the oil for free for the first two years. Now its my turn and I couldn't get the stupid plug to turn (I'm guessing the last guy didn't realize it was reverse thread and tightened the hell out of it trying to get it off) any way, I couldn't get it to budge with my ratchet but the 18" breaker turned it as easy as a doorknob. An 18" 3/8 ratchet would have worked just as well, but I don't have one of those.

 

[2oolhound]

25" breaker is cheaper than a 25" ratchet and sliding a pipe over my 18" ratchet while reaching in a wheel well to turn a caliper bracket bolt is not as easy or convenient as using the breaker when you don't have the strength to turn it with the 18" rat. (diy'er with no lift)

I spend my money on long breakers, mid and short ratchets. I do have snipe pipes but they add to the handle thickness and create an uncontrollable swivel movement of the ratchet when reaching into hard to get areas. I find breakers more convenient, controllable and slimmer in these cases.