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[sberry]

This is typical, todays addition was a 18mm crowfoot. I should have a set of them in tubing type. Its the second recent job they would have been handy.

BTW, my Son found this gem of a ratchet,,, can we find a rebuild kit,,, what grease is best?

 

[3baygarage]

This motley crew belongs together.

 

[3baygarage]

This one was in a box of tools I just bought. Probably the old "slice n dice a Snap On because it's the only thing around" type of deal.

 

[sberry]

I finally lost the WT Grant wrenches, they were really good, must have bought them when I was 12. The 18 started life as a China 1.2 socket and an 11/16 this morning.

 

[southalabama]

What around the farm required the fabricated tool?

 

[NorCalWrenchin]

Awesome! I have a couple of old 1/2" sockets I welded broken 3/8 extensions into to make reducer extensions haha

 

[sberry]

Power steering pressure hose Dodge Caravan. It was filthy.

 

[countryroad82]

I'm glad this came up somebody was asking why I was hard on wrenches in the toolbox thread as these were not in my main wrench/screwdriver drawers. Some of these I'm not proud of what I did. Particularly the Snap On impact punch that I ground down just this last weekend to get a brake caliper bolt that broke off flush in the bracket on my wife's car. I had to drill out the backside and punch it out, it was froze solid, no warranty now!!

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[sberry]

I got a bucket of old stuff just for this. Sometimes we need a piece but not a whole set, a few never or rarely used again, some become obsolete.

 

[joejeep92]

That's why everybody needs a set of cheap wrenches for torching and cutting on...

 

[sberry]

Yes, didn't have any in metric but ground a 11/16 to fit. Old socket to weld to it.

 

[thebeekeeper1]

This one was in a box of tools I just bought. Probably the old "slice n dice a Snap On because it's the only thing around" type of deal.

I made one almost identical to that (1 1/4") for holding the bolt heads when I hang wheel weights on my old tractor. I can't do it myself and my wife frowns upon having her hands pinched, so I had to figure out something else.

The only difference is I ground the cut end to a nicely rounded contour so as to not gouge the rim.

 

[TEXACMAN]

Farming always requires ingenuity , tools have to be made or altered , downtime is money . I am always amazed at what guys come up with in a jam! I have a box of tools around here from my great grandfather , some things are repurposed for something , I will probably never know..lol! I always like sberry's post , he has had some good ideas!

 

[TEXACMAN]

http://www.urkafarms.com/Welder_Pictures/pipe_wrench_holder 1.JPG sberry , this tool from your site saved my rear a few times , keep it on my truck as portable vise .

 

[sberry]

I am lazy enough at heart to want to find the easiest way, sometimes that's work. I will install an outlet or new hose bib if I can get it to do the work for me.

 

[sberry]

Modern cars have enough of these types of lines it would now pay me to have a set of the right tools especially if they were ATD type things at the right price. If I had to have 400 set would probably make one here or there as needed. ]
I have a lot of stuff but don't have every wrench they ever invented. I rarely use a ratchet wrench, I have some mostly as problem solvers, same for swivels.

 

[CJM8515]

That one pic looks like a tool for those stupid GM calipers you gotta turn back in to put new pads on.