Most hated tool

[OccupantRJ]

What is the most aggravating, hateful tool you have ever used? For me, undoubtedly, it is a handheld grease gun. I get pissed off every time I pick one up, because I know it's going to make me furious before I put it down, anyway. It can pump great, but the minute you climb into a piece of machinery or under a car, it will make 2 pumps and quit. Reloading and priming one is another adventure unto itself. I have used all the major brands for over 45 years, and have yet to find one that won't end up ruining my day.
Rant over. Your most hated tool?

 

[I can fix anything]

Ball joint press

 

[fordbroncodave]

bleeding air out of chinese, taiwan, japan bottle jacks and floor jacks.

otherwise ryobi tools

 

[scooterseats]

Any front tine garden tiller, post hole digger, 36" or larger pipe wrench and jack hammers. Just a few that come to mind!

 

[premierplayer]

paint brush

 

[t100]

my gas trimmer.

 

[383 240z]

For me it USED to be the Gas Trimmer, then I bought an Echo, I love that thing I let it sit all winter without Sta-Bil and that SOB will start every spring, I have not changed the plug in it since I bought it 5 years ago, I liked it so Much I sold my Husquvarna chain saw and bought a new Echo.

That being said I agree I cant stand that damn grease gun, and with the tractor, the Jeep and the truck and trailers I pump a lot of grease. Keith

 

[mrholeshot]

The Shovel use to be my most hated tool. During my divore to my ex wife I really wanted to use one.

 

[Sterff]

I would have to say a digging bar and post hole digger. I just had to dig 20 holes for a perk test and my hands are raw.

 

[Bolster]

Paint guns.

So much messing around getting them to spray right.

So hard to make it right if it goes on wrong.

 

[speed bump]

Any tool that my companies shop assembles that's nornmally field assembled. I can build tools in a snow bank and they work. They build tools in a nice shop with everything they need and you pull a non working tool out of the box.

 

[xJoey Dubsx]

The Shovel use to be my most hated tool. During my divore to my ex wife I really wanted to use one.

 

[c_mccann]

x3 on the grease gun- though it is gratifying when it does work, watching dirty grease press out of a gland followed by clean grease is a renewing feel.

 

[Theloniousmonk]

spring compressors, any type, any size... i hate springs, and the tools that accompany them.

 

[DonkDonk]

Used lawnmowers that I get "to save some money". I have a few "good" ones if anybody wants to pull some hair.

 

[Heavy Metal Doctor]

Pressure washer -- not because of the tool but because of what I end up using it on -- usually ends up with me soaking wet and the same dirt on me ....

 

[W_A_Watson_II]

Flat Blade Screwdriver. those screws should have been eliminated years ago.

 

[GarageEnvy]

Concrete cutoff saw. Once you've completely exhausted yourself getting it started, you can finally dive face first into a rooster tail of concrete slime.

 

[mrholeshot]

Flat Blade Screwdriver. those screws should have been eliminated years ago.

But they make such good pry bars, punches and chisels

 

[Buckgnarly]

x1,000 on the grease gun. All of my grease guns wind up thrown across the floor eventually....

 

[jeffk14]

Battery-operated nose-hair trimmer. Hey, it IS a tool. Of sorts.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

My Bost waterpump pliers. I thought they were good when i bought them, boy was i wrong.. They drove me totally insane and flew numerous times. One day i will pass them on to someone as so to make their life miserable, while i watch from a safe distance revelling in my delicious evil..

 

[larry_g]

My dear sister gave all the men in the family some cheap import vise grip type tools one christmas. All of mine are now in the field across the way from the shop where they were thrown.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[Moose-LandTran]

spring compressors, any type, any size... i hate springs, and the tools that accompany them.

With any luck one day you'll get to use a Hazet or Klann spring compressor, suddenly the world is rainbows and sunshine.

Oh, they cost about a grand..

 

[Theloniousmonk]

With any luck one day you'll get to use a Hazet or Klann spring compressor, suddenly the world is rainbows and sunshine.

Oh, they cost about a grand..

Oh, I use a Klann MB compressor (inner disc type)... I still hate it. I can't judge if a spring is going to pop or not, and doing valve springs is a pain when you are tired.

 

[MN4x4]

My checkbook?

 

[american lockpicker]

Any tool from China.

 

[Davefr]

#2 Phillips screwdriver. Smaller and larger are generally not a problem but I swear the #2 size was designed to be a security screw. Screwdriver cams out, screw and screwdriver tip get ruined, screw remains in place until more drastic measures are taken.

With TORX and Robertson I don't understand why Phillips is still in widespread use.

 

[strnjss]

#2 Phillips screwdriver. Smaller and larger are generally not a problem but I swear the #2 size was designed to be a security screw. Screwdriver cams out, screw and screwdriver tip get ruined, screw remains in place until more drastic measures are taken.

With TORX and Robertson I don't understand why Phillips is still in widespread use.

+1 on that. I hate Phillips so much. They are the only screwdrivers that I have to continually replace from wear.

Followed closely by non-ratcheting wrenches. The constant removing and replacing of the wrench countless times on every fastener revolution (or half revolution actually) is such a pain!

 

[Theloniousmonk]

That dude we hired a few years ago... never did anything, and when he did - it was usually in error, always on the dmnd phone or texting, had a faux hawk and smelled like peaches or something - what a tool.

 

[padronanniversary]

Robo grip POS

 

[crewchief888]

a hammer

any hammer.....

i know eventually a body part is gonna get hit

 

[Kirbot]

#2 Phillips screwdriver. Smaller and larger are generally not a problem but I swear the #2 size was designed to be a security screw. Screwdriver cams out, screw and screwdriver tip get ruined, screw remains in place until more drastic measures are taken.

With TORX and Robertson I don't understand why Phillips is still in widespread use.

I'm no fan of Phillips, but I despise torx with a passion!
Working on my jeep, I've had to weld nuts to a considerable % of them.

 

[MartinTech]

Tire machines, followed closely by balancers. Nothing compares...

 

[Infidel]

Tire machines, followed closely by balancers. Nothing compares...

I don't hate using them, but it does remind me of this, which I do hate.

 

[Bran Diezel]

god the list is almost infinite... but the opposite would be snap on tools most everything is worthwhile and the best of them

 

[absintheisfun]

4.5" angle grinder with a cut off wheel attached....eventually, it will catch on the steel that I am cutting and bounce off...break(shatter) and the only thing to stop it's wild spinning is my gut. The reason for this? my knee jerk reflex grip from hell on the trigger when it jerks.

 

[JetLinkin]

By far, a pickaxe.

 

[ihredo4]

Robo-**** pliers bar none. I ended up using them as a hitch pin on my lawn mower. They didn't even work for that.

 

[Busted_Knuckles]

Id have to agree that phillips and the standard blade screw drivers, I see red every time I see one of those screws.