Name a tool you hate

[5lima30]

Tie betwwen a shovel and a pick axe. Where I live they go hand in hand!

 

[Jawn]

Tie betwwen a shovel and a pick axe. Where I live they go hand in hand!

I know exactly what you mean. Not fun to dig up there.

 

[4x4gearhead]

I hate suction guns! I have never found one that doesnt spew gear oil into my face as I try to **** the fluid out of my Dana 50 TTB on my f-250. **** THOSE THINGS! By the way gear oil tastes worse than it smells.

 

[rocklobster]

Multi bit screw drivers! I know they can be handy but they are always not well designed and I always seem to drop bits. I just like a real driver in hand not some loud heavy awkward piece of piss.

 

[mooman]

This tool...

 

[plumber84]

Anything made by Irwin because their sell out b*stards.

 

[porphyre]

Hex Wrenches. Lets design a fastener tightening tool with 35 standard sizes and 35 metric sizes, which don't have any practical way to keep them together, where the 'fast' drive method is still slow and the 'slow' drive method takes a ridiculously large/clear area to swing the wrench, where the torque required to remove a fastener is more than the base material can handle without snapping. On the other hand, the hex wrench brings us the single coolest-looking fastener in the entire world--the socket head cap screw.

Funny you should mention that. I just got a used drill press and the damn thing was riddled with those pieces of ****. I understand the purpose of them and how they can be useful, but seriously... one of the things required like a 1/2" hex key! It was a 1/2"/13 bolt. WTF am I supposed to do with a 1/2" hex key? I didn't even have one, so that bolt got removed w/ an 8" pipe wrench. That *****, along with about 7 other socket cap screws were replaced with standard hex bolts immediately.

 

[Davefr]

#2 Philips screwdriver and the fasteners they were meant for.

 

[Mr.Magoo]

I'm with Suss427, if I ever get near a Crafstman ratchet my radar goes off and I have to go to my therapist and take a seat on the couch. Too bad the damn things won't self destruct. Please bury deep in the ground any you may have, it would not be fair to the Chinese to make another piece of S*#! tool out of something so poor!

 

[Dicholscrn]

Anything related to painting will make me procrastinate beyond belief.

 

[ibedayank]

a broken one or one that i need but don't have yet

 

[woody 73]

Cheap drill bits enough said.

Strap type oil filter wrenches (they might work for most people; but I always get the oil filter can to crush) trust me not fun!

Cheap screwdrivers that break the moment you apply any pressure.

Those dog bone wrenches what a way to **** your wallet dry!

 

[jvitez]

Phillips screws. I have multiple screwdrivers and still strip way too many.

Then I realize it's actually a Pozidrive. Arrrrrrrgh!!

 

[Macgyver_ga]

A paintbrush or paint roller. I don't mind painting something as long as I can spray it. Thank god my girlfriend likes to paint, she is now the designated painter. I'm good at it, I just don't have the patience.

Another is the post-hole digger. Seriously?! A powered auger is worth the money spent to rent. When I put in my fence last year we did 36 24" deep holes in 2.5 hours with a 2-man auger. It would have taken easily 4x that long with a post hole digger.

 

[Jawn]

Another is the post-hole digger. Seriously?! A powered auger is worth the money spent to rent. When I put in my fence last year we did 36 24" deep holes in 2.5 hours with a 2-man auger. It would have taken easily 4x that long with a post hole digger.

True... but if you're just digging one mailbox post hole, I suspect a post hole digger (and a shovel to go with it) isn't such a bad option. That said, I've helped dig fence post holes with one so I know what a backbreaker it is.

 

[toolmutt]

Another is the post-hole digger.

This gets my vote, too.

 

[Macgyver_ga]

True... but if you're just digging one mailbox post hole, I suspect a post hole digger (and a shovel to go with it) isn't such a bad option. That said, I've helped dig fence post holes with one so I know what a backbreaker it is.

Good point. Nice to see a local btw I'm just right up the road from you.

 

[cderalow]

one of the first times I met my FIL my wife (then girlfriend) enlisted my help to put in a fence around their back yard. my FIL had a posthole digger and two shovels, and when my wife and I showed up at 10am, he had been going at it for three hours and dug one hole. I promptly called the local rental place and got a 2 man auger and had the remaining 40 holes dug by dinner, and returned the thing back to the rental place.

after seeing one used to dig deck footers, I vowed to never use a damn posthole digger.

such an inefficient tool.

 

[rlb1953]

one of the first times I met my FIL my wife (then girlfriend) enlisted my help to put in a fence around their back yard. my FIL had a posthole digger and two shovels, and when my wife and I showed up at 10am, he had been going at it for three hours and dug one hole. I promptly called the local rental place and got a 2 man auger and had the remaining 40 holes dug by dinner, and returned the thing back to the rental place.

after seeing one used to dig deck footers, I vowed to never use a damn posthole digger.

such an inefficient tool.

It must depend on your soil. A couple years ago, my dad, after he was done his work for the day, would drive out and put in 2 or 3 posts. Before harvest he had finish a mile of barb-wire fence. Mind you, he is the only 67 year old I know with washboard abs.

 

[GirlnAgarage]

Soldering iron. Tough with one hand.

 

[plung]

Drywall saws and all saws in general. I hate the dust that comes with using them.

 

[skeletonizer]

I will never forgive my ancestors for settling in Northern Michigan and I will never understand why I don't move away from here.

 

[archirelic]

Another vote for drywall saws. Too many times while working in construction/remodeling I had to come behind drywallers and clean up the complete mess they've made of everything while using these saws.

Anytime I've had to do drywall work, I've always attached a fine-tooth blade on a variable speed reciprocating saw and have been able to achieve a much higher level of cut & finish than these "pro's" with their antiquated drywall saws.

Grrrrr...

 

[Jawn]

Good point. Nice to see a local btw I'm just right up the road from you.

Indeed. I'm right between Canton and Woodstock.

 

[-Brent-]

I'll second the cheapie wire crimper/stripper.

As well, I'll add steel pipe wrenches. Compared to my aluminum Rigids, the old heavy steel ones I've owned forever have been relegated to holding the box down.

Gimmicky axe/prybar/wire twist/bottle opener/nail puller/entrenching multi tool. They've got their place in a road box BUT If I see someone with one of those in his toolbelt, I immediately pass judgement on his ability as a craftsman. Sounds bad but I've never seen someone use one that didn't mess up everything around it...

 

[Macgyver_ga]

It must depend on your soil. A couple years ago, my dad, after he was done his work for the day, would drive out and put in 2 or 3 posts. Before harvest he had finish a mile of barb-wire fence. Mind you, he is the only 67 year old I know with washboard abs.

GA red clay practically turns into concrete if it hasn't rained in a few days. Add the marble rocks in the soil where I live (I live near Tate, GA, the marble capital of the south) Fortunately we put my fence up in March and the soil wasn't that dry and a lot easier to dig. We ended up having to rent a jackhammer to carve holes into the marble boulders we encountered underground in order to set two of my fence posts.

 

[jam022316]

Circular saw. Mainly because even with a guide I can't cut a straight line to save my life.

 

[jf781]

Try using your square as a guide. Helped me.

 

[cderalow]

It must depend on your soil. A couple years ago, my dad, after he was done his work for the day, would drive out and put in 2 or 3 posts. Before harvest he had finish a mile of barb-wire fence. Mind you, he is the only 67 year old I know with washboard abs.

we live in a region with 'Class C' or **** soil, but somehow my FIL's house happens to sit on one of the few areas with 'Class A', which is full of rocks and misc. debris.

Makes for terrible hole digging.

 

[T56 Impala]

Slotted or standard screwdrivers!

 

[Jawn]

Slotted or standard screwdrivers!

I'll second that. I'm not real fond of Phillips head either, but it's a damn sight better than flat blade.

As to the circular saw... depends on the saw. I recently picked up a used US-made Skil from a local pawn shop for $20. That thing torques itself around when I start it up so I have to re-align it to my pencil marks once it's spinning. My 3 3/8" Makita cordless however... I can follow a line reeal good with that thing.

 

[kippieland]

I'm with the guy that doesn't like adjustable wrench (cresent wrenchies.) I get they have their place and use but they frustrate the F*#K out of me! They never seem to stay in the position set them in. I spend half of my time trying to get the damn thing to fit the nut instead of getting it off. It doesn't help the only time I seem to use them is doing plumbing.....which I hate as well.

 

[metaldad]

Any power tool with a battery. Every time I pick up a cordless it's practically dead.........and those damn lith ion, dont give you any warning that the battery will die as soon as you get into an uncomfortable position. + I have (2) 5 gallon buckets full of dead batteries (might as well throw out the tool because of the cost of replacement batteries - if they're available)

 

[Kirbot]

Torx bits

They're better than Phillips, but I've come to hate them with a passion after working on a Jeep covered with them.
They're always rusted out and stuck, and end up stripping out....

 

[jethro29]

craftsman.

 

[vga]

I would have to hop on the screw extractor choice. As stated by anther post if Im holding it and a drill in my hands then there has been a screw up and as we all know everthing comes to a halt until the broken screw/ bolt has been removed. Arrrgh!!!!!

 

[kxxr]

The railroad tool, known as the Clawbar. Not a tool every one gets to use but if you have ever had to ... it is the tool you hate the most. If you haven't had the pleasure, you are blessed. It is a giant bar with a foot shape on the business end designed to remove spikes from ties. Pure misery.

 

[Rural53]

Stanley knife. 50% chance of blood, mine. 90% of not cutting straight.

 

[purplezr2]

The impact driver that you smack with a hammer to break screws loose (Like on Honda rotors). The 1/4" shanks always break. They need to be 3/8". Anytime I run into those rotors, I just grab the air hammer and chisel bit and just skip the headache.

Have never seen any that are not 3/8 I have two, one is a Napa, not sure of the other one, both are 3/8 drive.

L shaped allen keys, what a pain, and so slow.

 

[Tunger]

Triple square, double hex, torx plus, or any other driver you have to buy to get an oddball job done, like vw axle shafts. Whatever money you would have made goes to pay for a tool that you will likely never use again and thus not recoup you expenditure on. I hate buying tools that have little to no chance of actually making me money, which is why I still work out of my 30+ year old tool box.