Old man rant

[willf650]

Picture this. You had a hip replaced and you’re supposed to be on light duty but are back at work. Your normal tool bag is heavy to carry so you throw a few tools in a 5 gallon bucket with a seat so you can sit down if needed.

You drop your stuff off in the loading dock and park your truck 2 streets down and walk back to where you’re working. You proceed down 3 stories underground to a mech room to work on a control panel.

You proceed to mount a device in a control panel with a brand new bit you threw in your bucket and the f ing thing breaks off the tip on the very first screw it has ever seen. You then have to limp back to the truck to get another bit.

Old man rant over. First and last Spyder anything I will ever buy. Maybe this is an unprecedented event with this brand but I can’t risk it again. For us working out of the back of a truck this can eat 30 minutes depending on the parking situation.

Normally I could switch to something else but I don’t want to carry more than 10-15# so I had nothing else.

 

[Twisted Sid]

At first I thought you were going to say that after you parked, your tool bucket went missing.

What about using a wheeled cart to carry the bucket or pack out style box with wheels and sitting on that?

 

[gatewaysysop]

Times like this, I tell my wife, "That ******* Murphy is always watching for an opportunity."

 

[redwrench60]

Yeah. That’ll just piss you off.

I spent years and years working in a shop out of a huge toolbox with lots of backups and spares. Now on the industrial side of things and working out of a service truck and packing things through huge plants and facilities, deep in mechanical rooms and boiler houses, I know exactly what it means to do a lot, with a little.

 

[Dumber than lumber]

Terrific rant and much appreciated.
Made me think of how I used to always carry my Leatherman Supertool. With so many different drive styles out there now a Leatherman is mostly unwanted extra weight.

 

[NFT5]

PITA. Feel your pain.

Vessel. Thank me later.

 

[Murby]

I use Bosch bits.. I use those on my dewalt impact tool and have never had one break. And I beat the hell out of them.

Bosch makes among the best everything so far as I can tell.

I do have a little case of dewalt specialty bits.. not sure what they're called, but they're for the kind of fasteners you find on small appliances, toys, etc. Some kind of torx bit with a hole in the middle, and some other oddly shaped driver bits.