Back in the day (a long time ago) when I worked on pneumatic pipe organs out in the field, mostly at churches, we had no cordless drivers. Since you crawled up inside organ chambers, you needed to carry as few tools as possible. If you needed to take off the bottom of a wind chest, you used a yankee, otherwise you'd be there all day, especially since the screws were usually long. The screwheads were always recessed inside the wood, so you needed something to reach in. In instances where the screw might be very tight in the wood, we used a ratcheting screwdriver. I had a Craftsman like the one in post #35. After leaving that job, I wanted to continue using it, but it never found the application where it was the best tool to use. If a screw came out easy, there was no need for it. If a screw was tough to get started, it had no advantage over a regular screwdriver, especially those with a square shoulder so you can put an open end wrench on it. It's more bulky and awkward compared to a regular screwdriver. There's no speed advantage to it, especially in this age of cordless tools. If I need to ratchet something out, I'll use a 1/4 ratchet with extension and a bit holder socket--it's all DIY, so I'm under no time constraint to worry about the 30 seconds it takes me to pull the 1/4 drive set out. I've used it on rare occasion just for nostalgia's sake, but in every application I've have a better tool for it in the shop. I imagine it has a better potential in the field where you have limits to what you can carry with you, or in a time constraint situation where you don't want to take the time to reach for multiple tools. But in the shop, it no longer even has a place in my screwdriver drawer.
