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Offline clovis

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If you could only keep one???
« on: November 11, 2012, 09:29:20 PM »
What is your favorite tool?

If you could only keep one single tool that you own, which one would you keep, and why?


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Offline JeremyManning

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Re: If you could only keep one???
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2012, 09:46:57 PM »
Snap on ratcheting screwdriver, my most used tool.
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Re: If you could only keep one???
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2012, 10:39:47 PM »
Couldn't do it!

It will take me some time to say which one I'd go with.
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Re: If you could only keep one???
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2012, 10:46:56 PM »
If only one, would have to keep my Gerber multitool, can do almost anything...
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Re: If you could only keep one???
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2012, 11:30:29 PM »
Nearly impossible but, would be a 12 inch crescent wrench, my father carried on the tractor.   It has the marks of being hit by machinery, while lost from that tractor for one or two seasons.  I was plowing, and saw a flash of chrome in the soil as it was turned over.   Hopped off and dusted off this wrench.   This was a year after my father passed away.  Still usable today. 
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Re: If you could only keep one???
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2012, 12:51:40 AM »
It would have to be a older Proto 4 inch adjustable wrench model 704. Some of the older ones will open up to 15MM. I used one almost daily for 13 years. I never broke it, but I did wear all the teeth off the thumb wheel. I have a friend who has been carrying one daily for 44 years that I know of. Probably the best 4 inch adjustable wrench out there.

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Re: If you could only keep one???
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2012, 06:01:07 AM »
My grandpas Snap On 71N 1/2 drive ratchet. Its a ausome piece to begin with but the fact it was my grandpas makes it even better.
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Re: If you could only keep one???
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2012, 07:26:11 AM »
Quote from: Papaw on November 11, 2012, 10:39:47 PM
Couldn't do it!

Me neither.  I couldn't even choose only one of my saws.  Well, if I had to choose a saw or a hammer, it would have to be my grandfather's hammer, and my grandfather's old Disston saw.
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Re: If you could only keep one???
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2012, 07:54:31 AM »
Snap-on 1/2 drive long handle ratchet with flex head.I traded angle head metric open ends for it 25 years ago,and used it almost every day as an auto tech.
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Re: If you could only keep one???
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2012, 10:29:25 AM »
I'd have to really think on that, probably take me a long long time. I would be something that my Dad passed down to me.
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Re: If you could only keep one???
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2012, 11:00:46 AM »
A hatchet.
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Re: If you could only keep one???
« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2012, 12:03:11 PM »
Quote from: mrchuck on November 12, 2012, 11:00:46 AM
A hatchet.

 I'm with Chuck
 Gimme a good ax or at least a big knife, and I can survive.

The little ax on the left? This is a go-to ax pattern! Light enough to carry but meaningful enough to get by on. 
  Barr of Germany made this one, but several American companies made them too.  Exactly the same.
 They were the Official Boy Scout ax for a generation or more.

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This here is a friend you will be damn glad to know. 
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Re: If you could only keep one???
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2012, 12:24:16 PM »
I have been carrying around a 3 1/2 adj wrench for so long I changed about a month ago and i kept feeling the thing in my pocket,Back to the old one   bob w.
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Re: If you could only keep one???
« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2012, 07:29:05 PM »
I've been carrying a 2 blade Case since my 15th birthday.  I consider it a tool.  It is extremely difficult to fly since I know I'll need it when I get to my destination.  I won't put it in checked baggage, so it stays at home when I travel.  I have lots of other knives, but it feels best in my pocket or hand.   The other tool that will be with me until I don't know the difference is the 20 oz Estwing claw hammer that my Dad got for his 6th birthday  (1940). 
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Offline BruceS

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Re: If you could only keep one???
« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2012, 08:14:01 PM »
My most important tool ?    My mind ;-)   But over the years I seem to have lost it some times and can't remember where I lost it.
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