Favorite tool?

Steve Minnich

This Milwaukee 11 amp band saw may be the best investment in a tool I've ever made...cuts through angle iron, strut, and threaded rod like a hot knife through butter. Cuts are clean, square, and quick. I was like a kid in a candy store using this thing.

Snowmelt

My press tool is my fav. The my lunch box

Charlie from wmass

Rigid 300.

rick in Alaska

My 12 volt Milwaukee fuel impact driver! Fits on my belt and I don't even know it is there. But works for every fastener I need to run, including 3/8 lags. Next best is my new Dewalt 18 volt cordless bandsaw. Like Stephan says, I use it for everything. But mostly for cutting pipe for gas jobs. Quick, fast, and no burrs.
Rick

Rich Swatton_2

My favorite tool is my brain
The older I get I realize that most people I come in contact with eather don't have one or were never taught how to use it.

tim smith

job site favorite tool I think is my non ferrous porter cable chop saw. Burns through 1-4" copper like butter. Leaves such a small inner ring that one light swipe with pen reamer and ready to go. When we are piping boiler rooms, it is an arm saver and time saver.

Steve Minnich

@Tim - I was using the same setup for awhile but there was so much copper "dust" and shavings inside the copper pipe after each cut that I had to blow out the pipe with a compressor after each cut. Not a big deal considering how fast and straight the cuts are with a chop saw.

jonny88

I agree Stephen the band saw is a thing of beauty.Took a long time to be persuaded to use it but now never look back.But without my Ridgid 300 nothing else matters thats my bread and butter.

Larry_52

South Bend 13" lathe, a tool that is so good it could reproduce itself.

j a_2

My hands...could never have made it without them

RobG

I carry favorite tool in my underpants!

EBEBRATT-Ed

Band saw a favorite, 4 1/2" grinder with a cutting disk, I would hate to be without my cutting torch. I don't do much sheet metal but I have a pair of Kett nibblers or"double cutters" as some people call them. They make fast straight cuts in sheet metal up to 18ga?? I think. Drill a hole with a step bit and then go to town with them. Paid $100 new for them years ago. Paid for themselves over and over....................and over. Can you tell I like demo??

nicholas bonham-carter

Rich Swatton said:

My favorite tool is my brain

The older I get I realize that most people I come in contact with eather don't have one or were never taught how to use it.

I carry my favorite tool in my underpants! :LOL · RobG
Both tools can loose their edge with time.--NBC

nicholas bonham-carter

this reminds me of a much earlier thread:
Favorite brand names.
Mentioned were Watts, Grundphos, etc, and finally someone slipped in. KY!-- NBC

Steamhead

Heating guys- can't take them anywhere........

ChrisJ

My favorite tool by far is my PC and has been since 1994.

It lets me learn almost anything i want. Second would me my soldering irons, third my turbo torch and fourth my 18V Dewalt cordless drill and fifth my calipers.

RobG

Steamhead said:

Heating guys- can't take them anywhere........

I think Frank's favorite tool is Gordo! It seems that in all the pictures he posts Gordo is the one turning the four foot pipe wrench.

4Johnpipe

My favorite tool is my cigar lighter...Seems like when I have a problem I end up solving it soon after I light the thing...

Steamhead

RobG said:

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Steamhead said:

Heating guys- can't take them anywhere........

I think Frank's favorite tool is Gordo! It seems that in all the pictures he posts Gordo is the one turning the four foot pipe wrench.

We don't want the camera to break, so we don't take pics of me.

j a_2

Hard to break a good Polaroid camera instamatic. Lol

solsean

Press tool has changed the game!!