Pro Tip: If you don't have tools, buy the basics at Harbor Freight, whatever breaks you replace with a quality item because it means you actually use it.
HF is a private company. Every penny you spend there that does not go to China goes into the pocket of one man after expenses. That man is Eric Smidt. He spends much of that money on art and leftist causes. Remember that as you shop.
I've had a socket wrench and needle nose pliers snap in two pieces very first use. Literally would have rather had nothing than this false sense of tools.
@@firebirdude2I'd rather be pissed at HF for selling crap than sitting on my thumbs because I can't afford better. I'm stuck either way, but at least I get to be annoyed at someone else.
You don’t know the meaning of trust, until you’ve had to hold a slugging wrench while your buddy hits it! I used them many times when I was a Navy Boiler Technician from 82-86. ⚓️🇺🇸
Never heard of a "slugger" wrench, especially as a brand... we always called them slugging wrenches and Wright, Proto, Williams or Armstrong were the brand names. MM 87-92 P div.
Thakyou for your service sir! My grandpa was on The Boxing Lady outside Hong Kong in the fifties. god damn lung cancer got him, he always said it was from sleeping on the top bunk, he'd wake up with dust on him in the morning.
I interact with car mechanics daily for my job, service manager's motto is "if you need a tool for something, buy it from harbor freight. If you use it enough that it breaks, *then* you get a better one." He says that to all the new guys and the snap-on people *hate* him for how much money he's helps his guys save
@@nathankisner8332 my brother had an industrial supply company. He had a bunch of them , different sizes. Used to sell them to the steel mills. So he kept them in stock. Then on day nothing, no more sales of those . They just sat on the shelf takin up space.
@@stevehamman4465 thank you for the kind reply. The sites I work on now have outright banned knifes, chains, metal on metal hammering, any modified or homemade tools or even broken tools and will fire you if caught. I still have sluggers but like the offset tubular handle wrenches like snap on XH460 series. Strange to see there are trends in tools even more now with internet
I work on motorcycles in Argentina. Mostly small cheap bikes. I think most of the mechanics have very limited supply of sockets. Clutch and crank nuts (usually 19 mm or a notched nut) are always chewed up from using a hammer and chisel on them. Two basic tools: a hammer (or big rock) and wire cutters.
I'm a backyad youtube engine guy. I can't tell you how helpful it was when a harbor freight opened in my town. It was like a gift from heaven for guys like me who fix what goes wrong on my vehicles.
Glad to hear. Plus orileys or auto zone and your in business. I also have a manly thrift store that I use to save money on buying one hex socket to pull spark plugs.
We use those when assembling, and disassembling tower cranes. I have always heard them called Knocker Wrenches, not Slugger Wrenches. Also if you swing a 16 pound beater, or sledge hammer on that, or a 20, you will destroy the teeth. Just like a normal socket would when to do heavy torquing with an impact, instead of impact rated socket. I have tried to beat a regular box wrench, and they flex and bounce off, and the the the part that grabs the nut is thicker and taller on a knocker. Try it hopefully you don’t hit your hand.
My dad was an aeronautical engineer and certified FAA mechanic and inspector. We would take trips to harbor freight to buy “blanks” so he could weld, file, cut sand melt grind and smith into specialty tools we needed to work on aircraft in all those hard to reach places. To this day I have a hard time dropping $$ on expensive tools without seeing if I can make it out of a POS
This is just what real mechanics do. Technicians buy the things they need. Mechanics will make what they need. Not talking down about technicians, just saying there is a different mentality. Also why a lot of techs don't like to work on things they aren't familiar with. A true mechanic will work on anything.
That is awesome, but time = money. If you take 5 hours to make a tool to save $20.... But I also get the fun and enjoyment from making your own stuff too.
@jekinneys try saving 4 or 500 dollars on specialty tools, not 20. And it often will only take an hour or less to fab a tool up if you are even remotely handy in the shop. If it takes 5 hours to make the tool, then you are already in a losing situation.
@@kontrarien5721 - Exactly... Snap-On: "I'm going to use this tool daily as part of my profession". Stanley: "I'm going to use this tool at least a half dozen times a year while working around the house" HarborFreight: "I really need this tool today, but may or may not ever use it again".
Too many people bash their knuckles and break shyte with cheap tools too. If you value your time, running to HF to warranty the same crap over and over isn't cheap. The only thing cheap about that place are the people who shop there.
My good neighbor Mike & I are tool-a-holics and Harbor Freight is must frequent visit. Without uttering a word we walk every aisle in the same pattern and in zero hurry. There is ALWAYS something useful there, even when the use isn't immediately apparent. Our motto is: I don't need this but I will.
Weak. Go to estate sales for name brand stuff that lasts and is still cheaper than harbor freight price wise. When you find the right sale it’s awesome. Gotta break the cheaper fright chains dude. This guy is gonna hurt himself on the video. My advice to at least weld it up with braces and a slight weight on the end.
You must be a father because my dad is the same way. I used to make fun of him as a kid because of all the “unnecessary tools” he owned. Here I am as an adult asking him to borrow those same tools. Every tool comes in handy eventually, even if it’s only used once. Someone else you care about may need it later down the road too
I read an article in a home handy man magazine many years ago where they interviewed a couple who remodeled homes for a living. The couple said they bought all their tools second hand to save money and would often misuse tools on the job (screw drivers as prybars and chisels, etc.). The way they saw it, if they destroyed a cheap tool in the process of getting the job done then the tool did its job.
Yes and no. While I prefer to use quality tools for most jobs, I hate to grind an expensive tool for an odd job or custom fit for a single use. Then I don't hesitate to grab the cheap tool, get the job done and throw the tool away.
If you work with tools for a living then you'll usually have a "good" set and a "throwaway" set. The throwaway set is comprised of cheaper tools and hand me downs from the "good" set and can be modified for special use if needed. I hardly ever throw away hand tools and try to repurpose them when broken. Take care of your tools and they'll take care of you.
I do a similar thing. I needed a short 7/8inch cone wrench for switching out a tap set. I went to my wall of tool, cut one from a yard sale to size and made the perfect tool for the job.
Thanks so much for supporting chinese imports and further running our country into the ground. Glad you could be so proud at the expense of people who do things right.
@@SuperKONR Buying Chinese products isn't the main cause for America going downhill. The real factor is out of control spending by both the government and consumers being in massive debt, which therefore causes consumers not to save for retirement and makes us taxpayers fund welfare programs for their retirement. Almost everything with a made in America label is somehow subbed out of America to be made. Don't blame people who buy Chinese products, instead blame government regulations on businesses and blame unions for placing such high pay burdens on American businesses causing them to have to take the work overseas.
@@billwhite5853yep that's what people don't understand. The government drove away American manufacturing. Even when it says "made in America" most if not all of the parts inside it came frome China.
@@billwhite5853 American businesses paying their employees too much is the opposite of the problem. Wages have been massively lagging behind inflation for the last 40 years. Most of the country couldn't save for their own retirement because they live paycheck to paycheck. Sure, there is some group in the middle that spend wastefully and could manage a comfortable lifestyle and still save money. But they are nowhere near the average or majority.
Years ago, my dad was pounding the crap out of a giant wrench, trying to get a ball joint to pop loose. Wasn’t budging! So he went and chatted with our neighbor, a master tractor repairman. He took some measurements and a while later showed up with a “socket” that he fabricated. Popped it on a 1/2” socket wrench, grabbed a long cheater bar, and popped that ball joint right out! It pays to have good neighbors………and Harbor Freight.
@AUS-Reviews Is that not what they're called? That or breaker bar but that can also be one of those big ass chisels they use to break up rock/concrete.
Sounds like my buddies and myself the other day, we were doing the CV axles on an 07 grand Cherokee and the driver side cup didn't wanna pop out. We ended up welding a metal rod with 2 spent rotors and a 5 pound weight to make our own redneck slide hammer lol, thing had to be like 15-20lbs on the slide, thing still didn't move, we ended up dropping the front diff and pulling out the plasma cutter 😨
Used these often in Steel Mills. My favorite tool was a 4 foot long Cresent adjustable wrench. We used a sling and overhead crane to pull on the handle.
Whoa. Well, now you tickled my curiosity. Like, I want to know the context and back story to that. Also, it took me a min to figure out what you meant. If I understand correctly, the plate stock pieces were each a facet?
@@dylanbjugThat's usually how it's done. Take pieces of plate steel, cut them so you can lay them out to form whatever size hex you're needing then weld together.
@@FinalFront Wild. I'm usually all about using the "right" tool for the job. I had to learn that lesson the hard way a few times in my life. Early on, I made wayyy more work than was necessary for myself because I was too lazy to crawl back out from under the car...you know...like using things as hammers or trying to use the edge of a flat head in a phillips screw. But, making a tool, that's interesting. If you made a video showing the process, I'd be interested in watching that.
Good for you, you're in excellent company! Walter Chrysler applied to a steam-powered railroad to become a locomotive mechanic when he was still in his teens. The hiring manager took him over to a forge, anvil, hammers, tongs, raw metal stock and told, "see those tools hanging on the rack? It's a complete set you'll need to do the job we do here. Duplicate that set and you're hired. Can't do it, turn around and get out." Teenaged Walter made the set of tools, was hired on the spot, and that was the beginning of the road to the mighty Chrysler Corporation that helped produce the valuable materiel that won WWII.
Snap On sucks. They are all smoke and mirrors... and... profit. The amount of wealth they unnecessarily suck from the hard work of automotive mechanics should be a crime.
Got myself a beat up Mac box for 950 thinking it was expensive. Until I started as an auto tech and worked with dudes who had 3-5 year plans for a Cornwell or snapon box at the same price as my gc8
Auto mechanic for 10 years. Once we stopped buying new tools from snap on every week we didnt see them again for 6 months. Broke a harbor freight socket and drove down to the store to replace it. We had a collection of snap on tools broke we kept in a corner if we ever saw the guy again. Finished turning wrenches in the end before the snap on guy came back.
@@SnurkleMcDurkle just looking at their website, $11k for ONE stationary 10 drawer set is just smoking crack. I was able to get an end of year special on a set of 2 garant 40" roller bearing 7 drawer set (70kg capacity) and a 2" by 6 foot bamboo worktop for $2500 delivered. Very high quality and will last my lifetime, but some people equate cost to quality and just don't shop around.
You should see the tap and die set my buddy bought off an old widow woman about 20 years ago, she said it was her husband's who'd died years before, judging by the wooden case and the lettering on it I'd place it from the 20's or 30's. The tap and die handles were color case hardened and would easily rival the color case hardening on the finest presentation grade Winchester you'd ever see, it's just unbelievable, even the wooden case has a finish that looks like the stock of an expensive high end firearm.
@@scootergeorge7089 Damascus steel, named after the place. The exact recipe for true Damascus steel is no longer known, but modern Damascus, also known as pattern welded steel, is a method of layering steels with different carbon content during forging, so that after the metal is put into an etching solution it shows brilliant patterning thanks to the different etching rates of the steels.
So Im a radio tower specialist and my climbing tool bag is full of little harbor tools. My colleagues all love them until i tell them where theyre from. My entire kit cost less than their cheapest tool. Tools we all end up dropping off the top and loosing in the woods eventually.
Do you keep your tools attached to you somehow - like on a big keychain or something like that? If I was crazy enough to have your job, I would be dropping tools constantly.
The difference between a 10 pound hammer and a 20 pound hammer; a 10 pound hammer will do anything that a normal person should do. A 20 pound will make you look like a bitch in front of your colleagues lol
@Nathan Dorman sure sounds like you walked around 20 lb hammer a lot on turnarounds looking busy yet never actually using it. I prefer the 12lb hammer it's not so cumbersome. But you use whatever the tool room provided.
@Joseph Mac nowadays, everyone uses the hydra torque machines. In my plant, hammer wrenches are actually banned because of people hurting each other with them and hammers even with wrench holders. I don't remember ever hurting myself or anyone else when using them.
I have many improvised tools. I once needed a tool called a Bearing Buster. They're not crazy expensive or anything, but during the height of covid I found it very difficult to get my hands on one. So I did what any sane technician would do and I busted out my welder and grinder. Took a piece of 1" SCH40 steel pipe, cut a 3/4" slot down the length of the pipe, and welded a piece of 1/2" SCH80 about halfway up the pipe horizontally. Worked like a charm and now I'll never have to spend $50 on a tool that I'll use once every 3 years. Not to mention I got paid for all the time I spent making it.
Same difference between regular sockets and impact sockets, the steel impact sockets are made out of isn't as brittle, it's meant for that kind of use so it doesn't shatter, plus that striking wrench has a nice big fat end for hitting which lowers the chances of a glancing blow when you hit it. That's obviously going to be used on heavy equipment, the way I always looked at it is I'm not gonna use a homemade $10 wrench on a $1,000,000 piece of equipment.
I bought 2 welded them together and used some half-inch flat stock to beef it up. Got the welder from Harbor Freight for $99 two wrenches for $75, and the wrench I needed was over $400. That was over 10 years ago, and I still use the welder all the time!
I served in the nuclear Navy on a aircraft carrier. Once a main engine developed a casing leak, 600 psi steam turbine. Shipyard had to use 4" slugging wrenches on the casing bolts, which were hollow to allow heating with a propane torch. The NRC would not allow improvised tools. Even adjustable wrenches were forbidden.
I needed an extra long 10mm wrench the other day. Didn't want to ruin a good wrench. Bought a cheap wrench, cut it in half and welded an extension in the middle
Slugger is the brand but the real name is hammer wrench. We used them all the time in the oilfield, forsay on the BOP, (Blow out preventor) for tighten bolts. They make them in all different sizes. It's really a two man job. Tie a rope around the handle and put on bolt that is snug. Pull on rope while second man hits the hammer wrench with a 12 pound sledgehammer till tight.
Actually, science has shown that expressing aggression (beating on things, braking things) is not effective. There's a number of interesting studies you can look up.
@@jbsegrest yep, and this guy has never had one shatter on him. i wouldnt trust that wrench for a single strike. cheater pipe though. had a several wrenches shatter on us offshore till we had none the right size. all labeled china. turned into 2 million in down time, and 2 hotshots later, before we got back on track. turns out someone was buying knockoffs from a cousin. we where like, yeah weve been telling yall that. hes in prison now.
There has to be some kind of hydraulic wrench set up for that right? Like they're really having dudes just beating a ships propeller on with giant hammers? There's a torque setting on my caliper bolts but not a ships propeller? Just beat the piss out of until it stops moving and another quarter turn?
we had a box full of frankentools at my old job. wrenches bent at a 90 degree angle, shaved down for clearance, you name it. HF is a perfect source for the raw materials
I was a pipefitter and shipbuilder (female if it matters) and I never thought about the cost of a slugging wrench! I was fortunate enough to have had access to some great industrial tools, tools going back to pre-war USA, before the company finally retired them. I love Harbor Freight because I brought in a broken die grinder in and they replaced it on the spot! Just like Sears used to do! I considered myself lucky to have been doing the kind of work I did. It was hard work, but my brothers and sisters in the shipyard were the greatest! I still have a 1/2 HF Impact wrench that still works. It's almost 20 years old. I oil it and it produces about 50lbs torque, perfect for flanges!
I have a 1948 All aluminum housing, Miller Falls brand "Monster hand grinder"The cord just gets more electrical tape . As the power cord is that old cloth wrapped style. and i'm afraid to change it."If it aint broke don't fix it." The power switch slides through the rear handle. IT RUNS YOU FOR 4MINS. it's a 27lb beastThen you set it down. Best 30 dollar yard sale buy i have ever made.
@@ryanparmley5605I have a few of the old power tools with the aluminum housing. Unfortunately they changed the blade insert style on the jigsaw and I can't get the right blades anymore. If I had known I would have stocked up on several dozen of each type because the jigsaw still works great.
My great grandfather was a bus mechanic. My dad had a ton of his old tools that had been cut, welded, bent, etc to be used for a specific job. Sure, there was probably a special tool that did the same job, but likely cost 10x what his modified tool did.
Back when they were a thing, distributor wrenches were like this. The car companies would shove the lock bolt into the tiniest little hole and I swear it felt like you needed a wrench folded up like an origami swan to reach it and every car took a different one. I don't miss that.
As a retired mechanic, I always purchased Snap-On, unless I need a onetime specialty wrench. Then I used any cheap pos tool I could find and made whatever tool I needed out of it. I wasn't aware of any harbor freight stores at the time so that wasn't my go to place. But as a hobbyist now, I go to harbor freight pretty frequently. It doesn't matter if the tools break now I can get it exchanged or even just purchase a new one. Where as when I made a living with my tools I couldn't afford to have a tool break when I was on the side of a road or in a park fixing a truck.
A tool has to serve its purpose. In 1994 I was working field repairs on equipment which could only be adjusted using a very thin and very short 1/2” and 9/16” to loosen and adjust simultaneously. The only source was a Snap-On truck which drove up; I bought two wrenches and cut them in half. Did the job and saved hours of driving around a remote country area trying to find something that might have worked. DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO!
"Saving some money for retirement is pretty cool too" Hey fellas start saving NOW! I retired last year and I wish I had used Harbor Freight more often before I did GREAT VIDEO!!!
That there is a hammer wrench, for obvious reasons. If you see one in your workplace and someone tells you to go get the 12lb sledge, you're about to have a shoulder day workout.
Current oilfield here. We use them daily. Called Hammer Wrenches here. Used to break/make up 5k and 10k studs on annular BOPs. The sawwed wrench idea is something I strongly advise against. You will miss, it will deflect off. You need the wide striking face. Not only that, but on the rigs we have one guy hammer and one guy pull the wrench with a rope tied to it so that all the lost energy due to vibration and bounce back is eliminated. PRO TIP: if the hammer wremch dings and bounces when you hit it, you're doing it wrong. get a guy with a rope and have him pull directly back, not up or down - you should here a dim thud with each strike. that's max energy transfet right there...
That is what I’m talking about! A large percentage of my tools are less expensive ones. If I needed something special, I never hesitated to modify. Cut, grind, bend, weld… get the job done!
You missed the part where he said something you may only use 1 time. Not use quite often If you use quite often makes sense to buy correct tool If your only gonna use once the Pittsburgh wrench is all good. Could weld stock on it too make it easier to hit
I still have the wrench I modified to do valve adjustments on my 79 merc diesel I owned, car is long gone but that 50 cent wrench is still in my tool box.
You're right on point. When you pay for tools from companies like snap - on, youer only paying for the name . If you use tools to make money, most Harbor Fraight tools will put more money in your pocket .
Oil Field set up the BOP Blow out preventer 2 inch nuts 30 of them Hammer Wrench 20 pound sledge beat it till none of them turn 8 years of that . 2 times a week we moved the rig every 7 days .
Buying tools is the Worst part about being a mechanic besides dealing with customers and engineers that have to be so high when they forget to design a part well and you gotta pull the bumper , remove the radiator , take down the timing cover and all the accessories just to change a flipping sticking thermostat and coolant temperature sensor.
Love harbor freight for what I call consumable / rarely used tools …. Things like Allen wrenches , tools that I’m gonna let people borrow , various size wrenches I’ll hardly use , or something I want to fabricate a specialty tool out of . Personally I’m currently working in a glass factory so anytime I’m working above the 3,000 degree furnace I know I’m gonna be sweating and dropping tools into the furnace . I’m a little less angry about sacrificing a tool when it cost me a few dollars lol
I bought a set of six pipe threading dies from HF, to fix a plumbing problem. I only needed _one,_ but the set cost less than calling a plumber out _once._ 😁
I use harbor freight the same way. As tools I don't care about or hardly ever use. If I use it everyday, im going to invest in something higher quality like Snap On, Cornwell, Sunex, Koken.
Or if it's a tool you aren't sure you are going to use a lot. Buy the harbor freight/cheapo and if it breaks that means you use it enough to invest in something nice.
Yeah in the oilfield we use those alot for different things like pump jacks and other very BIG nuts, hacking a Pittsburgh wrench aint gonna cut it when you have to apply so much torque you have to beat it with a 10 lb sledge... but for little things like cars i guess it would work fine
@@ΛάμψιςἈταξία Yeh but on an oil field you use it daily or weekly so shelling the real money on one makes sense, but for a car or even on a professional service job where you need one ONCE it to fix the ONE weird forklift on your patch then why spend a fortune on it
@Simon-ho6ly yeah so thats pretty much what i said, truth is we wouldn't even use them that much, most of the times they be thrown in the back of the gang truck in the forgotten fittings basket, the pros like nipple up use hydrolic wrenches that makes it faster and safer
@@justinbenjamin4651 I am a boilermaker/tube welder and work in power plants all the time. We did on one occasion use a knocker that was huge like that, 16 inch if I remember right. What a f*cking pain in the a*s! we had to use a pile of rigging just to get the f*cking thing in place. Then 3 of us beating on it all day with the biggest beaters we could find. Being a welder I don't often get stuck doing sh*t like that, but I'm also a pretty good rigger. Needless to say I don't tell bosses that I can rig anymore 😂
I started working at the dealership a couple years ago with 200ish piece Husky set. I still have almost all the 12 point sockets but replaced all the 6 point sockets and ratchets with MacTools. Saved sooooo much money and spaced out purchasing those expensive tools too!!
Our guys use those knocker wrenches every day putting tower cranes up. Then, you have to come back with a hy-torque after the crane is up and torque the nuts to several thousand pound feet. Gotta half inch gap between tower sections on the side opposite the counterweights before you torque 'em. All the way down. You can feel it when you're up there and it's leaning like a mo fo. Swing the crane right/ left and you can feel the whole tower gyrating. Good times.
I call them knocker wrenches at work. We use them often at my natural gas storage facility when working on a lateral on a well. Didn’t know they cost that much
What if you have 5 lumbar fusion, one done twice, RFA, 9 epidurals with non-particulate steroids and 1 with, three pair the spinal cord simulators electrode leads, one left behind and still can't walk without a cain? Even the SCS company rep & engineer quit. Must be the 60 blue pills I took last week!
@@elizabetholiviaclark I should clarify, the things actually are damaged and it's company policy to discount them but we get a heads up whenever that happens
This is great! I constantly see RU-vid videos and articles telling me not to buy My tools from harbor freight because everything is junk. Yet, every professional I know has a bunch of high quality name brand tools right alongside a whole lot of Pittsburgh tools from harbor freight.
Yup, I've spent a small fortune on striking wrenches over the years. Last one was 4-1/8" and cost a little over $750. Some sizes are almost impossible to find in a striking format, so we usually will take one like in this vid and modify it with a few wraps of plate steel around the head, along with a split/filled section of pipe around the handle. An old 2lb sledge makes a good impact zone for striking, but you gotta plate it up and build the rest of the wrench around it.
My dad was a engineer on cargo ships. The torque rating for the giant cylinder head bolts was whenever you got tired of smacking these wrenches with a sledge hammer!
My grandfather Troy was DOING this back in the late 60s. He was HELPING to fix a transmission on a 63 Chevy Nova. He CUT wrench to size He needed! Some of the SECRETS my grandfather employed with His GENIUS mind COULD have MADE him GLORIOUSLY rich!
I absolutely love harbor freight. When I go in there I’m like a kid in a candy store and most of the time I’ll go in for one thing and end up walking out with a cart full of stuff.
I play ice hockey, and I buy the 10 pack of electrical tape to use for my socks. I don't how much money I've saved over the years when sock tape is damn near $5/roll.
You have to go in when they give away the free flashlights! :) Those free flashlights have cost me hundreds of dollars. :( (I have poor self control and should not be left unsupervised.)
for some you needa ask how bad is this gonna hurt when it skips a gear with me giving it a ton of force in a small ingine bay. sockets harbot frieght all day, the socket wrench im willing to pay the money for. also when cheqp ratchets take like force to get to click, so the bolt is too tight to hand remove and too loose to have the action on the cheap wrench work properly...
One time in Hollywood I left one of my tool bins unlocked for about fifteen minutes at a motel I was working on. Unfortunately it was a a bin filled with some of my best power tools. He didn't get all of them but it still cost me about fifteen hundred dollars to replace them. I was told someone saw a guy running down the street with all the power tools he could carry. Just about broke my heart.
Used to be a mechanic. My rule for specialty purchases was : if you need it 3 seperate times you better buy one. .. also, used to make speciatly tools for myself & the water dept. where I worked out of steel blanks.
At a maintainance job i had, when the fifty ton punch press set up men would screw up and get the ram locked at TDC, we would take a 41/2" wrench we had bought from Harbor Freight and put on the ram adjustment screw , add an 8-10 ft. piece of pipe and push on it with a forklift while cycling the press in reverse to break the pressure on the die table, we did break some wrenches on occasion but for "cheap" tools they held up surprisingly well to such punishment.
Best part is , you can take that cut in half wrench into harbor freight in two pieces no receipt and get a free new one no questions asked. That’s why they’re the best
Me and a buddy were swinging on a 2" 160ft in the air on a desulpherization tower, and had a safety man loosing his mind in the ground..... Lol Good times at Marathon Robinson Illinois
brake-line wrenches are 29.99. and regular wrenches are 9.99 so i bought the reggies and cut a gap in the closed ends. im sure every mechanic has done this but at 17 years old i was proud of myself
Unless you absolutely NEED a high dollar version of anything, harbor freight should always be your first pick. Those guys are goated, best damn hardware store in the world.
You call it a slugger, I always called them knockers. I was industrial field service for mining, power generation, heavy equipment, etc. We customized ours though, if you notice the thickness is less than half, go buy 2 sets of the big boys from Hazard Frought and cut to the length you want. Then double stack and tack weld for extra strength. If you get in a spot where you need the thin advantage, just break the tack welds and use one half.
We got one hydraulic pusher for these kind of wrenches. We could adjust the arms and also force distribution (too much force/torque at one end could be dangerous).
@Ronak Chheda I'm curious, was that a purpose built tool? We used something similar for earthmover work, it was shop-built, I never saw another. We would calculate torque from oil psi in the cylinder and distance from center. Or at least thought we did. lol Nothing ever failed.
Back before I retired I would always carry two types of wrenches, screw drivers, and other tools. The cheap ones that came out of the bargain bin and could easily be replaced, and then my high quality expensive tools.The cheap ones I called my "Beater Tools" for obvious reasons. The good ones I treated like gold because they were't as easily replaceable. This system worked well for me all through my working years and saved me a lot of money as well. I highly recommend it unless you have money to burn.😊
Brand name Slugger fits it's name as slugger wrench as well. I think I've seen them called Strike wrench too. You're right about careful spending, a one time or seldom use is ok to buy economy brands.
I have a large collection of HF vise-grip-like tools which exist only to be sacrificed in forging, welding, or similar activities. HF is great for stuff like that.
@@carllemoine3176 I'm a wellhead specialist. I set and maintain wellheads and frack stacks. I also do pressure control . Pretty much anyone with any actual field experience in the oilfield in the US calls that a hammer wrench. Unless you're the guy looking for the keys to the V door.
@@SM-mj8sj I've held wrenches for people literally thousands of times but I always use a pice of rope. Never have I been hit or seriously hit anyone else. I've seen some smashed hands though. On the rig an 8lb is a baby hammer. Those boys swing 16s and 20s driving those pins for the derrick .
I work for John Deere and the amount of mechanics here that have BOXES full of specialty Snap-On tools they use once every few years is astounding. Thousands of dollars worth of stuff that barely gets touched
Harbor freight is literally the best thing, they literally warranty everything, I buy stuff use it break it and return it with no questions asked, absolutely the best Costumer service
