Favourite or most useful tool ?

[Edgecraft]

Hi all

I'm off with the kids this week (*#$~*! school holidays) and have been killing time perusing Ebay for all the nice bits of kit I would like to own and came across a Cormidi 80 Tracked loader with shovel, what a handy little machine i thought, and it would fit in the back of the van as well !
This got me thinking what others might consider as there favourite or most useful tools, wether it be a machine, spade, hammer, barrow or whatever ?

It could even be on your christmas wish list if your that way inclined, although I think the wife would be happier with something other than another *#$~*! machine.....

Darren

[Dave_L]

Lump Hammer.

[James.Q]

the blockpaving mallet got from germany id lost without it

[Stuarty]

Shovel

[DeckmanAdam]

wish list is huge but what i could see saving time is motorised barras 1/3 tonne capacity.....£1500 each tho lol.
So ill go with my trowel i think.

[IanMelb]

My S&J Predator 7ppi First Fix saw

[Dave_L]

Lump Hammer.

On a serious note - my favourite tool too is my shovel - you get used to them, the feel of them. Not looking foward to the day when it breaks!!

[Edgecraft]

I must agree Dave_L & Stuarty

I don't know what I would do without my trusty Bulldog Shovel !

Not strictly a tool but something else that's worth it's weight in gold is the 200Kg wheelchair lift I fitted in the side door of my van, it only cost £70 second hand on ebay and has saved my back sooo.. many times, there's now't down for lifting a 170kg wacker on yer own, my back twinges just thinking about it !

Darren

[lutonlagerlout]

bulldog fork
15 years old and i reckon the tines have worn down 30 mm to fine points but a great bit of english kit
unbeatable
LLL

[dig dug dan]

has to be my tcp tracked skiploading dumper.
HAs saved hours of barrowing and moves tonnes of slabs in a day ready for laying

[Rich H]

I bought a 1/2t tracked skiploading dumper in the spring and wondered why I didn't buy one years ago.

That being said, my Marshalltown trowel has to be the one tool that I could start all over again with

[lutonlagerlout]

i am on my 5th 19-10 Mtown rich,had a couple of tyzak and whs before that,i work a trowel down to gauging trowel size in about2 1/2 years then recut it my self for a pointing trowel
if you know anyone in the states marshalltown and estwing stuff there is 1/2 price what we pay here
LLL

[andpartington]

best and favourite tool
must be the makita 18 volt impact driver
this thing will knock a 4 inch screw in to a 4x2 till the there is 3 inch on the outer side of the timber i will post a pick 2moz

andy

[seanandruby]

Not the ratchet spanner as you would expect for time saver pipe fittings. But a small open ended one about 3 inches long that fits in my back pocket for when Ive got an awkward joint with not much space to manoeuvre

[Ted]

One of my favourite tools is a small plasticy trowel a bit like this... it is great for digging fencing holes down a bit deeper.

I helped a friend out who runs a gate installation business one day last year and told him to get one... he was digging his holes with a shovel

:rock:

but I have been unable to find a decent one like mine. Mine has lasted years.

I am actually going to get one of those useless corkscrew fencing machines now though... but that is because the soild is very soft where I am in Africa (no clay just terracotta dirt) and I reckon one of those will create nice sneat accurate holes quickly and save me a fortune in cement which now costs a whopping US$22 a bag unless bulk bought.