The i'd be lost without it thread.... - Your most important or favorite tool

Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:01 pm

i'll start this with our forklift, all other bits of plant aside this is the thing that gets used daily from parking trailers to loading buckets and breakers, be lost without it. plus doing doughnuts in its lots of fun hehe

haggistini · Post: # 59197Post **haggistini** Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:10 pm

my base layer (longsleave shirt) feel naked without it

haggistini · Post: # 59199Post **haggistini** Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:12 pm

p.s. nice shed!!

digerjones · Post: # 59201Post **digerjones** Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:17 pm

with that title i thought i was going to see a photo of your manhood :p

Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:21 pm

i haven't got a wide enough lense lol.....

next thing would be my mini sledge, like a lump hammer but with double length handle for two hand swinging

got one of those dickies quilted work shirts great for working in, but just ordered a new helly hansen trousers and jacket being embroidered be a shame to get it dirty hehe

Post: # 59208Post **Dave_L** Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:32 pm

My favourite tool/machine would be our road layer simply because it can shovel down the black stuff at such a rate with mimimal manual input......but thats on a good day, other jobs can be right b*stards.

Probably being honest, it'd have to be our Bomag whacker plate, how anyone laying tar cannot have one is beyond me - it is excellent for starting off rolling up on the small area that has just been laid, then get the ped roller onto it.

Yep, definitely - it's the whacker plate.

rab1 · Post: # 59209Post **rab1** Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:33 pm

pair of Gilbow tin snips, do everything they say on the box. lol

haggistini · Post: # 59210Post **haggistini** Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:34 pm

nice clobber keep it for pricing jobs and liquid lunches, honestly where would man be without a shovel

Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:40 pm

"bullseye" my 8 year old bulldog fork
probably followed by a 8 M tape or a set of lines
biggest bit of plant i own is a mixer :;):

cheers LLL

haggistini · Post: # 59213Post **haggistini** Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:45 pm

top onion lifter there LLL

Ted · Post: # 59216Post **Ted** Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:58 pm

Planed timber is not available in builder's merchants in Angola...

Power is very intermittent so a genset is essential...

I think these vibrators are excellent for small jobs...

Just bought one of these so it has not been a necessity but I am looking forward to getting it going; I imagine it will seem a necessity quite soon...

Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:05 pm

Got one of those makita pokers good bit of kit,

michaelthegardener · Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:43 pm

me van

:p

pickwell paving · Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:30 pm

Got to be either our block barrow or avant loader

ambient · Post: # 59238Post **ambient** Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:40 pm

my digger