the greatest tool ever is the crow bar. It must increase your strength by 100% and it focuses that energy as well. Where would we be without it. Think about it
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But what about the Kubota excavator? It increases strength by 10,000%, and once you get the hang of it you can listen to music at the same time! ; ).
zak
My vote is the "sawzall"
"There are about 550000000 firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is...........How do we arm the other eleven?" Yuri Orlov
Hmmm -- I'd pick the articulated Porter Cable recip saw over the conventional sawzall. But neither for "greatest tool of all". Maybe the CNC vertical mill. Maybe this thread will get pulled if I were to say EZ Smart.... ;-)
-- J.S.
Kind of boring but probably the tape measure, without it I'd be yelling "cut that 2x12 at 2 Pete's, 1 Duane and a half a Matt."You're entitled to sh!t.---Tony Soprano
as far as i am concerned, the "tool" that has given me the most pleasure is the one i got on my birthday
as far as i am concerned, the "tool" that has given me the most pleasure is the one i got on my birthday
You mean that tool that was under development for the 9 months prior to your birthday? Hey, have fun!
-Don
ladies and gentlemen we have a winner!!"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know" Ralph Waldo Emerson
"as far as i am concerned, the "tool" that has given me the most pleasure is the one i got on my birthday"
That may be, but I would recommend you don't try to pound nails with it.
I used mine to make 3 big boys. Now I can get a lot more done than working by myself.
i've pounded and nailed with it"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know" Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gives new meaning to the phrase....grad your tool and get to work.
The hammer...cave men used simple hammer to knock out his opponent and take his women. Probably should have taken something else but he took the women and look what trouble he's into now!
Have you ever tried to drive any nail without a hammer? It's not happening!
Have you ever tried to drive any nail without a hammer? It's not happening!
PSSSSSST!!!! Air nailers...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Psst....
Marty, I once had to drive some finshing nails and had nothing except my 1976 Montreal Olympic commemerative Canon F-1.
Nails went in and camera still takes great pictures.Quality repairs for your home.
AaronR ConstructionVancouver, Canada
Hi Aaron... long time I'm thinking....
pliers and screwdrivers work too....
and how is yur 4000 and did you fix the miter and finally work out yur insert problem...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Hi Big M!
I diddled with it a little and got it sorta fixed.
I'll be getting the inset thing fixed up this weekend. Glad you're back. Did you get unretired?Quality repairs for your home.
AaronR ConstructionVancouver, Canada
not a chance....Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
You beat me to it. I was going to mention the same camera (not necessarily the comemmorative one, though). "The Brick"Is yours the kind with the removable pentaprism?
"I cut this piece four times and it's still too short."
Yup. The full deal.
I'll never sell it. I'll mount it on the mantle before I let it out of my hands.
It's better than my new Canon 350 XT Rebel, far more solid.Quality repairs for your home.
AaronR ConstructionVancouver, Canada
Do you have the whole system or just parts of it? I found a speed finder a while back and while I don't shoot as often as I did, it's a good thing to have when shooting at the sky. The mirror lockup is great for extremely long exposures, too.
"I cut this piece four times and it's still too short."
Wasn't there a huge thread recently where a guy decided nails were obsolete?
My linesman's pliers have driven enough staples that I'm sure they could drive a nail or two.Of course, I've been told that the proper tool is the closest tool.
If you think a crow bar is good , take a look at Stanleys new Fubar that they are comming out with. A new multi use crow bar.
http://www.stanleytools.com
F.U.B.A.R. seems to be a pretty appropriate acronym for that thing
I can probably fubar without that thingee.
Joe H
Funny! Do you think the Stanley marketing guys know what "fubar" is an acronym for?Bill
I know I'll be sorry I ASKED but what does"FUBAR" stand for?
Fouled Up Beyond All Repair--- polite form
I heard it was "Marine" speak for:
F*&^%$ed Up Beyond All Recognition.
Yeah, what Pickings said. Military origin of some sort.Bill
I've heard SNAFU (situation normal, all fouled up) (the sanitized version) has a military origin, but I'm not so sure about FOOBAR. We used FOOBAR in early programming though.
that's FU and not FOO...
BAR is beyound all repair / reconigition..Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I always though Fubar meant Fd Up Beyond All Recognition.....
kinda funny for a crowbar. I am a real fan of BFHs Big Freakin Hammers... now thats a great tool...
On the same subject:
SNAFU situation normal, all forked up.
DILIGAF do I look like I give a fork?
and not to leave out BOHICA...
Bend Over Here It Comes Again...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I am a real fan of SOL.....
Back in my younger days I was a camp counselor and I could sign SOL so fast.... It was especially handy when the School Bus brakes overheated and caught fire in a very very bad part of town....
"do you smell smoke"
"yup and I see smoke too"
"STOP THE BUS"
30 seconds later.....
"OFF THE BUS!!"
Then came the the quick sign.... SOL!
That was a fun one. had to run two blocks to a payphone and then call the Fire Department.
For the money.....and on a simple muscle to task ratio....the crowbar may well be #1.
But...if you take cost out of the comparison....the TelPro drywall lift is easily the greatest tool ever invented in terms of giving one person the power to do what they typically would have to struggle with.
I bought one a few years back....and every time a discussion like this comes up, I chime in.
Not a drywaller by trade....but I can now hang more boards faster, by myself, than I was previously able to do with help.
Used to turn down drywall jobs....I now look forward to them.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
I nominate "compound interest" as the greatest tool known to man.
Of course, if you're on the wrong end of the loan, it ain't such a good thing.
blue
My greatest tool would have to be a ..........Machete.
You can pry with it, cut w/ it, dig w/ it, mix mud w/ it, hammer w/ the back of it....just about any job.
You can replace a crow bar w/ a wodden stick/syaff/log shaped by the machete
You can replace a hammer w/ a stone, and if you don't have nails....the hammer would not help you.
But if you can't cut or shape the wood......what are you going to build?
There are entire villages in many parts of the world constructed only w/ machetes.
wasn"t Pres Sam Adams the guy who said "give me a crowbar and I will make the voices stop?"
or was it the great Roman sage Parathese ?
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'Wer ist jetzt der Idiot?'
Sam Adams - good man - but not a President.
gotcha.......:).
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'Wer ist jetzt der Idiot?'
Money! Lots of it!
Useless things in aviation. 1. Altitude above you. 2 Runway behind you. 3 Fuel in the fuel truck.
http://mysite.verizon.net/respum0e/johnclanton/
Lets go for the 50/50
WD-40 and Duct tape......................
If it moves and it should'nt.............use duct tape
If it doesn't move and it should...................use WD-40
1) Disposable utility knife blades.
2) Carpenters pencil.
3) As much as hate it, cell phone.
Stop, drop, shut 'em down, open up shop.
Edited 3/16/2006 3:23 pm ET by dustinf
I'm sure this won't get many votes, but I think a palm nailer is just the greatest.
And sawzall is a strong second.
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WWPD
everything's a hammer ...
'cept a chisel.
'cause that's a screwdriver!
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
The greatest tool ever is a good helper.
You have the right one, you don't even have to pick up tool.
Just sit back and tell him ( or better yet, her ) what to do.
dentist doing root canal. every time he needed tool, it was there w/o his asking. when done, i asked him if he would know what to do if she were not giving him the right tool!! he was offended at first till he realized it a compliment.
Good thing you waited 'til he was done to annoy him.
I gotta vote for the telephone, wouldn't be a whole lot of anything goin on w/out somebody callin somebody else on the telephone. Jim Devier
the greatest tool ever is the crow bar
My vote for the greatest tool ever is the human brain.
"he...never charged nothing for his preaching, and it was worth it, too" - Mark Twain
thermos..
no moving parts.
knows when to keep thing hot or cold all by it's self..
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
....keep thing hot or cold...
.... all by it's self.. True enough.
But tell me.... How does it know? My secretary gave me that line while showing off her thermos, so I asked what she had in it and she said, "A Fudgecicle and a medium-double-double."Doc - The Ol' Cynic
.............How does it know?
only it knows...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
The greatest tool ever?
A brain that functions well. If you are born with a good one, then you have nowhere but up to go if you use it. Get a partner that has one and its double the potential.
Crowbars, sawzalls, women, men, hammers; they're all useless without that gray squishy stuff in your skull.
Great minds think alike! (unfortunately, so do mundane minds!)
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the greatest tool ever is the crow bar
My vote for the greatest tool ever is the human brain.
"he...never charged nothing for his preaching, and it was worth it, too" - Mark Twain
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"he...never charged nothing for his preaching, and it was worth it, too" - Mark Twain
how about the greatest tool, dollar for dollar. Has to be the crowbar. BTW a lot of bad has been done using the human brain. A crowbar is impartial."I hate quotations. Tell me what you know" Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pickup Truck.
Hauls yer hammers, crowbars, fubars, saws, and ebbertings else to where you'se can put that wrinkled grey tool to work to get those wrinkly green tools to put in yer'se pockets.
SamT
The 5-in-1 painter's tool really is worth the money....that's not a mistake, it's rustic
FYI, they're up to 10-in-1 now. I have one, and I can only identify about 7 tools on it though, unless you count flipping pancakes.
zak
I saw a 7-in-1 that had a bottle opener and sharp spikey point that looked good for pulling fish hooks out. Nice handle though....that's not a mistake, it's rustic
Greatest tool ever is the lightbulb. We can show up in Dec. and work while its still dark and continue long after the sun goes down.
Great.
Greatest tool in the dark?
That would be me.
Red