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    The Best Tool You Own

    I have a bunch of tools. This Fiskars long pole cutter is pretty good though. It has an 8-foot pole on it, cuts anything up to about an inch like butter. Noticed the driveway looked like Vietnam this morning, cut it back in an hour, took me two hours to clear away the debris. Good tool.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman View Post
    The Best Tool You Own
    Is this a trick question?
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    the situation strikes me as WAY too much drama at this point

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    @the angry Canadian: hm. I don't think so?

    I mean, I own tools on the internet for a living, but this was supposed to be about actual tools that you use to accomplish an actual task.

    Or not. As you wish.

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    If you were going to restrict me to one, I'd have to say, Stinkfist.

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    I was born with the best tool I own.
    I see hydraulic turtles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman View Post
    @the angry Canadian: hm. I don't think so?

    I mean, I own tools on the internet for a living, but this was supposed to be about actual tools that you use to accomplish an actual task.

    Or not. As you wish.
    Ok. In that case my pen is the best tool I own.
    Quote Originally Posted by XXX-er View Post
    the situation strikes me as WAY too much drama at this point

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    If you were going to restrict me to one, I'd have to say, Stinkfist.
    explain.

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    Knipex Cobra pliers

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    Quote Originally Posted by reckless toboggan View Post
    Ok. In that case my pen is the best tool I own.
    Honestly the only use I have for a pen is crosswords, but that's big in my world, so rock on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by permnation View Post
    Knipex Cobra pliers
    A real answer! Nice. Amazon has them: https://smile.amazon.com/Knipex-0020...x+Cobra+pliers

    Why do you like them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman View Post
    explain.


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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman View Post
    Honestly the only use I have for a pen is crosswords, but that's big in my world, so rock on.
    Whatever floats your boat, man. Who am I to judge?
    Quote Originally Posted by XXX-er View Post
    the situation strikes me as WAY too much drama at this point

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    Best?

    Best as in most used: Milwaukee impact driver or Hitachi chop saw. Both with great stamina and used nearly weekly.

    Best as in most versatile: Milwaukee multi tool or dewalt angle grinder. I've done things I'm ashamed of with both those things.

    Best as in marriage maintenance: Apathy.

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    Fleshlight
    "Zee damn fat skis are ruining zee piste !" -Oscar Schevlin

    "Hike up your skirt and grow a dick you fucking crybaby" -what Bunion said to Harry at the top of The Headwaters

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    Digital Death

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    I have done a lot of things some of them fairly strange with a 42 yr old corded B&D 3/8 reversable drill
    Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know

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    Quote Originally Posted by XXX-er View Post
    I have done a lot of things some of them fairly strange with a 42 yr old corded B&D 3/8 reversable drill
    That sounds painful.
    Quote Originally Posted by XXX-er View Post
    the situation strikes me as WAY too much drama at this point

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    After reading this thread I started my landscape list for the shop, put a 4 wheeler w/plow on the top of the list. Going to look at an 05 Kawasaki Brute Force 750 on Sunday, unless somehow the maggot contingency can tell me otherwise.

    (I also put those fiskar pruners on my list, although I only found them in 14 foot.)

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    Powder touring skis

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    Quote Originally Posted by reckless toboggan View Post
    That sounds painful.
    lots of abuse instaling an 8-track, used with a sanding disk to profile everything from a windsurfer dagger board to ski boot foot beds, drill/elongate holes ... the uses were endless and its still running

    I think I changed the brushes once
    Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know

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    I'll go with bodywhomper on this one; gotta be the skis. They are elegant, functional, and a load of fun. Close second is my Husky 550.

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    pneumatic drill
    haven't used it yet but its the best I got.

    The mini pump in the trunk of my car is a close 2nd.

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    Fleshlight.

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    My liver.

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    Tie- between impact driver, I have several, how did I manage to live without one; and the dust collector that showed up yesterday. Much more pleasant to thickness boards without chips hitting me in the face and not having huge piles of chips in the shop.

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