The Tool You Hate Most

slowsol

extension ladder. shoot me.

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We'll have to grab a longer board. I forgot to put the wood stretcher in the truck today.

katttfishh

Radial arm saw. I took my Father in law to the hospital with three of his fingers in my pocket and I know of a couple others that cant give the finger anymore due to that sob.

mickeyco

Couldn't/shouldn't have you put them in a container with ice? I have a personal rule, only attached finger go in my pockets, and only mine.




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davitk

Two thumbs up, no fingers





.Nothing quite like a 32' fiberglass bending you like gumby to dazzle the HO.



I need to start lifting weights.









The other tool I hate the most (this sounds real bad, doesn't it?) is that essential and ever elusive hand tool of which I own 26, that inevitably will be on the bottom of the toolbox it doesn't belong in. God only knows the whereabouts of the other 25.

drive55cat

With those 32' ladders and such, you gotta do your basic training with a 40' triple grade commercial ladder by yourself, or on old wooden 32' once you can control that beast the 32' fiberglass is a piece of cake. It's a digging iron I hate. d55c

Terrorron

...on this one; Phillips screwdrivers...hands down.

The only screws that actually work with these abortions (somewhat) are the ones that are actually "Robertson's"; (i.e. square recess). Generally the first thing I'll do when installing anything is to throw all the supplied fasteners in the garbage...
It's mind boggling (to me anyways) as to why the "Square Recess" (Robertson) has not supplanted the Phillips head worldwide...
Maybe people (down there) actually enjoy having to drill pilot holes in everything to overcome the inefficiency of the screwheads...?

Is it a conspiracy? Are you able to charge more for installing a towel bar because you can't just drive an unpiloted 2" #6 Phillips straight into cured dimensional lumber without the screwhead stripping out?... Enquiring minds want to know...
While the "Torx" pattern is easily the equivalent (or better) of the Robertson in terms of utility, it's increased complexity has to have some downside (cost-wise)...?...no?
Why is it that the only efficiently designed "pure Phillips head" (the "deep recess" on the drywall screw) is not the commonly used pattern?

Oh well, that's my rant... up here in the Great White North (where this option exists), I'll just continue to throw away the supplied Phillips heads and use Robertson's...

Cheers, Ron

MALCO.New.York

Zactly!

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MALCO.New.York

"Left knut, corner pocket............" Hurray for pocket pool!!!!

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davitk

I did my training on a 40' wooden ladder, circa ~ 1890 that my father bought to paint his way through college in the 50's. I failed that apprenticeship.

A W Smith

can you imagine putting todays aluminum ladder jacks on one of those wooden ladders and plummeting to the ground when the rungs snap off? I guess thats why the old time steel ladder jacks wrapped around the rails.

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davitk

What??!! You mean those rungs can break??

I am one of the lucky skinny few in the family who has never gone through. Every one of Dad's old wooden ladders has been cut into 6 to 10' lengths, usually in the heat of passion

Super-Mike

Brooms, shovels and post hole diggers. Hate them all equally.

Vrooman

Phillips or Slotted screw drivers definatly. No. 2 Robertson should make those damn things obsolete.

Pneumatic bump fire framing nailer for nailing studs and dragging a damn hose. There is nothing better than Paslode Cordless

dlcj

Id have to give another vote for shovels or any manualy operated digging tool. also ---
Some one said dish sponge. I hate that damn thing too. Probably more than shovel. Wife works too so i help out in the kitchen. She cooks and i clean after. Griping the whole time.

jiffy

T-post driver is my least favorite tool. After using one all day your arms never feel the same again.

user30697

my worst is definitely a quikdrive. only works when it shouldn't. mind you i threw it away a year ago

Tscarborough

El Diablo, the Pick-Mattock.

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Gary H

Side winder saws and snow shovels

KHouse75

The dishwasher! Can't stand that thing!

I really hate my table saw. It scares the crap out of me. I have visions of my severed arm laying on the ground every time I fire it up. It all goes back to when my father had a sliding miter saw ride a board and go across the back of his left hand. I was 7 and remember it like it happened yesterday. Luckily, the surgeon fixed it and he has full use. Can't say the same for his left thumb nail that he shaved off with a miter saw a few months ago.

I nicked my index finger tip on a bench table saw a few years ago while it was almost completely spun down. Took out a 3/16" deep v groove!. I hate it even more now since that little incident.

I'm thinking about getting a sawstop for myself and my father.

ApgarNJ

my old dewalt circular saw 7 1/4" I've had it for 8 almost 9 years, one of the first tools I bought when I went out on my own and I can't stand the thing now for the past few years. I know I should just go buy another one that I want more, but this thing won't die. no matter what I try to do to it on jobs, it won't burn out.