Did my RTC training over the weekend and although it was great to get hands on with all the hydraulic tools, I think my personal favourite is now this bad boy:

The Halligan, AKA Hooligan Bar. Simple and brutally effective for everything from lock breaking to defending the homestead come the zombie apocalypse. Admittedly not great for bicycle maintenance unless you’ve got a particularly stubborn crown race though.

What are your favourite tools and why?

48 inch stilson just for its shear manliness.

dead blow comedy mallet

Probably my Adze:

I quite like my tool for finding punctures…

Stihl Kombi.
Big boys Swiss Army Knife.

I quite like my tool for finding punctures…

That manages to be both bonkers AND genius…

That manages to be both bonkers AND genius…

http://uk.ebid.net/for-sale/lekzoeker-leak-detector-simson-detektora-wycieku-lecksucher-51155965.htm

Aye, so simple but really useful. Simson also make a fantastic tyre lever, which will get on the tightest tyre without pinching the tube.

Simson also make a fantastic tyre lever, which will get on the tightest tyre without pinching the tube.

My fear is always if it’s that hard to get on, how do you get it off again.

Nice theory, but don’t have much choice with small high pressure stuff like recumbents and folders 🙂

Besides, the usual reason to get a tyre off is because it’s punctured, so can set about it with proper steel tyre levers.

True.

Case CX210b long reach

With tree shears attached

My Victorinox multi-tool, a thing of beauty and precision. The Rolls-Royce of multitools IMO 🙂

Case CX210b long reach

With tree shears attached

Yeah, still waiting to see one of these utilised in a horror movie.

My favourite tool must be a 5mm wrench, as I seem to carry one most of the time.

Circlip pliars. Reason being, most people don’t know they exist, you hardly ever need them, but if you ever do need them and don’t have them, it turns whatever simple job you’re doing into an absolute bollocks.

Gerber suspension. Would like something a bit lighter for the Camelbak though

Circlip pliars. Reason being, most people don’t know they exist, you hardly ever need them, but if you ever do need them and don’t have them, it turns whatever simple job you’re doing into an absolute bollocks.

Without them, this is why circlips are also known as “pingf*ckits”.

I was taught “jesus clips” 😆 Because that’s what you say after they ping off and fly inside the engine.

Its a podger

77 telecaster

http://www.clasohlson.com/uk/Cotech-5.5-hp-(3.7-kW)-Two-Stage-Snow-Blower/Pr315052000

Just bought one of these, we have a long driveway, can’t wait for it to snow 😀

Shimano Cable cutters. Have saved me so much grief over the years.

snap-on ratchet screwdriver with spare bits in the handle, most used tool as i dont get on with power drivers. 2nd best knipex insulated pliers/wire cutters.
flashhart; very funny 😆
Op what is RTC training ? nice hooligan bar though !

Yeah, still waiting to see one of these utilised in a horror movie.

With the shite made these days it could very easily be put into a movie. They are a tool for work, if you wanted to be specific then maybe the header should say HAND tool in which case it be this.

This thread is very Freudian 🙂

Anyhow, this is the thing that’s always in my pocket:

Another for the Leatherman Charge Ti.

Awesome bit if kit, had mine for years and it finds use most days at work.

Tough choice, so my top 3 in no particular order….

1. The thing for getting stones out of horses hooves.

2. Leatherman Micra, alway with me.

3. Rattle gun, great for pretending you are F1 pit crew

D-D-D-D-D-D-ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTT 😆

Though it is hard to image you are F1 pit crew when laying on you back in a muddly field using one to change a Landrover diff in 10 mins during a comp safari 😕

I reckon a nice finishing plane has got to be up there.

For the bike either a headset press or a decent set of cable cutters.

It’s power drills that make me sad – nowadays we have trying-too-hard efforts like this:

But our parents and grandparents used proper drills which weren’t “designed”:

I’ve got an old Wolf drill in the garage somewhere… Doesn’t work but it’s just a nice thing to have.

Close, but the correct answer is:

I get a happy glow every time I use it. Like now!

But our parents and grandparents used proper drills which weren’t “designed”:

I’ve got a wolf drill and it is beautifully designed!

may fave is a cats paw – does much the same as the OP’s tool, but more politely

My Milbro lock wire pliers,30 years old and still used every day!

I’ve got a wolf drill and it is beautifully designed!

It’s designed, but it’s not “designed” – someone with an art degree has been nowhere near it 🙂

That cats paw thing is interesting, but still a bit unsubtle – does no-one use lockpicks any more?