What is your favorite tool?

[Julie Marie]

Sawzalls are quiet.  If you want loud try a jackhammer with the air compressor right in your ear.  When I was an apprentice I had to take a 90 pound jackhammer, cradled in my arms, and blow holes in a manhole.  It was 95⁰ that day. 

But the tool that takes the cake for dirty and noisy is the partner saw.  Cut into a bit of concrete and rebar and watch the dust and sparks fly.  It will fill a large room in a matter of minutes but it will take a few years to make you deaf.  In 35 years I only had to use one once.  After that I found an apprentice. 

[Lee]

Oxy acetylene torch

[jmaxley]

Five words:  My Little Pony Soldering Iron   

[tekla]

My GFs got a vibrator like that.  The My Little Pony part, not the soldering iron.

[Michael Joseph]

Cordless power drill.

[Nygeel]

I also had to get rid of my plasma cutter on Wednesday...it was a sad sad time.

[Alessandro]

What's with all the DIY tools here 

Aren't there any other amateur mechanics in the house??   

[LordKAT]

channel locks, long story but short version is, had a job where it was the most versatile and useful tool for everywhere use.

(we did modify them a bit first)

[Mr.Rainey]

Oxy acetylene torch

*Drool*

[Robert Scott]

Cordless power drill.

Love it too~~ It was very useful when we built our fence this summer

[Darner]

Any kind of saw. Electrical ones for the noise, "hand-driven" ones for the agression release.

[heatherrose]

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[Mishamigo_Jared]

Jackhammer  they are sooooo much fun to use!! But, Chainsaws and table saws are tied for second!  Really, any type of saw is my favourite

[Mrs Erocse]

A good paint brush.....

[LordKAT]

A good paint brush.....

  I got a good laugh out of that one.  spray painting is more fun and/but messy.

[Mrs Erocse]

I am not talented with the spray can. Too many runs...

[Wolf Man]

Being a car man, I love my ratchets and sockets.

Aside from those I highly enjoy my wrenches, the impact gun, the torque wrench, breaker bar... :3 I think those are all really manly tools.

[28BROOK]

19.5 volt battery pack - it fits a 1/2 inch reversible drill,  a reciprocating saw and a small circular saw.

[gilligan]

I like a good multi-tool.

[Griffin]

Ratchet definitely =)