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[Davethorik]

Ames 2683000
4" scraper/chopper, 53" handle
Made in USA
$18.98 at HD

Bought this for ice chopping duty at my new place.

[bonneyman]

Dang, Walrus, that Knipex collection is sweet! 

I didn't know they made all those sizes.

[fatfillup]

Ooooooooo,,,,, liking that knipex family shot. 

Think i have them all but might be one size i don't, third from right.

Walrus, did you just get them all at once?

[walrus]

Nice. I've really been amazed that they are almost completely corrosion resistant. Here along the Gulf coast even the fog is salty and my Knipex have been left out on several nights and they still have zero rust on them.

Mine are outside all the time as thats where they get used. Throw them back into service truck and off to the next job.

Fats, no I bought them over time. The 8" ones and 12" ones get used the most. The biggest ones 22" I just got a few months ago. Best water pump pliers made. Knipex needle nose are awesome also but their diagonal cutters aren't that great. Not sure why their dikes don't cut wire easily but they don't.

[fatfillup]

Walrus, haven't noticed the issue with the dykes but you cut a whole lot more wire then I do so I will bow to your experience. 

What dykes do you like?

I have had good luck with Channelock dykes, and have a pair of cornwell that I really like but not sure who made them. 

I have really come to like flush cut dykes for cutting wire ties. 

Snappy dykes seem to work ok but one style of their high leverage ones don't seem to be as good.  My employee has had 2 or 3 pair of the same ones and none have lasted.  He gave up and the Snappy man gave him something else.

As to the Knipex cobras, we are on the same page, they are the best period.

[walrus]

Walrus, haven't noticed the issue with the dykes but you cut a whole lot more wire then I do so I will bow to your experience. 

I've used Channellock and Kleins. Both work great.  I don't lose a lot of tools but dykes never stay around very long. I was on a gas station canopy a while back and found a pair I left up there years ago. Promptly lost them again 

[jeffmoss26]

got a couple items from Ideal last week.

[Heiny57]

Ames 2683000
4" scraper/chopper, 53" handle
Made in USA
$18.98 at HD

Bought this for ice chopping duty at my new place.

That gives me calluses just looking at it.

[Heiny57]

Thought I could use these for upcoming project.


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I am glad I bought these, or at least the Gear Wrench tightener. I left the cv axle attached to the hub and replaced the boots under the mini. ( will probably remove the complete axle on the other side if needed). It tightened the clamp and cut it of perfectly. Things usually don’t go like that for me. There is even less room in there than the pics suggest.

[hickory n Steel]

These dasco sets are a great value and handy to have around.


In my experience the backs of their punches are very soft while the tips are perfectly fine, their pry bars are plenty tough in my experience as well.

[DeadNutz]

Those Dasco sets are a great value at Walmart. I bought one last year that came with a bonus keychain bar that is 1/2" wide by 3" long. The wife promptly snagged the little bar.

[hickory n Steel]

Those Dasco sets are a great value at Walmart. I bought one last year that came with a bonus keychain bar that is 1/2" wide by 3" long. The wife promptly snagged the little bar.

I've had one of the little bonus thumb bars in my belt pouch every day at work for the past year and recently got a second one for free.
I'm assuming someone was buying the set and it fell out of something, but I found one on the floor in the dog food isle and promptly scooped it up.
I went to the tool section and there was one set left which was not opened or anything.

They're a great little tool, and if they were to actually make them available for say $2.99 they would sell very well.
You can buy others of this size for cheap on line but I like my tools to be made by tool companies out of tool steel, not cheap stainless.

[hickory n Steel]

Here's the one I use at work, and the other which I stripped the paint off of.

[Davethorik]

Ames 2683000
4" scraper/chopper, 53" handle
Made in USA
$18.98 at HD

Bought this for ice chopping duty at my new place.

That gives me calluses just looking at it.

I don't have a large surface that needs scraped...but I just moved to a new house, it has a parking area right off of an alley. City plow trucks like to push up a wall of snow, which is inevitably frozen to the road (laughs at snow shovel).

I used a piece of scrap angle iron last time to bust up ice...think this will be an upgrade.

[DeadNutz]

Ames 2683000
4" scraper/chopper, 53" handle
Made in USA
$18.98 at HD

Bought this for ice chopping duty at my new place.

That gives me calluses just looking at it.

I don't have a large surface that needs scraped...but I just moved to a new house, it has a parking area right off of an alley. City plow trucks like to push up a wall of snow, which is inevitably frozen to the road (laughs at snow shovel).

I used a piece of scrap angle iron last time to bust up ice...think this will be an upgrade.

I would say that is an upgrade from angle iron. We don't have to worry about the plows pushing up a berm here as we usually won't see one until most the snow has melted. We are pretty far down the list of priorities.