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    Yeah, GPS on the smartphone is pretty helpful. Thanks for all the tips, everybody. It's nice to hear what others are doing.

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    Hatchet
    Pruning shears, the ones with the 3 inch long curved blades with 2 foot long handles(cuts wire and copper pipe in a flash)
    Bolt cutters
    Grinder
    Hammer

    Other stuff I need and are great:

    Truck
    Gas (strips wires fast lol)

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    Wow. I'm small red potatoes compared to some of you all! :eek:

    Screw drivers (the really large ones can be used for pry bar for my stuff too)
    Hammer
    Drill
    buckets - don't be caught without em!
    baby bolt cutters

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    5 tools

    1. Truck and trailer
    2. Magnet
    3. Dolly/wheelbarrow
    4. Sawsall
    5. Hammer

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    1 hammer
    2 screw drivers
    3 crow bar
    4 wire cutters or shears
    5 utility knife

    usually i just hit stuff til it breaks

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    1. Wrecker
    2. Sledgehammer
    3. Crowbar
    4. angle grinder
    5. sawzall
    6. machine gun

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    Read this a couple times and finally decided to put in the 5 I use the most. Although there are more that I would find more useful this is what I got to work with at the moment.

    1. Magnet
    2. Wire Cutters
    3. Hammer
    4. Pliers
    5. Hacksaw

    What I'm really looking forward to getting are a vise, angle grinder, and bench grinder. In that order.
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    i dont have a magnet

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrap Metal Mike View Post
    i dont have a magnet
    LOL, Scrapper Fail
    "roaming the streets, looking for treats"


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    Quote Originally Posted by dryvr12 View Post
    1 hammer
    2 screw drivers
    3 crow bar
    4 wire cutters or shears
    5 utility knife

    usually i just hit stuff til it breaks
    these are mine also , I only take on small jobs right now!!
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    [QUOTE=MilitiaMetals;12684]Hatchet
    Pruning shears, the ones with the 3 inch long curved blades with 2 foot long handles(cuts wire and copper pipe in a flash)
    Bolt cutters
    Grinder
    Hammer

    Other stuff I need and are great:

    Truck
    Gas (strips wires fast lol)[/QUOTE]


    also strips your wallet...where im from if your caught burning copper wire its up to a 10,000 dollar fine

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    Now I do! Gimme a break I was working with physical disabilities! But thanks to someone I thong it was idahoscrapper I now have a magnet!
    One man's crap is another man's scrap! And in Texas, there's ALOT of crap!

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    What? Thong? Found one jammed up in a dryer once. Used pliers to pull it out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrap Metal Mike View Post
    Now I do! Gimme a break I was working with physical disabilities! But thanks to someone I thong it was idahoscrapper I now have a magnet!
    I thong I sent you 3 of them and you broke 2 of them trying to pull them off the bracket instead of just leaving them on and using them as a magnet.

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    no taxes, no debt, women did all the work.
    White man thought he could improve on a system like this. - Old Cherokee saying

    I did not surrender, they took my horse and made him surrender. - Lone Watie

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    sawzall
    buckets
    pliers
    razor knife

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    we use lots of tools but my top 5

    1. phone
    2. internet
    3. hackzall
    4. 4 1/2 grinder
    5. excavator with thumb

    i like the wheelbarrow idea towards the top im just waiting for one on a cleanup shoulda done got it a couple for sorting and one just for a roll around tool cart

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    Quote Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper View Post
    I thong I sent you 3 of them and you broke 2 of them trying to pull them off the bracket instead of just leaving them on and using them as a magnet.
    That was the thong thing to do.
    I know lying is wrong, but if the elephant man came in now in a blouse with some make up on, and said, "How do I look?" Would you say, bearing in mind he's depressed and has respiratory problems, would you say, "Go and take that blusher off you mis-shapened elephant tranny?" No. You'd say, "You look nice... John""


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