What tools do you have?

[HouseOfAtlas]

Just curious what other tools (and brand) beside your drain cleaning tools you carry with you? Any special clean out plug wrenches that you can't live without?? Biggest pipe wrench you need??

[Gene Bickford]

My special clean out plug wrench is a chisel and a 3lbs hammer:D

[PLUMBER RICK]

i have a full set of perfecto clean out sockets that include a 3/4'' drive bar and right angle wrench.

allows me to get into cabinets and recessed walls and floors.

ridgid use to make a 1/2'' drive 14'' equivalent style wrench.

i have that and it's great for removing nipples from cabinets. 1/2'' water stubs to 1.5'' waste pipes.

i keep a 24'' on the truck with a cheater:shakehead:

the 36 and 48 stay at the shop.

and when the going gets tuff, i have a 72'' underground wrench. looks like a pipe vise on a 2'' telescoping drive bar. made for 2 people to turn. it also drives the 2'' square corporation stops inside of vaults and street lids.

rick.

pasco c/o wrench looks like a 4 sided jack.

[ToUtahNow]

I don't really carry tools on my truck anymore but I do have a K-60 and K-39 as well as a couple of SeeSnakes. I also carry a ton of locators and meters to test about everything you can think of. As far as hand tools I carry some channel locks, screw drivers, crescent wrenches and the perfecto products cleanout plug wrench set and valve operator set. Then I also carry a variety of transits, auto levels and tape measures from 12' to 300'.

Not on my truck but in my shop I have pipe wrenches from 6" through 60" which include not just straight wrenches but also end, offset and compound in both steel and aluminum. My cutters go from a mini cutter all the way up to 4" iron pipe. Then there are extractors, reamers, taps tri stand vices. pipe stands, a couple of 300s, a geared threader, universal drives, companion flange ratching wrench and so on.

Mark

[Gene Bickford]

I just did a search of perfecto products. Thats a nice looking set, looks like it covers most everything, but I didn't find a price. Whats the going rate for the set with out the right angle?

[ToUtahNow]

I just did a search of perfecto products. Thats a nice looking set, looks like it covers most everything, but I didn't find a price. Whats the going rate for the set with out the right angle?

It's been a while but as I recall it was around $250.00 without the handle.

Mark

[Drain Medic]

Hand tools- channel locks, allen keys, screw drivers, torque wrench, file, hammer, chisel, nut drivers, hack saw, pvc saw, mini hacksaw, tape measure, inverted brass cap tool, flashlights, nut spliter, level, basin wrench, pipe wrenches, sockets, open end wrenches, some others i cant remember

Mics. tools - Manhole popper, Tile probe, toilet auger, trap plungers, grapplers, plungers

machines- Spartan 2001, 100, 81 Ridgid K60

Cameras- Seesnake Compact (100ft) Seesnake mini color (200ft)

Locators- Geneye reciever, leak detection equip, Radiodetection

shop vac- Ridgid shopvac, Stinger vac

machine gloves, rubber gloves, working gloves, booties, rain gear, yellow rubber boots, hard hats, rags, cleaner, etc.....

[drtyhands]

I for some reason get the feeling O/P does not want to hear my arsenal of const. tools(no matter how extravagant).

[mrs. westcoast]

Robert has:

Seesnake big reel and little reel, both black and white, 1 camera monitor

Ridgid scout locator

I think the same what greg has spartan 100

propress

some orange looking mushroom. i think it is for kitchen stoppages

Some tripod..

ladders

gloves,schubees

wirsbo kit i just got him

micro snake

and my picture on the visor:bash:


if that is not it then he'll ad some more..

[aero1]

jet sweat kit btank, hand tools close to what others have posted, lots of power and cordless tools 10- 24" pipe wreches assorted speciality tools, and i love them all:D

[Tyman]

24" pipe wrench is the biggest I carry. I carry a Wap 8 gallon wet/dry vac that I love. I also got a four foot step latter that is very handy.

[HouseOfAtlas]

I for some reason get the feeling O/P does not want to hear my arsenal of const. tools(no matter how extravagant).

Why not? :) If it will take all day to type, then you don't have to LOL!

Thanks for all that posted! I'm getting some ideas of tools that I don't have yet!

[drtyhands]

Why not? :) If it will take all day to type, then you don't have to LOL!

Thanks for all that posted! I'm getting some ideas of tools that I don't have yet!

It's a good thing Mrs.Seatdown isn't hear to read your post.She'd be
frothing at the bit to take a shot.
It takes me five minutes to type "screwdriver":p

[DuckButter]

Tools?
Brains, good looks

[drtyhands]

Tools?
Brains, good looks
What is it that your wife does?

[wrench spinner]

probably the same hand tools as everyone else, plus k-400, differential pressure gauges (in the market for a new set), cat 304cr mini excavator, john deere 310d backhoe, 99 ford f-550 dump truck with 9 ton trailer, general super vee, 6" to 24" pipe wrenches ridgid of course, wheeler rex ratchet snap cutters 391, ridgid 460 vise, ridgid 700, ridgid 200, various pumps, too much other misc. stuff to name

[MrsSeatDown]

It's a good thing Mrs.Seatdown isn't hear to read your post.She'd be
frothing at the bit to take a shot.
It takes me five minutes to type "screwdriver":p

I saw it! I was just throwing you a bone:rotflmao1: Couldn't you hear me laughing:D

[gear junkie]

The one tool that hasn't been mentioned that you absolutly need is a foam pad about 2x3. Great when kneeling on tile floors, keeps your knees out of the mud. Once you use it, you wonder how you got along without it.

Also bring a camera. Works great to take pics of previous damage so nothing can fall back on you.

[PLUMBER RICK]

The one tool that hasn't been mentioned that you absolutly need is a foam pad about 2x3. Great when kneeling on tile floors, keeps your knees out of the mud. Once you use it, you wonder how you got along without it.

Also bring a camera. Works great to take pics of previous damage so nothing can fall back on you.


ben, this has been the 1 item that has prolonged my knees.

i had my knee drained 6 times in a period of 2 years. next time dr. told me he was going to operate:eek:

6 years ago i started to use foam/ rubber pads for all my kneeling jobs.

the ones i prefer are the 2'x'2' dark grey interlocking diamond plate style you find at costco or auto parts stores. you get 8 for under $15.00

also joey found a nice thick soft one at target for $1.00

great thing is all these rubberized pads are water proof and i hose off the nasty stuff:eek:

1 of the best personal safety items i have;)

rick.

[Herk]

I'll just list some of the odd tools that others may or may not have:

Small round Sioux Chief level - set on countertops or whatever to check for level.

Tool for cutting out faucet nuts

Several different picks for o-rings, seals, and so on

Ratcheting, swiveling wrenches for several different sizes of tank-to-bowl nuts

Ridgid's super-nifty faucet nut wrench that will back up a strainer or turn a stop knob - I really like that one!

Moto tool and also Roto-Zip

[stxrus]

could have used some C-4 today. the 2nd fraking toilet CEMENTED to the floor this year. what the hell are people thinking??

steve

[westcoastplumber]

The wife forgot about many many things!! I also have:

right angle wrench, and cleanout adapters for all size plugs

48" pipe wrench, along with many other sizes

steel pipe roll cutters

oxy set up

many torch tips

top snake, main line, kitchen machine

Power threader etc.

:love2: all dear to my heart;)

[Service Guy]

I'll just post a picture of my main tool-box that I use daily.
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg231/scimuscle/0525082052.jpg?t=1211763744
Hmmm, came out crappy, I'll post a better one tomorrow.

[HVAC HAWK]

ben, this has been the 1 item that has prolonged my knees.

i had my knee drained 6 times in a period of 2 years. next time dr. told me he was going to operate:eek:

6 years ago i started to use foam/ rubber pads for all my kneeling jobs.

the ones i prefer are the 2'x'2' dark grey interlocking diamond plate style you find at costco or auto parts stores. you get 8 for under $15.00

also joey found a nice thick soft one at target for $1.00

great thing is all these rubberized pads are water proof and i hose off the nasty stuff:eek:


1 of the best personal safety items i have;)

rick.

i had a doc tell me 20yrs ago to stop doing plumbing or i will need new knees in 5 yrs ,so i said ok i will if i can be your helper :killingme:

i use 3" thick armerflex insulation to kneel on but i still cant do it for more then 15 min at a time and by the end of the day im in the hot tub and my knees are good to go again

[gear junkie]

Just forgot, get an O rachet. It looks like a regular socket and rachet but has a hole in the head to allow all thread or long bolts to pass through.

[JCsPlumbing]

That's what I need Ben. Would be handier than most would believe.

J.C.

[appletondrain]

K750
K3800
K375
K380
auto spin
Viking jetter
liquid laser
harben jetter
RS technical sewer camera 200' color w/ vcr and DVD
kinetic water ram
toilet auger
sawall
2 general pipe thawing machines
shop vac
a drum of rags
a roll of plastic to keep those nasty jobs from getting worse.
and a insurance declaration" showing my coverage's "