Top Three Hand Tools, Machining related please. Back yard tools are included. Hammer.

[ezduzit]

What I refer to is here on the farm it is not unusual to be 30 minutes from the shop or trap wagon. Each rig has minimal tools and to think that each tractor or other rig would have a full set of tools is fantasy. So I'm often out with a minimal tool set to do simple fixes. If the adjustable has to work as a hammer to save 30+ minutes of downtime then it is sacrificed to the job. Saving lost downtime will replace a lot of tools modified to get the job done.

lg
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This is precisely why I hire professional mechanics, and not farmers to repair my vehicles.

[Richard P Wilson]

I'd have thought that the one tool every tractor/rig would have would be a hammer.

[JRouche]

I'd have thought that the one tool every tractor/rig would have would be a hammer.

Yup, they used to. Nice long handle blunt head mallat, Doesnt have to be too heavy, just enought to feel and hear if a tire was off (PSI) or dead. You want a light hammer for that, it gets heavy after a few inside tires, JR

Oh, only on the trailer tires, not the truck. The truck has Michelins, best tire on the road, I think.. JR

[Doozer]

What I refer to is here on the farm it is not unusual to be 30 minutes from the shop or trap wagon. Each rig has minimal tools and to think that each tractor or other rig would have a full set of tools is fantasy. So I'm often out with a minimal tool set to do simple fixes. If the adjustable has to work as a hammer to save 30+ minutes of downtime then it is sacrificed to the job. Saving lost downtime will replace a lot of tools modified to get the job done.

lg
no neat sig line

....YOU are in control of this controlled environment. It is called being prepared...

-Doozer

I stand by my assertion.
Sounds like a big money tractor with no money tools.
But whatever. You roll how you roll and I roll how I roll.

-Doozer

[Mark Rand]

I stand by my assertion.
Sounds like a big money tractor with no money tools.
But whatever. You roll how you roll and I roll how I roll.

-Doozer

After you've shelled out half a million or more for the tractor, you probably can't afford a nail file, let alone a hammer. 😳

[junkaddict]

I use these 3 every time.

Yeah, me too, every time. I had severe dyslexia as a kid, and to this day transpose letters and numbers. Much easier to double check with a calculator than make the parts twice because I made a mistake in my head. Besides, I keep my mind sharp with hookers and blow.

[Doozer]

Yeah, me too, every time. I had severe dyslexia as a kid, and to this day transpose letters and numbers. Much easier to double check with a calculator than make the parts twice because I made a mistake in my head. Besides, I keep my mind sharp with hookers and blow.

I have always had visual dyslexia. With my situation, I can usually tell the instant I have reversed something
and I go back and correct it. But for some reason, I have to make the mistake, before my brain will
recognize it, to correct it. So for me, doing arithmetic on paper keeps the detection mechanism in my
brain sharp. For me, I can transpose numbers punching them into a calculator more readily than writing
them out for some reason. Good thing I am an engineer, and my mis-calculations can only kill somebody,
rather than if I were an accountant, and my mis-calculations might loose the rich man his money.

-Doozer

[Tundra Twin Track]

What I refer to is here on the farm it is not unusual to be 30 minutes from the shop or trap wagon. Each rig has minimal tools and to think that each tractor or other rig would have a full set of tools is fantasy. So I'm often out with a minimal tool set to do simple fixes. If the adjustable has to work as a hammer to save 30+ minutes of downtime then it is sacrificed to the job. Saving lost downtime will replace a lot of tools modified to get the job done.

lg
no neat sig line

X2 on that 🤓

[Ridgerunner]

X3 on that. One of the reasons there is minimum tools on a tractor is there is no where to put them. Recently I bought a new 115HP 32 speed tractor and it just has 2 little boxes for pins and such on it. Not even a place for a grease gun.

On rigs and large trucks it used to be common to carry a piece of pipe to check the tires (and for protection). It also was used for extra leverage on snap binders.