[AT] Tractor tool box standard items.

[Cecil Bearden]

I second the Knipex Cobra Pliers.  I have been a long time fan of 
Channellock brand.  Knipex beats them all to heck.
Cecil

On 5/10/2020 12:04 PM, bloomis at charter.net wrote:
>
> Unless they are Knipex Cobras. My most used tool at work. Any bag of 
> tools that I’m taking to any job includes two pair. I don’t even own 
> Channellocks any longer.
>
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> I did not believe in vicegrips for many years but would not be without 
> them now, they have to be true irwins though. Water pump pliers can 
> leave home.
> Tom
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> Sunday, 10 May 2020, 08:33AM -07:00 from Indiana Robinson 
> robinson46176 at gmail.com <mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com>:
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>     During a lifetime of farming my father and I and later my son and
>     I built and installed a lot of tool boxes on a lot of tractors.
>     Many factory tool boxes were kind of a joke. The one in the left
>     step/running board of the new Jubilee Ford was OK for a plow
>     wrench and maybe a few lynch-pins or a hitch pin but it was prone
>     to fill with dirt and wouldn't keep anything dry.
>
>     They built a small box in front of the base of the dash on my VAC
>     Case that if you want something out of it you first spray it with
>     wasp killer then drag the mouse nest out of it...
>
>     The one on the TO-20 up under the hood in front of the fuel tank
>     isn't too bad but needs to be larger.
>
>     Those things don't matter so much these days but I do need to add
>     some decent boxes to the three or so small tractors I find useful
>     for daily use now. Those 3 are my TO-20 Ferguson, an 8N Ford and
>     the VAC Case.
>
>     Being smaller tractors it can a little harder to fit in a more
>     useful toolbox.
>
>     I have a list of things I like to always have at hand in a tractor
>     tool box. The first one is a decent sized ball peen hammer. Not
>     one of those tiny tappy things but at least 16 oz. or larger. You
>     never know when you might just feel the need to pound the hell out
>     of something.  :-)  I prefer 2 adjustable wrenches, one about 8"
>     to 10" and one at least 12" and heavy for things like hitch-balls
>     etc. I also want a very sturdy straight screwdriver, not something
>     to tighten your glasses frames but something that will survive
>     using often as a small crowbar or once in a while to actually turn
>     a big screw. I have also been buying a lot of those fairly decent
>     but low cost screwdrivers that you pull out the shaft and can flip
>     bits around to have 2 straight blades and 2 Phillips blades.
>
>     I want something in the pliers family, a common pair is OK or
>     water-pump pliers or Vise-Grips. I'm pretty flexible there, for
>     cutting wire, working with cotter-pins etc. On Vise-Grips see also
>     "pounding the hell out of something" above.
>
>     A place where the factories failed was log chains, at least a 12'
>     "tractor" chain. What kind of fool goes out to work on a farm (or
>     on a group tractor drive) without a chain.
>
>     For me a bonus is a spot for a pair of limb loppers, an axe and a
>     box for rocks.
>
>     And don't forget a drink holder.
>
>     What did I miss?
>
>     .
>
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>
>     Francis Robinson
>     aka "farmer"
>     Central Indiana USA
>     robinson46176 at gmail.com <mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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