Best tool EVER!!!

[444 Magnum]

My kindergarten teaching wife gets gifts from students that say "Best Teacher EVER!" She and I laugh about them. She's definitely a great teacher, but the best ever?

So, this post is about my trusty flat bar. Not the framing hammer- the flat bar. Its always there for me. No maintenance required. It doesn't bend, dent, break, or tear up no matter how much I beat on it and abuse it. It doesn't eat anything or require parts. I use it for everything from demo to framing to mechanical to brain surgery.

Today, I used it for roof repair. I was on my way back home going about 75 mph down the bypass when it hit me...one of those deep itches in the middle back. I could tell it wasn't going away and there was no way I could reach it. I tried, but it wasn't happening. And then it hit me, my trusty flat bar was in the floor board within reach!

AAHHHH! It was perfect. Best non-human back scratcher ever! Non-human I says...I'm not a fool.

Another bonifide use for my trusty flat bar. Rest easy my friend, you've earned it.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Enjoy yourselves...food, family, friends...enjoy it all!

 

[lihpster]

My kindergarten teaching wife gets gifts from students that say "Best Teacher EVER!" She and I laugh about them. She's definitely a great teacher, but the best ever?

So, this post is about my trusty flat bar, not the framing hammer. The flat bar. Its always there for me. No maintenance required. It doesn't bend, dent, break, or tear up no matter how much I beat on it and abuse it. It doesn't eat anything or require parts. I use it for everything from demo to framing to mechanical to brain surgery.

Today, I used it for roof repair. I was on my way back home going about 75 mph down the bypass when it hit me...one of those deep itches in the middle back. I could tell it wasn't going away and there was no way I could reach it. I tried, but it wasn't happening. And then it hit me, my trusty flat bar was in the floor board within reach!

AAHHHH! It was perfect. Best non-human back scratcher ever! Non-human I says...I'm not a fool.

Another bonifide use for my trusty flat bar. Rest easy my friend, you've earned it.

An early Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Enjoy yourselves...food, family, friends...enjoy it all!

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Add a speed square, a tape measure and a pencil to those and you have the basics.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I would like to nominate;

 

[Czechvar]

I always used a coat hanger to scratch itches from wearing a cast…why was I not told about this miraculous device??? It would have worked much better…

Happy and delicious Thanksgiving to everyone…

 

[ditrina]

I have at LEAST three of them!

My Grand Fathers ( Long Shoreman on the New York Docks), My Fathers ( 4 color Pressman on a Miele Letterpress and my own

I'm never without one.
Somehow it was always referred to as " THE FAMOUS TOOL"

 

[Chuck24]

Won a back scratcher at the carnival when I was a kid, my mom claimed it.

 

[arjay]

Some day a new owner will remodel the bathroom next to the bar of my friend Dans house (now owned by his ex) and under the vanity they'll find the flat bar I forgot was under there 25 yrs ago lol. I still have the one I replaced it with [emoji4]
Which reminds me,if you happen to buy a house on the 3rd fairway of the Boulder Country Club and tear out the kitchen cabinets,the finish hammer on top of the uppers behind the crown moulding is mine!

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

The version I have used since my apprenticeship in 1967 is the Stanley "Wonder Bar". I have the full size (about 14") and the miniature (about 6"). I always sharpened the long side end to about a "butter knife" on the full-size and the miniatures to pocketknife sharpness. Never sharpen the short side end, as you will damage surfaces while prying or even yourself! (Let's not discuss how I learned this!)

When the Wonder bar isn't enough, there is a much heavier version called a Gorilla Bar (shaped like your flat bar). From 24 to 42 inches long, I think you could demolish a skyscraper with the big one!

While I think Rusty's P-38 is a great nominee, I think a spoon comes in ahead of either tool! In sizes from feeding babies to digging ditches, I don't think humans would have progressed very far without the basic spoon shape.

Ivan

 

[ralph7]

I have two of them and didn't know the name of those darn things.

Flat Bar.....
Thanks for the education

 

[ladder13]

Axe and Halligan

 

[Squarebutt]

A favorite tool indeed! My Vaughan version rides with my carpentry hand tools, there's a Stanley around here somewhere, and the third one is always in the truck. Bought the first two, and found the third one after the neighbors' fence crew left it on my lawn and my John Deere tractor mowed over it, loudly.
BTW, the best back scratcher of all is a long-handled mason's brush with the hard, hard bristles.

 

[SMSgt]

Church key.

(Mic drop)

 

[bigmtnman]

ODE TO A FLAT BAR 

I love my trusty flat bar
It's always there for me.
Not a bend, dent, break, or tear
It's as trusty as can be.

It never eats or needs new parts.
No maintenance is required
It just sits quietly and waits
for the tasks which I desire.

Even when an itch attacked me
while doing 75 in my car.
Who could have thought the solution would be 
my trusty old flat bar

So this simple tool has my heartfelt thanks
though I've beaten and abused it.
And the one thing I might never get over
is if I should ever lose it.

 

[444 Magnum]

ODE TO A FLAT BAR 

I love my trusty flat bar
It's always there for me.
Not a bend, dent, break, or tear
It's as trusty as can be.

It never eats or needs new parts.
No maintenance is required
It just sits quietly and waits
for the tasks which I desire.

Even when an itch attacked me
while doing 75 in my car.
Who could have thought the solution would be 
my trusty old flat bar

So this simple tool has my heartfelt thanks
though I've beaten and abused it.
And the one thing I might never get over
is if I should ever lose it.

Outstanding. The member's of this forum never cease to impress. Bigmtnman, you're an artist in more than one way.

 

[DWalt]

I have two conventional crowbars, the type with hexagonal steel shafts. One is 16", the other is two feet. And also several good quality claw hammers. Those seem to work well enough for my prying and demolition needs. Somewhere I have one of those flat bars, I might have used it a few times.

 

[IAM Rand]

There are some tools I would like to nominate but this isn't the place. Might get booted.

 

[Benchrest1]

Best tool ever? I love my pocket knife the best. I've carried one for over 60 years.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Don't know if your flat bar is the best tool, but of all the simple machines, the lever seems irresistible.
Hubby volunteered to paint the walls and fix the garden around my mom's patio, but once he discovered a 4' long heavy hex shaft bar with angled and pointed ends in her garage, he was determined to use it for removing tree roots under, then leveling her concrete patio which had heaved so much it had become a tripping hazard.
The bar is sticking out of the hole where he lifted the patio sections. He even used the bar to get the roots out in the pile.

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[Bekeart]

A Forgotten advantage

So, this post is about my trusty flat bar. Not the framing hammer- the flat bar. Its always there for me. No maintenance required. It doesn't bend, dent, break, or tear up no matter how much I beat on it and abuse it. It doesn't eat anything or require parts. I use it for everything from demo to framing to mechanical to brain surgery.

NO BATTERIES REQUIRED

 

[snowman]

My father installed floor covering for a number of years and this was one of his basic tools for that job. The shape of it made it nearly ideal for performing the various tasks involved and minimizing or preventing damage.

Andy