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Looking for peoples experiences wih small pry bars. Looking for something small to take on trips where I know there is a bit of heavy work to be done but don't want a full length crowbar. Have snapped the tip of more than one knife doing things they aren't designed for.
Thinking something around 30cm or smaller. Got the top gear add emailed out to me and they have a Gerber one but not been impressed ordering through them in he past but it is what got me thinking...
Hmmm just seen estwing do a 10 inch nail puller, that might fit the bill
They're great. Or the Japanese Dogyu 10"and 12" (Bunnings have them)Quote:
Originally Posted by 223nut
These are pretty good and fit your rough brief.
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Go to bunnings and there is a kinchrome sleever bar for about $20 its got a podget on one end and a pry bar on the other.
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Hmmm it's a ferry trip and a 2.5hr drive each way to my nearest bunnings.... The joys of online ordering!!Quote:
Originally Posted by JasonW
Titanium crowbar we use one in diving for the odd bit salvage work,Light and strong
https://trademe.co.nz/1272536709Quote:
Originally Posted by 223nut
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Good thing about these is you can hammer them in if there is no gap to get inQuote:
Originally Posted by 223nut
This ones the ticket 223nut use one of these all the time. Wish that I'd had one sooner :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Moutere
Cherrs @Moutere hinky that will be the one, titanium would be nice but a bit out of my budget I suspect.
Mitre 10 Mega and Hayes have got those bars Moutere mentioned. But they're orange. I know orange isn't as strong as blue though.....
Go to wreaker get old torsion bar, cut to how ever you like
Make good punches too
@223nut
Make one. :)
Find an old car that's not being used, one with rear leaf springs........ Mums one will do.
Rip out the leaf springs, make a fire, heat up one of the leaves, grab a hammer and something to beat it against and forge yourself a pry bar.
Cheers
Pete
+1 on the Dogyu, they can take some abuseQuote:
Originally Posted by kiwijames
Get the dogyu, i have had mine for 8+ years lives on my tool belt use it most days, can take the abuse
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Another vote here for the Dogyu
- my favourite tool I own
I have a dogyu 30 cm, bloody amazing little tool, can take some serious abuse and keeps coming back for more. Seen a Stanley fat max bend though...
I must have got a bad one as I bent my dogyu straight trying to pull out a concrete nail then went to a stilleto dogbar and the claws snapped off then went to the cheaper fuller which has held up. I did purchase another dogyu today when I was replacing my stolen gear.
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Depends what you want to do with it of course but this is IMO the last word in prybars.
https://eshop.wurth.com.au/Extendabl...sku/en/US/AUD/
Mine is around 500-550 collapsed and around a meter extended, It has had my full 100 kilos bouncing up and down on it many times and the only thing it has fucked is the thing that needs fucking every time:thumbsup:
Spent 6 weeks on a sand spit full of sand salt and garnet still works like new.
probably not the go for chippy work getting in and pulling nails etc but otherwise awesome.
That one looks great for mechanical applications, Moutere's suggestion type are good for installing doors (just rock them over on their side to adjust height)
Podger bars are more for riggers and are harder to keep in ya toolbelt IMO
I've bent a chinese cheapo L-shape bar before but you get what you pay for
You got it all wrong, if I'm doing that I might as well make a machete instead! And once I have a forge and anvil I can see me making all sorts of crap....Quote:
Originally Posted by P38
For a machete you want the blade off a lawn mower
With a forge and anvil you can fortify the island and keep JAFAs and mainlanders out
A machete made out of a car Spring would be a bloody awesome tool.Quote:
Originally Posted by 223nut
Playing with fire and beating red hot steel with a hammer is strangely therapeutic and very satisfying.
Cheers
Pete
