It's a little different for me. I worked with them in the trades for decades ... you see ? I learned early on as an apprentice ... that you can't do the job if you don't have the tool.



To give you an example : There are a lot of specialty tools for doing mechanic work. A fulla i know ... a clam digger by occupation was doing some work around the high pressure fuel rail on his Ford pickup truck. He didn't have the right tool to disconnect it so he made due with what he had. He eventually got the job done but it wasn't done right. He started the truck up , gasoline sprayed onto a hot exhaust manifold , and his truck burned to the ground. No more truck.

He would have been better off to just go by the correct tool for the job. It would have paid for itself the first time he used it.

The other thing is having modern tools in good working order. They're what i think of as being force multipliers. I put a bunch of axes and bow saws that were in perfectly good condition out in the "free for the taking building " yesterday. They were tools that you had to have for cutting wood for your wood stove 100 years ago. Nowadays ... people use chain saws and log splitters to do that job. They are much safer and you can do the job 20 times faster.

That's the big mistake that i see with scrappers down picking the metals pile. They don't invest in the right tools for their trade. Gawd ... they struggle so. It takes them an hour to do a job that could be done in a few minutes if they only had the right tool. It makes a big difference on how much they can bring in to the scale at the yard but they don't see it.

The right tool will pay for itself in no time.