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    Planning a prize drawing for Memorial Day, which of these should I go with?

    Hello all-

    I'm planning on having a prize drawing at my yard for Memorial Day, I'm trying to decide on one of the following to give out:



    1) A tool bag with wire clippers, a Strip-Tec Model K wire stripper, pliers, Allen wrenches, screwdrivers, flat file, gloves, and safety glasses

    2) An Ergodyne cooling vest: http://www.amazon.com/Chill-Its-6200...5792368&sr=8-1

    3) a battery powered sawzall

    4) a battery powered impact driver with a full set of screwdriver bits

    I'm leaning towards the cooling vest due to the heat we get down here in Texas during the summers. I have 10 of them on hand for my workers and everyone loves them...but I don't know if they would be as valuable to my customers as one of the other options.

    Pease let me know what you guys (and gals) think, feel free to chime in with any other suggestions.
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    Either a sawzall or impact. They can be used year around and a lot of scrappers are saving up for them or have them on their wish lists.

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    Sawzall or a good drill powered wire stripper. Every scrapper wants both of them, and I would trade you 2 vests for a sawzall/stripper every day. Besides, the vests would get messed up in no time what with crawling under cars and humping stuff around by hand.

    The hand tools are a nice idea, but individually they are affordable. These two options take a little saving up to get, but they help you make more money in the long run.
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    Thanks for talking me out of the vests.

    Out of these, which one do you think would be a bigger draw?

    http://www.amazon.com/Makita-BTD142H...5812261&sr=8-1

    http://www.amazon.com/DEWALT-DC385K-...812391&sr=1-19

    I'd include bits for the impact driver, 5 demo blades for the sawzall.

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    lmfao the people from up north say the tools of course. I was just looking at the vest, would make my life so much better we are pushing 91 degrees regularly this early in the year.
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    ...And just like that the cooling vest is back in the running!

    I didn't even look at joe or Wayne's locations. Dunemaul, the vests are an absolute lifesaver in the heat, I keep all of ours in a deep freeze for my employees to grab when it starts getting hot.

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    Have some hot chicks in the vests grilling dogs for everyone!

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    I know i want one now. working outside today really sucks, i'd take a chipmunk fart for a breeze at this point.

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    Sawzall for me! If you get hot take off your shirt!

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    Sawzall. If you start early the vest would be warm in the truck before it got hot outside.

    Then again, why not offer the choice of all three, then let the winner choose. You can have it shipped priority in a day after they choose.

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