re: What's the most useful thing you've bought at Harbor Freight?

One of those flatbed trailors

I think I paid like 250-300. Was able to transport my kayaks for a few years. Now I use it out at my camp to haul shite.

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What's the most useful thing you've bought at Harbor Freight?

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The adjustable hose faucet. It's the best there is.

\ 20 dollars for a triangle multi tool.......i just keep buying them after two years, when they crap out....still love them.


also got a hitch mount carrier for 30 dollars with a coupon one time.

5 drawer tool cart. I've had mine for 4 years now and it's been great. There is a whole thread on garagejournal dedicated to modding them. Some of the changes are impressive.

Little Bar Clamps, and their little brad nailers and staplers work damn good.

This vacuum pump that you hook to an air compressor. Used it to draw down an AC system without having to get an actual vacuum pump.
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I did get the Hercules table saw yesterday. It's $50 off right now. They are making high end stuff right now including some real nice tool carts etc.

Toolbox tool kit

Vises

And those 4in1 screwdrivers, have them all over my house

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vacuum pump that you hook to an air compressor.

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That's pretty cool. Never seen one before.

The tire shop by my house uses HF floor Jack's. He said he went through every brand they have and for the money the HF cant be beat.

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I got a pack of big arse zip ties. They were like 4 feet long and 1/2 wide. I tied one around my buddies drive shaft of his mid-70s ford bronco. My buddy is pretty handy so I thought he would figure this gag out and cut it off. He panicked and thought his transmission was falling out because it was "vibrating the floor of the bronco." No kidding! The faster he drove, the harder and faster it would hit. Long story short, he had it towed to his mechanic who examined the problem for 15 seconds and returned with the zip tie in his hand. Dude still brings that shite up once a year and it's been 20. If you're reading this, let it go, bruh.

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When I was in my apprenticeship a bunch of my school mates did this to my truck. I knew what it was within a couple of revolutions but drove it on home, climbed under it and cut the tie wraps off. The next week I got to school early and told the director, a family friend that I had known my whole life, what had happened and asked him if he'd like to play a prank on 'em....he eagerly agreed. At the beginning of class I was not in the classroom and had not been seen all evening. He marched into the class, had told them what had happened and that I had been fired from my job and thrown out of the program because my transmission was destroyed in my truck by someone's tying tie wraps to the driveshaft and them becoming entangled in the emergency break cables. breaking the yoke of the transmission. I had not been able to get to work and had been fired and, as an apprentice, had to be tossed out of the program for having been fired. We waited until the first break for me to "show up" but those old boys had beaten themselves up about me being fired pretty good in those 2 hours! One of those guys is one of my best friends to this day and anytime a tie wrap comes up I remind him of this prank....