Most crowbars are like this, and utterly useless, the long end is always in the way of a wall:
This is the correct design, yet they are quite uncommon:
Feeling lonely? Horse for courses. Most people who are competent would use something like this:
For most jobs I use this:
In fact, I used it Saturday to remove nails from the wall up by the ceiling.
When I need a lot more leverage, I use this:
For the really big jobs, there's this, although you have to devise your own fulcrum:
We keep some chunks of 2x6 available for those jobs.
Cindy Hamilton
My point exactly, they're made properly, using a right angle. Why are 90% of them not a right angle?
All backing up what I said, your three favourite tools have right angles. If not a right angle, the long end of it gets in the way of a wall. Yet most available versions are not right angles.
At last count I have 5 different varieties of "crowbar" . From a cats paw for pulling small nails to a 36" wrecking bar (what your first photo is properly called) for major deconstruction jobs . Every one of them shows wear - each has a different task ...
I've yet to find an advantage of a non-right angled bar.
Then you've never worked in construction . Except for a 3 1/2 year stint as a rocket scientist (really! at an R&D lab at Thiokol's Wasatch Division) I have worked construction all my life . I'm building the house we live in ...
Then explain to me where
Obviously Britain doesn't have Home Depot... We have a broad selection of tools available.
Once again, if Sword hasn't found a use for a tool in his sheltered life he cannot imagine what to do with it.
Actually, just like the rest of the world, I buy online instead of bothering to go to a shop miles away. But anyway....
You have to look harder for decent ones. 90% are not right angled!! Non-right-angled is pointless!
Prick.
Pillock who is incapable of changing the oil in his wreck of a car.
Because most arent used up against a wall and the other format works better when they arent.
Try searching for pry bars or maybe wreaking bars. I've had a number of different sized pry bars for decades - they have been freely available if you know what tool to use
FFS don't feed the pillock!
My point is, why are they selling a load of s*it with a bend in it which makes it useless?
Ripping plank lumber from framing . Pulling up hardwood flooring - and saving it for re-use .
If it's useless why do so many people , well , use them ? Just because you're too stupid to figure out a use for it doesn't mean the rest of us are .
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