Exclent video! I worked 18 years on heavy equipment, now retired, and I approve of this video. At the time, the ratchet wrenches were not available. Sense they have came avaliable I have always thought they would be a waste of money because there are places where standard combination wrench ends will not fit. However, I can see them as your specially needed as time savers to help you be more efficient. OH! The never-ending ending income grabbing tool purchases. I can't say for sure of the need for the ratchet wrenches, but the angle and specitaly wrenches are definitely necessary on hydraulics. I have just learned that Harbor Fright's Pitsburg line has the short specially sets.

Work at a Cat dealership and we get discounted tool through Cat. Many are rebranded snap on. Any heavy equipment mechanic working at a Caterpillar dealership should take advantage of the tool discounts Caterpillar provides

Absolutely love your videos brother. Definitely in my top 5 channels I've been a heavy equipment mechanic for myself for the last 13 years. I look forward to more videos. Keep em coming🔧🔨🗜🪛🧰

@TexasEmpire

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Finally getting back into the swing of things with KZread and instagram. Thanks for the support

I got the new tekton made in usa angle wrenches and crow foot wrenches and they are amazing, need to get me some service wrenches but there arent a whole lot of brands who make a wrench like that

@TexasEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

Ya pretty much just China made in that wrench

Great video. Gearwrench makes those same wrenches as the xl snap on wrenches that are the same on both ends

@TexasEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info!

@guacamoleweiner69

2 жыл бұрын

but they are not the same. snap on makes them in house, in their own factory, using their own metal. You'll be less likely to round off a fastener with the snap on. gearwrench is made by apex tools, in china and taiwan, using crap recycled metal. shit you might as well buy a harbor freight wrench at a cheaper price if you want a china wrench

@nickwhite6717

2 ай бұрын

​@guacamoleweiner69 can't agree. I had the full gearwrench set, beat the absolute hell out of them including cracking bolts with the ratchet end being lazy for 4 years before my most common ones started getting sticking and binding up

Good Video sir 👍👍

@TexasEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Harbor freight make those 10-19 mm $180 for the set

part number of the cat wrenchs

@TexasEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

Metric ratchet wrench set 248-8819 SAE ratchet wrench set 248-8810 Angle wrench set 1p-3515

Can you make another updated tour please

@TexasEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately I am no longer allowed to film at work. So I can’t do tool box tours anymore. I’m going to be doing a tool haul in the next week or so. I just gotta load up all the tools and take them home.

Where you at son? No new content lately.

What Caterpillar do you work at? Im looking into getting into it after getting out of the military. Looking for advice getting into Cat.

@TexasEmpire

Ай бұрын

Well if you are In Texas you have two choices holt or warren, well I guess mustang too. I’ve worked for holt and now work for warren. Warren is 10 times better all the way around. Especially in pay. Warren also offers a rotational program in west Texas which is what I’m doing.

@CarlosMorales-dj5kq

Ай бұрын

@@TexasEmpire I am in Texas. It seems Holt is closest dealer to me I live in Central Texas.

@TexasEmpire

Ай бұрын

@CarlosMorales-dj5kq that’s where I live as well. Holt isn’t terrible. Lots of good people. But for me they just don’t pay enough.

@CarlosMorales-dj5kq

Ай бұрын

@@TexasEmpire Im fine if I have to move or commute to work, so which one would be more willing to hire someone who has only worked on helicopters in the military, gas engine trucks and cars for personal use, and is going to school for Diesel technology? Cat isn’t my only choice, John Deere is what else I was thinking of pursuing, but honestly it’s whoever I can get in with the experience I have.

@TexasEmpire

Ай бұрын

@@CarlosMorales-dj5kq so at warren we do a thing where we send people to car school for a couple weeks then you return to your home shop for a couple weeks and you do that on and off for like 3 months. You can get hired on at both though. They are both pretty good about taking nobody and making them into somebody as long as you put in the effort. That’s what happened with me. I had pretty much zero experience.