Fluke? Freud? Diablo? Festool?  Texwipe?   WTF?

More seriously, I guess it is not really monopoly, but it is certainly confusing.

Speaking of tools, here's one Julius Caesar used, well I doubt he did but his minions did.
When Julie decided he had to bitch slap some tribes in Germany that meant crossing the Rhine.
He wasn't fond of boats so he said build a bridge. They don't know exactly where it was but know the proximity.
It may have been 500 ft long up to 1200 ft long. They do know it was 25 ft wide and over water as deep as 30 ft.

They use a tool(a lot of them) like this one to drive 2½ ft diameter pointed logs on an angle, for pilings.
They built the bridge in 10 days, then 50,000 troops marched across it, but by that time the tribes had split.
Caesar burnt a couple small villages then 18 days later back over the bridge, dismantled it, and went home.

Some tips that may help...

Those are the kind of tips that seem super obvious when you already know them, but there had to be a time when you didn't know them, so they are helpful.

I never saw the flashlight/pliers one, and that may be helpful someday.  If only I can find a rubber band that isn't broken.  Usually, I'm too impatient to get a light set up nicely and just work in the dark if the stupid flashlight doesn't point where I want it to.

I'm going to buy a jigsaw very soon, so this chart is helpful.  I was going to go with a DeWalt to match all the tools that are waiting for me in PA

The cheater bars are common, so the long handled side loppers for pruning the tree seem kind of obvious.  All the others are cool, and I especially like the making numbers easier to read trick.  I wonder if whiteout would stick to chrome sockets.  I need to put my reading glasses on to read them, but usually just grab one that looks like the right size and go up and down from there when it doesn't fit.

glatt wrote:

   I need to put my reading glasses on to read them, but usually just grab one that looks like the right size and go up and down from there when it doesn't fit.

The USB method.




 

He may have been marking for drilling wire path rather that mounting boxes.
But ya gotta know the lingo...
Mechanic’s Dictionary
HAMMER
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate expensive
 parts not far from the object we are trying to hit.
MECHANIC'S KNIFE
Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well
 on boxes containing seats and motorcycle jackets.
ELECTRIC HAND DRILL
Normally used for spinning steel Pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age, but it also works great for drilling
mounting holes in mudguards just above the brake line that goes to the rear wheel.
PLIERS
Used to round off bolt heads.
HACKSAW
One of a family of cutting tools built on the original sin principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked,
unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.


VISE-GRIPS
Used to round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to
the palm of your hand.
OXYACETYLENE TORCH
Used almost entirely for setting various flammable objects in your garage on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside a brake drum you're trying to get the bearing race out of.
WHITWORTH SOCKETS
Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that metric socket you've been searching for the last 15 minutes.
DRILL PRESS
A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your coffee across the room, splattering it against that freshly painted part you were drying.
WIRE WHEEL
Cleans rust off old bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also
removes fingerprint whorls and hard-earned guitar calluses in about the time it takes you to say, "Ouc...."


HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK
Used for lowering a motorcycle to the ground after you have installed your new front disk brake setup, trapping the
 jack handle firmly under the front mudguard.
EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 2X4
Used for levering a motorcycle upward off a hydraulic jack.
TWEEZERS
A tool for removing wood splinters.
PHONE
Tool for calling your neighbor to see if he has another hydraulic floor jack.
SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER
Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog-doo off your boot.


E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR
A tool that snaps off in bolt holes and is ten times harder than any known drill bit.
TIMING LIGHT
A stroboscopic instrument for illuminating grease build-up.
TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST
A handy tool for testing the tensile strength of ground straps and brake lines you may have forgotten to disconnect.
CRAFTSMAN ½ x 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER
A large motor mount prying tool that inexplicably has a machined screwdriver tip on the end without the handle.
BATTERY ELECTROLYTE TESTER
A handy tool for transferring sulfuric acid from a car battery to the inside of your toolbox after determining that your
battery is dead as a doornail, just as you thought.


AVIATION METAL SNIPS
See hacksaw.
TROUBLE LIGHT
The mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine
vitamin," which is not otherwise found under motorcycles at night. Health benefits aside, it's main purpose is to
consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105-mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first
few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading.
PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER
Normally used to stab the lids of old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splash oil on your shirt; can also be used, as
the name implies, to round off Phillips screw heads.
AIR COMPRESSOR
A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into
compressed air that travels by hose to a Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts last tightened 40
years ago by someone in Sindelfingen, and rounds them off.
PRY BAR
A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50¢ part.
HOSE CUTTER
A tool used to cut hoses ½ inch too short.
 

The new light bulbs have been a godsend for droplights. First the CFL bulbs then newer innovations, all of which are low heat.

Damifino, never saw or heard of a battery saw with what is apparently a three plus foot blade ??  

A hilt seems like a good idea for that thing even if you aren't doing some sort of steampunk LARPing.

BigV wrote:

It looks like the cross guards are handles.  Which is fine, but... how do you operate the trigger?

Still awesome.

You hold the handles vertically with the battery part between your legs, trigger up for you to use as you wish.