I don’t just mean a wrench, unless thats it for you. I mean any tool you regularly use for work that you consider your most important. If you’re a software person name whatever digital tool you guys use. Whatever the career everyone uses tools I dont care if they are digital, verbal, physical or psychological. For me its honestly probably a flashlight, before I use any tools I’m always investigating with my flashlight or using a laser to trace lines.
My most used tool is a cordless impact driver. With the right bits it is so useful. Cuts many repair times down to a percentage of their non impact driver repair time. I have bits for any screws and also bits to adapt sockets.
The one I picked up is less than $50 at Walmart with the bits. Super useful tool to have around. I throw it in my backseat and it’s always there when I need it.
I feel naked without my Leatherman multi tool.
Terminal on Linux for work. Bash is such a fun thing :)
Calipers.
Give me ssh, vi, bash and Linux kernel and I can get work done.
IntelliJ IDEA
It’s an IDE, a highly featureful code editor.
A lot of programmers like to use more basic text editors and pile on plugins. I feel bad for them when they share some new plugin they’re excited about and it’s a feature that’s been in IntelliJ forever and they had to put extra work in to get it. And so many other users of that editor don’t even know what’s possible.
A spudger, aka nylon probe tool aka “black stick”. I have them in drawers and toolboxes all over the place. Useful for working tiny plugs out of electronics and pressing, poking and scraping at things.
It’s a bucket trowel, essentially a brick/block trowel that’s been cut down on an angle to get the last bits out of the bucket.
It’s literally my most used tool. I use it to mix, to lay out mortar for fixing stone, to skim coat the backs of tiles and veneer stone, levering stones up slightly to put more mortar in the bed, scratching my ass/back/legs, and I even occasionally cut myself on it accidentally!
Tape measure probably.
Back when I was doing plumbing only, the two hand tools that I used by far the most were Knipex Cobra pliers and adjustable wrench.
I think the knipex pliers wrench is my single favorite hand tool, it can really do anything that involves screwing or unscrewing with so much ease
I have one of those too and it’s pretty great for chrome plated plumbing parts because it doesn’t damage them but cobras can do everything those can and more so I just find them more versatile.
12 volt drill. I have other drills I use at work- 20v hammer drill, impact driver, SDS MAX monster, but the 12v gets used much more than any of those.
Sublime.
Locksmith here, my most used and most important tool is a pen because if you can’t write up the invoice you don’t make any money.
Impact driver
Either an excellent work tool or a terrible chauffeur.
Smartphone as an answer would be cheating?
A hammer. When you get down to it, every tool is a hammer
Every tool can be a hammer, but a hammer can’t be every tool. Makes a hammer actually kind of a useless tool tbh.
Until you hammer the nonhammer and it breaks, becoming a useless tool.
