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Bought a cheap brick chisel from a discount tool truck and it snapped on the third brick.

I was doing a small repair job on a garden wall last week and the blade just sheared off, sending a piece flying. Cost me about $15 for the tool and another $40 for the new bricks I had to replace. Should have just gone to the proper supply house like I usually do. What's the worst tool failure you guys have had on site?
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jason_lopez
My old boss bought a pallet of those bargain bin drill bits that all snapped in the same cinder block.
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iris873
iris87319d ago
Okay, but "worst tool failure"? A chisel snapping on a brick is just a bad Tuesday. I've seen a guy drop a whole corded demolition hammer off a second story scaffold. That thing hit the concrete pad below and exploded into a dozen pieces, like a cartoon bomb. Your fifteen dollar loss is basically a rounding error. Tools fail, cheap ones fail faster. It's annoying, but calling it the worst feels like a stretch.
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smith.ray
smith.ray19d ago
Try a snapped bandsaw blade at full speed.
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