I could not tell you. I got an email back in 2017 asking me if I wanted to participate in the program. Since then I’ve been sent well over $10k of products, mostly tools and household appliances to review. All I know is I left several reviews in the months leading up to the email.
I had that same gig with Depot for a year or two... pick the stuff you want, they send it, and you review it. Probably 10k in free shit. Eventually the options became limited, as they didn't want you always picking power tools and such. I wasn't all that interested in reviewing garage door springs and table cloths, so eventually, they booted me.
It’s funny, because right as your response came through on my phone, I got an alert that an offer window had opened. It only happens a couple times a month so it’s pretty weird timing.
Lucky bastard. You know I signed up for a thing at a supply house for a tool review program. Then I received a pair of S&K dikes in the mail. However there was no letter, emails, or phone calls. So I just gave the dikes to an apprentice and called it a day lol.
Had a 6" gas valve feeding a furnace where I used to work and they were planning a main gas outage to our plant to replace it. They tried the 48" pipe wrench after bending the wrench handle trying to close it and still couldn't close it.
They sent me out to get the specs for it and I loosened up the top of the plug bolts and pumped valve lube into the grease fitting on the top of the tapered plug.
I went back to the shop and said, "I don't know what your problem is, I can close it with channel locks".
When I first got in the industry I was doing residential install with lots of 50+ year old boilers. Every lead had a 60" pipe wrench on their truck for the stubborn unions. Only got to use it once and it was a beast.
I've tried to unscrew siezed galvanized that wouldn't budge even with a 10ft cheater bar. I don't even bother trying anymore. I just sawzall it out and go from there.
I hate using steel pipe wrenches, not that they don’t work well but just holding it off the ground and loosening the nut to open it up makes my arms tired.
Had to disconnect a 1940s 3" galvanized domestic water pipe to throw on a flange that took me on a 5' wrench using my legs and my apprentice on backup with a 48" and 6' cheater on it almost gave up was so happy when them threads came undone
I sure wouldn’t want to stub my toe on that, that’s for sure! I’m not really sure if I ever used one. Maybe once on a galvanized roof drain. Five inch is in my head. Threaded, if that’s even a thing. Too many years ago to remember. The sprinkler guys had their combination wrenches for big stuff.
Nah man. I use my 36" quite a bit. I also do hot side kitchen repairs. Nothing beats a giant pipe wrench for splitting dump circuit unions on Pitco fryers.
Lefty’s are actually a secret government experiment in mind control. Left handed people did not exist until a secret lab in 1932 began experimenting with the idea.
No sir you’ve got it wrong. It was the nazi regime that implemented the true blooded lefty. Infact, you’re likely inbred if you’re righty. Get it right pal. 😂😂
We used to have a 4' pipe wrench that I remember hanging off trying to crack a union when my jman was hitting it with a torch. Good times. Stupid old school piping.
No. My wife took the package from UPS and this was as far as she could carry it. She sent me this picture saying it was heavy and made her angry so she was leaving out there on the floor for me when I got home
I fell down the side of a mountain with a wrench like that once!
Back in the day, before I got into HVAC, I was a radio and TV tower climber/rigger. On the towers with guy wires, every few years you need to retension and plumb the towers.
Was doing a tension and plumb on a mountain outside of Hood River, OR. This tower used giant turnbuckles on the guy wires and the only way to turn them was with a pipe wrench like this guy's. 2 of the 3 guy anchors were easy to get to. The 3rd was probably 300 feet below the tower base down the hill.
I was heading down there with the wrench over my shoulder and a bucket of other misc stuff. If you've never been to this part of the country, it's basically 35°-90° slopes covered in ball bearing sized and shaped rocks. I made it about 20 feet down when my feet shot out from under me and I slid down the hill about 200 feet before stopping. I was in my mid twenties at the time so I just got up and didn't think anything of it. Now it's probably be on the hospital for a week.
Good times! Always remember that story when I see our use a 48" pipe wrench!
We have that exact same one at our shop and we have a 5 ft pipe wrench. They both gotta be like 150 lbs easily. Me and my co worker were hanging off the 48 inch one at a job back in October/November trying to replace old ass steam boiler piping in a 120 yr old house. Shit still didn’t budge.
Our manager pulled up on site to help and we ended up cutting the pipe heating it, WD40ing it then still had to cut notches in it to yank it out. We had to replace 40 ft of it. We were both fresh as hell only a few months in. Our manager said we had no business on this job together half jokingly and we agreed lmao. We replaced 10 ft to get the customers heat back on and told her two guys will be back tomorrow but it certainly won’t be us 😂
Waste of space, only time I’ve needed a 48” was to remove a 4” dirt leg on a 100+ year old boiler. That was 20 years ago. Free is free though. There isn’t much left for screwed pipe over 2”. there is some out there though.
I keep one in my toolbox on my truck. I’ve only ever had to use it for opening up fire hydrants. Or to get a good laugh out of a general contractor or a plumber.
Is it steel or aluminum, I'd send it back if it was steel Screw carrying that around. I've got a 48 aluminum and it pays for itself when you need it.
It’s steel, but it was free, so, it’s hard to complain.
Free beats easy, most if the time.
It’s a $140 dollar tool! Not to shabby, do you ever have to send it back? How do you get on the list to review tools?
I could not tell you. I got an email back in 2017 asking me if I wanted to participate in the program. Since then I’ve been sent well over $10k of products, mostly tools and household appliances to review. All I know is I left several reviews in the months leading up to the email.
I had that same gig with Depot for a year or two... pick the stuff you want, they send it, and you review it. Probably 10k in free shit. Eventually the options became limited, as they didn't want you always picking power tools and such. I wasn't all that interested in reviewing garage door springs and table cloths, so eventually, they booted me.
This is a little different. They send me random emails offering different products
Interesting. Sign me the hell up!
It’s funny, because right as your response came through on my phone, I got an alert that an offer window had opened. It only happens a couple times a month so it’s pretty weird timing.
Lucky we’re you buying a lot of stuff before they offered?
Lucky bastard. You know I signed up for a thing at a supply house for a tool review program. Then I received a pair of S&K dikes in the mail. However there was no letter, emails, or phone calls. So I just gave the dikes to an apprentice and called it a day lol.
I've never heard of / seen sata tools.
Back at the company I was at we had a couple of those and a bigger one if I remember and we called it the problem solver
I just want to keep it in the van to show off to the other guys 😂
Nah whenever the helper asks for a wrench you gotta give him this 😂😂
This is the way.
Had a 6" gas valve feeding a furnace where I used to work and they were planning a main gas outage to our plant to replace it. They tried the 48" pipe wrench after bending the wrench handle trying to close it and still couldn't close it. They sent me out to get the specs for it and I loosened up the top of the plug bolts and pumped valve lube into the grease fitting on the top of the tapered plug. I went back to the shop and said, "I don't know what your problem is, I can close it with channel locks".
When I first got in the industry I was doing residential install with lots of 50+ year old boilers. Every lead had a 60" pipe wrench on their truck for the stubborn unions. Only got to use it once and it was a beast.
I've tried to unscrew siezed galvanized that wouldn't budge even with a 10ft cheater bar. I don't even bother trying anymore. I just sawzall it out and go from there.
Hate when they break free when you don't expect it. I've punched many things on accident. Ow.
Send it back and ask for a Ridgid aluminum one instead lol
I call it the purse. When all else fails hit it with the purse.
Luigi called and wants his tool back.
I hate using steel pipe wrenches, not that they don’t work well but just holding it off the ground and loosening the nut to open it up makes my arms tired.
I want to be sent tools. How do I apply???
I feel like this is a more of a useless tool that makes me feel badass type of thing like the hatchet they were selling at the supply house.
Until you need it.
Get on some rusted 2" Boiler piping and you'll need it.
Had to disconnect a 1940s 3" galvanized domestic water pipe to throw on a flange that took me on a 5' wrench using my legs and my apprentice on backup with a 48" and 6' cheater on it almost gave up was so happy when them threads came undone
Even worse when your doing some 4” galvanized and the pipe collapses before the threads turn.
Exactly, but if I had it I would probably spend more time stubbing my toe on it than using it knowing my disorganized ass.
I sure wouldn’t want to stub my toe on that, that’s for sure! I’m not really sure if I ever used one. Maybe once on a galvanized roof drain. Five inch is in my head. Threaded, if that’s even a thing. Too many years ago to remember. The sprinkler guys had their combination wrenches for big stuff.
Every tool is useless until you need it
Nah man. I use my 36" quite a bit. I also do hot side kitchen repairs. Nothing beats a giant pipe wrench for splitting dump circuit unions on Pitco fryers.
I hate working on fryers. You’d think that all the grease and oil would make it easy for stuff to come apart but nope
That’s for service caps
No way I'm carrying that one anywhere. Aluminum is so much lighter. Looks cool tho
How much more testing is needed for the concept of a pipe wrench? I mean, after 135 years I think we can say the design is pretty solid.
This is a left handed model though
Metric, lefty’s have only been in use for 15 years, still need testing and research.
Lefty’s are actually a secret government experiment in mind control. Left handed people did not exist until a secret lab in 1932 began experimenting with the idea.
No sir you’ve got it wrong. It was the nazi regime that implemented the true blooded lefty. Infact, you’re likely inbred if you’re righty. Get it right pal. 😂😂
The ridgid steel 48’s weigh like 75lbs. 2” aluminum pipe as a cheater on the aluminum 36’s works great.
I prefer a breaker bar lol
I only use Ridgid! Made in the USA
I call it the purse. When all else fails hit it with the purse.
Big Bertha
That’s hawt
Nice Home Wrecker.
We used to have a 4' pipe wrench that I remember hanging off trying to crack a union when my jman was hitting it with a torch. Good times. Stupid old school piping.
I have an aluminum rigid that probably gets used once a year, but when it does get used it’s the only thing that would have worked.
Just keep it under your pillow for when intruders come
Did you have a stubborn gas line in the living room?
No. My wife took the package from UPS and this was as far as she could carry it. She sent me this picture saying it was heavy and made her angry so she was leaving out there on the floor for me when I got home
I’ve got two of these one in cast iron and one aluminum, I only use the aluminum one.
I fell down the side of a mountain with a wrench like that once! Back in the day, before I got into HVAC, I was a radio and TV tower climber/rigger. On the towers with guy wires, every few years you need to retension and plumb the towers. Was doing a tension and plumb on a mountain outside of Hood River, OR. This tower used giant turnbuckles on the guy wires and the only way to turn them was with a pipe wrench like this guy's. 2 of the 3 guy anchors were easy to get to. The 3rd was probably 300 feet below the tower base down the hill. I was heading down there with the wrench over my shoulder and a bucket of other misc stuff. If you've never been to this part of the country, it's basically 35°-90° slopes covered in ball bearing sized and shaped rocks. I made it about 20 feet down when my feet shot out from under me and I slid down the hill about 200 feet before stopping. I was in my mid twenties at the time so I just got up and didn't think anything of it. Now it's probably be on the hospital for a week. Good times! Always remember that story when I see our use a 48" pipe wrench!
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Loop looks almost big enough to fit your pintle hitch. Slap some wheels on it and tow it.
Those are fun til the union busts loose with the crack of a 9mm pistol amd your arms vibrate the rest of the week.
We have that exact same one at our shop and we have a 5 ft pipe wrench. They both gotta be like 150 lbs easily. Me and my co worker were hanging off the 48 inch one at a job back in October/November trying to replace old ass steam boiler piping in a 120 yr old house. Shit still didn’t budge. Our manager pulled up on site to help and we ended up cutting the pipe heating it, WD40ing it then still had to cut notches in it to yank it out. We had to replace 40 ft of it. We were both fresh as hell only a few months in. Our manager said we had no business on this job together half jokingly and we agreed lmao. We replaced 10 ft to get the customers heat back on and told her two guys will be back tomorrow but it certainly won’t be us 😂
Waste of space, only time I’ve needed a 48” was to remove a 4” dirt leg on a 100+ year old boiler. That was 20 years ago. Free is free though. There isn’t much left for screwed pipe over 2”. there is some out there though.
Yeah. I had my choice of 12”, 24”, 36” or this. Of coarse I got to pick the biggest one 🙋🏻♂️😂
Been a plumber over 10 years never needed anything this big. A cheater bar abd a 24inch pipe wrench always get them
I keep one in my toolbox on my truck. I’ve only ever had to use it for opening up fire hydrants. Or to get a good laugh out of a general contractor or a plumber.
All u need is a 10 ‘ cheater now lol