Originally Posted by apache

After years of slipping wrenches, broken tools, cheater bars, and rounded-off nuts and bolts, I have recently invested in air tools and the ease and quality of my work has gone up 1000%. I'm not going back.

On a related note, I just got a new/old tractor out of a fence-row this weekend and I had to take a wheel off to fix a tire. One of the wheel studs was spinning and we couldn't get the nut off. The elderly dude with me insisted on breaking the nut and stud off with a dull cold chisil and a 2.5 pound hammer. About three hits with that arrangement convinced me that that was not the way that I wanted to spend my weekend. One quality minute with the torch removed the nut and stud nicely. The old fellow acted like we cheated or something. Some techniques from the old school are best left forgotten. Just my opinion.