Ratchet Podgers and open end podgers

[Revs1972]

If you were going to buy a set of ratchet podgers for site, then what brand would you buy.
Are the King Dick ones any good, they seem to be the "hoover" of the vacumn world.
Or are there better quality ones out there ?
With the ratchet ones, I want the reversible ones so I can have M10 / M12 , M16 / M20 and M20 / M24
Also looking for open end in M12, M16 , M20 and M24
They are not going to take a massive hammering, but I don't want them to be made of cheese when you
want to lean on them a bit

Cheers

 

[Brad93]

Kennedy are decent

 

[Rocketman]

King Dick will be fine quality and probably made in the UK. All their standard spanners are UK made.

 

[Pete.]

Cheap ones. They are the fastest stolen thing known to man, besides cigarette lighters.

 

[wyn]

I find the spanner end always gets hit by hammers in an attempt to line things up.
With open ended you can sort of grind them back to something usable.

 

[Kent]

Old spanners forge down into nice podging spanners on one end. I don't massively like rachet spanners bit big on the od and whenever it's a bugger to get in it's always the wrong face up

 

[Tigman]

I bought a podger last week from Orbital Fasteners , seems a nice spanner , didnt look at the Brand name

 

[Revs1972]

I find the spanner end always gets hit by hammers in an attempt to line things up.
With open ended you can sort of grind them back to something usable.

Pfft...
When I draw it, it always lines up

 

[Revs1972]

I bought a podger last week from Orbital Fasteners , seems a nice spanner , didnt look at the Brand name

I think it's ISS that they sell

 

[Tigman]

they have just got the rachet ones in !

 

[rory1]

Somewhere in the bottom of a box I have an adjustable podger, it's the head of a 15 or 18" bahco shifter welded to a podging spanner shank. My uncle who was a steel erector was killed on site in the 90's and I ended up with some of his tools and this was in the box!

 

[Tigman]

I think it's ISS that they sell

Yes your right ISS

 

[Kent]

Somewhere in the bottom of a box I have an adjustable podger, it's the head of a 15 or 18" bahco shifter welded to a podging spanner shank. My uncle who was a steel erector was killed on site in the 90's and I ended up with some of his tools and this was in the box!

Sad when that job goes wrong it goes wrong big