What make of spanner?

[Farmer Fin]

Hi. Looking at getting myself a set of spanners. Fed up hunting the workshop / fathers van. What make do I go for? Seems you can spend a fortune or very little. Seen some decent draper sets for about £100. Don’t want to spend a fortune but don’t want to buy crap either. Also ratchet spanners? Cheers

 

[Kidds]

Halfords professional for me.
Teng tools are good but not sure they come in sets
US Pro ain’t a bad choice on eBay.

 

[Chae1]

Silverline!

I'm rubbish at fixing things though. Normally lose tools, but they do the job.

 

[robo]

Halfords professional for me.
Teng tools are good but not sure they come in sets
US Pro ain’t a bad choice on eBay.

plus one for Halfords wait for an offer

 

[Tomr10]

Another plus halfords

 

[Badshot]

Toolstation do a set of spanners for about £30 .
I've several sets about now, very handy, cheap enough to lose, good enough to not want to.
But I do cut spanners up to make special ones, it's cheaper than buying fancy specials.

 

[Andrew]

I like Teng spanners. One of the few makes where you get every size in the set as well.

 

[Steevo]

Bought a set of these recently.....Amazon Warehouse set available for £20+VAT which seems cheap to me. Good reviews too.

Ratchet spanners are handy too and certainly have their place esp for tensioning jockey pulleys.

I like a nice small 3/8 socket set too - usually keep that and a small spanner set together which solves most problems.

 

[timmyboy]

One of the boys at work has a Halfords Trade card and gets lots of money discounted for tools. Not too sure what's needed to get one but I sure it's worth checking out. As said it's good quality too.

 

[An Gof]

I like Teng spanners. One of the few makes where you get every size in the set as well.

I have both Teng and Halfords spanner’s, both excellent.
I use this as a simple tractor tool kit, don’t be put off by the list price, easily available at significantly less than £200

MECCA PRO 3/8" Socket & Tool Set 67 Pieces

Tool Set 3/8" Drive Metric 67 Pieces

www.tengtools.com

 

[Lincs Lass]

Not too sure what's needed to get one

Business card or company headed letter/invoices ,,,got mine with a business card ,,not sure how landscaping qualified but it did

 

[JeepJeep]

Halfords & Bahco here.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Lots of Halfords ,still got a mix of Gedore and Elora

 

[David.]

Avoid Carolus ratchet spanners, they are crap, every one I have had has failed one way or another.
To be honest you wont go far wrong with Draper Expert or Sealey Premium.
Got some Teng ratchets, and they have a nasty habit of clicking themselves the wrong way as you are using them in tight spaces.

 

[Hesston4860s]

Pretty much all Snap On here.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Blue point which I think are the cheaper side of Snap on ,,another is Signet

 

[milkloss]

I would say 1 set of gedore XL spanners, big bucks but the best imo, and then a couple of sets of anything in between that’s cheap!

 

[Jetemp]

If you are going to look after them and want them to last a life time I wouldn’t look to far past snap on flank drive plus. If your going to loose them and not care about them halfords are pretty good!

 

[Phil P]

If your going to look after them I’d go snap-on they’ll last you a lifetime and you kids as well

As @Lincs Lass says, signet is also very good if you can find a supplier, think it comes out the same factory as US Pro.

 

[cousinjack]

Halfords here too !