Hit 100 nail pulls with one crowbar, then it snapped

I was demoing a deck in Tulsa last weekend and kept a tally of every nail I pried out with the same $12 crowbar. Number 100 was the charm, it broke clean in half mid pull. Took a 20 min detour to the hardware store, but the replacement has a rubber grip so I guess I upgraded. Anyone else track tool lifespans or just me?

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daniel_cooper341mo ago

100 pulls and it just snaps in half? That is insane, I have never seen a crowbar break like that. Mine get bent out of shape from prying on stuff but they never actually split clean in two. Sounds like you got unlucky with a bad batch of steel honestly. Still, tracking the count to exactly 100 makes that failure feel almost planned or something. At least the rubber grip on the new one will save your hands on the next 100, if it lasts that long.

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evan5431mo ago

A 100-pull split actually proves the steel was heat-treated right, @daniel_cooper34, since a soft bar would've just folded like tinfoil.

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