The Channellock Story
I could buy this at Harbor Freight:
https://www.harborfreight.com/9-in-l...ers-63820.html
I could buy this at Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Channellock-3.../dp/B00004SBD6
One keeps a small town in Pennsylvania vibrant, and its residents employed in good family-supporting jobs. The other does not. One will not spatter if one cuts a live wire (ask me how I know that). The other will - thankfully, not my experience, other than I had to transport that individual to a urgent-care facility immediately thereafter.
Bad tools injure, and sometimes kill their users - simply by being bad tools. Good tools require some level of abuse to do the same. I have had my pair of box-joint linesman plies for over 40 years now. So when it came time to purchase a second pair for our summer house - it was Channellock, even though it may get used perhaps 3 or 4 times per year.
Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA