What tools did Santa bring?

[Jim Becker]

Ok. Vinito wins the Coolest Christmas Present Award. Hard to top a backhoe for Christmas!

Not only is it a backhoe...it's a trackhoe! Vroom!

[Mike Hollis]

Santa brought a Festool HL 850 E-F-Plus planer and several other Festool accessories.

[Peter Kelly]

The wife saw aI'd added an (empty) Systainer 3 to my Amazon list, clicked on it and gave to me on X-Mas day. Turns out Amazon mistakenly shipped her a Systainer 3 with an ETS 150/3 EQ-Plus inside, all for $85.

Huzzah!

[Nike Nihiser]

A new (2019) Silverado

[Dan Friedrichs]

The wife saw aI'd added an (empty) Systainer 3 to my Amazon list, clicked on it and gave to me on X-Mas day. Turns out Amazon mistakenly shipped her a Systainer 3 with an ETS 150/3 EQ-Plus inside, all for $85.

Huzzah!

Wow. And I thought the trackhoe was the coolest thing on this thread...

[Ole Anderson]

OK, where is the like button???

[Rob Luter]

None this year, at least for the shop. For the kitchen Santa brought a couple nice All-Clad pans that have already seen use. We braved the outlet mall the day after Christmas and added a Le Creuset Dutch Oven to the arsenal too. For me, cooking is like woodworking, when I have well designed and well tuned tools I tend to bring my "A" game. The flip side is that my mistakes look well crafted.

[Jim Becker]

None this year, at least for the shop. For the kitchen Santa brought a couple nice All-Clad pans that have already seen use. We braved the outlet mall the day after Christmas and added a Le Creuset Dutch Oven to the arsenal too. For me, cooking is like woodworking, when I have well designed and well tuned tools I tend to bring my "A" game. The flip side is that my mistakes look well crafted.

Glad to see I'm not the only one. I didn't get the carbon steel pan I asked "Santa" for ("Santa" thinks I have too many pots and pans already and she may be correct LOL), but I did get an absolutely wonderful book called "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat" that's both instructive and reinforcing for a lot of what I've learned over the past decade of increasingly more serious cooking. You'll really enjoy the enameled cast iron Dutch Oven...great to have. I'm a fan of enameled cast iron, too...I happen to use Staub, but what's most important is how great the stuff is to use. They are my "workhorse" cooking products for sure and even more-so for burner to oven use which is quite frequent in my case.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

In addition to the 18V circular saw, if books are considered tools, which I do, I got 3 books relating to G&G and Craftsman style furniture and the techniques. I am planning a new dining table for the wife and chairs to go with it. I plan on trying to incorporate the Craftsman/G&G style into that butterfly extension table.

[Frederick Skelly]

In addition to the 18V circular saw, if books are considered tools, which I do, I got 3 books relating to G&G and Craftsman style furniture and the techniques. I am planning a new dining table for the wife and chairs to go with it. I plan on trying to incorporate the Craftsman/G&G style into that butterfly extension table.

Books count!

[dennis thompson]

A drill press table which was a great help in drilling 136 holes in 1/4" wheels I made for the 1896 Ford Quadricycle I'm making.

[Patrick Walsh]

I’ve wanted a excavator front end loader bobcat and forklift forever. Pretty sure I’m gonna get to keep wanting. Pretty awesome purchase.

[Mark Flippin]

A nice set of Narex chisels (metric) , shop vac, and a selection of hardwoods to make some more cutting boards.

[Scott Bernstein]

Lamello Zeta P2 and the whole kit of connectors and biscuits.

[Vinito Caleb]

Wow, thanks for the supportive comments about the excavator. I apologize that I screwed up and admitted that I bought it rather than Santa bringing it.

These things do come in handy. I got it for a pretty good price so it's not as unreachable as you might think. Especially if you're not afraid of some mechanickin', you can consistently keep taking a look at the usual sources and sometimes a good deal pops up. I like something a little older (though not ancient) because they are simpler to maintain as well as costing less. Having said that, it would be rare to not spend a few thousand on one, but you never know. I lucked out because this one is 20 years old but only has 1100 or so hours on it! It's an accurate reading too. I'm not sure, but I might end up exceeding that over the next 20 years even as little as I'll probably be using the thing just for my personal uses.

If you do get one, keep it hidden! I've already had 3 neighbors ask me for some free work. I'm to old to fall into saying "yes" to that trap, but I probably do work cheap anyway. I do everything else cheap, so why should that change?