Product Test Team 2018: 6 Farmer Tested Tools

By: Dave Mowitz

Farmer evaluators test a variety of the latest advances in shop tools. Here’s what they had to say about each.

With a retail price of $649, the Wilton Tradesman vise had better be good. Wilton Tools, known to make the Cadillac of vises to the trades, claims the Tradesman 1765XC is virtually indestructible due to its 60,000-psi ductile body. I set out to test that claim myself.