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• This unusually strong prying tool is for working with sheet metal.

• Specialized wedge tools to putting on and taking off bicycle tires.

• This solid titanium Halligan bar is technically a sample in my element collection, but I keep it at home in case of zombie attack. I think the brain spike will be the most effective option, but I haven’t had a chance to test this yet.

• Titanium crowbar.

• Overpriced titanium pry bar and nail puller.

• This Halligan bar has an extra hook on the prybar end that allows it to open bottles. It’s about six inches (150mm) long. Yes, it’s a firefighter’s joke bottle opener.

• This is called a brick hammer: it’s a chipping hammer particularly suited to working with bricks.

• This may be a reproduction, and if so it’s meant to replicate the small pickaxes used by old-time miners to dig through rock to find gold and diamonds.

• This drywall hammer, not surprisingly, is a chipping hammer adapted for working with drywall (gypsum board).

• I have basically the same nail puller in both steel and titanium. The titanium one is ludicrously expensive and not as strong, but it is very light in the toolbox.

• A pickaxe has one pointy end, and one end that may be a flat axe-like blade, or another point. It’s for breaking, prying, and chipping.

• This tiny nail puller is less than 6” (150mm) long. The bent side pulls nails, and the straighter side separates boards.

• This thin but sturdy metal mini pry bar can be used to open cases of electronic devices.

• These plastic “splugers” are meant for working with vinyl trim.

• This thin, flexible tool is for opening iPhones and similarly annoying devices.

• I could have used this angled pry bar just a few days ago, but forgot I had it. Instead I bent an old hacksaw blade to form the tool I needed.

• Small pry bar.

• Plastic spludger.

• Pick head

• Small pry bar

• A tool for removing vinyl siding from a house.

• A pick mattock has one point, like a miner’s pick, and one flat edge, crosswise to the handle (like an adz, but not as sharp). It is not meant to bend backwards like this. That’s what happens if you try to lever a rock that’s too heavy for it.

• Scraper

• Titanium crowbar.

• A Halligan bar, named for the New York City fireman who invented it, has three parts: A prybar, an adze blade, and a spike. It’s a general-purpose implement of destruction—basically a breaking and entering tool, used for saving people instead of robbing them.

• This very long (significantly taller than a firefighter) hook is for pulling down ceilings to get at fire burning above.

• This very long hook resides in the church tower of my friend Fiona’s village in England (because that’s the only building they have that’s tall enough to hold them). They are used to pull out burning thatch (a form of straw used in traditional roofs that can catch fire catastrophically).

Do you have a better example of this kind of tool? Let me know by leaving a comment, and include a picture of it if you can so everyone can see!