Wrecking Bars

A wrecking bar is one of those tools that earns its place in the van on day one and never really leaves. This is a traditional gooseneck design with a hexagonal cross-section, forged from high carbon steel and hardened and tempered throughout. One end has a flat chisel tip for getting under boards, prying apart joints, and opening up old timber work. The other end carries a claw, which makes short work of pulling nails without reaching for a separate tool. Simple concept. Proven design. It works.

The hexagonal section gives you something a round bar cannot: it does not roll off scaffolding, out of the back of a van, or across a sloping floor. Small thing, but you notice it after the third time a round bar disappears under a skip. The forged construction means the bar flexes rather than snapping under hard lever loads, which matters when you are pulling old structural fixings or prising apart timber that has been in place for thirty years.

What Sizes Are Available

Six lengths cover most applications: 300mm, 450mm, 500mm, 600mm, 750mm and 900mm. The shorter bars are handy in tight spaces, working inside stud walls, or pulling fixings where swing room is limited. The longer bars give you serious leverage for breaking up floorboards, demolishing stud partitions, and shifting heavy framing timber. If you regularly strip out kitchens or bathrooms, having a short and a long bar in the tool bag is not excessive. There is a reason most experienced tradespeople own more than one length.

Who Uses Wrecking Bars

Builders and joiners reach for them most often, but this wrecking bar turns up regularly in plumber and electrician kits too, for chasing out fixings or opening access panels. Warehouse operatives use them constantly for breaking down wooden crates and pallet collars. Once you have one, you find uses for it most days.

Available individually in the size that suits the job at hand.