Jim Ehde’s favorite tool doesn’t have a motor or any electronics, but he uses it all the time.His pinch-point bar is nothing more than a big chisel, 7 feet long and weighing about 40 pounds. Similar tools will set you back from $15 to $51 at Home Depot depending on what you’re looking for. For Ehde, a bar that big is valuable.“The soil here is all clay, and in the summer it bakes to the hardness of concrete,” he says.He lives on Grand Island, New York, an island that sits in the Niagara River a couple miles upstream of Niagara Falls.
