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 Tools
Adjustable widemouth pliers
  • Pliers
Adjustable wrenches
  • Crescent wrenches
  • Wrenches
Air compressors
  • Air compressors
Ammeters
  • Ammeters
Awls
  • Awls
Backhoes
  • Backhoes
Banders
  • Cable tie guns
Blocks or pulleys
  • Block and tackle equipment
Blow torches
  • Cutting torches
Bolt cutters
  • Insulated bolt cutters
Boring tools
  • Horizontal boring tools
Cable accessories
  • Bear claw wire threaders
  • Cable lacing needles
Cable reels
  • Cable reels
Cable splicing kits
  • Cable splicing knives
Calibrated inductance coils or boxes
  • Inductance testers
Calibrated resistance measuring equipment
  • Resistance bridges
Capacitance meters
  • Capacitance testers
Cargo trucks
  • Bucket trucks
Circuit tester
  • Continuity testers
  • Growlers
  • Loop PSC testers
  • Residual current device RCD testers
Circuit tracers
  • Circuit test meters
Clamp On Multimeter
  • Current clamps
Compactors
  • Pneumatic compacting equipment
Conduit benders
  • Hydraulic conduit benders
  • Manual conduit benders
  • Power conduit benders
Deburring equipment
  • Conduit deburring tools
Desktop computers
  • Desktop computers
Diagonal cut pliers
  • Diagonal cut pliers
Dump trucks
  • Dump trucks
End cut pliers
  • Side cutting pliers
Fish tape
  • Fish tape pullers
  • Wirepullers
Fuse pullers
  • Fuse pullers
GFI circuit testers
  • Ground fault circuit interrupter GFCI testers
Gas detectors
  • Gas leak detection devices
Gas generators
  • Generators
Hammers
  • Hammers
Hand trucks or accessories
  • Handtrucks
Heat guns
  • Heat guns
Hex keys
  • Hex key sets
Hoists
  • Hoist trucks
  • Hoists
  • Line trucks
Hole saws
  • Circle cutters
Impact wrenches
  • Electric impact drivers
Impedance meters
  • Transfer impedance meters
Label making machines
  • Cable labeling machines
Ladders
  • Ladders
Levels
  • Levels
Light bulb changer
  • Extension lamp extractors
Linemans pliers
  • Insulated pliers
  • Lineman's pliers
Locking pliers
  • Conduit locknut and reaming pliers
Longnose pliers
  • Long nose pliers
Magnetic tools
  • Lighted magnet pickups
  • Telescoping lighted pickups
Manlift or personnel lift
  • Electric manlifts
Megohmmeters
  • Meggers
  • Megohmmeters
Metal detectors
  • Magnetic locators
  • Metal locators
Multimeters
  • Digital multimeters
  • Multimeters
Nibblers
  • Nibbler cutting tools
Notebook computers
  • Notebook computers
Nut drivers
  • Insulated nutdrivers
  • Nut drivers
Offset socket wrenches
  • Double-end can socket wrenches
Ohmmeters
  • Ohmmeters
Personal computers
  • Personal computers
Phasemeters
  • Phase rotation meters
Picks
  • Picks
Pipe or tube cutters
  • Polyvinyl chloride PVC cutters
Plumb bobs
  • Plumb bobs
Pneumatic hammer
  • Airhammers
  • Jackhammers
Post hole digger
  • Post drivers
Power drills
  • Cordless drills
  • Drills
  • Power drills
Protective gloves
  • Cable gripping gloves
Punches or nail sets or drifts
  • Punchdown tools
Reamers
  • Tapered reamers
Respirators
  • Respirators
Retaining ring pliers
  • External snap ring pliers
  • Internal snap ring pliers
Saws
  • Hacksaws
  • Saws
Scaffolding
  • Scaffolding
Screwdrivers
  • Cabinet tip screwdrivers
  • Insulated screwdrivers
  • Phillips head screwdrivers
  • Screw-holding screwdrivers
  • Screwdrivers
Shears
  • Shears
Socket sets
  • Insulated socket sets
Soldering irons or guns
  • Soldering irons
Specialty wrenches
  • Insulated wrenches
Spiral wrapping
  • Wire wrap guns
Stamping dies or punches
  • Punches
Strap wrenches
  • Strap wrenches
Stripping tools
  • Automatic wire strippers
  • Wire stripping pliers
Tampers
  • Compaction tampers
Tape measures
  • Tape measures
Thermographs
  • Infrared scanners
Threading dies
  • Dies
  • Pipe threaders
Threading taps
  • Taps
Tongue and groove pliers
  • Tongue and groove pliers
Track excavators
  • Excavators
Trenching machines
  • Air spades
  • Trenchers
Two way radios
  • Two way radios
Utility knives
  • Electricians' knives
  • Insulated knives
  • Utility knives
Voltage or current meters
  • Non-contact voltage sensors
  • Voltage meters
Welders
  • Welders
Welding masks
  • Welding hoods
Wheel bulldozers
  • Bulldozers
Wire cutters
  • Electricians' snips
  • Wire cutters
Wire lug crimping tool
  • Crimping tools
  • Hand operated indentors
  • Heavy duty crimping tools
Wire or cable cutters
  • Cable cutters
  • Insulated cable cutters
  • Power cable cutters
  • Ratcheting cable cutters
Workshop presses
  • Drill presses
 Technology
Spreadsheet software
  • Recordkeeping software
Word processing software
  • Report generation software
Source: U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Information Network (O*NET).

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