Patagonia is pound-for-pound the best value gear you can get IMO.

Just a side note, the Mexican and Honduran made Carhartt stuff is still extremely rugged. I’ve got we’ll over ten years on a Mexican made Carhartt jacket and the built quality is amazing. It’s mostly US materials too if that matters.

Carhartt stuff from the far east is a different story. It’s normally from the ‘WIP’ line which isn’t workwear, more lifestyle. This is where the confusion seems to stem from when people talk about drops in quality from Carhartt.

https://www.patagonia.com/ownership/

"100% of the company’s voting stock transfers to the Patagonia Purpose
Trust, created to protect the company’s values; and 100% of the
nonvoting stock had been given to the Holdfast Collective, a nonprofit
dedicated to fighting the environmental crisis and defending nature. The
funding will come from Patagonia: Each year, the money we make after
reinvesting in the business will be distributed as a dividend to help
fight the crisis."

My oldest patagucci jacket is 8 years old and is an almost daily wear for me (I get cold in my office so it’s pretty much used year round). It has some holes from when I caught it on boulders (now sealed with small piece of duct tape), and the fabric has begun to wear on the inside, but for the amount of mileage, i am super impressed.

My other jackets are newer and get less wear, but still hold up to plenty of abuse.

Plus : I know pre-pandemic they would repair items, which is amazing. I need to see if they still do it so I can get this sucker fixed.

My mum had a Henry for about 25 years, I was about 17 when it died and I remember how devastated she was, you’d have thought one of her actual children had died

Not sure how you'd gouge a stainless steel pan without an angle grinder. You can burn food in anything, but you can wire brush a stainless pm without a worry. Probably best not to do that to cast iron if you want to keep the seasoning in it...

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Mine doesn’t do that and it is very powerful 😀

Yep, I got me some of those literally 40 years ago and they are still like new!

The ironic thing is I bought 20 sets of hard plastic chopsticks from San Francisco china town in the 80s for literally a few dollars and those things are indestructible, I still use them and they look brand new!

That is completely inaccurate . Quite possible to gouge it with metal cookware, scorch it, or warp it with fast temp change.

> Wera or Wiha screwdrivers (ie Wera Toolcheck Plus)

I feel like Wera is a bit gimmicky. Yeah nice quality but I hate the screwdriver handle shape (and how dirty it gets over time). Toolcheck is nice and compact to throw in the car.

Wiha is okay.

But truly top end screwdrivers don't cost any more. Like, Vessel from Japan is even cheaper. PB Swiss is a little bit more pricey but really amazing quality. Hazet and Gedore are also really great (Oplast). Williams is also reasonably priced (basically same screwdrivers as Snap On sells).

Feel like it still just requires more care. A thick stainless steel pan is really impossible to mess up no matter what you do.

Yeti is probably a safe bet though usually a bit pricey.

Fjallraven and Rab.

Some people are allergic to traces of nickel in steel.

> constantly am rubbing against brick and fireplaces

Cheapest/most generic one you can find cause not even heavy leather is going to withstand that for long.

I really like my Carhartt duck canvas jacket. It's holding up great.

> they guarantee for life

I think they do not guarantee for when fabrics wear out. They might replace it, but it's not their official policy and more their goodwill...

I have some of their stuff and I think the quality is worth it, regardless of the warranty. To me, a good warranty does not make a good product :)

That's just capitalism. If the buyers start supporting it more and more, then other brands will go into this direction too. It's just sad that lasting products are almost never the most profitable, at some point the market gets saturated and the company needs to invest a lot into developing other products to still have sales.

Downsides - really bad design, too top heavy so falls over all the time, stupid smug face will catch on every. single. corner. Then it'll fall over again when you pull it. Metal tube isn't collapsible so useless for cleaning under beds near walls etc. Plastic nozzle prone to cracking. Not actually that powerful so will be even less so at 110v

Source - property manager

I'd say fjallraven is well proven and good too.

That’s new to me. Like obviously implants need to be biocompatible, but are there any benefits to biocompatible tools / cutlery?

My grandma had a Vorwerk that outlasted her. Even older than yours. If was used regularly until she passed away.

I just got a Patagonia pack back from repair. Webbing where the hip belt attaches was fraying through. They did an excellent job repairing it, only cost me $5 for shipping. Not this pack had tons of use and is otherwise in excellent shape. Patagonia makes good products and stands behind them. They want you to keep using the gear you buy as long as possible. And then fix it and use it more.

Can I just order from the official website? Do they ship overseas?