Do you ever find that your pry bar just won’t fit in that awkward position to get the best leverage, or have you ever wished that your nail puller was just as good as a crowbar or wrecking bar? Poplock indexing pry bars give you flexible utility in convenient sizes, with rugged construction to meet the demands of the toughest job.
How does an indexing head improve pry bar utility?
Poplock indexing pry bars are more useful than standard pry bars, wrecking bars, or crowbars due to their adjustable head. The indexing head allows the end of the pry bar to be rotated and locked at various angles relative to the shaft to transform it into any type of levering tool.
You can significantly increase the range of applications for your pry bar just by adjusting and locking the head angle to match the task. This makes Poplock indexing pry bars a more flexible and efficient solution for a variety of jobs, enabling you to get into tight corners and work around obstructions.
A single Poplock indexing pry bar can function as a crowbar, nail puller, or rolling head crowbar, adapting to the specific requirements of the task at hand. This versatility reduces the need for multiple specialized tools, as one indexing pry bar can effectively replace several fixed-angle tools. With a set of indexing pry bars and a single 17” indexing nail puller you are covered for almost any prying, pulling or wrecking job.
Can an indexing head pry bar be as strong as a single piece pry bar?
This may sound too good to be true, surely a rotary indexed head is a weak link for a tool that is used to lever, pry, pull and wreck, and can’t be as strong as a single piece pry bar? Poplock has gone back to basics to design the toughest, most reliable indexing system you can get on the market in 2025.
Using hardened steel and precision machining, our indexed pry bars have the same, or more, strength than fixed head alternatives, and we’ve carried out the testing to prove it! High tensile steel locking indexing mechanism and excellent quality Cr-Mo and CR-V steel alloys for heads and shafts make our indexing head pry bars rugged and responsive.
Indexing pry bar torque testing
As you can see in the test pictures and data above, Poplock pry bars are tested to torque resistance more than twice the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) rating for pry bars (ASME B.107.60 2004).
Does a high quality indexed head make a pry bar really heavy?
Our indexed heads do not significantly increase the weight of our indexing pry bars, partly due to our use of high quality Cr-Mo and Cr-V alloys that give greater strength without increasing the dimensions of the bar. As a result, you’ll find a Poplock indexing pry bar has the same comfortable, solid, feel in the hand as any other high quality pry bar, adding utility without compromising on strength or functionality.
You can’t make a pry bar out of spaghetti, although there are some examples on the market that are so cheap and flimsy they’re not much better… You can use titanium if you’re weight-conscious, but it makes your pry bar really expensive. When it comes to it, a pry bar is a tool that relies on solidity, rigidity and a bit of weight in the hand to make it effective, especially as a crowbar or wrecking bar.
All-in-one pry bars, nail pullers, wrecking bars & crowbars from Poplock
All our tools are manufactured in Taiwan, the modern powerhouse of advanced engineering and materials technology, with the exacting attention to detail, quality and utility that you can expect from Taiwanese tooling and technology, and building on two decades of Poplock customer service and experience.
We’ve had a look in a previous article at the current and historical use of levers with different shapes and ends for prying, nail pulling and wrecking. Our indexing pry bars offer all-in-one pry bar, nail puller, wrecking bar and crowbar utility in a convenient package.
Poplock manufactures a range of intelligently designed tools built to the highest engineering standards. If we could come up with a better one, we’d reinvent the wheel. It’s much easier for us to create indexing pry bars, and indexing pry bar sets that exceed expectations, and deliver functionality, durability and reliability than engineering a new form of wheel, but if there’s a tool we can improve, you know we will! Globally distributed through the Poplock Amazon store, check out our range today!
