Every year, the Canadian Woodworking & Home Improvement magazine nominate and award the best tools that year.  Here is what they say:
«The Canadian Woodworking Tool of the Year Awards recognize the best woodworking products released during the year. Winning products are selected by woodworkers from across Canada – crafts people and avid DIYers who use woodworking products on a regular basis, and insist on usable features, top quality, great performance, and outstanding value.»

About the winner of the best hand tool 2021, they wrote:
«The Viking Arm makes working alone much easier and with a lifting capacity of up to 330 lbs the range of applications is virtually unlimited. This ingenious and built-to-last tool helps with the installation of kitchens, windows, doors, cabinets, floors, fences, and much more. Get into tight spaces and lift, clamp, press, or tighten with controlled precision. Your imagination sets the limits.»

The magazines review said:
«I would forgive you if you thought this was just a glorified one-handed clamp. Although it looks similar, the Viking Arm Installation Tool, voted the hand tool of the year in the 2021 Tool of the Year Awards, is its much more powerful distant cousin. Used mainly in the installation and home improvement sectors, this well-made tool has a wide range of applica­tions.»

You can read more about the award here – Canadian Wood Working

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