The 16 Most Dad Gifts for Dad

With the Mighty Carver, Pops can go from carving up the neighbors on Halloween to carving up the turkey on Thanksgiving without even taking a beat to swap tools! Really!

No, not really. That was a Dad joke.

The Mighty Carver is a chainsaw in looks alone. In function it is an electric carving knife for your turkeys and roasts that creator Kimberly Burney fashioned after a power tool for a very deliberate, and I think pretty good reason: she hoped it would entice the men in her family, who loved trimming limbs and cutting up logs in the yard, to volunteer when she asked who wants to carve the meat.

When you gift this one to Dad, be sure to sign the card, "Don't be a tool in the dark when you can load up DeWalt's LED tool backpack and be a tool who's seen the light!" Trust me, if he's got the default paternal sense of humor, he'll appreciate it.

The DeWalt lighted pack has a built-in, adjustable LED positioned at its top front. Use its 3 levels of output, up to a 39-lumen max, to shine some sight on the tools when you're trying to dig one out, or on the work area when you need some brighter, more concentrated light.

DeWalt has also fitted the tool backpack with 48 multi-use interior pockets, plus 9 more on the outside. Interior pockets are divvied between 2 zippered compartments, one in front and one in back.

He's still on his own for keeping himself from falling off the ladder, but at least with LadderLimb Dad's buckets, bags, and drills will be safe from gravity's pull. A tool for every home handyman, the LadderLimb is a 12" rubberized arm that fits into the hollowed rungs of most any ladder to provide a stable storage point for objects that can clasp onto its end-dangling carabiner.

LadderLimbs fit into the right or left rungs of full outdoor ladders, plus some step ladders, to reduce the burden of up-top tasks that require multiple additional tools. Painting, window-washing, home repairs, Clark Griswolding the Christmas lights.

The Fusion Chair begins with a powder-coated aluminum frame, with ribbed polyester and canvas seat and back rest padding, able to keep comfy dudes and ladies weighing up to 350 pounds (though if you want to go up to 500, better to check out Guide Gear's Oversized Club Camp Chairs.) The comfort should extend both to sitting on the chair, and to muling it around folded up, thanks to padded backpack straps.

When set up at the beach or around the campfire, the Fusion chair unfolds more than its seat and legs. On the right side you have a tray table with a cup holder and 2-tiered accordion-style shelves below, and on the left a 24-+1-can cooler, with a cellphone pocket, fabric loops for holding an umbrella or sports banner, and additional storage pockets.

Germ-conscious dads will want to add this Lid-L-Buddy to their lifehacks no matter what kind of pandemic is going around. The touch-free trash can and dumpster opener saves him from touching grimy, smelly, germy garbage bin lids both at home and on-the-go thanks to a multi-functional design, plus a Lid-L-Buddy buddy policy that sells the hygiene helpers in sets of two.

Tell Mr. Clean he can use the Lid-L-Buddy to hold open trash can or dumpster lids with one hand by gripping the plastic handle and notching the Lid-L-Buddy "beak" under the can lid. Or he can use the tool to prop open the lid a few inches hands-free, with enough space to toss in, say, his empty sodie can or Pug Life Poop Bag.

Oh Lodge, you're such a cook-it-all. Brushing off others' dutch ovens and individual pieces of campfire cookware, acting like your 2 pieces of cast iron reign supreme for all needs, in all conditions. It's especially irritating because...you might be right.

The Lodge Cast Iron Cook-It-All Kit consists of a pair of reversible, multi-functional cast iron pieces and heavy-duty handles for maneuvering them when hot. The shallow piece, a 10.25" skillet, has a grill surface on one side and a flat-top griddle on the other. You can also use it as a lid when cooking with the second piece, a 6.8-quart combination wok and skillet, which also inverts to serve as a domed baking lid.

Just in time for Father's Day, the Toilet Timer is here to remind your old man to follow the same advice he's always given you: sh*t, or get off the pot.

In this era of folks diving down the Reddit rabbit hole and watching entire documentary series on the porcelain throne, Katamco developed the Toilet Timer "for the poo-crastinator taking their sweet time." And even during real emergencies, say, when you and your friend Cornelius both participate in the local fire station's Chili Eating Challenge and legit need the one bathroom in his apartment for 57 minutes, you gotta tag in and out, dudes. The sands of the Toilet Timer make the perfect referee, keeping you each to 5 minutes of bathroom destruction time per squat.