Hand Tool Rescue
Hand Tool Rescue had 1.2M subscribers as of August 31, 2026, ranked #655 in Canada. The channel has accumulated 305.3M views across 189 videos since 2007.
Relative to its audience, that is 254 lifetime views per subscriber and 33.6K views generated per day.
Where does Hand Tool Rescue rank on YouTube?
Ranked by subscriber count, Hand Tool Rescue sits 655th in Canada and 13060th worldwide.
The YouTube API rounds subscriber counts to three significant figures. At this scale, any change below 0.83% over the period is undetectable — we prefer to show nothing rather than rounding noise.
When did Hand Tool Rescue start on YouTube?
Hand Tool Rescue published their first video on January 7, 2017, "Hand-Cranked Grinder [Rescue]", which has 589.3K views. Their biggest hit since does 75 × that number.
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Hand Tool Rescue published 184 videos between 2017 and 2025, peaking at 34 in 2017. Since 2023, videos under 3 minutes account for 50% of output, against 5% before.
What is Hand Tool Rescue's most-viewed video?
Hand Tool Rescue's most-viewed video is "Before safety was invented...", with 44.1M views. That is 28 × the performance of an average video on the channel. Its five best videos account for 34.0% of the channel's total views.
28 ×outlier multiplier on its best video
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Which format works best for Hand Tool Rescue?
On Hand Tool Rescue, long-form (over 20 min) performs best: a median of 1.1M views across 104 videos analysed. That is 5.1 × short-form (under 3 min). Medians are used rather than averages: on a channel with isolated hits, the average describes no real video.
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How many views does a typical Hand Tool Rescue video get?
The median Hand Tool Rescue video has 759.1K views, computed across 190 analysed videos.
How long has Hand Tool Rescue been publishing on YouTube?
Hand Tool Rescue has been publishing for 20 years, averaging 10 videos per year.
Which country is Hand Tool Rescue from?
Hand Tool Rescue is registered in CA.
Is this data up to date?
Channel statistics are collected daily, last recorded on August 31, 2026. Per-video measures cover 190 videos indexed in our database of over 21 million YouTube videos.
Methodology
Channel statistics collected daily (last recorded 8/31/2026). Per-video measures computed across 190 indexed videos, from a database of over 21 million videos and 27,000 YouTube channels. The outlier multiplier compares a video's views to its channel average. Format performance uses the median, more robust than the mean when isolated hits are present.
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