Short answer. Generally no. Rule 39, Section 13 of the Rules of Court places ordinary tools and implements personally used by him in his trade, employment, or livelihood beyond the reach of execution. The protection is real but narrow: it covers the working tools you yourself use, not equipment generally.
What the law says
Ordinary tools and implements personally used by him in his trade, employment, or livelihood
Rule 39, Section 13 — Property exempt from execution. Read the full provision →
What the law says
But no article or species of property mentioned in this section shall be exempt from execution issued upon a judgment recovered for its price or upon a judgment of foreclosure of a mortgage thereon.
Rule 39, Section 13 — Property exempt from execution. Read the full provision →
Why the law protects working tools
A money judgment is enforced by a sheriff levying on the losing party's property and selling it. Section 13 stops that process short of the things a person needs in order to keep earning, and tools are on the list. The reasoning is practical rather than sentimental: a creditor who strips a carpenter of his saw, or a seamstress of her machine, destroys the very capacity that would let the judgment be paid over time. So the section carves the tools out and lets the levy fall on other property instead. It is not a defence to the debt. It only tells the sheriff which things are off limits.
Two words that decide most disputes
The clause protects tools that are ordinary and personally used by the judgment debtor in a trade, employment or livelihood. Both words do work. Ordinary points at the everyday instruments of the occupation, not at an entire plant or a fleet. Personally used points at the debtor's own hands: equipment that others operate, or that is held as stock or investment rather than worked with, sits outside the words the rule actually uses. If your livelihood genuinely depends on the item and you are the one who uses it, you are inside the clause. The further you drift from either word, the weaker the claim.
The exception that can undo it
Section 13 ends with a proviso that matters enormously here: no article or species of property mentioned in this section shall be exempt from execution issued upon a judgment recovered for its price or upon a judgment of foreclosure of a mortgage thereon. So if the judgment being enforced is the unpaid purchase price of the very tool, or a foreclosure on a mortgage over it, the exemption does not apply. A tool bought on instalment and never fully paid can be taken to satisfy a judgment for that same price. The exemption shields you from unrelated creditors, not from the person who financed the item.
The exemption is not self-executing
Section 13 says what is exempt. It does not put a filter on the sheriff, and it does not decide the factual question of whether a particular item is an ordinary tool you personally use. That has to be raised and, if contested, proved. Keep evidence of what the item is and how it is used in the work — receipts, permits, photographs of it in use. Note too that this section is about the judgment debtor's own property; where the thing levied on belongs to somebody else entirely, that is a different remedy with different requirements.