Charge and Store your batteries with an old school light bulb in a Styrofoam box will keep everything charged in the freezing temperature. I call it the easy bake lithium batterie method.
He's saying to use an incandescent lightbulb to keep the temperature inside your gangbox warm enough to charge your batteries overnight. Not exactly a space heater but it's enough in a confined space to warm it up a bit.
You can also use a rubber sanding drum (without sandpaper) or one of those eraser-style pinstripe removers for cars, and preserve your screwdriver handle.
A leaf blower is a handy tool to have around the site it comes in handy for cleaning sawdust and concrete dust also cleaning out trenches of loose sand but most useful for me is getting the powder type of snow off the roof of my box truck
I start using mine on a site and people want to borrow it constantly.
It also makes cleaning out base cabinets way easier.
My work area looks great at the end of the day, yours now?
We only do it outside and when absolutely necessary to get a surface clean that can’t be sufficiently cleaned with a vacuum alone. Think jackhammered gunite in between dense rebar cage
I only have done this in incomplete structures without exterior sheathing I’m not whipping out the leaf blower inside a finished house lol although I know some guys that would
I did. I was trying to show my sons, then 5/7 yrs, that when mom was out of town we could do whatever we want. Theyre like, we can? I was like hell yeah. One said, like what? I dont know why clean the inside of the house with a leaf blower was the first thing out of my mouth, but once it got out our fate was sealed. I think the sawdust from inside the wall cavities was on the dining room table by the time we finished. For sure had dog hair in the refrigerator. Couldnt find the dog. It was bad
If you're hand digging just a few post holes for a deck or porch, a shop vac will make quick work of extracting loose dirt and rocks -- usually faster and cleaner than a manual post-hole digger. Usefulness depends on how clean the inspectors want the bottom of the holes... Shop vac used like this won't last forever, of course.
Not a hack as such but I had a job cancel. I changed to new blades on every tool, chop saw, table saw, recip saw, jigsaw, multi tool, Stanley knives. Just every conceivable tool had new blades or were sharpened. Next day at work was a dream.
My all time favorite field hack is using a moving box tape holder with the blade for building wrap tape. My all time favorite office hack is a text expander for submittals. Text blaze lets you do 10 for free.
If your tape measure is blank on the backside it makes a great 25' long notepad for measurements! It even self erases after awhile and you can start back at the top.
Paint scraper instead of rubber rollers to gasket 450 frames. The metal on the scraper gets better contact in the rubber chase than a roller or shovel and it's safer than a glazing bar.
5 years, no one taught me this before.... Mother f***ers!!! 🤣🤣🤣
If you respond to the general contractors email with “go fuck yourself”, you never have to go back to that project site.
You say that until they fire the other guy and I'm stuck picking up the pieces he left behind. Hypothetically.
I’m the coolest hack I know.
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Charge and Store your batteries with an old school light bulb in a Styrofoam box will keep everything charged in the freezing temperature. I call it the easy bake lithium batterie method.
Perfect for this time round when I step outside and my 5ah freezes in 20 minutes
Idk wtf your saying but if I saw you doing anything like this I would assume your a meth head 😭
He's saying to use an incandescent lightbulb to keep the temperature inside your gangbox warm enough to charge your batteries overnight. Not exactly a space heater but it's enough in a confined space to warm it up a bit.
A lot of us use mechanical pencils where the eraser is covered. Most tape measures exterior is a pretty damn good eraser.
So the plastic of the tape?
The rubber on the tape measure housing.
The casing on the tape. Komelon is one brand, better than any eraser on a pencil.
Think black rubber on fatmax, the most commonly used tape on most job sites
yeah i just learned that i can get a raise much easier if i just leave the company!
Only way. Works well.
Using a rubber handle screwdriver stuck in the end of a drill to run nuts on all thread - actually super effective and isn’t expensive
You can also use a rubber sanding drum (without sandpaper) or one of those eraser-style pinstripe removers for cars, and preserve your screwdriver handle.
A leaf blower is a handy tool to have around the site it comes in handy for cleaning sawdust and concrete dust also cleaning out trenches of loose sand but most useful for me is getting the powder type of snow off the roof of my box truck
I start using mine on a site and people want to borrow it constantly. It also makes cleaning out base cabinets way easier. My work area looks great at the end of the day, yours now?
Shouldn't really be blowing concrete dust around with leaf blower level recklessness
We only do it outside and when absolutely necessary to get a surface clean that can’t be sufficiently cleaned with a vacuum alone. Think jackhammered gunite in between dense rebar cage
Ahh ok.
Buy a shorty nozzle, takes up even less space.
Good idea
What's a shorty nozzle
My little job site blower is one of my favorite tools I own. Reaching for it constantly all day.
It also is terrible idea inside your home
I only have done this in incomplete structures without exterior sheathing I’m not whipping out the leaf blower inside a finished house lol although I know some guys that would
I did. I was trying to show my sons, then 5/7 yrs, that when mom was out of town we could do whatever we want. Theyre like, we can? I was like hell yeah. One said, like what? I dont know why clean the inside of the house with a leaf blower was the first thing out of my mouth, but once it got out our fate was sealed. I think the sawdust from inside the wall cavities was on the dining room table by the time we finished. For sure had dog hair in the refrigerator. Couldnt find the dog. It was bad
Don’t answer the phone on the weekends lol. Screwed myself today not remembering that one.
Don’t let it happen again mister!
I watched a guy fuck up some 7’ flooring and then call my contractor and tell him it was the flooring that was bad. Pretty cool sight
If you're hand digging just a few post holes for a deck or porch, a shop vac will make quick work of extracting loose dirt and rocks -- usually faster and cleaner than a manual post-hole digger. Usefulness depends on how clean the inspectors want the bottom of the holes... Shop vac used like this won't last forever, of course.
I’ve seen a structural concrete crew use Hilti vacuums to vacuum footings getting up any and all loose dirt right before an inspection.
It was pretty ingenious to use long wands to get down through the steel and all the little nooks and crannies.
Not really a hack but I finally picked up a small, battery powered band saw and I don’t know how I went so long without it. Amazing tool.
Painters tape a 2" pvc 90 to the dust port on your table saw and hang a 5 gallon bucket on it. Half-ass dust extraction haha.
Not a hack as such but I had a job cancel. I changed to new blades on every tool, chop saw, table saw, recip saw, jigsaw, multi tool, Stanley knives. Just every conceivable tool had new blades or were sharpened. Next day at work was a dream.
Not working construction was a good one
I've been studying on joinery and wood working lately and learned a lot about jigs.
Really thinking about getting into building furnitures for fun, and who knows, it might go somewhere.
Planning ahead just causes more problems today. So don't do it. Just roll with it day by day.
Who needs extra problems today.
My all time favorite field hack is using a moving box tape holder with the blade for building wrap tape. My all time favorite office hack is a text expander for submittals. Text blaze lets you do 10 for free.
Ive gotten better at sharpening, setting up and using a block plane.
I use it for scribed baseboard, to make window and door jams flush with the drywall and to shave fillers. Absolute game changer
If your tape measure is blank on the backside it makes a great 25' long notepad for measurements! It even self erases after awhile and you can start back at the top.
Paint scraper instead of rubber rollers to gasket 450 frames. The metal on the scraper gets better contact in the rubber chase than a roller or shovel and it's safer than a glazing bar.
5 years, no one taught me this before.... Mother f***ers!!! 🤣🤣🤣
What?! I need to see this in action.