No better feeling than having a tool support you. A bond is formed and respect is given to the people who made it.

I cherish my tools and a lot of people think it’s strange how much I care about quality tools. I have been buying tools since I was 18, 20 years ago. Every year at Christmas we have a big family Christmas party and I always cringe opening what others wrap up and offer as a gift. I still have a lot of their gifts in the package hanging on the wall. Keep up the great content.

Since my Apprenticeship in the 80’s I’ve used a “clean” chalk line reel for my plumb bob. Has always served me well, and my string is never a tangled mess. Gotta get me one of your hammers! 😉

Tajima makes an excellent retracting plumb bob with magnets; it’s fantastic.

love the form setter, one item i've seen overlooked on many concrete jobs....wood wedges, for stripping...removing large sheets...easily..old timer taught me years ago...bust a joint , connection , bond easily..no effort and will not wreck concrete edges...so simple

My career started in 1971. During those 47 years I did a lot of surveying and construction layout. I have tried the string reel you demonstrated. My choice was just to holster my plumb bob and drape the string around my neck. Mind you I rarely used my bob much higher than I could reach. I can see the benefit of the reel if you are dropping two stories and only used intermittently. For constant use, I still prefer string draped around my neck. Even after my job became more into management, I never stopped carrying my holster (leather, custom made bob holster by my uncle) and bob in my vehicle with the string neatly wrapped around the neck. Good video. Thanks.

Practical, straight to the point and no-nonsense!

I love you man! Going through some personal challenges and I decided to seek you out in order to forget my problems for just a bit. I'm 67 and struggling with personal relationships. Thank you for being here for me right now.

In my opinion (25 year framer). A corded saw at elevation is not very pleasant. A cordless with a rafter hook is nice. The safety crew is on us pretty hard up here in Alberta. Rope and hose is bad enough. If you can run a cordless saw, with rafter hook, there’s no need for a saw you can lower and raise with an extension cord. Love the vids. Keep em coming

Thank you guys for all the awesome content and all the amazing videos!!

110% agree on the Burke bar.

Thanks for the tool talk .

Thanks for that Gammon reel tip! I will literally be keeping that in my back pocket...or pouch...or bag

Whether it's your favorite laptop computer, favorite pen or tool it has to be efficient and work for you. Like the videos. Thanks for sharing.

3:03 IF want to look inside AVE have a 10-15min clip about a plumb bob with Mercury

Thank you sir! Starting my own little business I love the tips. Though, idk if I can afford 5 lbs of steel for $250 xD

As a concrete guy in Las Vegas I always like when you talk about working in Vegas for MS and Martin and Harris. I believe we know a lot of the same people including Dennis and most of the Stephensen family. I worked most of the 2000's for Campbell Concrete which was huge but probably came along after you left. You probably worked for MS when their office was on Cameron. I was working for a big plumbing company who's office was right across the street. My current company we do concrete, framing and door/trim. Always enjoy the videos. Keep them up

Man, I love your content I sure can’t wait to see more size swan and you doing blacksmith and some of my favorite stuff and I enjoy the construction I’m in the excavation business so a lot of this stuff resonates with me my family was all loggers until we got into excavation sodefinitely enjoy your content man. Thanks.

Love the idea of the retractable Plumb Bob

Thanks for The tips have a great day.

Thanks

Been using a gammon reel with a 16 Oz bob for over 30 years. Fantastic.

Excellent

I'm a Land Surveyor. I've had a plumb bob and a gammon reel hanging from my belt since my first day 20 years ago

Just make sure you keep the sand out of that Gammon Reel, they don't loke that. And a plumb bob becomes a hammer when needed. (a surveyor).

Burk bars a great but we have burk bars with hook and chain to not only lift pry and push but you can now pull with helps us more often than not

Another wonderful video from a master teacher! AND you have designed and patented a tool!! Bravo, sir! BRAVO!!!

Pretty neat.

You are a fountain of knowledge

Liking before watching as usual🎉😂❤

Just bought an 8lb 16” hickory handle Truper . Going rate brand new 55.50 got a steal of a deal for 30$ off the FB market place , can’t wait to use it tomorrow.

Several more tools to add to my wish list. Between the Essential Craftsman and Stumpy Nubbs that list keeps growing. Then I remember I’m almost Cy Swan’s vintage, but nowhere near his physical condition! More like an old dog sleeping and dreaming of things he did as a young pup. I’m gonna buy that reel for my plumb bob even though the doctors have told me to stay off ladders…

A plumb bob on a gammon real a good tape a good hard level sight or a transit a framing square a chalk box some marking paint and a blueprint. I used to love it. Layout is a lot of fun

Gammon reels are great but the big box stores never carry them. Always have to go to the specialty surveyors supply store to get them. I’d always pick up 2 at a time so I wouldn’t have to go back for a couple years. They’ve got the nice braided line in them too. Not the twisted line that spins forever. Just a heads-up though: They’re not easy to change the line in. They need to work on that.

I thought for sure the first thing You would mention is "square " poles vs round ones for layout and forms.

Nice list...we always used a standard 4lb stanley sledge for stakes and I carried a craftsman 28oz california framing hammer used a lot for digging but craftsman quit making that nice hammer years ago...thankfully i still have mine though...lol

Got excited to get the form setter hammer and i see it has Snap On price. Nevermind 😂

@stupidassol

3 ай бұрын

Did you expect anything else?! 😅

Whenever im in the zone and getting everything done efficiently my coworkers tell me "we get paid by the hour"

@JarSquats

2 ай бұрын

"I don't want to be doing the same thing in an hour" Response

Hey I’m 66 and still playing with concrete. And pretty good at it .

Its always worth buying the best tools if you know your gonna use them frequently. The amount of time saved will usually pay for the tool after a job or two, TIME IS MONEY

Rebar tie gun, if you install lots of rebar. Also magnet on bottom of a grade stick holds grade nail tap it grade right on. I call it a elephant trunk hooks on mixer keeps concrete from splattering around speeds up production pouring footing's. Also concrete chute tripod great for supporting 12' -16' chute.

@stupidassol

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the grade rod magnet tip! So be using that one tomorrow!

I cant think of one time i would ever use a plumb bob over a level or laser

a closed faced spincast reel with spiderwire makes a good set up for a plumb bob. its better than a chalk line. thats a pipefitter trick.

That form setter hammer would be all the better if it had a way to pull nails, since duplex nails are always around when youre forming

@agr18181

3 ай бұрын

Think twice, hit once. Solved. Thanks.

@JohnDoe-vg1mk

3 ай бұрын

@agr18181 so you never strip forms? Just leave them there forever? You've never had ti put a temporary brace up?

@andrecontois8510

3 ай бұрын

​@@agr18181never had to strip the forms u put together???ok

@agr18181

3 ай бұрын

@@andrecontois8510 that's a job for the burke bar he showed first

I've used new unchalked chalk line for my plumbobs.

Another Ironside Chat!

@williamdemilia6223

3 ай бұрын

yes and the perfect lighting.

Let's not forget about a screw driver, 18 or 20 inches with a full tang thru the handle. Makes stripping way easier

Where can you find the Burke Bar in EU?

@ja7157

3 ай бұрын

A San Angelo bar would work just as good ..

@ramidi1

3 ай бұрын

@@ja7157 those are easy to get in EU, but no they are not as nearly as good

@psidvicious

2 ай бұрын

@@ramidi1 Where ever you see tilt-wall construction or pre-cast concrete work, you’re likely to see some Burke bars being used. Ask them where they got theirs. They’re also not hard to make if you’ve got a little welding experience.

#1 Essential Tool is Jose #2 is Juan

@ja7157

3 ай бұрын

Yesir!! And my names Jose lmao

@jamesengland7461

3 ай бұрын

Those are people, not tools

@eduardocarrillo1864

3 ай бұрын

😂😂

@carpintero01

3 ай бұрын

@@jamesengland7461any self respecting contractor/carpenter understands, just like yourself, that people aren’t tools.

@tristanmartinez2667

3 ай бұрын

May favorite tool is the apprentice 💪🏽

Gate?

I have that Makita 40v saw, and I'll say that it's one of the best purchases I've ever made. Cut sheathing, 2x4's AND headers with the same saw. No problem at all.

What he patent number?

I actually do work with some "tools" Scott😂

Lol, yes, some people are tools 😂 but great stuff today.

Essentialcrapforfastconcrete-man

unless the rules have change since I retired a few years ago ... A Union carpenter in Chicago is not allowed to bring his own power tools or a Burke Bar - levels longer than 24 inches - tape measures longer then 24 feet - or sledge hammers to a Union construction site . The company he works for must supply them with these tools . We are only allowed to bring our personal hand tools .

@mackfisher4487

3 ай бұрын

Chicago former IBEW member: unions can do a lot of good for their workers and for their employer, but they also can go too far. Your example with the unions position of making more jobs union job's but Cost unions more projects or jobs because they are not as competitive as scabs, I mean nonunion workers.

Noice😊

Productivity, like anything can be Overdone.

Forgetting the pin or stake puller

Southwest gets it done...

Thank you for the Spencer, But...... Find the sweet spot on all those tiny(impossible to find screws in the housing) and do yourself a favor by finding the sweet spot between too slow to wind up & too fast and set those screws with red loctite/ or at least blue...., the maul(maybe a different video) fully agree, it's an abomination, but does the job with a seriously kung fu grip(risking carpal tunnel surgery), tajima is a no contest as is gammon reel. Please stop mentioning that square from Australia as they have been out of production since before your first post... Years ago, emails every 3 months have been offered zero reply. The Irwin chalk line box is awesome, but Only to hold your big plumb bob if some dipass broke your Bosch laser for that dot way up you need. Thanks for your channel, I'm pretty sure it lowers my blood pressure a little bit, which is good, but how do you get to essential Craftsman 2. I've looked everywhere. You mention it over and over again but in my extensive search it's like it doesn't exist? And thank Kelly for all her efforts and putting up with the hours of a true Craftsman even though she can't figure out how to source essential Craftsman license plate frames 🤣

You think you know fast concrete? Have you ever taken a look at the skyline in Manhattan and its surrounding boroughs? Most of those skyscrapers are concrete or their upper floors are. How do I know? Besides building concrete high rises for over 20 years, the rule, the logical rule is if a building is commercial it goes up steel with a Q deck and I beams. If it's residential, it goes up reinforced concrete. Why? Because more penetrations through the deck for electric power, plumbing, gas for stoves, more sinks, more toilets. On a steel job the mechanical trades would be there for a year of Sundays drilling their holes through concrete, 9-wire mesh, and Q deck. On a concrete deck, you erect with plywood, and they do their layout on the ply wood and tack on some plastic pipe shaped stop. Put your rebar around it, pour your concrete and let set. Strip the deck and when you come across a hole, bust the plastic and run your pipe. That's it. The tallest concrete structure, building, skyscraper in the world is located on the south east side of Columbus circle. There are some buildings that are taller but their apex is a confined space. The Columbus circle building, you can stand on concrete at it's highest point. I know because I was part of the crew of a couple of hundred guys that helped build it When it comes to building with concrete with speed, Vegas couldn't carry New York's tool bag. You're welcome.

@Trildin

3 ай бұрын

🤡

Sorry, but similar hammers have been on the market for decades. Nobody else patented it.

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👍🔨📐

Lay out in the mud with that tape and it will be junk in one morning .

Yeah a cordless saw will boost productivity, until you have to charge the stupid batteries, or spend an additional $200 to $400 for NEW Batteries or worse yet buy a new Saw bc the POS shite the bed on you after 25 cuts. You can keep your Overpriced, and Disposable cordless garbage that require you to buy moronically expensive batteries that end up in a landfill within a year or two when one of the cells won't charge, or a component on the motherboard burns out. I'll stick with my corded tools that work whenever and wherever I need them no matter what for decades. These are Tools I can FIX when something breaks. The only Battery power tools that are in my toolbox are Hammer Drills, Drivers, and Impacts. 🤷

Haven't you alresdy made videos about this before? Man sure wish we had more videos with Nate instead.

@TUKByV

3 ай бұрын

Not everyone has been following this channel for years.

@mackfisher4487

3 ай бұрын

There is room for both the philosopher and his son

@oswap

3 ай бұрын

You complained on the power forge video too... 1.35mil subs, he's not going to always please everyone.

@TUKByV

3 ай бұрын

@@oswap Good eye!

@michaelcarroll991

3 ай бұрын

@@oswap negative batman

Oh no, most people are huge tools, LOL. For real, there is a reason why the Department of Corrections is hand in hand with the Department of Natural Resources. Inmates = People = Natural Resources = Cheap Labor = Profit. :)