i leave my batteries in teh truck all the time too, other than charging them…

i have a ton of batteries but i dont carry a charger, i charge dead batteries at home overnight.. ones that are still charged stay on teh tools in the truck

if bosch is sticking with teh socket ready design on newer models i hope they make it more compact… the size is my number one complaint about it..

milwaukee used to have a radio that charged batteries but i think they got sued as well… they just stopped making them at that point.. every readio since from red can run off a battery but cant charge it

my guess is the patent has run out hence bosch not having to pay anymore

construction adhesive, window and siding polybutyl caulking along with dap just get left open.. they typically get used up pretty quickly anyway.

open silicone tubes just get tossed, its not that often that i need it and no matter how well i seal the tube it just ends up curing anyway

the new m18 table saw and the jig saws are probably the two things im looking forward to the most. also the plate levels look good.

the updated circ saw isnt that big a thing for me as im not really a fan of their circ saws anymore.. makita has been my goto for about 6 years

the new cordless super sawzall looks like its gonna be a beast, they…[Read more]

hey hey, ive hardly been active here lately,, but been keeping busy.. ive mostly been working on the marriott hotel job landing majest wall system panels

the weekends have been spent on a custom desk for my buddys brand new barbor shop, a small baseboard job elswhere and pricing up several deck jobs that are in the works

2lb difference.. i doubt that will compromise the durability much. if it were like 8 lbs maybe

$ 40 / hr is totally reasonable for a handy man… they might only be doing a 15 minute task but like others have said by the time you factor in over head it ads up.. theres also the time to run and get any materials needed,, which is something most dont see they only see the time your at their house

im pretty sure most companies reccommend changing the oil every 60 hrs of actually run time on the compresosr.. ive changed the oil on mine maybe 3 times total lol

wallet as a fashion item…. no thanks.. i just buy whatever has the card sleeve setup i like and is under $25 .. my current one is by ben sherman,, a british clothing company

your wasting money if your buying a oil less compressor… on average they last 3 years in a professional environment… i had a last gen porter cable pancake unit that lasted 2 1/2 years of moderate use.. a mentor i had for interior trim only used the porter cables, doing production trim he would go through 2 or 3 a year

my hitachi uses oil and…[Read more]

depends on what you classify as quiet… i have the jc 10 and its very quiet however its low volume and slow to fill up.. my other compressor is a hitachi 6 gallon twin tank but its much louder… my previous employer had a rol air “bull” twin tank 6 gallon which is almost identical to my hitachi then also had 2 wheelbarrow style units which…[Read more]

a very boring few days at the hotel build.. basically doing nothing more than drilling into concrete and driving tapcons all day. fastening walls to the precast slabs

it would definitly come in handy for those of us running multiple batteries.. more so with core batteries..

i know the milwaukee multi bay is sequential

thej lumber yard down in chester where ive been working… 1 hr outside of town has the board bender.. i was very tempted to buy it until i saw the price tag of $76

are they really worth it… ive always gotten by with a chisel driven into the joist then prying ont that

we were finishing up anchoring and bracing the prefab structural steed stud walls at the hotel build today before letting the precast concrete guys land their floor slabs.

5 days ago across the street at another site a worker fell off the roof and died.. so saftey is in full force .. department of labor is around more and more

The guys that did it we’re sent back out to redo two of the box and returns. we will be straightening out the crooked fascia ourselves though.

All of the metal is fastened with the rubberized washer metal screws so we can just back them off to fix it

we finished up siding the biggest wall on the building today, tore down scaffold and did a big cleanup

ohj brother.. ive been installing wood siding on a place out of town…. typically the guy who sides it dows the aluminum cladding.. however on this job the roofing is red metal so all box end returns, fascia and metal soffit was done by the roofers… they made a absolute mess of it

soffit. its up and down worse than a roller coaster.. they…[Read more]

worked on more wood siding and getting ready for the concrete slab pour wednesday