i dont think the new generation of fast chargers shorten battery life.. i know the dewalt xrp batteries were known for having that issue..

battery wise i have 4 cores 3 4.0s 2 2.0s and a 1.5 so im good for a bit

had to go to chester today to get ready for another concrete pour on a complicated icf foundation. weve had a bunch of delays do to engineering, getting block delivered and other issues… either way were hoping to pour either monday or wednesday

the milwaukee table saw looks awesome. id like to get my hands on it but i dont use a table saw very often any more.. the 12amp battery is massive though.

makes me wonder when the bosch unit and comparible battery will be out here.. will it be soon enough to be relevant or will milwaukee and dewalt have a 20 amp out by that time

still toying with the idea of the 12v vaccuum or maybe 18v blower..

i have no need to enter.. i have 2 of that impact.. plus a m18 one key and work issued hilti.. if i get a new impact it will be a m18 surge or makita. i may wait til the updated socket ready blue tooth model comes out though

back at the marriot hotel build.. working on c.f.s mostly. the site is down to 1 crane from 3 and theres multiple trades fighting over using it to get material to the rooftop… really slows things down

usually i just use kraft paper which is then covered with 1/4″ osb

i was back at my compostie deck job today working on some siding repairs. went to put the siding back on where it had to be removed for a beam pocket to be created…. only to realize the home owner must have thrown out the piece of j channel i kept for that location….. gotta go pick up a piece during the week now

ive been working on a hotel build for roughly 4 months. we are fastening cfs walls to the precast floor slabs with 3 /16″ tapcons for which were using sds drills to pilot drill.. on average per floor we have to drive about 1500 tapcons .. we go through about 40 bits per floor.. they wear out and break regularly.. basically it comes down to the…[Read more]

ive never heard keeping the battery on the tool causing issue.. however having them on the charger can and will kill hte battery if its not plugged in.. my first drill was a 18v nicad it died do to this

ive never heard keeping the battery on the tool causing issue.. however having them on the charger can and will kill hte battery if its not plugged in.. my first drill was a 18v nicad it died do to this

ive talked to mark a few times on instagram via dm and in his live chats.. its funny how i was one of his first 100 follows when he joined the ig community

i havent bought one yet as i still have 2 fully working stilletos… however i do want a m4

similarly i have talked to mark about doing some artwork for him

im a litle late to this party… happy belated canada day guys.. i was deck building on the 1st

mark did in fact improve upon the stilleto design when he came out with the m1… hes very active on instagram… he does live feeds regularly.. he talks about all the different versions of stilleto he made before the tibone along with wood handle

he lives fairly close to where occi is based out of so they did in fact team up and they act as the…[Read more]

ive used teh tapcon ones only a couple times, they work well, at the hotel build ive been on the precast concrete crew have been using hilti ones to ancohr their guard rail system to the precast floor slabs

i havent posted in this thread in some time,

ive spent the better part of 4 months at a marriot hotel build, we are landing Cold form steel structural steel walls on that that project, its 8 stories. also we have 2 office interior jobs on the go downtown in seperate towers.

this week we took over the icf foundation of a very…[Read more]

if your using a stool profile bit without a bearing pretty sure you have to use a router table.. its a larger profile which needs the more powerful router

im on the list of tool testers as well. but i dont get any real contact from it… im in direct contact with the canadian bosch office though. if theres something coming out they contact me or if its something new and cant find listed anywhere to buy i ask