Most of the time I watch your video's in bed before sleep. The steady tone of your voice gives me peace of mind and the craftsmanship teach me how to build a house myself one day. Keep making these video's. Great job.
I've been a builder for many years and have seen quite a fair bit of sheds. The plans in ryan's package ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxB7IXYxLzb_Ichhe45zM3Im5xfEiSp9vB have some of the nicest looking sheds i've seen in a while.
When I was junior in high school, I had an after-school job helping someone build their own house. In the process of sheathing the exterior, I found myself tasked with cutting a piece of plywood to fit where the 2nd story exterior wall intersected the roof of the 1st story AND the roof of the porch. I needed to cut a 5-sided piece and there were no right-angled corners. After staring at the problem for awhile, I jumped down, got my calculator out of my car, and used trigonometry and a straight edge to layout the shape onto a large piece of cardboard. I cut out the shape from the cardboard and took it up onto the roof -- it fit! I'm sure there was a much simpler method of fitting a piece to that opening, but I had no idea how else to do it. My boss, who was a mechanical engineer, complimented my ingenuity. He said he'd been watching my progress and thought this may have been the first time trig had been used for such a practical purpose.
My parents added a room on to their house many years ago. At the back, the sloping roof met the outside wall at an angle. That meant the wall had to get taller as it went along. I remember the carpenter saying he had to take the plans home and work out the stud heights using trigonometry. It came out great the first time around. He was both smart and fun. I'd help him clean up the site most days after school, and we'd have a great time talking and working.
44R0Ndin yeah, I’d be curious to know if that same idea would have taken place 20 years later. I don’t know the specifics but I personally would have just taken that same piece of cardboard and scribed it from the inside or just guesstimate it from the outside, cut the cardboard, repeat until it fit
@@GameVilleofficialpage Oh, sure, with 20/20 hindsight, scribing the opening onto a piece of cardboard would have been quicker and easier. But, I didn't think of that...
In the beginning when you drive the GRK it's perfect example of a situation where you should use an impact driver.. the impact might be slower but its definitely more controllable and you will minimize the risk of the drill turning 180 degrees on you.. like in the video ! Avoid destroying your wrists people ! And good job as usual EC :)
"Starting from what you have and working towards what you don't know is an incremental thing that cannot be rushed." Man, I feel like I always gain wisdom that applies to so much more than just carpentry on this channel, thanks Scott!
So I don't know much cause I only have 35 years experience home building, but I find it kinda funny reading the comments especially about how you use the saw. Maybe you should point out that on hundreds of thousands of job sites probably more than 50% of all saw cuts get made on your foot. It is worth pointing out that when you are a journeyman at any trade you know when it is ok to do something that may look like it is cutting a corner to an untrained eye. When you are a craftsman and you know how to do something quicker, there is no need to pass the savings to your customer. You find out fast what makes you more money. Thanks for your wonderful series. You are a great teacher.
I liked your remark about moving carefully from what you know into what you have to figure out. That happens in computer programming, too. I guess most crafts have more in common than we think: a mix of engineering, creativity, and sweat. Not that programming has nearly the same kind of sweat. One summer Saturday afternoon about 15 years ago I was complaining to my older brother, who was a welder, about how hard I was working (80+ hours a week, and some weeks over a 100, for months) on a big software project. He was sympathetic, but when I asked him what he was doing he told me about a chemical processing tank he was welding baffles into. The tank was so big they had to build it outside, and he needed to crawl around in the tank on a respirator - the smoke inside was so thick he couldn't see anything until the arc came on, and he thought it might be 140 degrees inside the tank. I never again complained to him about my long hours in a 12th floor air-conditioned office with an ergonomic chair and a view of SF Bay...
I just got to say I’ve been watching this form the beginning and I must say, it’s sooo informative. The knowledge one person can learn form this video series is astounding. I almost feel like I could build a house now. Thank you for sharing you tips and tricks in carpentry and framing.
I agree a cordless impact is the best tool for that job. I've built several craftsman style homes, and have been a carpenter for almost 20 years. I learn so much from watching things like this, or confirm what I'm already doing is the most efficient and correct way get projects done. I hope I can still move like he does when I'm his age. Always be open minded and willing to take suggestions.
Dang I miss working with my buddies everyday! You remind me of a guy I use to work with. We were such good friends and it never felt like work! Thanks for passing on some of your knowledge
Great to see your great work guys. I love seeing your dad out there Scott, there is something about watching him smoke a pipe and watch you work that make me smile.
First of all, it looks like a very fulfilling job. It's great to create something with your hands. It's much more satisfying at the end of the day than editing a stack of paper. On the other hand, it's very funny for a European to see how Americans build houses.
Mr craftsman, sorry I’m not aware of your name yet but I wanted to address you in a nice way, I don’t know if you’ll ever see this comment but I’ve gotta say your stuff has really had an amazing impact on me and my life. I don’t even know how I found your channel but I started with your “how to be productive” video followed by a few others and now I’m here writing this here. When I was twelve my true father figure passed away peacefully in his recliner on my birthday, a few months after that my parents got a divorce but that didn’t quite effect me the way my grandpas passing did, he was my craftsman, he showed me what little I do know, he showed me how to use a lawnmower, he showed me so much that sticks with me still today, I just turned 18 September, and I’m struggling with life in general, between school and choosing a career path, it’s definitely not easy and my head has kinda been in the clouds as of lately. But this afternoon after finding your channel what made me stay on that video over passing it up for some gaming commentary was I saw my grandpa in you, and honestly I don’t know how to handle it, it’s like I’ve found a piece of him I lost after he passed. Anyway I just wanted to say thank you because... I honestly don’t know what to say, just thanks from someone looking for some good advice, it helped. If u could pass on some more philosophy like u did with that video, I’d say for sure you’d get quite a bit of views on that although I’m sure your not too concerned about views, I’m guessing you just enjoy passing on some knowledge to anybody who wants to watch and let me tell you, I’ll be watching, for quite a while. Thank you, sincerely, some random kid on the internet :)
Thanks for this... I read all the comments and I try to read all the emails that come on my website. But this certainly has been one that I will never forget! If you email on the website I will see it... You are not just some random kid on the Internet! :)
After a couple of decades of aircraft structural repair I can attest to no measuring. Quickest was to ruin any repair is to measure anything! Awesome episode as always guys!
Love the "Anti tape method"! Looks like you have plenty of supervision (guy with the pipe)! And then the other guy in the little red truck. Always great to have visits from friends on the job, especially when you have a big lift to make! :) Those complicated junctions always look good on paper, but it takes a master to make it work in person! Keep up the good work!
@@dabeamer42 No, the Guy with the pipe is not Scott's dad. He's a friend named Ken, Scott has mentioned him briefly before, and has promised to introduce him more fully sometime. You can see Scott's dad in EP21, it's pretty clearly not the same guy.
Unfortunately framing has become a total speed game. I much prefer remodeling 100+ yr old houses like my own. More rewarding and it pays to be a creative and careful carpenter.
Love the "Doctrine of anti tape", my dad taught me that years ago, we are electricians and all homes in the Chicago area are conduit and he would almost never get out his tape it wastes time. Love the phrase you gave it.
Jack De Vos true story.On the first day on the job an electrician helper was to install boxes . The boss showed him how to get the height by using a stick placed on the bottom plate and setting the bottom of the box on the stick. Well, when he got done with the first room he had cut a stick for under each box. Lol.
I know you have staggering experience but it is amazing you are alive given how many times you are holding heavy weights, having heavy lumber passed to you, or cutting one handed with your foot as the brace, all while balanced on the middle of your shoe 20 feet up in the air. Nothing to grab at if you stumble or lose your balance. You must have an acrobat's coordination. Looks pretty crazy to us who don't do it for a living.
It's fun watching you deal with that stair/garage/flooring connection. I've been curious to see how you would approach it. I've had a few 'odd' corners and other structural things to deal with over years of renovations. Some days you spend more time thinking than constructing. But every time, I've found it saves time and money [esp' materials] to stop and think. Finally, I've learned to never underestimate the power of a string to solve problems. Cheers!!
Pipe smoking guy sighting at 7:33! I wonder if he’ll ever be explained to us, or if he will forever be a mystery man that Scott and Nate won’t ever enlighten us on for the duration of the project. (maybe the last episode will be a reveal?) Thanks Scott and Nate as always!
@@MFKR696 Who cares? This is carpentry, not machining, and I've been at it for 40 years. They're correct. The less measuring you do, the fewer mistakes you make.
@@juniorzoramac lol What if I told you I use equations and formulas "in the real world"? Just because it's too much for your brain to handle, doesn't mean that the rest of us have to stay at your level lol.
It's happened to me with some other videos but this one, for whatever reason, specially. I've mentioned before that both my father and my uncle worked together as blacksmiths (as their father and another brother also did). Every now and then, mostly on summers, my father required me to go and give a hand. It's not that I did that much, certainly not much technical work, but I used to help when installing some kind of structures, from metal gates to metal roofs, you name it, when an extra couple hands came in... handy (pun not intended). They had their workshop at the village they were born, some 10 kms (6 miles) away from where we lived. Not far at all, but far enough for me to know very few people from their village, less so as they did jobs further away from home. But, of course, my father and my uncle knew everybody and everybody knew them. So, it was usual that while we three were installing, say, a gate at somebody's house, some neighbor would pass by for whatever reason and had a chat with them both. It was as normal as it gets. Next month it will be ten years since my uncle passed away and in a few months it will be eight years for my father. This video, and others where we could see people coming to that construction site and have a talk with you, has remembered me of those days, I think that very few of those from the last twenty years, mostly from the past century (it sounds cool to say that, doesn't it?). Yes, I got bored at times back them because I had to spend the whole afternoon, even the whole day, for not much work actually, just those few minutes when I was needed to hold the gate in place, or moving heavy metal structures or whatever. I think I hardly ever welded anything and most of the "technical" work I did were things like "cleaning" welded metal with a small metal grinder or countersinking holes in metal strips for railings (so the metal rods could be easily welded). But of course I miss those times and both of them, so thank you not only for what I (we) learn in these videos (whether we get to use that knowledge in our lives is not the most important part, but getting new ways of thinking) but for the memories that, although involuntarily, you're bringing to me. Thank you. And keep up that really nice work.
Man, you use that skill saw in places and positions I would never try. Of course you have a couple of hours more experience than I do. You probably use one more in a week than I have my whole life.
I'm sure that by now there is enough footage on the blooper reel for a short clip 👀 huhh...nudge....huh....amiright....huh..huh...come on.....let's see em....huh...huh....
I'm glad you mentioned measuring as little as possible. It's always better to take a direct dimension with a string, board, mark a line with a level or whatever. The less you use the tape the more accurate your pieces will be. You don't need to know what many dimensions are and there are way too many steps involved with using a tape to screw up the cut. That odd area you were doing is often the most fun and rewarding part. Though many times it can turn into a nightmare if there were cumulative errors before that point.
For what it's worth, I'm working on a project that's used a bunch of 4" - 6" (and even a few 8") GRK structural screws, and with an impact driver I've had zero trouble driving them through pressure treated 4x4s and 2x6s with no pilot hole and no splitting.
Talking about taking as few measurements as possible, reminds me of how much faster and better it is to use as few measurements as possible in drafting. In drafting, you can make one line a given length. You can then offset that line with another at a certain distance. Then connect the 4 corners with 2 new lines, completely unmeasured. And you can simply continue on this way. Often times I found that if I were working in this manner of simply offsetting and connecting existing lines and points I'd not only be faster, but also fewer mistakes.
You demonstrated another use for your chalk-line that I don’t remember you bringing up in the ‘Chalk-Line’ video. Instead of carrying a length of dry-line wrapped around a piece of scrap in your tool pouch, you simply used your chalk-line instead to ‘range in’ that mark. I didn’t think of it at the time either but - yep, they get used for that too, all the time. 🤜🤛
Im a major advocate of the "anti-tape" approach. Especially when I'm plumbing with PEX I usually don't even take a tape out of the truck. My eyes and hands are all I need to measure. I find where I want to make the cut, hold mine thumb nail right at the line, and with my other hand take my cutters and butt the blade right up against my thumbnail and make the cut. All this is done in half the time it takes to even grab the tape measure and it's always perfectly accurate.
This man is the Mike Rowe in giving a understanding with the delivery of Russell Crowe in presentation. Noticed since 1st video watched. Cannot keep the thought from mind ever since. Change my mind
foot braced sawing is.. maybe ok if you have been doing it for 30 years? I have seen a guy doing that cut his foot then fall off a truss. granted he was cutting sheathing but still.
"Doctrine of no tape." I totally agree. The tape is the LEAST accurate method of getting a measurement. Scribe, range, etc. is always the best, and most accurate way. Well said.
Anit tape... yep When I build furniture I make what we call a story stick, it determines a lot of my "Measurements" a lot easier and more accurate I find.
@esential craftmans If you feal like doing some consulting or contracting work in NYC you should check out Louis Rossmann UA-cam channel! but I suppose you already have your hands full speck house and all.
Could you go over your trick on cutting the perfect angles on the ends of the joist boards? Not only are they the right length but the right angle on both sides. If had to do that I would have had scrap pieces to figure out the angle then have about 10 cuts slowly creeping up to the right length on a new board.
I love the part about the bad ladder set-up. I'm a Safety Engineer and the millisecond I saw that ladder I knew it was wrong. THEN the captioning popped up pointing out this error. Thank you so much for showing your concern for safety on the jobsite. I think that ladder has the type of feet that flip down and can dig into the ground; a good option in this situation. Great job guys, love this series.
Excellent as always. A little concerned you are not wearing a safety harness when working at heights. Perhaps you could address this and other safety issues we should understand better, in future videos.
Most of the time I watch your video's in bed before sleep. The steady tone of your voice gives me peace of mind and the craftsmanship teach me how to build a house myself one day. Keep making these video's. Great job.
I've been a builder for many years and have seen quite a fair bit of sheds. The plans in ryan's package ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxB7IXYxLzb_Ichhe45zM3Im5xfEiSp9vB have some of the nicest looking sheds i've seen in a while.
When I was junior in high school, I had an after-school job helping someone build their own house. In the process of sheathing the exterior, I found myself tasked with cutting a piece of plywood to fit where the 2nd story exterior wall intersected the roof of the 1st story AND the roof of the porch. I needed to cut a 5-sided piece and there were no right-angled corners. After staring at the problem for awhile, I jumped down, got my calculator out of my car, and used trigonometry and a straight edge to layout the shape onto a large piece of cardboard. I cut out the shape from the cardboard and took it up onto the roof -- it fit! I'm sure there was a much simpler method of fitting a piece to that opening, but I had no idea how else to do it. My boss, who was a mechanical engineer, complimented my ingenuity. He said he'd been watching my progress and thought this may have been the first time trig had been used for such a practical purpose.
Well no wonder you turned to trig for your answer, as it was likely fresh in your mind from math class. I would have likely done the same.
My parents added a room on to their house many years ago. At the back, the sloping roof met the outside wall at an angle. That meant the wall had to get taller as it went along. I remember the carpenter saying he had to take the plans home and work out the stud heights using trigonometry. It came out great the first time around. He was both smart and fun. I'd help him clean up the site most days after school, and we'd have a great time talking and working.
measure / calculate twice , cut once
44R0Ndin yeah, I’d be curious to know if that same idea would have taken place 20 years later. I don’t know the specifics but I personally would have just taken that same piece of cardboard and scribed it from the inside or just guesstimate it from the outside, cut the cardboard, repeat until it fit
@@GameVilleofficialpage Oh, sure, with 20/20 hindsight, scribing the opening onto a piece of cardboard would have been quicker and easier. But, I didn't think of that...
In the beginning when you drive the GRK it's perfect example of a situation where you should use an impact driver.. the impact might be slower but its definitely more controllable and you will minimize the risk of the drill turning 180 degrees on you.. like in the video ! Avoid destroying your wrists people ! And good job as usual EC :)
Like a surgeon with that skill saw
Edward Doherty Many would need a surgeon after trying that...
What he's doing is pretty scary. Would not recommend anyone doing that.
Like a surgeon.......Weird Al Yankovic.. but in this case, not cutting for the very first time.
If so, I’ll choose another surgeon, thanks.
"Starting from what you have and working towards what you don't know is an incremental thing that cannot be rushed."
Man, I feel like I always gain wisdom that applies to so much more than just carpentry on this channel, thanks Scott!
So I don't know much cause I only have 35 years experience home building, but I find it kinda funny reading the comments especially about how you use the saw. Maybe you should point out that on hundreds of thousands of job sites probably more than 50% of all saw cuts get made on your foot. It is worth pointing out that when you are a journeyman at any trade you know when it is ok to do something that may look like it is cutting a corner to an untrained eye. When you are a craftsman and you know how to do something quicker, there is no need to pass the savings to your customer. You find out fast what makes you more money.
Thanks for your wonderful series. You are a great teacher.
I liked your remark about moving carefully from what you know into what you have to figure out. That happens in computer programming, too. I guess most crafts have more in common than we think: a mix of engineering, creativity, and sweat.
Not that programming has nearly the same kind of sweat. One summer Saturday afternoon about 15 years ago I was complaining to my older brother, who was a welder, about how hard I was working (80+ hours a week, and some weeks over a 100, for months) on a big software project. He was sympathetic, but when I asked him what he was doing he told me about a chemical processing tank he was welding baffles into. The tank was so big they had to build it outside, and he needed to crawl around in the tank on a respirator - the smoke inside was so thick he couldn't see anything until the arc came on, and he thought it might be 140 degrees inside the tank. I never again complained to him about my long hours in a 12th floor air-conditioned office with an ergonomic chair and a view of SF Bay...
Saw the house today... it's GREEN!!! And no, I'm not saying where it is. LOOKS GOOD!!!!!!!
I doubt one "carpenter" in a hundred, more like a thousand, has your skills. Thanks for your program. Keep up the Good Work.
I just got to say I’ve been watching this form the beginning and I must say, it’s sooo informative. The knowledge one person can learn form this video series is astounding. I almost feel like I could build a house now. Thank you for sharing you tips and tricks in carpentry and framing.
“Anti tape” is much easier to say than “relative dimensioning”. Lol
Nice work and explanations, as always.
Dang, that OSB grows back fast! 4:04
That's Oregon for you, everything grows better out there!
Are we to assume he f*cked up?
I agree a cordless impact is the best tool for that job. I've built several craftsman style homes, and have been a carpenter for almost 20 years. I learn so much from watching things like this, or confirm what I'm already doing is the most efficient and correct way get projects done. I hope I can still move like he does when I'm his age. Always be open minded and willing to take suggestions.
Dang I miss working with my buddies everyday! You remind me of a guy I use to work with. We were such good friends and it never felt like work! Thanks for passing on some of your knowledge
I'll be your buddy, Chicago area here, I'm goofy on the job site lol
Great to see your great work guys. I love seeing your dad out there Scott, there is something about watching him smoke a pipe and watch you work that make me smile.
Just a good friend [Ken]. Not dad.
🤜🤛
It's dad in a few years !!!
I see your buddy is here again today, he probably wishes he was along side you swinging a hammer. But he is there and that's great. Love it.
First of all, it looks like a very fulfilling job.
It's great to create something with your hands. It's much more satisfying at the end of the day than editing a stack of paper.
On the other hand, it's very funny for a European to see how Americans build houses.
saved them plans from falling without skipping a beat. well done sir!
Mr craftsman, sorry I’m not aware of your name yet but I wanted to address you in a nice way, I don’t know if you’ll ever see this comment but I’ve gotta say your stuff has really had an amazing impact on me and my life. I don’t even know how I found your channel but I started with your “how to be productive” video followed by a few others and now I’m here writing this here. When I was twelve my true father figure passed away peacefully in his recliner on my birthday, a few months after that my parents got a divorce but that didn’t quite effect me the way my grandpas passing did, he was my craftsman, he showed me what little I do know, he showed me how to use a lawnmower, he showed me so much that sticks with me still today, I just turned 18 September, and I’m struggling with life in general, between school and choosing a career path, it’s definitely not easy and my head has kinda been in the clouds as of lately. But this afternoon after finding your channel what made me stay on that video over passing it up for some gaming commentary was I saw my grandpa in you, and honestly I don’t know how to handle it, it’s like I’ve found a piece of him I lost after he passed. Anyway I just wanted to say thank you because... I honestly don’t know what to say, just thanks from someone looking for some good advice, it helped. If u could pass on some more philosophy like u did with that video, I’d say for sure you’d get quite a bit of views on that although I’m sure your not too concerned about views, I’m guessing you just enjoy passing on some knowledge to anybody who wants to watch and let me tell you, I’ll be watching, for quite a while. Thank you, sincerely, some random kid on the internet :)
Thanks for this... I read all the comments and I try to read all the emails that come on my website. But this certainly has been one that I will never forget! If you email on the website I will see it... You are not just some random kid on the Internet! :)
The owner of this house is lucky to have you guys are their builders.
You're commentary is spot on. Keep these informational videos coming.
Just came home for lunch wondering what I would watch today. And here it is a new EC video !
It's coming together pretty good 👍.... Good job guys 👏........JJ...
It’s early am and getting ready to head out and put rim boards on for my log home.💚💜🛠
Every second of this content has so much educational value.
Anti-tape is even more true with trim carpentry. I’ve told helpers the saying should be “never measure and cut once”
No snow. Shout out B.C. Canada.
Love work with what you know until you figure out what you don’t know!!
You guys heard of saw horses out that way? Couple cheap plastic folding units - super light and easy to move around.
These videos are so addictive!! I’m even rewatching the earlier build videos, Scott is a fountain of knowledge!
After a couple of decades of aircraft structural repair I can attest to no measuring. Quickest was to ruin any repair is to measure anything! Awesome episode as always guys!
Super framing video guys, thanks.
Love the "Anti tape method"!
Looks like you have plenty of supervision (guy with the pipe)! And then the other guy in the little red truck. Always great to have visits from friends on the job, especially when you have a big lift to make! :)
Those complicated junctions always look good on paper, but it takes a master to make it work in person! Keep up the good work!
the guy with the pipe is Scott's dad.
OOPS. Not. My mistake.
@@dabeamer42 wonder where that rumor got started? 🤔
🤜🤛
@@dabeamer42 No, the Guy with the pipe is not Scott's dad. He's a friend named Ken, Scott has mentioned him briefly before, and has promised to introduce him more fully sometime. You can see Scott's dad in EP21, it's pretty clearly not the same guy.
"the doctrine of no tape" true wisdom!!!
I am in awe how calculated all of your work is, nothing rushed. I wish you guys could have framed my house!
Unfortunately framing has become a total speed game. I much prefer remodeling 100+ yr old houses like my own. More rewarding and it pays to be a creative and careful carpenter.
This video is a great example of how handy that long cord you installed on the Skilsaw is.....perfect!
Love the "Doctrine of anti tape", my dad taught me that years ago, we are electricians and all homes in the Chicago area are conduit and he would almost never get out his tape it wastes time. Love the phrase you gave it.
Jack De Vos true story.On the first day on the job an electrician helper was to install boxes . The boss showed him how to get the height by using a stick placed on the bottom plate and setting the bottom of the box on the stick. Well, when he got done with the first room he had cut a stick for under each box. Lol.
Absolutely fantastic and totally entertained! Looking great keep up the good work!! 👍👍👍😎🇨🇱
Just wanted to tell you that I really like the background music!
As always. Great work.
I know you have staggering experience but it is amazing you are alive given how many times you are holding heavy weights, having heavy lumber passed to you, or cutting one handed with your foot as the brace, all while balanced on the middle of your shoe 20 feet up in the air. Nothing to grab at if you stumble or lose your balance.
You must have an acrobat's coordination. Looks pretty crazy to us who don't do it for a living.
It's fun watching you deal with that stair/garage/flooring connection. I've been curious to see how you would approach it. I've had a few 'odd' corners and other structural things to deal with over years of renovations. Some days you spend more time thinking than constructing. But every time, I've found it saves time and money [esp' materials] to stop and think. Finally, I've learned to never underestimate the power of a string to solve problems. Cheers!!
I do appreciate Granddad just beeing there and watch his "little one" build a house. Good vibrations, just in case.
Pipe smoking guy sighting at 7:33!
I wonder if he’ll ever be explained to us, or if he will forever be a mystery man that Scott and Nate won’t ever enlighten us on for the duration of the project. (maybe the last episode will be a reveal?)
Thanks Scott and Nate as always!
I totally agree on the point about scribing over the use of a tape measure. I was taught to scribe whenever possible.
To quote Roy Underhill, or maybe it was one of his guests: Measuring is the enemy of Precision.
"Measuring is the enemy of precision"
Said no engineer, fitter/fabricator or machinist ever... lol A wiser man once said "measure twice, cut once."
@@MFKR696 Who cares? This is carpentry, not machining, and I've been at it for 40 years. They're correct. The less measuring you do, the fewer mistakes you make.
@@olafbigandglad That's only true if you suck at geometry lol.
@@MFKR696 real world vs text book. Scribing and copying will always beat equations and formulas.
@@juniorzoramac lol What if I told you I use equations and formulas "in the real world"? Just because it's too much for your brain to handle, doesn't mean that the rest of us have to stay at your level lol.
i love that you used a ryobi drill. goes to show that you don't need to have super fancy, overly priced tools to get something to get done.
It's happened to me with some other videos but this one, for whatever reason, specially. I've mentioned before that both my father and my uncle worked together as blacksmiths (as their father and another brother also did). Every now and then, mostly on summers, my father required me to go and give a hand. It's not that I did that much, certainly not much technical work, but I used to help when installing some kind of structures, from metal gates to metal roofs, you name it, when an extra couple hands came in... handy (pun not intended).
They had their workshop at the village they were born, some 10 kms (6 miles) away from where we lived. Not far at all, but far enough for me to know very few people from their village, less so as they did jobs further away from home. But, of course, my father and my uncle knew everybody and everybody knew them. So, it was usual that while we three were installing, say, a gate at somebody's house, some neighbor would pass by for whatever reason and had a chat with them both. It was as normal as it gets.
Next month it will be ten years since my uncle passed away and in a few months it will be eight years for my father. This video, and others where we could see people coming to that construction site and have a talk with you, has remembered me of those days, I think that very few of those from the last twenty years, mostly from the past century (it sounds cool to say that, doesn't it?).
Yes, I got bored at times back them because I had to spend the whole afternoon, even the whole day, for not much work actually, just those few minutes when I was needed to hold the gate in place, or moving heavy metal structures or whatever. I think I hardly ever welded anything and most of the "technical" work I did were things like "cleaning" welded metal with a small metal grinder or countersinking holes in metal strips for railings (so the metal rods could be easily welded). But of course I miss those times and both of them, so thank you not only for what I (we) learn in these videos (whether we get to use that knowledge in our lives is not the most important part, but getting new ways of thinking) but for the memories that, although involuntarily, you're bringing to me.
Thank you. And keep up that really nice work.
Man, you use that skill saw in places and positions I would never try. Of course you have a couple of hours more experience than I do. You probably use one more in a week than I have my whole life.
I cannot wait for next videos.
I'm sure that by now there is enough footage on the blooper reel for a short clip 👀 huhh...nudge....huh....amiright....huh..huh...come on.....let's see em....huh...huh....
Very unique area of the house! Good job!
That caulk gun slide-toss was slick.
An impact driver would make driving those GRK's in so much easier than a drill. Your wrist and forearm would thank you.
My thought as well. I have given up on the large high torque drills except for mixing things for that, among other, reasons.
Yeah, had to do a double take when I saw that museum piece...
A lot of people probably don't realize that modern impact drivers are capable of driving those large GRKs with no problem.
Joe so thue
Thats true, but big screws will take forever with an impact...we put a tone of those in...only use the big cordless makita drills. Time is money.
I'm glad you mentioned measuring as little as possible. It's always better to take a direct dimension with a string, board, mark a line with a level or whatever. The less you use the tape the more accurate your pieces will be. You don't need to know what many dimensions are and there are way too many steps involved with using a tape to screw up the cut.
That odd area you were doing is often the most fun and rewarding part. Though many times it can turn into a nightmare if there were cumulative errors before that point.
Thanks for your informative videos
In my family, we have an old saying: measure three times, cut twice.
we have a similar saying round these parts. It goes "We build it right 'cus we build it twice" 😅
Guess once, redo, guess twice, redo, measure three times and then get mad and throw it all away.
@@Jesse__H Yeah, that should be my motto too...
around here we measure ten times and don't cut it at all.
I usually cut the board 3 times and it's still too short.
Sliding/tossing that glue gun across that board about :28 was an eyebrow lifter. Love this guy.
Thanks for the video.
Perfect again!
0:28 good pass, better catch! Smooth
Scott is such a great teacher. Thanks
Great work as always thanks for sharing 👍🇦🇺🚜
For what it's worth, I'm working on a project that's used a bunch of 4" - 6" (and even a few 8") GRK structural screws, and with an impact driver I've had zero trouble driving them through pressure treated 4x4s and 2x6s with no pilot hole and no splitting.
We work a lot with big screws, like you used them...never predrill them, never have an issue.
great job, I liked it a lot 👏🏽 just left it like 👍🏾
Looking good!
Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍
Thanks Ken!
Carpentry is the job, the completed puzzles make the journeyman...
All the best.
That's why here in Chicago,we use a speed square to draw triangles on wood
Nice work Scott...
Great work
It is so impressive the way these guys handle their SkilSaws. Must take years of experience.
fantastic as always!
Talking about taking as few measurements as possible, reminds me of how much faster and better it is to use as few measurements as possible in drafting.
In drafting, you can make one line a given length. You can then offset that line with another at a certain distance. Then connect the 4 corners with 2 new lines, completely unmeasured. And you can simply continue on this way. Often times I found that if I were working in this manner of simply offsetting and connecting existing lines and points I'd not only be faster, but also fewer mistakes.
Every job site should have an old grey bearded guy smoking a pipe. :D
Lol. Was thinking the same thing.
State code requires it
You demonstrated another use for your chalk-line that I don’t remember you bringing up in the ‘Chalk-Line’ video. Instead of carrying a length of dry-line wrapped around a piece of scrap in your tool pouch, you simply used your chalk-line instead to ‘range in’ that mark. I didn’t think of it at the time either but - yep, they get used for that too, all the time.
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Good job
Im a major advocate of the "anti-tape" approach. Especially when I'm plumbing with PEX I usually don't even take a tape out of the truck. My eyes and hands are all I need to measure. I find where I want to make the cut, hold mine thumb nail right at the line, and with my other hand take my cutters and butt the blade right up against my thumbnail and make the cut. All this is done in half the time it takes to even grab the tape measure and it's always perfectly accurate.
All of those crazy angles and framing...now you know why original Craftsman style houses have detached garages :D
love the videos, keep'em comin'
Around 1235 Mark Gangster move right there! helping out a fellow coworker hand to hand.
This man is the Mike Rowe in giving a understanding with the delivery of Russell Crowe in presentation.
Noticed since 1st video watched. Cannot keep the thought from mind ever since.
Change my mind
foot braced sawing is.. maybe ok if you have been doing it for 30 years? I have seen a guy doing that cut his foot then fall off a truss. granted he was cutting sheathing but still.
Excellent
ITS NICE TO SEE ALL YOU FRENDS VISITING .
"Doctrine of no tape." I totally agree. The tape is the LEAST accurate method of getting a measurement. Scribe, range, etc. is always the best, and most accurate way. Well said.
I like to scribe with nails or walk around with specific length things like this is what I'm looking for
So good! Thanks.
Anit tape... yep
When I build furniture I make what we call a story stick, it determines a lot of my "Measurements" a lot easier and more accurate I find.
Right?
Story sticks, patterns, masters and stop blocks. Like my favorite uncle used to tell me, "measure once, if at all possible."
@@thenotsoguitarguy9429 I like that, very good!
@esential craftmans If you feal like doing some consulting or contracting work in NYC you should check out Louis Rossmann UA-cam channel!
but I suppose you already have your hands full speck house and all.
One of the first things I teach my apprentice is what I call "the Golden rule"..."to scribe is better then to measure"
Good Job. Greetings from Germany
That music though! Love it!
Could you go over your trick on cutting the perfect angles on the ends of the joist boards? Not only are they the right length but the right angle on both sides. If had to do that I would have had scrap pieces to figure out the angle then have about 10 cuts slowly creeping up to the right length on a new board.
I like it good job
Be careful, if your anti-tape ever touches your tape, they'll annihilate each other and release a ridiculous amount of energy.
Don't cross the streams.
You can use that to power the Warp Drive.
I love the part about the bad ladder set-up. I'm a Safety Engineer and the millisecond I saw that ladder I knew it was wrong. THEN the captioning popped up pointing out this error. Thank you so much for showing your concern for safety on the jobsite. I think that ladder has the type of feet that flip down and can dig into the ground; a good option in this situation. Great job guys, love this series.
8.45 Pm in Western Australia. Great to see you working through that tricky section.
Thanks Essential Craftsman! It's 9:33 pm in Palau and I hope after watching this I would sleep and dream construction.
Excellent as always. A little concerned you are not wearing a safety harness when working at heights. Perhaps you could address this and other safety issues we should understand better, in future videos.