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frizbeedog said:
Hey dude, why have all the batteries be discharged, and why didn't you set up the charger after the fisrt one died?
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A personal favorite. I drive it into them, including putting any uncharged battery back in the tool, so we'll discover it while we still have a charged one.

Nothing more aggravating than finding out that the spare battery could have been charging all this time, had we known it needed it . . . but didn't.

Grrr! :mad:
 
LarryFine said:
A personal favorite. I drive it into them, including putting any uncharged battery back in the tool, so we'll discover it while we still have a charged one.

Nothing more aggravating than finding out that the spare battery could have been charging all this time, had we known it needed it . . . but didn't.

Grrr! :mad:
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Remember... they have a spare battery.

They just can't take it out of the jobsite radio. :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
I have seen them put the cup on backwards and try and drive the cutter into the back of it.
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When I was an apprentice, I pulled a `1" KO cutter thru (ratchet set)......backwards.

It was a BEAR and I remember thinking "what is wrong with this thing". The hole was a little ragged but it was a hole:rolleyes:
 
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My new ratcheting cable cutters. Never fails, somebody will cut Triplex and hit the messenger.

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Also, who broke off the tip?
 
chris kennedy said:
Here is how a cutter and die should travel.
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I totally agree - but that is how people learn - angry people like you - and occasionally me....

Years ago:
My favorite (facetious) helper for the bazillionth time.... I could not fire him at the time, but came short of killing him instead.... As below was a daily occurance.

ME: (Just got in truck ready to go home) "Did you strap the ladders?!?"
Schmuck: "Oh yes...."
ME: "Why am I sitting on them??????"

My truck rule is they go on the drivers seat for this purpose.
The other is if ladders go up they get strapped before you walk away. If you need to walk away before they get strapped for any reason - you take the ladder back off.
 
Don't hire idiots. Put it on the test during the interview, and don't hire the ones that get it wrong.

chris kennedy said:
Here is how a cutter and die should travel.

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Here is how they shouldn't travel as they bang up and down and around and get dull. Then I'm out $250 for another die and cutter. Please have respect for other poeples tools.

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ramsy said:
Don't hire idiots. Put it on the test during the interview, and don't hire the ones that get it wrong.
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Put them on your desk as paper wieghts - duing interview hand them to interviewee seperately - ask to have them handed back together as would be stored...
 
chris kennedy said:
Here is how a cutter and die should travel.

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Here is how they shouldn't travel as they bang up and down and around and get dull. Then I'm out $250 for another die and cutter. Please have respect for other peoples tools.

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Chris you should be out 'just' the cutter, not the die. The working edge of the die should not be effected by cutter being placed wrong for storage.
 
iwire said:
Chris you should be out 'just' the cutter, not the die. The working edge of the die should not be effected by cutter being placed wrong for storage.
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I know but sometimes 'New Tool Fever' gets the best of me.:smile:
 
My pet peeve is not putting tools back in the case they came with.Went to a job one saturday to get the portaband ,opened the gang box and all of the tools were just thrown in the box. I took all of the tools out put them in my truck and called my foreman. Told the guy to come by the office on monday morning to get some "new" tools. When he got there I gave him a shop hammer and some star drills "hammer drill" a new hacksaw "portaband" a brace and bit "1/2 drill" he got the idea now he's about as anal about this as I am.
 
a peeve of mine is when the numbskulls that dont know how to use a hole saw arbor spin the hole saw on and start drilling without setting the pins and locknut, thus cinching everything together, and they dont know how to take it apart so they just lay it on top of the box and go on their way.:mad:
 
I have a van with the roof caved in because its easier to just stand on the roof to untie the ladders than not to I guess. I was told he would pop the roof back out. Well that van has a headliner. I still have a van with the roof messed up, just not the guy that thought it was a good place to stand. I need to remember the don't hire idiots rule. From now on noone that smokes, background including drug test, and some common sense.
 
Had a fellow journeyman use the 2" cutter and 1 1/2" die in a company owned hydraulic knockout set. He managed to pull most of the threads off the draw stud and out of the 2" cutter.

Sometimes an anvil is no match for a rubber mallet.:D
 
bradleyelectric said:
I need to remember the don't hire idiots rule. From now on noone that smokes, background including drug test, and some common sense.
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NOW THAT, should narrow down the available pool nicely, hope you enjoy working alone! :D
 
Minuteman said:
My new ratcheting cable cutters. Never fails, somebody will cut Triplex and hit the messenger.

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Uhh.....I did that to my Journeyman when I was an apprentice.

And even after that, When I became a Journeyman, I let one of my apprentices use mine, and as I'm handing the tool to him, afraid to let them go, I warned him about that. But still they got damaged....

Repeat after me.......Karma. :smile:

Take a deep breath Friz. It'll be okay.

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