Wondering if other contractors furnish cordless tools for their employees? If not, do you require them to have them?
What do you consider essential? I'm thinking drill, impact driver and recip. saw.
This is for the commercial / industrial environment.
Once you know you're going to keep a man on , then pay for such things, but let them pick what they are comfortable with since all the good stuff is priced about the same,also you should know how long that stuff lasts so broken tools can be replaced , but if they are looking for a new drill every 2 months you'll know they are abusing them.Wondering if other contractors furnish cordless tools for their employees? If not, do you require them to have them?
What do you consider essential? I'm thinking drill, impact driver and recip. saw.
This is for the commercial / industrial environment.
i have often wondered why it is Ok to require an employee supply his own hand tools but not power tools. the only real difference is cost. I know some mechanics that have upwards of $30,000 in their tool chests.
Wondering if other contractors furnish cordless tools for their employees? If not, do you require them to have them?
What do you consider essential? I'm thinking drill, impact driver and recip. saw.
This is for the commercial / industrial environment.
For an auto mechanic, for example, working at a fixed location in a garage or other repair shop, the range of hand tools required gets pretty diverse and includes a lot of sizes of everything. $30,000 would not surprise me greatly.A mechanic with $30,000 worth of his own tools at a jobsite working for someone else? That's nuts. I know a lot of contractors that don't own that much in tools.
For an auto mechanic, for example, working at a fixed location in a garage or other repair shop, the range of hand tools required gets pretty diverse and includes a lot of sizes of everything. $30,000 would not surprise me greatly.
Other than an air impact wrench, a drill and a hydraulic lift, their tools used to be almost entirely hand tools anyway.
Now the electronic diagnostic equipment and the books of data will be big ticket items too and the owner will furnish those.
most collective bargaining units have a specified tool list
here is a representative sample:
Tool Pouch
Screwdrivers
Hacksaw frame
Tri-square
Side cutting pliers
Size 0 Phillips
Drywall saw Knife
Diagonal pliers
Size 1 Phillips
Straight claw Hammer
Wire stripers
Long-nose pliers
Stubby Phillips
Flashlight
Tin snips
Steel rule, 1? x 25? min.
5? common blade
1 set Allen wrenches
Torpedo level
2 pair channel lock 8?
common blade Awl
Code book
10? crescent wrench
Stubby common
Center punch
Tic tracer
1 set of spin tights
Voltage tester
Nut drivers. (Sockets on screwdriver type handles.) Usually with hollow shafts so you can tighten nuts on screws that are longer than they need to be.What are "spin tights"?
Nut drivers. (Sockets on screwdriver type handles.) Usually with hollow shafts so you can tighten nuts on screws that are longer than they need to be.
Hopefully US sizes only required.
i have often wondered why it is Ok to require an employee supply his own hand tools but not power tools. the only real difference is cost. I know some mechanics that have upwards of $30,000 in their tool chests.
What are "spin tights"?
I agree that it was made by Xcelite. The TM name was "SpinTite" and the originals are now considered collectible vintage tools.When I was starting out that's what nut drivers were called. I believe it was a trade name used by some manufacturer (maybe Xcellite?) When I say Spintight today it always results in having to explain what it is.
-Hal