Hmm, do I detect a fellow tool fiend?
Yes impacts are the bees - I have a dewalt 14.4 - and only because they came in a combo with a drill and really cheap - so cheap I bought two... That - and I had more batteries for them.... Why change systems????
And I do like to use tools for what the intended purpose is... A drill - really does not have a place driving screws - way over powered and doing 100 of them you might as well do them by hand with the wieght of a drill. And even then most screws dont need 1,330 in-lbs of torque with an 18v battery... (It will still drive screws just as fast and as long with 12v or even less - because it never needed that much power in the first place...) Nor is it great idea to rough a house with a cordless drill either... You're an electrician - make some power happen.... :roll:
My tools are worth more than my house and property combined. I have about 25 grand just in car tools. I used to have about a 300 dollar a month tool payment.
It's fun to be able to complain that you have better tools in your vehicle than your EC has on the site and not be fibbin'.
I just moved and still have tools at two other properties. I have a gang box full of tools at one of them and not much room here to put them.
I built the gang box myself. I was on a job and saw a box I thought would be perfect for what I would do with it and copied the outside dimensions and built a heavier duty version. The stinking wheels cost me almost a hundred and fifty bux. (It has six)
Best gang box I have seen had pour concrete formed up inside a regular cabinet style box - and the guy would bolt it to the floor from inside to the foundation. All of the hinges were beefed up and all the hockey puck locks had extra steel on them. It was more like a safe... You could see where attempts were made but gave up, once they saw the concrete under the steel...
Since this has been set up this way - there have been attempts but no theft.
Best gang box I have seen had pour concrete formed up inside a regular cabinet style box - and the guy would bolt it to the floor from inside to the foundation. All of the hinges were beefed up and all the hockey puck locks had extra steel on them. It was more like a safe... You could see where attempts were made but gave up, once they saw the concrete under the steel...
I don't leave tools at jobs - Mine is inside my van - a 4' laying on its side so you have to open the van doors the the box door (Like a shelf...) to get into it - to do that you need to get past 2 alarms - one with GPS location - video taped in front of my house which is lit like the sun, an angry former Marine in a bath robe and whatever handy 12ga I might reach for.
No - but I got an informative talk by the SFPD on the in's and out's of the use of deadly force and unlawfull detention. And in doing so - I'm pretty sure that everyone under the age of 18 in my neighborhood knows exactly who I am... some kids were trying for my van - and one of them ended up face down in the gutter with my foot on his neck. And there is another guy who got a bender handle very close to his face as he was driving away... There is also a guy I saw on tape and had the chance to have a conversation with up near the super market a week later - he lives around here somewhere - but he also will not come on my side of the street after the conversation. Since all of these - there has been very little activity out by my van in the last two years - thankfully.Any maiming or deaths?
I imagine the number has a comma... But imagine how much it weighs with concrete poured in it, and a bunch of 1/2" steel...
Yes - and I got a talking to from the wife about availability of ammo, the visabilty of firearms escalating conflict & the fact that I'm a Daddy now... :roll: As well as the cops who informed me of where my real property line is, and what can and can not be done on both sides of it - for my own legal protection... That said there have been no attempts on my van in the last few years...
I've been told - by the cops... Not to bring a gun to a knife fight in so many words... Appropriate use of force can back-fire on you... My van is on a puplic street in front of my house - 15' away from the curb is my property line on my front walk... If I see someone out there - I have to warn them.... (This is where I got in trouble before...)
If they flee - it's a cop problem... If they turn and extend a threat across my property line where I am - I can defend with appropriate use of force. If they cross my property line with a bat or pipe - I can beat them to death with a bat or pipe (see thats equal... )- or some type of non-lethal round like bean bags or rubber balls.... Which at 20' may or may not kill you... Then if the person is still on your way to cause eminant harm I can escallate to buck-shot or a deer slug... The next shot in the slide... (One cop said it doesn't matter which rounds come first... They can't tell - and won't care... But helps provide prove of escalation.)I've been told - by the cops... Not to bring a gun to a knife fight in so many words... Appropriate use of force can back-fire on you... My van is on a public street in front of my house - 15' away from the curb is my property line on my front walk... If I see someone out there - I have to warn them.... (This is where I got in trouble before...)
But he - the person turns with a gun from the street - which would extend a threat across my property line putting my person - not my property - in eminant harm - I can put a deer slug in them...
