who owns the tools you use

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jrannis said:
Friend of mine pulled out his brand new BOSH hammer drill. I thought it was really nice worked very well. I plugged it into my 1800 watt inverter... nothing, not a peep. Plugged it into the building power, worked fine.

I dont think that BOSH product is the right brand for me knowing it will not work on an inverter.
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Most invertors are kinda panzies when it comes to starting a large load such as your BOSCH. Don't rule BOSCH out because of an insufficent power source.

Best Wishes Everyone
 
brian john said:
My guys supply basic hand tools, I buy them anything else they want. I was replacing their hand tools as broke or were lost. But it got ridiculous with some guys buying screwdrivers every week, so I stopped that perk.

Sockets, torque wrenches, wrenches are all on me.
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A tool list can bite an employer both ways.

Most of my men met me half-way. And I treated them in kind.

Best Wishes Everyone
 
HighWirey said:
Most invertors are kinda panzies when it comes to starting a large load such as your BOSCH. Don't rule BOSCH out because of an insufficent power source.

Best Wishes Everyone
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I have run the big demo hammer that comes on the two wheel dolly off of the same inverter, Also routinely operate my greenlee tugger off of it. The power source is more than enough. I think it must have to do with the type of motor the BOSH has in it.
The BOSCH drill was a small 1/2" hammerdrill. The inverter has enough power to kill a horse!
 
I own ALL the tools my employees use. Tool belts, screwdrivers, the works. My guys are new arrivals to our marvelous country and are struggling with our language, our culture and many new challenges. As a humanitarian and a good Samaritan I have offered gainful employment to these men when many others would not. I know these humble and hard working people cannot afford to buy fancy tools and such, so I have decided to buy these tools for my men to use.

I mention these things not to elicit praise, but to simply illustrate another way to do things.
 
HaskinsElectric said:
I own ALL the tools my employees use. Tool belts, screwdrivers, the works. My guys are new arrivals to our marvelous country and are struggling with our language, our culture and many new challenges. As a humanitarian and a good Samaritan I have offered gainful employment to these men when many others would not. I know these humble and hard working people cannot afford to buy fancy tools and such, so I have decided to buy these tools for my men to use.

I mention these things not to elicit praise, but to simply illustrate another way to do things.
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You sound like a real nice mazza to work for Senior. I'll bet you pay them privailing wages too.
 
Ed Carr said:
I use all Makita corded & cordless.
Who owns them?
My wife, I bought them all for her! :grin: :grin:
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A number of years ago I bought my ex-wife a .243 for her birthday. She bought me a Microwave oven for mine!:D
 
I know I'm coming in way late on this but the guy I apprenticed for required me to have a pair of linesmans, a 6" shank flat head screwdriver, and a knife of some sort. And he mostly replaced them when mine became less functional. Occasionally I would splurge on a nicer model and sometimes when he got a good T & M job he would buy me a nicer model.

The best part was that I was allowed to take any of his special tools (roto-zip, pipe benders/offset kicks, etc) home if I needed them for anything. He was pretty good to me. Can't say the same for any of my successors...I think we were just a good fit.
 
HaskinsElectric said:
I own ALL the tools my employees use. Tool belts, screwdrivers, the works. My guys are new arrivals to our marvelous country and are struggling with our language, our culture and many new challenges. As a humanitarian and a good Samaritan I have offered gainful employment to these men when many others would not. I know these humble and hard working people cannot afford to buy fancy tools and such, so I have decided to buy these tools for my men to use.

I mention these things not to elicit praise, but to simply illustrate another way to do things.
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Assuming your men have visas to be here I would say that all tools should be payed for by the entity that collects the money for the work being done.

If you're still making a profit after paying for a man's hands, the least you can do is pay for his tools. You don't even have to let him have them...just use them.
 
HaskinsElectric said:
I own ALL the tools my employees use. Tool belts, screwdrivers, the works. My guys are new arrivals to our marvelous country and are struggling with our language, our culture and many new challenges. As a humanitarian and a good Samaritan I have offered gainful employment to these men when many others would not. I know these humble and hard working people cannot afford to buy fancy tools and such, so I have decided to buy these tools for my men to use.

I mention these things not to elicit praise, but to simply illustrate another way to do things.
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Curious to know how you train these guys? I thought about it several times, but the training obstacles are great. Are you managing to find electrically skilled individuals in this lot?
 
I bring hand tools and depending on the contractor a cordless drill and sawzall. That's all a employee should have to bring. Cordless is pushing it in my opinion. If not having other needed tools slows the job down I just remember I get paid by the hour.
 
wireman71 said:
I bring hand tools and depending on the contractor a cordless drill and sawzall. That's all a employee should have to bring. Cordless is pushing it in my opinion. If not having other needed tools slows the job down I just remember I get paid by the hour.
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does unemployment pay by the hour?
 
emahler said:
does unemployment pay by the hour?
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I'm not trying to bash you here but as far as I can tell most of the people in the previous 7 pages of this thread thought the worker should have hand tools and maybe a drill.

Why do you think wireman71 would be unemployed?
 
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I have developed an affinity for the cordless drill that I use every day. Without regard to whether a man was required to have one or not, I would think that he might want to use his own anyhow. Years back, I know I'd go out to my own truck on construction jobs and get my own benders because I knew they were accurate and not all messed up and I was more used to the markings on mine. There were probably a couple other things that I always wanted to use of "mine", but I can't remember right now.
 
mdshunk said:
Curious to know how you train these guys? I thought about it several times, but the training obstacles are great. Are you managing to find electrically skilled individuals in this lot?
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The leg chains are training obstacles, but once he takes their leg chains off, I bet they work like crazy!

Marc, we have a company here, where they are well trainned, and taking on larger jobs, and because they are willing to work long days, they beat out other bidders. The work they do that, I have seen is pretty good.
 
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satcom said:
The leg chains are training obstacles, but once he takes their leg chains off, they work like crazy!
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I'm not 100% sure I like where you're going with that. It is just as valid of an option when staffing work as any other. On the face, it might seem like employing illegals, which may be what he does, but let's not assume that right off the bat, por favor.
 
jaylectricity said:
I'm not trying to bash you here but as far as I can tell most of the people in the previous 7 pages of this thread thought the worker should have hand tools and maybe a drill.

Why do you think wireman71 would be unemployed?
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My guess it is because of his attitude about being slow.
 
I can see what Marc is saying about using the tools you like but a bender does not generally wear out. With batteries at better then $80.00 each I have no desire to subsidize the company.

That said for 'one of jobs' I have brought all sorts of stuff from home, from rigging equipment, to staging, I even brought my snowblower with me to work to make the day more productive. But I don't see any need for me to provide something like a cordless drill every day.
 
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