If you had $10K to spend on tools, and..
Ted W.
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Pretend you have no tools to start with. None! Not even a screwdriver or utility knife. Maybe you work for someone else and they provide the tools. You know tools, and you know how to use them, you just don’t actually own any.
Someone walks up to you and gives you $10,000 with the condition that you have to spend it on HOME CONSTRUCTION tools. What would you buy? Or better put, how would you spend it?
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Edited 5/19/2008 8:32 pm by Ted W.
Edited 5/19/2008 8:33 pm by Ted W.
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A new computer
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first 800. just hand tools,hammers,screwdrivers,wrenches,
then a small/mid size compressor.400.,
nailers finish and framing400,
sawsall 200,
milwaukee 7 power saw 150,
delta planer 400,
figuring i need protable, a ridgid table saw 500,
a nice 12 sliding miter 500,
a cheap miter 10" 100,
a stabila laser 450,
a good 4' level 100,
a makita 18v lit setup 600,
kreg pocket 125,
porter cable router set up 250,
porter cable ro sander 125,
cheap drywall jack 175,
ladders,6'step,8'step,light 16' ext,good 24' 500.00,
i'm not sure where i'm at [4k left] but i'd take what i got left and go find a 12' dump bed trailer,i don't know how i would live with just one trailer,but that ones gotta have a dump.
i'm sure i forgot some basic thing,but if you would send me a real 10k i will submit a more complete list.larryif a man speaks in the forest,and there's not a woman to hear him,is he still wrong?
I do think of a computer as a construction tool.But OK, I see what you mean.A good slider, circ saw, and a full selection of hand tools and a tool belt/bags.Starret level and a laaser levelRO sander Hard to say, really. It would take 30-40K to replace all I have now, not counting trucks, so it would depend on the kind of work I would be starting at.
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Edited 5/20/2008 6:33 am ET by Piffin
I agree with Piffin. It may not be a traditional homebuilding tool but I can't imagine one single newly built home today that a PC didn't facilitate.
I'm not sure a PC is applicable, but CAD software certainly is. Not that I would spend money on it, but it would apply. The PC doesn't apply any more than a wristwatch for tracking time, or a tv for watching home improvement shows. But good try anyway. :)--------------------------------------------------------
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How 'bout a cell phone?You sound like somebody who does not use a PC for your work. I do the design, make lists, orders, track orders, research information on products...Likewise, my jobs slow down drastically when no cell phone. It lets me be two places at one, call in orders, co-ordinate deliveries, take messages, resolve questions with owners....and leave a hundred voice mail messages with subs that fail to show up...
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Yeah, I'm still living under a rock as far as that goes. My pc is for browsing the web and checking my email, and I don't have a cell phone. Me dinosaur, you george jetson.--------------------------------------------------------
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LOL, You still doing the book-keeping in cuniform on clay tablets too?
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Reciepts and invoices sorted into 12 monthly envelopes. You need a computer for that?--------------------------------------------------------
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hammers; squares (several types); tape measures; saws (hand, radial, reciprocating, table); pliers; nail pullers and nail sets; screwdrivers; drywall tools, painting tools (brushes, trays, rollers, etc.), drills (assorted types), thickness planer, sander (orbital and other types), router and bits, compressor and nail guns, clamps (C, bar, pipe), ladders (step, extension), goggles, face shield, respirator, other safety tools, plumb bob, levels (laser, 24", 48"), pencil and paper, calculator, shovels, caulking gun, utility knives, electrical testers.
I think all that could be obtained for $10K.
Give me a moment, I am trying to get Diesel to tell me how big a piece of him 10k would buy.
Secondary items would air tools like nail guns, compressors, etc.
$19.95, English, Spanish dictionary, from Boarders book store.
$289.99 32' Ladder @ the local Big Box
$60 Black Labrador mix from the local dumb friends league,
$9,630.06 97 GMC Sierra w/ladder rack & tinted windows, gun rack & a fish on the tailgate!
I think I'd go to the islands right away. Oh, yeah, tools. Maybe a good air mattress and some fins and a mask.
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
~ Voltaire
Knowing what I know now, I think I'd just head to the tavern.
Doug
i cant reply in the correct way because in real life i did not just buy everything i needed new or at once.
when i started i bought one tool every week or 2.
After i started i went to garage sales and found tools.
I searched the ads for items i needed and often rebuilt tools.
I bought old dump trucks and kept them running.
I would much rather have bought real estate with my money.
im not saying this would be for everyone, in your scenario if i was going to do just trim i would want the best miter and table saw i could get.
I always did so many different things i could never buy the best tools for every task
I have to admit, the new reformed bobby is easier to read with the white space.;)
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I'm with some of the others....
do a little R&R....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I wouldn't just buy a bunch of tools and keep doing what I'm doing. I would rather set myself up to do something really special. Maybe like custom artistic concrete countertops, or custom tile work. I like the colorful stuff - reds, blues, greens and yellows all mixed together with bits of metal and glass. I was trying to find the website I saw about a month ago to show what I'm talking about.
Okay, some of you replied that you would go on vacation. Gee, what a surprise. The last thing I want to do is lay around on a beach and get fat and sunburned. If I had and extra 10K and just the know-how that I have now, believe you me I'd be set up to do some serious building.
Maybe custom stairs. I liked working for that stair company a couple of years ago, and I know if I had the setup I could do it. What ever it is, it would be awesome.
Hmm.. now all I need it ten grand. Got any ideas?--------------------------------------------------------
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That is kind of where I was going with the PC thing. I am moving out of contracting and to doing just design work. My PC is getting dated
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Pimp your W&H molder to CNC? That'd be cool.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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Sounds more like a frankenstein
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"I am moving out of contracting and to doing just design work."
ahh. the dark side.
Every day is a gift, that's why it's called the present.
If I had and extra 10K and just the know-how that I have now, believe you me I'd be set up to do some serious building.
Maybe custom stairs. I liked working for that stair company a couple of years ago, and I know if I had the setup I could do it. What ever it is, it would be awesome.
Hmm.. now all I need it ten grand. Got any ideas?
LOL... yeah, I got an idea.... stop dreaming about it and get out there and try EARNING that 10K by selling some of that 'awesome' work of yours. If you really think that you're only a 10K investment away from having your own successful and productive business then you need to beg/borrow/steal that scratch and get moving. But I'll tell you this... it takes a lot more than carpentry skills and tools to make a living running a business... in this business.
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But I'll tell you this... it takes a lot more than carpentry skills and tools to make a living running a business... in this business.
Dammit all to hell, I just about had the ten grand saved up, you have to go and ruin my dreams!
I was this close!
Doug
Edited 5/20/2008 10:41 pm ET by DougU
This is a business? Well, now I know what I've been doing wrong all this time. But okay, I can fix this. From now on they pay me.
Think they'll fall for it?
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Edited 5/21/2008 2:25 am by Ted W.
Trick question.
I'd say if you had no tools not even a screwdriver-
You're going to need that 10k to get by on while you work for
someone else and learn your way around the jobsite.
You didn't read it completely. The question assumes you are working for someone and know your way around, just don't have the tools.--------------------------------------------------------
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As penance I'll try and make a list. 23 oz. Framing hammer
16 oz. Finish hammer
25' tape
speed square
framing square
torpedo level
2' level
4' level
6' level (some prefer 8')
chalk line
two utility knives
tool belt
combination square
bevel gauge
compass (scribe)
spool of mason line
cats paw
flat bar
handsaw (your choice of style)
stud finder
laser level
worm drive ( or sidewinder )
jigsaw
sawzall
angle grinder
coping saw
cordless screw gun
CMS ( your choice of size and style)
portable table saw
compressor
framing gun
finish gun
hammer drill
Festo
multimaster
two 25' cords
one 50' cord
three way splitter
random orbital sander
beltsander
router
router bits ( give me a break how many Hail Mary's do ya want from me?) That's it I'm done.
I forgot the screwdriver.
the tool that nobody buys but everybody needs in house buildingDavid White 32x survey level with tripod
T W .......Since I am older than Piffen I would start with some new pencils a sharpener, erasers and some o those new fangled screws..........:)