29November 2021
it's got brown hair in today's video we're
going to talk about the tools you will need if you are studying your apprenticeship so
basically the first thing you need is a tool bar and all the things that are in earth
2 about such as a hammer you don't have to spend three hundred sixty dollars on a hammer
it's not really necessary for the first year a speed square I would recommend either this
or a combination square but this is pretty handy for when you're first starting out and
you don't know how to cut you can put that in put something like that and it gives you
a straight line to cut to so if you're just starting out and you're not really good at
the skill saw that could be a handy thing to have now punch knife a folding ruler and a
tape you definitely need a measuring tape and also for all the mistakes you make you need a
nail puller it's just a part of building and also these two these are very handy for pulling
smaller nails out that you can't quite get too when I started building 14 years ago in 2004 the
company I was working with had a little program where they would give you that buy few the main
tools that you needed and it was pretty much a nail gun that's Bill saw a level and the tools
in your tool belt that was pretty much a battery tools are pretty average at the time it was an
electric skillet or so you had a lead as well after about a year that was when you get a like
a drill 19 bolt drove and that was pretty much it for the first year as an apprentice but now
it's a little bit different if I was gonna have someone work for me and I were you know in their
first year these are the things I would expect the framing gun here in New Zealand is very crucial
Dick's like this is quite a common job when you first start out especially in residential we've
got the pest load we don't have air guns in New Zealand I know over in the States that's still
really popular the pneumatic guns but I think all the hoses and air compressors left the building
site before I even started building so we've just been on gas ever since so it's got the gas thingy
so if you think about staying building consider investing one of these they're not cheap but um
might be worth looking at we might get away with it depends who you work for you might get away
with not having one moving on to the electric a skill so nowadays skill saws are good enough to
be battery-powered so I would recommend like a skill saw and drill combo to get you started
18 volt batteries and two drills and a skill saw would probably cost you around about maybe
$800 the reason you need two drills is because one will give you a pilot hole and the second
one will put the screw in for you so this will drive the score a lot better and I know I'm pretty
sure in some countries like that didn't even let the apprentices use power tools philosophy right
so they just get good at cutting stuff with the hand sewer and doing it the old way just so
they can like you know know how to hammer a nail right yeah being shooters you know another
tool you need if you're just starting out as a builder is a handsaw it doesn't have to be a
funky looking Japanese Hansel like this but I do recommend this I'd never learned with these
these are quite new I've been using it for like three years but they they're like a razor cut and
a super thin blade and they work on the pool the reason you want a sort of work on the pool is
because steel is strong and tension but it's weak in compression so if you ever try to cut
something with a regular old with and saw and you get in like a snag or something it just bends
like that where as well the forceful cutting that you're doing with this is on the pool so the blade
is constantly in tension and you don't get that you don't get that Bend and last but not least
the level so you know that all the work you're doing is either straight or level or plumb very
crucial and it's good for marking stuff it's good for making sure you're [ __ ] straight good for
making sure your decking screws are good sticking you got to get your dicks Joe no one likes a
crooked dick oh what's got you need these you need to protect and a mask and glasses you need
to protect yourself from day one like we didn't do and then boots and you guys should know the
starfish and have to saw this so maybe if you want to know what you should have further into
your apprenticeship let me know in the comments and perhaps I'll make another video but yeah
that's it for today's episode I'll see you guys next week we will continue with this beautiful
dick that we're working on saluton grant yeah as long as they can like drill holes cut wood
yeah major thanks yeah that's basically it he's gonna film a part but then I felt
like a duck holding the camera they gave up