Dumped out my Bucket boss yesterday:
This is what I “found”
blockplane, bug repellent, folding Dozuki saw, 4in1 rasp, bullnose plane, rat-tail file, tire gauge, metric catspaw, 2 plumb-bobs, hacksaw blade handle, 16″ combo square, Yankee screwer, wire stripper, long needle-nose pliers, linesman pliers, slip-joint pliers, pliers, 7″ scissors, folding pruning saw, mini wonder bar, awl, screwdrivers, dikes, adj.romex stripper, surform, chisels in a roll, 3 putty knives, coping saw blades, 3 nailsets,2 sets stair gauges, green spraypaint, 3 cold chisels, 2 pin punches, 4 cheapo paint brushes, red chalk box, 4 hookends for chalk boxes, 9″ assym. pullers, bevel square, 3 small sharpening stones, 3″ butt gauge, Razor scraper, surgical scissors, paint opener, utility knife, masking tape, steel wool, Diamond hone, blow nozzle, tire chuck, air chuck tee, drywall jab saw, 4in1 screwdriver, electrical tape, Red Devil scraper bar, sand paper, Insulation knife, Colored sharpies And ….
The aluminum trim nailset I just replaced!
A lot of this stuff did not go back in, and my back feels better already!!!
Oh yeah, almost forgot the 2 cups of sawdust!!!
and various forgotten fasteners.
Mr T
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I am an Experienced Professional!
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what's a metric catspaw?
earl
"He who xxxxs nuns will later join the church." -The Clash
when you build with metric measurements, the tolerences are also in metric. also if there is a gap you would measure in metric numbers.
so you need a metric catspaw to get in the gap.
Gbobl Volo Non Voleo
no empty beer cans?
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Andy,
No boss is a mennonite christian, and frowns upon alcohol use, especially on the jobsite!
Tho he does drive me to drink on occasion!
IMERC,
Good eye, it is japanese so it must be metric!
Dave,
See above response to Andy, I am not sure but I think he would frown upon that also.
The religious right can be so uptight!!!!
Mr T
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no empty beer cans?
no roaches?Ditch
You're braver than I am.
No telling what has set up residence in mine and that would get an attitude for being evicted.
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
Metric catspaw???
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
I assume all this stuff was lost in there and you couldn't find it. What, no roach clip?
Well I've used the opener thats attached to the top of a beer can (bent) for a hook on my chaukline in a pinch...think that'd get printed in "tips" in FHB? lol
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I think if someone marketed replacement chalk box hooks, they would be rich, and famous too!
Irwin does. They come as a 4 pack. Ace Hardware. 79 cents.
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
Really? I never knew that. See? they're rich and famous, just like I said. ;^}
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God must have thought I need a change, because he dumped my old BB out for me. At least it only fell down in the back of truck. All I had to do was make the bed carpet into a half tube and slide the contents out into a wheel barrow.
Good luck. rg
No T.P.?
Who Dares Wins.
i didn't even know they made bucket bosses for 55 gal drums....
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Ya dint expek Mr. T to use a reglar 5 gal bucket dij ya?
Samt
Actually I am currently in a 12 step program to reduce my dependence on DW buckets.
at last count my trailer had 16 of them storing various items critical(?) to my job.
I also have about 10 empties waiting for a good use.
But I have taken the first step and no longer collect JC buckets.
The rockers just left 3 empties on the job and I am resisting taking them.
It has only been 1 work day though.
Help me brothers !!
I still have a weakness for "Special" buckets though.
Any thing of a different size or color or material.
the tall ones are hard to pass up!
I got some yellow and red and black and grey.
Kinda like sharpies you can never have to many colors.
Smaller ones are good to!
for mixing small batches of durabond.
I am resisting putting tools in them any more.
Got me some "Bambarines"
Fish trays for those of you who live inland.
~18x30x12 plastic nesting trays.
more efficient use of space.
Mr T
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You know what I use for storage that's really cool. Old bank drive thru money carriers. You know the cylander that you put in vacumn tube at the bank drive thru. We replace a lot of those systems every year and the jobs that I go on I snatch up the old ones and use them for holding screws and wire nuts and just about anything else you can imagine. They're excellent.
O.K. back to the drywall buckets. I just thought I would share that with you.Who Dares Wins.
those bank things ,i got my speed bits in. im tempted to grab another for my chisels
Bank cylinders? Next thing is we'll have a thread "Opened up my bank dispenser yesterday"...here's what I found....
4 pencils, tips all broken off
Broken drill bits
Various wood screws
Various machine screws
Various washers
Various sized drywall anchors
Broken staple stacks
Tons of varioius sized nails....
Nail punches
Pop rivets...etc, etc....
Last summer I was driving down the street and right there next to someone's trash bin were two pool chem buckets with screw on lids.
Same diameter as a drywall bucket but shorter.
Had to stop and grab em, jeez what treasures.
Can't imagine what those peole could have been thinking, LOL.View Image
glue buckets from tile guy. fits 50lbs of 8 or 10 commons. leave on job in rain no rust. do you remember how to hand nail...
T
YA just have to clean and rearange all the crap in the buckets every cpl a months,ya just have to. I have about 20 spackle buckets with different tools for different jobs.
The only canvas bucket bag I use is for paint stuff....the others are a joke.
I bought this large canvas tool bag that has wheels and a telescoping handle with a buncha pockets in it and outside it. Makes life soooo easy from the truck to the place I'm working...has handles as well.
Best tool box/bag I ever owned for under a hundred buckets (that was a real Freudian slip)....but I can't overload it cause......well same reason as a bucket....I wont find anything.
Be well
andy The way we regard death is critical to the way we experiance life.
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I'm so relieved to find out I'm not the only one!
I've got some buckets that're cracked and have a little concrete stuck to them, but, but, I MIGHT NEED THEM LATER!!! I've got square ones that kitty litter came in, short square ones that nails came in, and lots of clothes detergent buckets from Sam's Club! BUT, it gets worse: I save empty plastic containers that came with spices or parmesian cheese or mixed nuts in them. I even have a big box of 3# coffe cans with plastic lids and I DON'T BUY COFFE THAT WAY!
My friend George says that he always knows he can get any type of nail or screw from me at almost any hour IF he can handle the possibility that they'll smell like pepper or cheese.
OH MAN, I'd better shut up and go out to the shop and sort some screws or something.......
I guess those 12 step groups just haven't gotten to my town yet.Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
HELP ME BROTHERS!
Temptation has a new face and is calling my name!
Look what doggie bisquats are coming in now!Mr T
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JUST SAY YES!!!
What the hell, at least we know what our addictions are! ; )
(Why buy kitty litter in a bag when you can get it in a bucket!!!)Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Why the hell would you say no to that, I can think of a lot of uses, speacially with that flip top lidThe Count-Down begins, 95 days left
You think you got it bad---I'm a MILK CRATE JUNKIE!!!!!
Last week had to go to the laundromat to use the O/S machine to wash my and the kid's sleeping bags after a particularly wet trip, heh, heh, heh...found myself out in the parking lot smoking a nice quiet cigarette, noticed a stream running down in a 40' deep ravine behind the parking. Just sort of gazing at the water rushing over the rocks...then I saw her!
A BRAND-SPANKING-NEW-LOOKING DEEP ULTRA-MARINE-BLUE MILK CRATE
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! Noooooo!!!!
Damn near broke my leg and fractured my skull getting down there wearing sandals and shorts and slithering over moss-coated rocks to get the damn thing. Then I couldn't get back up the slope and had to wade down the stream until it went under the road in a culvert, then clamber up onto the road and try to look nonchalant walking down the street holding a dripping wet milk-crate full of rotting leaves and other crud....
Made it back to the truck with my heart pounding, waiting for that tap on the shoulder....
I gotta go to the RenoDepot and buy another one of those blue Rubbermaid trunks---I really gotta....
Why doesn't anyone make steel tool cases anymore?????????
SAAAAAAAVE MEEEEEEE!!!
Dinosaur
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Oh man, this is oh so funny...laughing my head off the whole way through this thread.
Guess I'm a DW bucket junkie, too. I do tons of drywall work and always get the goodies in the end, empty buckets. Oh I hate tossing them away, they're so good for every cotton pickin thing. Only thing is, I try to dedicate one bucket to a certain type of theme...one buckets has all paintbrushes, another all drywall tools. But....a funny thing always happens...I can never keep a bucket dedicated in that way. Eventually I wind up with a bunch of buckets with a little of everything in them...never can find certain things. Spent 8 months looking for my nail sets...finally found them the other day...they kinda collect at the bottom with the sawdust, drywall dust, and .....bugs.
No, No, No! The nailsets go in the pooch--the pooch goes in the bucket, preferably right side up....
Since I know you're gonna ask: a pooch is the local word for pouch--also known as a tablier or apron. You know--that thingy you strap on your waist that weighs about 2 lbs in the morning and 35 at quittin' time...?
Dinosaur
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Do you use the same word as a term or endearment for your dog? : )Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Milk crates? .... *PLASTIC* milk crates...???
Sheesh!
I've got three, count'em !3! authentic, died in the wool metal reinforced corners and edges wooden Carnation Dairy milk crates that are to die for. I keep my smaller quickset clamps in one and the other two I just keep lying around empty 'coz they're so cool looking.
As for buckets, I've instructed the wife to buy nothing but the kind of laundry detergent that comes in those square buckets. With the corresponding square lids.
Somebody up there likes me, whoever came up with that idea.
...........
Dennis in Bellevue WA
woodnut@anatechsys.com
Rectangle with flip lid.
Wire milk crates.
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
Rectangle with flip lid.
Yes - You rang?
Wire milk crates.
Sure, where to? Kevin Halliburton
"I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity." - I.M. Pei -
Previous to the arrival of the short-legged version of the Big Blue Trunk, it was the nail guns and boxes of strip nails that went in the metal milk crates. I used to have one wooden one but it got disappeared one day. I've got 8 wooden beer cases, but I made 'em myself to hold the home-made beer, so they don't count I suppose.
Most fun you can have with a newbie: tell him to go to the truck and bring you the milk crate with the air nails in it (3x2500 framers + 6x2500 finishing + 2x4 HT65's. All in an oversized metal milk crate. Total weight: close to a hundred pounds).
Watch his face when he tries to pick it up....
Hee hee hee.
Plastic crates are departmental. I like the oversized ones for small plumbing and electrical stuff. Square ones are for tubes of caulking and pitch; another for plastic hardware assortment boxes--each crate holds 6 trays of hardware. Used to keep three or four others for tools that didn't come with decent metal cases. Now that all goes in the Big Blue Trunk--sort of the poor man's version of a Greenlee site box.
I've got the square laundry soap buckets, too. They work great for storing off-cuts and moulding in the shop. Lousy for mixing up stuff, tho.
If anybody has any metal Dewalt recip or drill cases they don't want, it's worth a case of home-made beer if it still has both hinges, the hasp, and the handle all in working order.
Dinosaur
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Hey Dino -
I can't believe the indistructibility of the wooded milk crates. I've had these for ... at least 25 years. And they get their share of abuse.
Yeah, the square buckets suck canal water with respect to mixing but they sure make a nice package in the back of the truck.
Just finished a little touch-up drywall work in the garage and managed to score some nice little 1 gallon plastic pails with handles. 'Course I had to use up some three year old mud to do so.
What's a few zippers here and there when the pay-off is a a couple neat little buckets! (grin)
...........
Dennis in Bellevue WA
woodnut@anatechsys.com
you actually use drill cases? OK..let me look around.
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You fellas crack me up. I tried the DW bucket briefly. looked like a good idea at the time, although all my tools bashing into each other inside the thing didnt look quite so good.
The final straw came one day when I had a big chunk of a hairdressers wall out. Was going like a crazy man to get it back together before dark. well, dark arrived along with the rain......me still going for it. heard the spashing noises, but was way to occupied to take any notice.
Come time to leave......went to pick up my bucket only to find the splashing noise was the guttering emptying into the thing. All my tools was drowned!
Now everything winds up in a mess on the passenger side of the truck. Oh how i hate working outa the front of that. Roll on the day I get my trailer built.........
Wood Hoon
I used to work in the Phoenix area and kept tools in buckets in the back of an open truck. Had to drill holes in the bottoms of all the buckets because of the occasional squall...Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
My favourite tool cases are the metal suitcase-type jobs you used to get with Dewalt recip saws and cordless drills. The plastic ones can't hack it. I cut out the internal dividers and then they hold Makita, Porter Cable, Whatever, heh, heh, heh.,
Be a Brand-name De-namer......
Dinosaur
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The good thing with the Dewalt logo on the outside, they are less likely to be stolen ;)The Count-Down begins, 93 days left
Depends on who you're worried about doing the stealing....
They make a few good items; I like the original 12" chop; the first recip they came out with is tough but I don't like the blade change mechanism; the gyprock screw gun is great. The cordless drills and drivers are crapola; the circ's are too heavy for their power, and the table saw looks nice but for that price, I can get something better, like a General. I like the look of their biscuit cutter but not the price....
Found them pretty good on customer service, tho. Once one of the set screws for the main axis pivot on the chop worked it's way loose and the axel came out as I was making a cut. The whole head of the saw came away in my hand, still running. Eeeeek!
Called DW, told him I wasn't hurt but suggested they check out a product called LocTite, heh, heh, heh. The rep on the other end of the phone asked if the tool got damaged. I said no. He said, are you sure, check your blade carefully; I'd like to do something for you here, man. I said, well, maybe it got bent, I haven't yet put a dial-gauge on it. He said, a new one's in the mail.
Can't beat that with a stick. Sure beats the pants off CH, ha ha ha (BTW, I finally got the anvil--free--from their head of cust. svc. Seems he just happened to find one lying on one of the engineers' desks. Okay, I believe you, mister....)Dinosaur
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Just be careful of those buckets in the closets.....with lids on them......all by their lonesome......
RE: Buckets in closets. Reminds me of my 1972 summer job with a painting contractor, slapping paint on the walls of a huge new apartment complex. Rather than giving us spackle, we were instructed to scavenge drywall mud from the numerous discarded buckets of the sheetrockers we were following. Seems they preferred their buckets over the porto-potties. We quickly learned to avoid buckets with lids.
Edited 9/17/2003 4:51:53 PM ET by TOMMH
Take good care of those crates. They already have antique value. e-bay here we come... ; )Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
I've got two of the large rectangular metal milk crates... how much homemade beer could I get for 'em? (I suppose it'd be a bit of a drive) : )Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
How much milk fits into a beer crate? Uhhhh.... Say Goood night, Gracie.
Dinosaur
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> My friend George says that he always knows he can get any type of nail or screw from me at almost any hour IF he can handle the possibility that they'll smell like pepper or cheese.
Why would that be a problem? It just makes them taste better when you hold them in your mouth.... ;-)
-- J.S.
I'm gonna borrow that line.... ; )Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
What happened to your little tube of graphite?
I still can't get over the fact that he doesn't pack TP in there.
The guy aint ready for nothing........ sheesh. Probably has all his sleeves cut off his shirts.Who Dares Wins.
It's probably under the front seat in the cab.
I don't know I'd like to see it closer at hand. But then again he's young and confident.Who Dares Wins.
I don't think he cuts the sleeves off his shirts or he'd have no place cool to carry his smokes.
But then again I think he probably carries his smokes in a plastic bag.
I use a lot of Easy Sand for quick patches and usually end up with powder all over the back of the van from a partial bag. One of my customers was had some empty dry cat food buckets out for the trash. They have a nice snap lid & a handle and hold 1 bag. I use one for 20/45/& 90 minute products. They stack well also!
Must be the power of suggestion...
Now I have to go find a 15 gallon bucket to get all that stuff back in and organized up right.
Maybe one of those 35 gallon lube cans. They come with handels? No matter havta use a hand truck to move the thing around anyways.
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
I found a 7 and a half gallon bucket today. Virgin no less.
2 more and I'll be able to get all of the stuff I dumped out of 5 gall job back into buckets
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....