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05-20-2009, 07:58 PM
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I've had so many driver tips pilferred out of my drill boxes I'm considering a trip wire and some C4, F%$# THAT LOCK S#!T! 
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05-20-2009, 08:16 PM
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Fentoozler
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Originally Posted by rbsremodeling
I am really disappoint in these responses. How can you guys not understand his plight?
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If might have something to do with the fact that most - but not all - of us do not feel a need to lick the windows in the truck.
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05-20-2009, 08:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Celtic
If might have something to do with the fact that most - but not all - of us do not feel a need to lick the windows in the truck.
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That depends what I might be able to lick off of said windows.
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05-20-2009, 08:40 PM
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Fentoozler
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WarnerConstInc.
That depends what I might be able to lick off of said windows.
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...mostly leftovers from a thunderous sneeze attack 
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05-20-2009, 08:45 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Celtic
...mostly leftovers from a thunderous sneeze attack |
It always ends up with boogers
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05-20-2009, 08:46 PM
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I have never seen anybody lock a tool case, in fact I have wondered why the companies even cast a place to put a lock on the cases.
The issue of borrowed / stolen bits and sawzall blades is an important issue, but I don't think keeping the cases locked makes much sense.
I would really hate it if someone swapped a bad battery with me while I was not watching. They don't give those 18v Dewalts away...
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05-20-2009, 10:19 PM
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Eckwitte
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Residential Renovation
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he probably just doesnt want people borrowing his tools so he locks them up walks away and when he comes back to look for something its right there inside his box where he left it, I hate lending my tools...Get your own god damn Pencil! Ive been using the same one for a month! You eating em or something!
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05-20-2009, 10:38 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Southern Build
I would really hate it if someone swapped a bad battery with me while I was not watching. They don't give those 18v Dewalts away...
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that is very true but no i dont lock my stuff up i just keep an ol eagle eye on the **** and at the end of the day it all gets put back in the truck or locked in a knack box
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05-21-2009, 12:02 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Southern Build
I have never seen anybody lock a tool case, in fact I have wondered why the companies even cast a place to put a lock on the cases.
The issue of borrowed / stolen bits and sawzall blades is an important issue, but I don't think keeping the cases locked makes much sense.
I would really hate it if someone swapped a bad battery with me while I was not watching. They don't give those 18v Dewalts away...
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All my tools, including batteries are very clearly seen as my own.
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05-21-2009, 12:37 AM
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Best thread I've ever read.
All the conspiracy's thrown about I'm on the edge of my seat as to why this man locks his cases!
I'm going with lower mental capacity. I like the 'he's a tool and should be locked up too,' quote. Priceless.
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05-21-2009, 08:42 AM
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New Guy
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I genuinely don't know why he locks the cases. And by the way, he will do this if he's working in the same room with the case; all the time, everytime. When I ask him about it, he looks at me like I'm the idiot for having to ask such a question (this guy is difficult to explain). And then I got to thinking about it, Dewalt and others put those holes their for a reason, so I figured maybe other people do this as well.
It sounds like some of you use those lock holes, but not to the point that goes beyond common sense and a waste of valuable time.
I only have another couple of weeks with guy, then I can finally go back to stealing out of normal peoples cases.
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05-21-2009, 08:49 AM
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Curmudgeon
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I think they put the holes there
so that they can zip-tie it shut
at the factory.
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05-21-2009, 09:36 AM
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Thom
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Once, during the construction of a tenant build out restaurant, the plumber (employee, not owner) drove me nuts. Everything stayed in the truck.
To install a single piece of copper pipe:
Tri stand out of truck and set up
Pipe out of truck onto tri-stand
measure and mark pipe
re-measure and check location of mark
get tubing cuter out of truck
re-measure and check location of mark
cut pipe
put cut-off pipe back on truck, strapped
put tubing cutter back in truck
put tri-stand back in truck
Get plumbers cloth (sand paper out of truck)
Clean pipe (only one end)
Clean pipe that is being attached to
Put plumbers cloth back in truck
Get fitting needed out of truck
Get fitting brush out of truck
Clean fitting
Put fitting brush away in truck
Get flux out of truck
Flux pipe and fitting
Put flux away
Get Solder out of truck
Get torch out of truck
solder that joint
put solder and torch away in truck
Then he would start over with the next piece. He would do this even for small nipples.
When it came time to install a commode:
Drive to the supply house, purchase a wax bowl ring
Install wax bowl ring
Drive to the supply house, purchase bowl
Install bowl
Drive to the supply house, purchase tank
Install tank
Drive to the supply house, purchase flex supply line
Install supply line.
The supply house is about 20 minutes from the job so an hour round trip. In one 8 hour day, the only thing he got done was installing a single commode.
I asked him why he worked so inefficiently and his response was because the company didn't pay him enough to work efficiently. If they paid him more he would produce more. I told him I would have replaced his ass after the first 10 minutes on the job.
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05-21-2009, 06:27 PM
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Guess I'll never get back THAT minute of my life back. I can't believe I kept reading- good one!
And about that little hole it is for them to zip tie shut- good thinking neo! But no it's so we can all lock our plastic cases.
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05-21-2009, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by stp57
I keep a steel cable lock through my cases & secured to the van walls. I realize that the cases are easy to destroy, but because the thief won't know beforehand that my tools are secured this way, my hope is that it will slow him down too much & he might just leave empty handed (or better yet, I might have time to get outside & blow his brains out!  )?
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Forget the Locks My 2 Rottis & pitbull run around the truck and trailer @ nite & if they dont get them they will sure as hell make enough noise so I will ...Powered By ford ....Protect by a automatic fire with laser site  And during the day the puppy sleeps in the trailer cause she aint trained yet hehehehe
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05-21-2009, 07:42 PM
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Ugly a** fluorescent green paint on all my cases. I feel sorry for the poor bastard bent over any of my tool boxes as I come around the corner.
Lock it up every time just in case someone wants to borrow my tool whilie I'm in the basement. I also always wear a rubber, just in case I get Lucky.
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05-27-2009, 12:17 PM
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Whatever I'm not using stays in the truck, period. Nothing drives me crazier than I walk by and see my relatively new (insert tool) in the hands of another employee. When I ask them where they got it from they say the back of Marty's truck (I ride to work). I tell them that it is my tool with my name on it and please put it back. I don't spend my money on new tools so someone else can break them (thats my honor). This guy is going a little to far, I've never sweated a lost screwdriver bit, or a sawzall blade missing most of the teeth. A whole tool or battery, that is a different story.
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05-27-2009, 12:55 PM
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egotistical prick
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The only thing more fun then screwing a tool box to a board/floor, is welding one shut....
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05-27-2009, 01:28 PM
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General Contractor
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Residential & Commercial
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Location: Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cdat
The only thing more fun then screwing a tool box to a board/floor, is welding one shut....
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If I caught someone screwing one of my cases, they be getting screwed to the ceiling by their nutsack.
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05-27-2009, 04:26 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Winchester
If I caught someone screwing one of my cases, they be getting screwed to the ceiling by their nutsack.
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I don't think they could screw it unless they drilled a hole in it first anyway.
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