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How mamy people on here love what they do and if so what is it you do? Im a pro framer “in training” lol and i love it nothing better then building houses from the ground up soo please share oh and throw your fav tool in there too
I used to be a framer, custom homes around Chicago suburbs. I loved every minute of it. I am now on the commercial side of the tracks. I work for a GC so I get to have my hands in everything. I Still love what I do. Where else do you get to play with big boy toys, get dirty, and get paid for it! It does not matter if I am in the trenches or running the job I still enjoy my work (most days).
My favorite tool is a tough one but would have to go with my most used, my Milwaukee M18 impact driver. From framing to lagging it’s awesome.
I’m self employed. Not that it would matter what I do as I just really don’t like working for other people, I did it for as long as I had to and busted out about a year ago at the age of 25. I do a grand mix of maintenance, construction, and renovation in both residential and commercial. I also dabble in property management from a few different Realtor agencies in the Florida Keys.
It’s hot in the summer but I live and work in paradise, and I plan to keep it that way for a long long time.
Favorite tool would probably go to my DWS780 at this point.
Hugh Jass wrote:
I’m self employed. Not that it would matter what I do as I just really don’t like working for other people, I did it for as long as I had to and busted out about a year ago at the age of 25. I do a grand mix of maintenance, construction, and renovation in both residential and commercial. I also dabble in property management from a few different Realtor agencies in the Florida Keys.
It’s hot in the summer but I live and work in paradise, and I plan to keep it that way for a long long time.
Favorite tool would probably go to my DWS780 at this point.
Florida keys?!
Where do I send my resume?
Poisonfangs85 wrote:
Florida keys?!
Where do I send my resume?
You don’t, you just move here and work. The market here is perfect for what we do because everyone down here is “Key’s Diseased”, AKA drunk and lazy.
In a year I have never looked for a job to work on, word of mouth will carry you far.
I am all the way up here in toronto canada soo winter time my job kinda sucks thoo its cold an snowy but from april till about October its great hot and sunshine and rain here and there i forgot to mention my fav tool would have to be my paslode frameing nailer i got it for my birthday and love it
lol. Hot.
You’re funny.
Bud it does actually get.hot here its not all snow and shit summers summer same as other places its definitely a different and less hot then yall have down south.thoo and i am jelouse of that i hate the cold
You’re living in the wrong place then, lol.
This is my back yard.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_RJEKjFfB8XNWI1WVg4LTh5QUk/view?usp=sharing
Ya thats nice i am living in the wrong.place but i aint moving anytime so and its not so bad up here i just can do with out the winter
Hugh Jass wrote:
You’re living in the wrong place then, lol.
This is my back yard.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_RJEKjFfB8XNWI1WVg4LTh5QUk/view?usp=sharing
Love it Hugh! Looks warm and like good fishing.
Poisonfangs85 wrote:
Love it Hugh! Looks warm and like good fishing.
Fishing capital of the world my man.
I’m a sales rep for a power tool company that you guys don’t talk about very much in here. Love the job and exposure to all the tools but find myself more and more wanting to see if the grass is greener on the other side of actually using the tools, i’d love my woodworking hobby to become a career.
What tool company ?
Im a salesman of hand / electric / gasoline tools :).
I absolutly love my job ^^
torontotoolman wrote:
What tool company ?
Clearly Hitatchi, since it’s listed as his favorite power tool.
I didnt look at his profile so i wouldnt of known and hitatchi is a sick brand one of my fav nailguns im playing on getting one we use the coil frameing gun at my work il take a hitachi over bostitch any day
No need to visit his profile, it’s right here:
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Well your seeing something im not but its okay im not stressing over it
framing is always fun. i’m framing up the roof above a garage this week should be done by tomorrow.
Looks like fun Pete!
Nice job bud lools good what kinda gun you use
torontotoolman wrote:
Nice job bud lools good what kinda gun you use
Ridged and Paslode. ill post some pics of it tomorrow when its done. i personally am a Bostitch nail gun fan almost all my guns are Bostitch.
Ahhh bostich fan i am not lol we use the coil framers at my work but i prefer hitatchi coil framers but i do own my own paslode and i love it
Never used the ridged gun befoe cant comment on that
torontotoolman wrote:
Never used the ridged gun befoe cant comment on that
ya its not mine its the other framer, but i like it so far, but i mean hey it shoots 16d’s and doesn’t jam what else can one ask for. i like the paslode framing guns just because the company i work for has a hook up with paslode so we get to try out guns and stuff before they are released. like paslodes subfloor gun we have been using for 2 years now and i think it was just released early this year but i may be wrong on that date.
Thats prettys cool i just have the paslode gas framer but at work ìv used the paslode stickgun its was beat up and old but still shotting strong paslodes is a good company iv only used there framers tho not there finishers and iv actually seen the ridged stick framer at home depot but that thing looked big as hell man i like coil guns better they hold more and not as bigPeteW wrote:
ya its not mine its the other framer, but i like it so far, but i mean hey it shoots 16d’s and doesn’t jam what else can one ask for. i like the paslode framing guns just because the company i work for has a hook up with paslode so we get to try out guns and stuff before they are released. like paslodes subfloor gun we have been using for 2 years now and i think it was just released early this year but i may be wrong on that date.