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What's The Difference Between A Professional Tradesman And An Amateur?

It's knowledge. It's how many tricks of the trade the tradesman knows to get the job done better and faster.

Here's a video that will show you a few of the basic tricks of the trades that are used every day.

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    • Marvin said:

      I am always a little skeptical of a woodworker with a store brought workbench. LOL

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  7. John McCaffrey said:

    at least you’re trying… does make me wonder why you have a hammer drill to screw in a simple screw? And use blocks when pulling a string and then measure from the string instead of eyeballing it 😉

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    • Manny said:

      Morons he was using a impact drill. If you don’t know s**t about tools don’t comment please. At least the guy was trying to teach some unfortunate people who don’t have the skills. I can’t Stand people that comment but they don’t know nothing about the trade.

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  9. Paul Summers said:

    I’m not in construction and there are some things I may not know but if you have a square in your back pocket wouldn’t you just use that to square your corners?

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  10. Anthony Peters said:

    Using the method that he did is a lot more accurate. Square using a 10″ edge of a square vs using 3 ft cans be a big difference. Especially if your lumber isn’t completely straight. Also, the 3,4,5 method can be expanded to much larger lengths.

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  11. Bitterman said:

    Thanks for the video. I did have fun watching it because we all have different approaches and you never know when a basic will come in handy.

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  20. Nate Hoover said:

    This guy was just trying to help. Anyone that has something mean and nasty to say keep it to yourself. Didn’t your momma teach you that if you don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say anything at all?

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  22. Marc Wrenn said:

    Um, no. A professional gets paid for what they do, an amateur does it without pay and for the love of it. Neither one connotes any level of skill.

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  23. JPC said:

    what a joke the majority of you who have posted negative comments towards this dudes video here – bunch of arm chair quarterbacking know-it-all’s that give all the trades a low class outlook. I love running in to you chumps on jobs, because your pompous arrogant supercilious lifestyles make the best jokes during lunches and breaks ,and thats not including your amateur craftsmanship ( a whole other set of jokes). Keeping it as classy as you only know it i guess is what it boils down to, it is what it is.

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  35. Matt Raimer said:

    I was hoping to learn something useful, I didn’t. Been building homes for 22 years and I would have this guy pushing brooms and fetching coffee only because I don’t think he could carry enough to be a laborer. I only made it to the point where he was using a speed square as a level and he said believe it or not that’s really accurate.

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  37. Frank Burbaugh said:

    The string works if the board is straight. I always put a nail sideways under the string at both ends to make sure it doesn’t touch the wood. The framing square thing would work if the wood was “Grade A No 1, STRIGHT” Good luck now a days finding straight lumber. I am a 45 year carpenter retired.

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  43. Terry Gene Blagburn said:

    as someone ran carnish over 25 years i got out because i can not make thse framers look good and i have to spend 2/3rds of my time TRYING to figure out wth was they thinking!!

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