After reading Avi's last post about getting stuff done on the job without power tools, it got me to thinking: What things have we done to get the job done?
Let me see how many "things" we used:
Before the dust control units hit the market hard, we use a thing called a "bag," and the bag had a string to cinch the bag tight, however, if it broke we would unlace a boot string. The Air Jordans worked better, so somehow a shoe from the closet in the back bedroom would be missing a shoelace…
One time an edger bag had been left on the last job and the extra one had a hole, so hello, pillowcase, along with the Air Jordan shoelace … worked for the day.
A big storm rolled in and killed the juice to the job, yay, we go home… not! We got out the manual nail gun. That was a drag, but it got installed.
The working belt for the big machine just wore out and broke, so I went to the truck and got a tie-down strap, then adjusted the hooks to fit around the big machine handles and my big butt. Got it done.
Now this will be the dumb one: We got a flat on the truck at the job. My guys used the jack, took off the tire and, what? The spare was low on air. Not sure how to air it up, they rolled it to the filling station and rolled it back fixed. I said, "Next time, use the compressor in the house. We have an adapter for that."
