We've had our homemade saw horses for 5+ years now. Just replace the 2.6 tops every now and then from running the saw thru it 1000 times. We've for sure set at least this weight on them hundred of times
Lmaoo the “lift with your back” from the background. We were replacing parallams in a cradle system and I used to always say this and make sure to add, “with a jerking, twisting motion”😂
You really have to reach out and extend off centerline too. Be sure to twist as much as possible to get the maximum effect. Keep your core good and relaxed, then explode with power.
Noob Here, Thaaaank You for the Valuable Advice!! I only have 1 question though... Back Brace: Yay or Nay?? I say Nay, because it makes me look Goofy, and my Face has that covered all by itself!! Any advice will be greatly appreciated and utilized Immediately!!
@@mikevg101 If a back brace wont interfere with your work, absolutely use one. If anyone tells you it makes you look goofy, you can laugh at them later when they're all mangled, twisted, and can't walk normally when they're 40.
Archimedes’s quote comes to mind when I saw that wrench 😂 “Give me a firm place to stand and a lever and I can move the Earth.” Dang those saw horses held Up!
I ordered a 9’ long x 20” wide x 2” thick limestone sill for the front of our fireplace and it was 375 lbs. talk about how easy that was to get home, then down the stairs. Then around the stair opening and to the fireplace…..Wow! But it got done without breaking it, it’s been installed 20 years, still looks like new. The family room 6’ was 265 lbs. and it was easy!
Reminds me of trying to carry my soapstone woodstove into my house 😂 4 people and it was a huge struggle the whole time. Then after we got it off the pallet and installed, I read "remove refractory stones before moving to reduce weight" and we all laughed
i did front concrete steps with two 3-foot square bluestone pieces to raise sunken precast up to right height that was a pain to drop those pieces on by myself.
i took a player piano out of a basement once. stamped on the back was 708 pounds. it was easy since it was on 2 inch wheels. 50 years ago and i still have the hoist.
When I built my house I moved a 40' 440lb king beam into place by myself. I moved it over the full basement wall so it was on the wall on that side and at the base of the opposing half wall. I used a floor jack to get it high enough so I could lift it onto the base plate of the framed wall. I had left the top plate off so I jacked up the beam from the outside of the wall as high as the jack would go and then in a herculean effort I lifted it the rest of the way, up and over into the framed beam pocket. Pounded it into it's final position and straightened the wall, used a handsaw to trim the beam and nailed in the top plate. My wife wrote the date on the cut off and it still sits on my desk today, almost 30 years later.
I built a 30' gluelam in place using a gallon of glue, consttruction screws, plywood and 2x10's sandwiched. No way we were lifting that 15' in the air. Where there's a will there's a way.
I have nothing but respect and admiration for your ingenius engineering skills! 😅 I'm gonna have to try that giant wrench design to impress my wife! Thank you!
Used to work in a factory that produced LVL, we sold bundles that were as small as 1-1/2”x5”x12’ or as big as 3”x24”x60’. I tell you what, them bundles weighed THOUSANDS of lbs. Those are the extreme ends of things though, we mostly sold 1-3/4” thick wood about a foot wide (11-7/8”) between 12 and 60 feet but some times we had odd-ball orders of 72-76’ long bundles. Just an 8’ section weighed 110lbs, couldn’t tell you how many of those I carried lol. Carried about 25k lbs in one 12hr shift, was ready to quit that day.
My neighbour was a truck driver for Sysco he moved anywhere from 10-20000 pounds 5 days a week and some of the businesses were up 50 stairs at the ski hill. 25k is physical but many people move that regularly. Did you work for Louisiana Pacific or a different company? Most of my family did a couple years production at the mill in my hometown where LVL was the main thing.
@@IhaveaDoghouse it was LP. That company and the one that bought out the factory were terrible. Regardless of experience or position, everybody made the same. So while I was forklift certified and moving 30k lbs loads, and could do 6 out of the 8 positions where I worked, I got paid the same as the new guy who could only do 1 thing. Major respect to anyone that carries 25k lbs of anything, by hand, across a couple of miles. I ain’t doing that again 😂
@@SoreTv Ya I'll get filled in on Pacific Woodtek when I go home for Christmas by my brother that still works there. My dad suffered there 30 years as a maintenance electrician then talked me and another brother into becoming electricians lol. After he retired I asked him if he actually liked his job and he said no so pretty messed up he would recommend it as a career to his kids but the union ended up being good for him, growing up he was a few dollars an hour lower than oilfield electricians but when he retired last year he was making 44.50$ and hour while the oilfield rate is around 41$. He worked the "weekend shift" the last 15+ years so 3 10.5 hour shifts on saturday and sunday and get paid for 40 hours then he would be a zombie the rest of the week because he claimed he couldn't handle the weird schedule that he chose to stay on for almost 2 decades. Honestly though my dad hated his job so much he wouldn't pick up a single OT shift and would sleep all week, anything the 5 of us wanted from the time we turned the working age of 14 (besides room and board) we had to pay for with our own money so all sports registration fees, equipment, clothes, vehicles, gas, insurance etc. we worked 50+ hours a week for in the summers and 24-32 hours a week for during school for 1/6 of what he would make if he could stand his job for more than 31.5 hours a week lol. I even bought my parents a car for 2500$ when I was 15 under the promise of 5% interest so 2625$ back and I didn't see a penny, instead got the choice of the chevy astro van or a clapped out truck his friend would trade for the astro van. So yes being an electrician for LP is so bad that you won't even go into work to pay off a debt to your own children. My gf is also an electrician as well as her dad and her mom was shocked when I said "the only rewarding thing about the job is the paycheque" and she was looking at him for a rebuttal to my comment and he just had the look like "ya, you think i've been having fun away at work the last 30 years?" She's a nurse so she actually has a rewarding job and couldn't fathom what it was like to be a numbered grunt for an industrial company. Hopefully you found a better company to work for, I am trying to figure out a career change in my early 30's but not having any luck yet.
@@IhaveaDoghouse I would recommend picking up a trade but you’re already a sparky lol. I went into LP outta high school at 18 after I graduated early. After I left that place I started at a toyota dealership as a technician, but honestly I got too many bills and with them not moving me up and the limited OT, I’m looking for other avenues of income. I’m a hobby carpenter, mechanic, welder, and content creator with a tad bit of game development. I want to do a lot of things but being handy is at the center of all of it.
I did a lot of sole builder stuff in remote locations. It’s amazing how a decent 4x4 winch and lever pulleys can get you through big lifts. But I always did a proper risk assessment and had stuff setup fail-safe. Love the big wooden spanner (wrench)! 👍🏻
Yeah, Brother Dave Teague used to carry these on his shoulder. I wasn't as strong, I only carried a 70s aluminum walkboard 24 feet by myself. Now I can barely carry 2 18 ft 2 x 8 . Age slows you down in construction. 🔨
I'm a fan of calling out the wrong measurement to confirm after I cut the right measurement. Gotta keep em on their toes when the redbull isn't keeping their heartrate high enough😂
OSB is legit when loaded axially, hence it's usefulness as sheathing for rigidly tying the building framing together. Now, introduce a bit of flex into one of those legs with that load sitting on top, and you're gunna have a bad time! But with the 600+ pounds split between 2 horses, each with 4 feet contacting the ground, and those feet being pretty long in their contact area, I'd imagine you could load quite a bit more weight on them still. It's legit probably a better solution than commercial saw horses, which while able to carry thousands of pounds per pair, are transferring all that weight into the ground through feet that are an inch or two square: I'd not want to test my subfloors ability to resist point loads like that. These wide OSB feet are going to pretty much guarantee you're directly over a couple joists at any given time.
Your 'wrench' made me smile. I made one- much smaller though- when I worked in a cabinet shop. Often a pine board needed to be "convinced" to straighten out, to be nailed into place.
I saw this tool you made a while back and it inspired me to make something similar the other day. I was replacing the flush valve on a Koehler toilet and the nut that hold it on is giant and none of the tools I had on hand could span it to remove/tighten that sucker. Found a bit of scrap plywood in the truck and cut it to shape and size. Worked like a charm
Whoa,whoa,whoa,he doesn’t have a Quebecan accent! I learned hard core framing from a gentleman who was an X lumberjack from Quebec Canada. Very subtle psycho as far as building real frame houses. He was no more than 175lbs & would throw that beam around with ease. Any kind of carpentry,rough to dainty trim(custom) the Bomb! Many thanks Beatrick & his brother Ben! Rest in peace Gentleman!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
We were replacing one and we had the old one with roofing nails poking out all over. It was tipsy and my boss said to go over and steady it as we were lowering it off of the lift. Well I get there right as it rolls over, I'm looming at where do I grab because I didn't want the roofing nails to rip off a finger and it fell off the lift landing small side on my foot. Broke my big toe in 3 places
Oh man reminds me of a job cutting down some 12-20ft cedar lam. Only 4X8 but it was a long day loading those up there by hand! I didn't need that cool wrench you had!
We had a guy in our church that built a house around a small old house. Lived in the small house til the shell was done then tore down the old one inside. He had an elevated ceiling. The builder from our church didn’t want a steel beam because it would need a center support. So an engineer that taught at a nearby college from church had his students make the beam. It was laminated with a built in arch. It was like 30 feet long. Once in place it was level. With no bow. Flat as can be. Like Howard Hughs’ Spruce Goose. Wood engineering.
@@billymurphy3Yes, this is the proper way to lift, according to Peter Griffin: -The key lifting heavy objects is to put it all in your groin and your back, take your legs totally out of the equation… Lift with your lower back in a jerking twisting motion. 😆
Back when I was a framer, my brother in-law and I hoisted a 22 foot glulam by ourselves 10 feet vertically, moving one end at a time about six inches incrementally. Fun times.
I'm an old carpenter (57), you can roll that gluelam using your body and getting tight to the beam with an underhand grip, done it hundreds of times...maybe that's why my body is all stoved up now!😅 wish I would have thought about leverage and a lever. Strong back weak mind...
Ive run a lot of sawmills and built with a lot of beams, if you end up having to lift something like that by hand youre better off reaching underneath to the far side and then lifting. Might just give it a try sometime.
One of the first 'tools' i learned to make/use was a 'tweaker' to move/twist framing members to straighten them. We would usually just build one out of a couple studs nailed together.
Nice as yourself boss made wrench vs I have to flip and trim then carry to the garage. Two workers have to carry a beam on the shoulder then climb on the ladder for the garage.
Actually found an 8 foot beam like that on a job. They were gonna throw it. I took it, stained it a charcoal stain and slapped 8 poly gloss coats on it. Talk about come out awesome for a feau mantle.
Steel toe boots and hard hat required! Medic on standby. Calling the lead man: "uh, I'm not sure, really what went wrong. I cut it 3 times and it's still too short!"😬"why you little why-i-oughta !" 😡
Ok I may be wrong but I always tough the end metal grated plate is for the beam not to split on the end , and in so many states will be construction code to have those !!
I worked for a ;umber yard and ordered them from our supplier. They come in at least 80 foot lengths that I know of and in a lot bigger dimensions than that one. Just saying, glue-lams are Awesome.
