How To Tie Rebar :Ep .1: Single Wire Snaps; Proper Tools, Reading The Bar, Technique 

What I like about this video is that you go into such details in order to be more efficient. All those little movements that you mention would take some of us probably years to figure out for ourselves. You're an excellent teacher! Keep it up.

Man's fingers are made of dollar bills. It's always a pleasure to watch efficient tradesman doing their thing. Thanks for the knowledge. It's going to make a difference when I'm doing bar on my CMU jobs. Thinking of the quadrants really helps iron out what's going on.

Dude, you are super helpful, and explain things in a way that is clear and easy to understand. Became part of Local 397 , Dirty Hands but Clean Money!!!! Gotta love it!!

This and the last few videos on rebar work is great content. Thanks.

Great video! Thanks for taking the time a breaking everything down in such good detail

thank you for taking the time to make these videos. As i hope to get into the Ironworkers Union these videos are very helpful!

This is such a great video! Excellent explanation and demonstration. Thanks man

Thankyou very much for the refresher course. Very well detailed !!

I love the video man! keep it up! You have a knack for teaching!

Don't stop making videos. I cant wait to see what's next.

A master in motion. Beautiful, brother.

This awesome bro. I wish more people were into rebar. This was my first trade in construction. Love rod busting.

Great video man! Keep it up! Someone finally explained it in details what happend between step1 and step9 🤣🤣😁

This is a well made vid. Great tutorial.

I'm a sparky but I like watching videos about ironworkers. Cheers

Well spoken, keep doin these vids.

Thanks for posting this good video !🙏🏼

Great video. I feel like a pro now

Great video thank you for your help

This vid definitely helpful man 😌 keep it up

im an apprentice electrician doing deck work. This helps me. Thanks

Great video dude 👍

Great video ! Lots of good information now ima make the same rack and practice 😏

Respect bro getting my older brother in this trade and I don’t have the time to show him before he starts so I told him to study this only thing I don’t do is I bend my wire after or pre tying like you I just use my hand between thumb and index other than that I recommend this if you plan to be a rodbuster

Great vid homie

Dude, I'm with a concrete company and we usually tie our own bar rather than hiring out. We typically use saddle ties or figured 8s for wall bar. I learned how to snap tie more efficiently from this video but I'd love to learn how to do saddles more efficiently.

Omg thank you it was helpful also pretty funny lol

Awesome mate

Yeeeeeee I was with you on ur first day at the chase center that’s crazy good shit my guy #378

You one proud steel men haha salute too ya from Ontario local 183

The quadrant part is on point.

God I can't tell you how many times I've smacked myself in the nuts when tying haha

Epic traps, bro

Great vid. Just tried to wing it today on jobsite. Did not go over well.

Looking forward to the next thing maybe PT decks how to tie a good head. I always review these keep 'em coming

I am an Ironworker what use for my tools like my dykes and crescent is carbon rod from the welders. It lubricates the tools without running the risk of getting them all dusty. Oil attracts dirt and dust.

Hey bro, this is really helpful even for me as a plumber since I have to tie my water lines. Deserved a like and subscribe! I just got a question, I’ve seen rod busters tie with pliers but also nippers. What do you think is best? Or can you also make a video by tying with nippers. Thanks!

Good job bro helpful I’ve tried to much but haven’t done that cut/create next hook trick before. Fuck yeah man I love it.

Yo we need more content, show me more tie types.

Sent this to my nephew and his homies

thank you for explaining the hand movements, I always wondered about that left hand twist at the end (step 4?) #curioussparky

Interesting in Ireland we use Knipex End cutters almost exclusively for tying rebar. Same for the UK I'm a formwork carpenter by trade and often got my arms torn up by sharp ties when closing up wall forms.

Back in the day, i use to do this.. was fun an a lot of hours an tiring

Thanks man pray for me when I start .

In the uk we use knipex, I’ve worked with a few Americans that use pliers and them and we noticed pliers ties are much looser and not as strong. They conversed to knipex

I’m trying to figure out how to make a structure like that at home so I can practice. Any tips would be amazing ❤️‍🔥💯

Great video and very informative. Can you do a tutorial on how to do figure 8 and saddle ties?

Damn bro I bet u work around a lot of them barilleros matados huh them old style Mexican rod busters 😅 great helpful video bro 👊💯🙏

Let's goooo

Always wear a good full aye protection!

Brother my back hurts so bad after today they had me tying matts weaving through all 4 quadrants. Not a steel worker but I tied about 600-800 ties like that today in about 5-6 hours 😅

Not a bad video at all, the technique is pretty dead on for the most part good job, now go grab me the rebar stretcher and a box of endo's out of the truck rod buster ;-)

I had this job! was hard even with the zipper because it wasnt all done correctly

Can you do a video with PVC pipe and those pvc Chair stands that get buried. Also attaching b-line strut to b-line to ridged conduit. I'm doing deck work and only have ty wire stones but no holders

I was sceptical of this video until.... He said take the spring out. He knows what hes talking about. (10 years in the rod patch L 392)

Videos do you connecting and welding?

Nice, we have glassfiber reinforced rebars and production line for sale 🥳

What is a keel? Pulling down while twisting? Thanks for the helpful video

Hi bro I really enjoy watching your video but I was wondering where can I get the suspender like yours ? or where I can buy.

Son, Back in the day when I did a lot of form work, we used what we called "potato ties"... Which were actually used in the potato fields to tie the heavy bags. The rolls were made of approximately 4 inch wire with looped ends. You used a hooked twister tool that was incredibly efficient and far superior to the pliers method...Simple bend the wire around the two bars, hook the loops and pull. These must still be available today...

Thanks for the video. I ordered and received two pair of Klein Tools D201-7CSTA from Amazon and the cutter smashes the wire and then I have to twist it for separation instead of making a clean cut. Is this what should be expected or are they defective?

Another reason to not cut tails while tying in vertical mats is because I have to clean that shit out of the bottom of my wall before I form 😅

A jiw I worked with had me bending nails in my down time to make my hands stronger and last longer when I tie. We don’t have any rod work at my local so I basically only work structural and rigging but I still walk around bending nails lol.

Just a little tip , before you skip your wire to make the hook , heel it that way you’re not wasting a move and you only have to twist the wire once , unless you’re tying template shouldn’t need another twist

What’s a “keel”? And how and when do you do it. Thanks

One of those pairs of Linesman pliers are electrical pliers...That is why the jaw teeth are more fine then the Ironworker's Pliers with the more aggressive jaw and the curved handle...

Where can I get a harness like that send link

Bro are you a juggler?! I haven’t met another Ironworker that juggles

Springs Slow you down. No matter the work. I trimmed marijuana for years. Everyone starts out with the spring loaded Fiskars. But after some time everyone moves over to the springless Chickamasas scissors. I will disagree with his use of a wet lubricant. I have always found that dry metal lubes work better if contamination is not an issue. Overall an excellent video. Much appreciation for all of the details.

Ironworker for 10 years here. Nines>sevens IMO Index>pinky I trash the spring but I know badass rodbusters that don’t.

First day of rebar today

Max Twintier Rebar Tier made all this obsolete for the most part, it is always good to know these skills, but mechanical devices will make this kind of work less back-straining and breaking and save a lot of time.

Where do you buy the Milkers from????

Show us how fast you can tie

If you had to carry only one pair of pliers Wich one would you ? I'm a concrete forms carpenter and I have been asked to carry a pair ! If you could give me a model number.. Thank you!

Honestly guys don’t take the spring out. It’s not good for you’re hands to keep manually opening and closing them like that especially if you have to tie hella rebar. Trust me. Unless you want severe arthritis and hand cramps then by all means go for it.

They look like electric Klein pliers

Bro You cheated them rods are welded haha, yo I'm building 4 extra footings for my added post n beams in my basement , I have a few questions.. MUST I remove all rust and corrosion on rebar before I pour or does it not matter, pour with rusty rebar? And do I need the rebar under tension? I'm building a Cage for my 15 inch sonotube.

The best video on RU-vid the rest should be deleted

The best lube for your pliers and dykes will be form oil. Find a concrete guy and ask him to give you a couple drops

You got your hard hat on backwards

How the hell is this clip 17 minutes long? it's literally the simplest knot in the world?

"even when your foremost bar is perpendicular to your eyes" just say when the vertical is in front. I feel you over explain a bit. I'm a JIW and had to make sense of what you said I couldnt imagine a punk trying to comprehend it.

17min,no way

jfc 8 minutes to blather your way thru a 15 second demonstration

You high as hell huh

I'm taking my apprenticeship entrance exam I fucking hate math.

Safety glasses please..

Man all these guys on here talking about loving rod-busting? Obviously they haven't been doing too long! Cause anyone's thats done it for awhile starts hating their job by year 5 I think? Unless their certifiably crazy! Then I think it's around 10 years that the love is lost and replaced resentment for whomever talked you into becoming a rod buster! I'll admit the first few years is kinda fun everyone's racing each other to see who's fastest tying running around beating their chests like a bunch of crazed gorillas trying to carry the more steel then next guy, but then all that He-Man shit starts catching up with you and after 25-30 years when you can't stand up straight anymore and some pain management doctor has you addicted to pain killers for the rest of your life, Well that's about when you start thinking "Damn I wish I would've stayed in school or Hell? Even finishing Concrete's better this this! And it pays more too damn it!" Oh but hey how 'bout these new? Or somewhat new rebar tying guns? Anyone use them and are they worth the crazy amounts of money they want for a brand name ones, or do the cheapy's do a comparable job? And do you need clearance around the steel? Like does the mat have to be up on dobies already cause that would kinda make it suck id think, or could they tie a mat thats resting on your subgrade? I mean on these decks with double mats 12" o/c I'm sure they work great but for someone's that mostly doing slab on grade is worth the hefty price tag? Any info. Would be greatly appreciated!

Use 711 instead of wd40.. rookie mistake.

Take one red sleeve off your tie tool. U don't need it.

this job destroyed my wrists

you don't have to show your I.Q.

Bro get a good editor.

Hi, Christopher I wanted to send you a DM but youtube doesn't allow. Have you thought about selling the actual goods plus the side hustle of making videos. We make the wire and want to find more people to work with in the States. Please let me know if you are interested or just ignore this self-promoting garbage comment.

Kid, you need more time in Iron before you can teach!! Master the trade get at least 10 year's in the Union. practice practice practice

Sorry.. U wouldn't make a lot of money in Czech Republic or Europe :)... Too slow, wrong pliers .. I'll try to copy u proper tool :)

Horrible effort To understanding

man, you talk way way toooo much for a very simple thing.

Weak