This is a great banjo..not much slower than bazooka.. Ive been finishing and hanging drywall for 25 years.. anything to make the job easier and faster is great!! I would use an 8" knife to wipe behind..
I ran a banjo for the first 10 years of my career. I can fly with one. I’ve been running a bazooka for the last 10 years and it has been an absolute game changer. There is no comparison. I’m 6’3” and have never encountered anyone who could run a banjo faster. The bazooka is not even comparable. The only time I have to use stilts is 10ft angles.
My height is 5’6” and I was use banjo and mud box, then I prefer bazooka, I reach 9’ft. ceilings with out any difficulty. Then for the horizontal angle mud box I don’t like. Is my opinion
I have been running that mudbox since they came out I think they are quicker and the fact you can reuse your mud ,faster clean out ,Less shit to go wrong with it , no need to drag round a pump ,cheaper to buy the only down side is after years of running it it's a lot harder on your body you need to apply more force to get the tape running that you do a bozoka.
Just Curious, why is it when I see taping videos from countries outside the US they leave a huge gap between the ceiling drywall and upper wall drywall sheet?
This is arguably the best banjo on the market right now. The bazooka looks better , but so it should be for the price. Im just not a fan of all those moving parts in the bazooka.
How does a bazooka go on a 4m ceiling in a scissorlift. Do you need a scissor? does it bed in as it goes. I think shootout this depends very much on the job and the skill of the stopper
Bazooka is way faster. Can keep 2 people busy wiping down if he is fast enough. One on stilts and the other on the bottom. Only downfall of the bazooka is that it messes up from time to time. A good bazooka runner can 95% of the time fix the problem and keep taping. I only rent my bazooka from Ames. The pumps, angles, boxes, handles are all mine.
I've never used a mud box. Looks like theirs a learning curve.. Naturally with any complicated tool. My observation is. I think once someone understands the little idiosyncrasies of the mud box.. It's performance is more reliable then a bazooka. Bazooka has too many parts. Which equals more headaches. More parts that constantly need attention. Excellent video and production!!👍
bazokas need three things. keep clean. not drying mud jamming em. keep paper tears and bits out of the razor blade cutter, and oil the moving parts. lots of oil, 40 weight car oil works good. and dont drop or bang it up. and did i say keep it clean.......clean.
@@davidedwards3838 we have a legal minimum of 2400mm ceiling so every house is a little bit taller than the drywall sheets (1200x2). It would be wasteful to do a 1200 + a 1350 as these are cheap houses for cheap builders anyway
no way hand taping is faster. I worked in LA and hand taping is all I've ever done. That's why I'm watching this. I like tools and efficiency. Any advice on which mud. for which coat? I'd like to tape with 90min. Then does it matter if I switch to 24hour mud over the quikset? I'm not fast enough to use hot mud the whole way.
I bought the mud box last week, I will try tomorrow. I use Bazooka today, i think for my country the bazooka is more easier, cause we put board to up. I will try the mud box for angle in up( du plafond).
Don't get me wrong these guys are clean and do good work but could definitely be faster . that bazooka will cut your tape time in half once you get used to running it
While that tape with a flexible blade. I whipe with a backhand to the corner. Watch out for blisters a light fill to check. Shit, on hot summer days you could box over wet tape with thicker mud, just run one way and back the other to fill in the pot holes.
Bazooka takes about two minutes to clean. Flush out pump with clean water. Use pump to fill the empty bazooka with water at the end of the day . Spin clutch to retract the cable and thus push the water out of the head of the gun into bucket. Takes thirty seconds. Repeat. Wash the outside of the gun with a brush. And it is clean. Also, one wiper has a hell of a time keeping up to the bazooka. When I string with just one wiper, I drop back and help wipe after every three or four bazooka fills go on the walls. But nevertheless, this seems like a good system also. Less parts to wear out and replace I'm sure. BTW, these guys make great drywall porn.
Je l,ai acheter a 755 euro ,marque australien foncion bien et plus rapide,un promoteur de tapepro dans chaque pays,moi je l,ai acheter a valence,espagne.bonne chance.
I can tape out a 200 board house flats and angles in 3 hrs or less no matter the ceiling height unless it scaffold height but 10.11.12 ft all day 3 hrs or less me on the gun and two men wiping
In the southern states they say hand taping is faster west and east coast tools faster race them on a job bazooka and boxes win every time but it takes longer to clean up
Banjo is just as fast as a bazooka if your on stilts with your bucket on a bench. A bazooka is useless if you're a one man crew, you're only as fast as the guy wiping out behind you
Well done. I Will buy it in some mouth. I would like to know how many meter can you do with the mud box pro ? With Bazooka blueline I do 20 _25 meter something around.
Those tapes are the most un accurate cuts I've ever seen 2 or 3 inches from the bead and don't even make it close to the inside corners way sloppier then ripping them by hand
Bryan Lee pretty sure there's "cornice" going at the top. Like crown but made from gypsum. Watch some other aussie drywall videos you'll see what I'm talking about.
Bro, I get hundreds of people saying that... Thanks for explaining it. Everyone says how dodgy it is with the gap. They can't understand. Oh well. Cheers Robert
Yeah definitely, though there were bricklayers working right outside those windows same time. Also thankfully there wasn't a big storm rolling through otherwise there may have been some issues finishing the inside before the outside..
Bazooka much faster. Depending on job and 2 man crew behind gun man he should be able to string on avg 1 roll per man per hr. Thats scale. Like i said depending on job, me and my crew have strung 30+ rolls in 8 hr. Days.I'm working on 9ft. Ceiling houses right now by myself and it takes me about 4 to 5 hrs. For 6 rolls. ( 500 ft. Rolls ). Takes 10 min. To clean bazooka,pump,roller and Glazer. I've been wanting to video tape myself. I've been taping 40 + years and I've slowed down a lot. Like 1 man said my back is trashed and now my shoulders,neck are showing their age. Haha. I'm not ready to throw in the towel just yet
Thats awesome mate.... Thats a lot of experience there. Thankyou for watching my videos and giving some advice. Its always a kind of honour to have such experienced guys in the field give me their time to watch and comment give advice ECT.... So thankyou for that. I've like filming because you won't ever forget how bad I was and how good you were just good for the memory. Well don't be a stranger Jerry.. peace..
Yea dude we all feel it people need to start taking construction like a Olympic sport doing proper excersices and stretches to help counter act what taping and overhead work does to the body .. I do shoulder excersices core strengthening and see a trainer to help balance out ... but is it really going to help 20 years from now or am I going to be like the rest of the hurting construction works lol who knows
At 40 I said I was to young to feel this old. A whole lot of back pain. I started working out, core exercises ,strength training ect. I felt like a new man in the best shape of my life. Taping couldn't phase me. Then a few yrs ago I got in a really bad car accident and just havnt gotten to that same place. So yea like you said balance ourselves out is key. Sounds like your on the right path if you want longevity and somewhat pain free during your career and retirement. I havnt given up yet. My boss has asked a few time to be a super and I ask how much you paying, he tells me and I start laughing. I couldn't afford what he wants to pay. Same thing with being repair man. Hahaaaaa....production piece work is all I've ever known. I'm not quite ready to throw in the towel.
Scale, union? on apartments used to run nearly three cases of tape a day. blue premier bazokas. Got rid of tape tech/ames style. ton of friction pushing those down the wall. blue ones just go down the wall.
Yeah nice, that's a crazy amount of meters. I wish I was there to film so I can put on my channel. I need some gold like that on here. Thanks for coming on Bruce
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I really like that answer.... I've said early that the mud box is faster without ever seeing the Bazooka in action. So I would hate to go back on my words... Hehe.
bazooka is faster period... for some jobs.The thing is that you can't all the tapes (closets and small area) . I usually run the bazooka everywhere I can and then finish the rest with the supertaper. Or if the job is small, ill only use the supertaper
@@malvarez8484 lol im not even finishing in this video, they much better than me, me myself could do with much improvement. always like seeing techniques and posting videos 😉
Yes it is meant to be like that. Regular drywall isn't a fire stop. And it gets a gypsum cornice over as well. Everything gets a 10mm gypsum layer. That is it. Maybe not how it's done where you are from I understand that
Just because it’s getting a Cornice doesn’t mean you shouldn’t run the rock all the way. Now the house is going to have hvac issues not balanced right and heat/ac loss
why use "drywall", why not 'wetwall' or plastic wall, or brick or wood? why modern america go through all the hassle of this newfangled 'drywall'. hollow/dusty/boring/breakable/not-soundproof. why.
Ive worked with guy who was skilled with bazooka, could keep 3 wiping guys running. Not heavy at first, Very heavy after waving it around for couple hours. You'll put inch on biceps after few jobs. Inside corners are tricky to run without tapes dragging, but there's technique to make it work fine
Your guys mud work Is sloppy looking shot wouldn’t cut it here you would get called a pig everything I do is feather edges and go 6 inch wide with you knife side ways to coat your tape
What a joke. I about fell asleep watching this. Mudbox ha ha. Banjo for bluegrass music. Bazooka is for making money. Only if you have been shown and trained by the real finishers that was around in the 1950's. I can hand tape that fast.
Typical shitty Australian building style. 10mm gips, no insulation, big chinese floor tiles throughout, commercial grade carpet in bedrooms, commercial grade corrugated iron roof, 2 bedrooms 3mx3m 1 bedroom 3mx4m. Every corner cut to save money and sold for $500k-1M.
