My guy doing templates, double wire, with the hook in the beginning, plus did nice tugs, plus the tie using the pliers to tug down off the rebar with a twist, then cutting off access wire and tapping it down...perfection.
Take out twice as much wire and spin the end before you cut and you’re ready for next tie... kinda a cool trick that comes in handy sometimes... nice vid.
Double wire column tied were what I learned when I first started tieing that’s what my company wanted so we did it on everything except for Mats, but we built a lot of big piers 40’ long with the first 20’ with doubled up #11 bands and #13 vert bars. It was pretty cool but damn that was some hard work.
Use your pliers to throw the wire around the vertical and then grab the wire with your pliers, snap it against the bar to take the slack out of the wire and hug the bar better, in the long run less over twisting, over prying which gives you some speed
