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Heck yeah! Dream big bro! 👍

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I already built my house 30 years ago. Now I can't stop building onto it and building out buildings. I think I'm addicted.

I'll never be able to afford a house 😊

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The underbelly?

This is awful advice, lol. You don't need a straight edge to cut straight. Faster and easier to draw a line.

off center to the left by 3 degrees ... second star to the right straight on till morning ?

Why do ya call a triangle a square? Didn't learn this in scoul....😂

a fair question

Because it is 90 degrees. Gives you a nice square line

Let’s be real your wife didn’t say that you just didn’t want to say your asking for yourself lol

While working as a roofer years ago, we legit had a little girl (4 - 5 yo, maybe) tell Yankee Jay it wasn't a square, it was a triangle. "I know, we learned it in kindergarten. "

@JunkieMcStay - I love the "yous". I'm from NYC & growing up, we all still (ok, some) use the "yous". Was wondering if you or the Mrs. is from our side of boondocks.

You know it! We will be doing a framing square series soon. Stay tuned.

Works great for metal work too.

@@JandKCarpentryBros When I was in Carpentry school, my teacher spent around a month teaching how to use a framing square. A lot of that time was spent with rafter layout, back when stick building roofs was a thing. I still remember showing my boss how to calculate valley/hip jack rafter lengths without measuring.

Hell yeah. I've been using one for years, but I've yet to use every function of that thing. So cool.

@@WredBeerd there’s apparently so many ways to use it

Oh im the same my grandfather couldve show me so much and my uncle to i lost them about 15 and had to learn everything myself

Genius is natural ❤

Best post of the night. Man I was about to give up on the internet.

My uncle Spurlock was batshit crazy, but he always knew how to build wood stuff out of wood

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It's an fortunate that the other 90% of them are ment to rote ur brain...

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Ehhh. Double it and give it to the next guy

And then if you have a crew that clicks it's ALL OVER! SHEETING TIME BROTHER 👍 I'm a farmer. From way back myself I'm 52 and willing to do it again with the right crew....👍

@@BillCoxoutfit Not much that's more fun than a crew that clicks. I'm 70 and I make em try to keep up with me.

@@chrisbrowne4669 yes sir Mr Browne!👍 I started a crew of misfits I grew up with it was soooo nice. We all knew what each other's job was... We all got along. I started interior trim now and there is not anymore around here keep up to this day! They call me the crown king 👑 lol. Stay strong stay healthy!👍💪 Greetings from Maine.

@@BillCoxoutfit Hey Crown King, we need this one done with real cope joints. Like when men were men before the motorized mitre box. I found a lot of men were misfits until they set foot on the deck and started doing something real, working with tools, wood and around real men. It is a beautiful thin to see. Blessings to all carpenters everywhere.

@@chrisbrowne4669 thank you back at you my fellow carpenter 👍💪👑I can cope I was taught by a old school drive your nails will hammer. You got to earn them power tools...

LMAO I miss those commercials

i remember this ad from Tom Lykus show

Ни чего не понял так как не знаю английский, но уверен что угольник Свенсона отличная вещь в сочетании с хорошей пилой

Best beer commercials I’ve ever seen!!

@@greenfeenix3280 yep!

Same! Funny thing is, this is the second short today that shows how to use a stair guage! The other guy used 2 stair gauges!

I've got a pair of stair gauges but never thought of using them on a speed square. You usually us them on a framing square to make stair cutouts on a stringer. This is brilliant!

I have an uncle that used a set on the framing square. Called them kunles.

iirc they are called rafter clips.

Stair guages are awesome and most people have no idea they exist

free hand is rarely perfectly.

If you’re after accuracy & speed using speed square is best

Unless you lift up to decrease depth height it won't work. Lip on the square gets in the way. Most people don't ever touch the height adjustment. 😅🧐

@@dannyzelaya251 on any circular saw I’ve ever ran battery or corded the bump out on the square has never interfered with the underneath of the saw having the square pushed against the workpiece

@@smiffersmaffer I have a battery powered Milwaukee and Bosch corded. Any 6 inch square or bigger and that lip gets in the way.

Eh for some reason my circular saw gets stuck up on it when I do it.

Unless your stupid

Yeah, but for people with zero mechanical inclination or that have no purpose around power tools, this is new information.

​. I have significantly more than zero mechanical ability (on a logarithmic scale, I'm a four, but there's people with way, way more than I have) AND I own a Speed square and a circular saw, but I didn't know this, or what a stair gauge was. I'm going to buy a couple of stair gauges now. Just like there's all levels of knowledge about a subject, there's all manner of "I didn't know that" at any level.

Correct I work for independent contractor I was this tip in 1992

​@@patricknorton5788 there is nothing to do with mechanical ability if you don't no how it's work you just stupid.

My Swanson came with gauges to do exactly that.

Unless you are just starting, you would get left off a job if you did that for every cut…. If you can’t cut a board like that straight, maybe you should reevaluate what you’re doing

@@brucejones8749 you don't need no damn guide. I will avoid your work.

​@@brucejones8749 the thing about framing thats important for beginners to know is that the cut doesnt have to be perfectly straight Close enough is good enough.

Its also a weapon of amazing accuracy

Well the issue is speed, in this application I would have a saw set up anywhere a saw horse can be set up. Now working at height or where a drop chord beat moving equipment around yea I use them and it’s a good trick, you can also use two speed clamps for rough application if you don’t have the gauge

I use it to make my cuts on metal to

....or put a cord on it😂

​@@ztungazcorded tools are a thing of the past

Get a new blade..time is money

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​@northsky5629 lol corded tools are still absolutely necessary. Batteries aren't even close to the same power. Even battery circular saws will tell you they are not for hardwoods. Thats why his saw sounds like shit.

That's my thoughts if you can't cut on a line of lead you should not have a f****** saw

Yes and no if you have a shitty saw or bent blade trying to keep that thing on a straight line can get a little reckless it'll be close but if you use your speed square it doesn't hop around as much

​@@justicemcdonald2939 What kind of Carpenter would go to work with a bent blade or shitty saw??

@@kaknuthe Spanish speaking kind

​@@kaknuEveryone has that day/or job when tools are not optimal. Maybe your unskilled/greehorn workers (or you) miss a rafter hook and drop a saw, someone drives off with it on the tail gate, or your just working in the boonies and a half day trip to the yard is just not economical. Had more than once in 25years of building where you just plug in the old circular wood burner and make it work. Love those giant speed squares!

I was waiting for someone to mention that.

Was the blade set too high, or too low? (I had no idea there was a problem.)

HA! GOOD ONE!!

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That made me wheeze and I don’t wheeze

But it doesn’t even look or sound like him lol

Thanks!

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@@schattenlaufer2191 some loser on youtube called me a beta, im so hurt 😭

@@schattenlaufer2191 LOL

So in other words, I can use it to do what it was meant to do. Thats incredible. Thanks for the tip I already know.

If you don't have them, then you're not a carpenter!

No. It is because how much of a waste of time it is.

@@Yettiattackyup. It’s not easier, he’s legit making it more complicated than it has to be and take longer

@@edwardpinto7018 just eyeball it and mess it up? and make insurance handle the repairs?

@@kupoe Bro, framing is done within an 8th of an inch. You should be able to make these cuts by hand...

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This is what I was thinking, as well. "Here's a trick I bet you've never seen before...". Sir, unless you're going to throw that thing out 50-100 yards, have it curve like a boomerang, and decapitate the crash test dummy standing five feet to your left, I'm pretty sure I've seen it before.

This is a speed square. It can be opened with another speed square....

You can always do that if you want

Huh shutup

Lol, there's always, and I mean always, a douche bag spouting something stupid. Today, your that douche bag, @wkdravenna.

I was just making a comment about redditors being afraid of spinning things like it's plague. I guess people here are not much different

@@davidcrtalic9795 who are you talking too??

"too" (learn English grammar then!) lol

@@Ancient_Astronaut_Theorist oh that was good

@@tony4metallicaify LOL .... I thought you'd like it! (I HOPED you would like it!)

Always one

I second this, combo these two methods and you can save yourself ALOT of headaches

It's called a speed square, not a double check your angles square.

Measure twice, cut once.

put the stair gauge back on the shelf and buy a new blade.

The woods not burning, its cutting fine. Quit coping

😂lmao was thinking the same

No shit, it sounded like he was cutting through 4 inch material

@@its-butters58 if you wait to replace or sharpen a blade when its "burning the wood" remind me never to hire you. Thats like saying, "I wait till my rotors warp before I have my brakes serviced"

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Just you evidently

Perfect cut every time lol

Nope

I came to look for this comment😂

Magnet fixed inside the van 🫡

@@chriscoulson7684 mine are brass

​@@chriscoulson7684mine are brass. They do get lost easily 😅 The pair I use now is probably 15 years old, but I've been using them for 52 years.

Seriously lmfao

That's not what he showed how to do, though. You're neither funny nor clever

Glad I could help

You can buy a locking adjustable after square. I own two of them

@@BryanL1982 12"?

I just learned to use my saw like a professional Some things don't require a video

@@josephpope3467 And?

Double negative means you do.. just saying 😉

@@JandKCarpentryBros Nice gut fatboy.

​@@JandKCarpentryBroswrong 🤓

@@Freeland-FarmLet me try dear: I owe you $10,000. That is, (not only negative for me 😂) but a “negative” in my wallet just waiting to be realised some day. But… It seems…you are a particularly nice person. One day taking away that debt from me. Now, bear with me… Our common friend has a bucket of apples in his garden. We are allowed to take one to eat when we like. An apple falls down the tree, he always puts it in the bucket. He adds one to the bucket, it is a positive, in math signs “plus”. You or I take one, it is a negative, in math signs “minus” So, taking away something is “a negative” but by taking away my debt of $10,000 one ends up with something “positive”! Hence - Two negative makes a positive! So if do NOT (negative) need NO (negative) speed square = you actually need a speed square as two NO after each other cancel one another out. Kind regards Anders Sweden

Yep, cave men were "Real men"

So your a shirt supplier huh.

@@Lindenbum haha

@@Lindenbum *you're

Some people do, can’t tell you how many shitty cuts I’ve seen by people. There’s more hacks out there than not. Framers are some of the biggest hacks. Especially when using levels. They think a wall is level if the bubble is in between the two line, they don’t care if it’s not perfectly centered and then they are using a 4ft level on an 8ft wall, so that 2/4 inch turns into a half inch real quick. They don’t take the time to crown their lumber, they cut shit short, crooked, etc… but it’s just rough framing, right? They don’t care when the finish work needs to be done. I’d rather guys take a little longer doing this, than freehand and have 1/2” gaps on their rafter cuts at the bottom of the ridge

Makita is not flashy, but they work hard and outlast these other brands

I didn't know that. You ever think sometimes youtube shorts can help DIYers at home?

​@@drillbitgd7763The point is that the title shouldn't be "hack". It should be "tip" or "how-to"

Not for everyone

Ummmm…. This is basic framing knowledge not a hack - or should be-

He`s got the blade set too deep. It should be set maybe 1/4" deeper than the thickness of the wood. It makes a big difference.

@@curbmassa or..... it's a makita

Dull blade maybe

It's not the brand it's a battery-operated saw and he's pushing hard for Speed to make a point. Of course it's struggling

@@bobblesb9766 I think it's because it's a makita

I love this comment so much! 😂😂 We'll be doing some mitersaw videos soon.

Good for angles past 45 degrees on the long face ie tapers

Sometimes a big miter saw is not the solution.... Depend if you have electricity...

Have you ever tried to put a 16 foot 2x12 on a miter saw? It's a pain in the ass.

Framers who get any work done have a circular saw and a sawz all, these make all cuts

Stair gauges suck when the 2x has a barked edges or overly chamfered.

If you've been framing for 120 years I'm afraid I am simply no match for your experience.

A spare what?

I'll bet he uses a lot of spares because he doesn't use a square.

@@ronjones4069that was great lol

Ive been framing since the Devonian Period when we crawled out of the ocean ​@@JandKCarpentryBros

When no one gives a dam about the cut but the grammar “you’re” using

Or the spelling mistakes your both making.. 'damn' 😂

You are both nerds dont forget your pocket protectors

@@obiex8037 you’re 😂 and dam was done intentionally

@@lander783 You forgot a comma and a period.

Classic. Smdh at people that make the utmost basic video and call it a hack

Great question by the way 👍

Couldn't agree more! 😁

Nice!

Welcome to the crew bro!😁

Glad you found it helpful and thank you for subscribing!

No , a hammer is . And if you make a bad cut just smash it with the hammer into shape 😂

Yet it is new to some who see it, and he did not claim to have invented it.

Glad to hear it and thanks for the support!

Glad it was helpful we've got loads more like it on our channel. 😁👍