in this video i show you how to turn your ordinary crescent into a tool of the trade! please check out my facebook page @chantz fabz and follow me on instagram @ChantzFabz
Those lines you cut into the crescent for grip, can cut to match your measuring tape. A 12 inch adjustable has enough handle to to measure up to 8 inches.
Rather than carrying a crescent on a structural job, over the years I managed to collect some knock wrenches and I'd throw one of them in my bolt bag. With the right size for the job, using a knock wrench to tighten a bolt and your spud to hold the roll you can really stuff some bolts. R D local 25 Detroit. Ironworker extraordinaire and all around nice guy, retired.
Can't even front, I was grinding the last 2 out😟🤣, that a very good way to do it safely and it stays tight, I'm gonna do mine tomorow, nice pointer 👍✊🏻
i was an ironworker connecter /welder for 20 years till 1980,then transferred from ironworkers to pipefitters ,i wotked in every state as an ironwotker and as a pipfitter i mostly folloowed nuke plant shutdowns and chip fabs, transferred from vermont local 693 to washington dc local and retired from there,i never failed a welding test,ironworkers or pipefitters,i had 17 welding certs for nuke plants,tig, stik, or mig,i like your videos
I also like to use the round hole for tighten c-clamps. Gives you leverage to get couple good turns. I also notice some come with a end where it fits over a TC nipple to hold it from rolling.
Also you can wrap the handle in electrical tape then hit is with a heat gun or a blowtorch and it will shrink the tape around your wrench or you can also get wrenches that have rubber handles built onto them
Buy a spud crescent by Klein Tool. Many will open up for a 1". I tack the end of the hole to keep the screw from working out as they will do. Also if you use channel lock pliers bevel the ends of the handle for 4hey work great to pry deck and double as a flat head screw driver as well, u can use that idea.
and we don't use it much but we also have a 36-inch Crescent just saying you got a nice shop and it's fun to play with stuff but yeah they make all that stuff
Nice video. I like the ones I've seen I know we don't need 1" all that often, but if I need it, I have a spud to swallow a 1" nut...because I'm a workwise JIW. Local 21
Dallas Crist right on... I find myself sometimes in column anchors needing a odd size socket and my creasent gets the job done time and time again... actually today!
Jens Ulven yeah nothing workwise about being a bitch and throwing a fit... but aye I was an apprentice and learned from my mistake... humble more calm chantzy now:) Hahahaha How’s the Cali life
faith Robinson yeah in the video I discuss doing that... I actually like it opening up super wide till it jumps off easy to clean and it opens up extremely wide the wide opening 12” crescents don’t open up nearly as wide as this crescent..
Real iron workers use spud wrenches. Sorry dude. It helps line up holes. Keep a hole lined up to run a bolt through the next hole. Allow you to throw a pipe on the end for leverage and etc. I don’t ever see monkey wrenches in the field. Super fast way to round a nut.
To save time .... and time is money.... buy the correct tool the 1st time - not some " rat " crescent. The Proto 12" Crescent opens large enough to grab a 1" lejeune bolt. When I was an apprentice... wise older journeyman told me.... get the 12" Proto and Klein Spuds
Scott Ballin sometimes you’re 100 feet in the air and if you wanna go all the way down to the gang box to get the right tool go ahead... but if the job is 90% 7/8 bolts and a column splice is 1in when I’m connecting I’ll just use my creasent but not saying I’m the best or know the most some people carry a million tools I try to be light
Umm, you could have mentioned __ just buy a proto clik-stop which opens up big enough to start with..... big enough for 1" structural bolt. How we roll in 751
@@natas0733 twirling and the jaws have increased gravity did you get the test ----and my flat diamond horseshoe crescent has an old school acetylene wrench welded by ring peace bro--the flat spot mainly for small pucker beams
Did it close to 40 yrs ago. Nothing new, Williams brand adjustables were the easiest to convert and high quality. Why bevel a crescent, don't you carry two spuds and a bar?
