43c VIDEO TRAPEASE COMPOSITE DECK SCREW TOUR*

I want to show you some boots here. They're actually my favorite winter boots

even though they're not made as a winter boot. It's the second pair I've owned. Nats is the name. Got these a year ago for Christmas. I had my previous pair

for many years. They're a rubber boot so they're meant for wet weather. Terrifically light. They never crack even after years of use. Most interesting

thing is how warm they are. I've never had cold feet in these boots. There's no

liner in here. Same kind of material that Crocs are made of so it's a kind of a

foam. It's firmer though. It must have some pretty good insulating value to it

because these are super warm. I really don't wear my boots with liners anymore

The thing that gives out on them is that you wear through the sole. These are probably about half worn now. The last pair I wore right through. A super rubber

boot. I'm sure you'd like these. Don't get anything else. They never crack

This is coming well. This is that Trex deck replacement thing. I work at it when

I can but I want to show you something I've discovered that's pretty

impressive and it has to do with how this stuff goes down and is fastened in

a sort of invisible way. This particular product I'm using has a groove in the

edge and then there are these clips that fit in to the groove on one side and the

groove on the other. You drive this down and it holds the board down and that's why you don't see any fasteners here. They look kind of gimpy. I mean just

pieces of little plastic. I mean might those not break or get brittle over time

or with kids jumping on the deck or something? The deck board is still resting on the top of the joists so it's not bearing any weight. It's just holding

it down. I haven't used these before so I really don't know how they age. Trex is a

really good brand though I'd be surprised if there's any problem. I have used other kinds of plastic clips over the years to hold composite deck boards

down and they've lasted perfectly. I can't over stress how much better an

installation like this looks when there are no visible fasteners. I could have

just blammed down a whole bunch of you know eyeball in some deck screws and

usual approach. The usual approach. You've never really been into the usual

approach though. Nothing I do is usual. The stone house behind us kind of

indicates that. Yeah I'm kind of crazy but you know maybe some people want to

hear about this. So this is what holds the boards down in most places but it

can't hold them down everywhere. The outer pieces for example. The outer pieces

exactly and in this case this outer board is actually quite a bit thicker

than the main board. That's like a full inch and a half it looks like. It's inch and 3 eighths in this case actually but I had to make this a different

height than what supports that so that the top lines up. Okay. This board cannot

be held with these clips because well even if this had a groove in it which it

does and I could have routed one in but the groove wouldn't really line up necessarily here and even if it did line up the clip would go in here and there's

no wood there. I've got spacers in here because I don't want water to sit between the boards. Yeah. Got to minimize wood on wood. Right. This outer edge of the

last deck board not the overhanging one but I can't hold that down with a clip

but we've got a fairly hard to see little deck screw here. These screws

aren't made by Trex. They're made by Fasten Master. I've used a bunch of their stuff before and I'm always impressed. These screws are specifically meant for

holding down composite decking and it's color matched. Very small head so you

wonder how on earth could a head like that hold a deck board down. Look at this

you got the regular threads that hold into the wood and they're a right-hand

thread tighten when you go clockwise just like a regular deck screw. But this

this thread here is a left-hand thread. This turns this this whole section here

into something that can hold the deck screw. It also cleans away any frazzled

bits of the top. These screws are not supposed to need any kind of a pilot

hole. You see it's got a little drill bit tip here. I can and I have gone through

and just you know put a screw where I want just drive it down and that's that

But I find I get cleaner results if I pre-drill first. To be honest when I was

using these screws for the thicker edge piece a couple of them did did break. It's

quite a lot of work to get through that inch and three-eighths of composite deck

material and the screw broke off. You could say that you were screwed. I could say that

I'll let you say that. So I pre-drill. It doesn't take a whole lot of time but it's

pretty amazing to see this go in and to see it kind of suck down and form a nice

I think it's a pretty impressive result there. Let's see it suck down. Let's see

it suck down. I have all I've driven all the screws I want to drive right now so I'm just gonna put on a little scrap here. They've gone to a lot of

trouble to to create a really nice driver bit here. It's kind of like a

torx pattern on the driver bit but there's this little extra stick out

nubbin which interlocks with a depression in the head so it just makes

this whole arrangement much more likely to stay in place. If the driver bit were

to round this out you'd lose the nice looks. You'd lose the color and it'd be

all mushed up metal and not very nice. Now here's the interesting bit. Watch how that just sucks in and does a nice neat

job. What could be better than that? That is so clean. Like that's really small

It's really small. It holds really well. Why would anybody have... how many

barbecues do we have here? Why would anyone have four four grills? You know I

like barbecuing but I've only ever known how to use two grills at

once not four. The Weber company has come to us and say we want you to make

technical training videos for our team of technicians that travel to people's

homes. So how to assemble them, how to fix them, depending on what's going

wrong. So there's about four more grills that I've loaned out to people. They

might as well keep them and use them while we're waiting to do another repair video on them. So that's how come there's all these things here. One of the things

about Manitoulin Island is that there's a lot of community music here. This choir

performs twice a year. There's always lots of people who join it and they

bring some great music to Manitoulin as you can hear. We've taken a rare trip off of Manitoulin and Bailey Line Road

And we're here to get our son Joseph, a guy who's in Knoxville, Tennessee on an

athletic scholarship. And his plane has just landed. This is the Sudbury Airport

It's three hours drive from our house. August to December seems like a long

time in theory, doesn't it? But it sure does go fast. How was your trip? Good. It all went like clockwork today

No, it often does. Well, I maintain that half the time you have a hitch

No. Well, do you remember last year coming here night in the airport and going back

A night and a half. Yeah, but that doesn't happen too often. It does though

This is long-term parking in the Sudbury Airport and apparently this is

seasoned winter travelers know they have to travel with a shovel in order to dig out

So mom, what do you have here? Some prime rib. Yes, we're having a little restaurant break before we head back to Bailey Line Road

That's the prime rib in Sudbury. How many ounces is that, Joe? 16

What's this? Christmas time again? It's only December 11th. Christmas time again. A lovely package from my friends at Leigh Valley Tools

I've been buying stuff from them for about 40 years. They are a great company. I like them a lot

And this, unless I'm mistaken, is something that should help us with our woodcutting

Something called a pickeroon. Now, you mentioned to me earlier that your back was hurting

And we're doing some wood, but this is supposed to solve it

Okay. Here is a pickeroon. We're going to try and see if it's long enough

That thing looks deadly. Made in Europe, I believe. And kind of sharp here

And the idea is that you thunk it down into the end of a piece of wood and you can pick it up

So you don't have to bend all the way down to get your fingers under a piece of wood. A defense mechanism for the zombie apocalypse

Right. So this is a timber carrier. This is for clamping onto logs

And two guys, that would be you and me, two guys would put us on our shoulder and we can kind of carry logs

Just one end of the log. This seems kind of small. It's a good idea, but I'm not sure we really need a tool

to pick up a log that's maybe only 6 or 7 inches in diameter

Maybe it doesn't have to be gripping around up to half the log to actually grip in

It looks pretty sharp. Yeah, it is pretty sharp. Good points on there

Made in Austria. Great new tools for the firewood arsenal. I'll get this out into the shelter

Come back next time and you'll see this stuff in action. Thanks for watching

Come on back next Friday to see the pickeroon in action and a whole bunch of other things

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