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3-in-1 Scaffold Bench, Storage Shelf & Woodworking Mitre Saw Station - Bailey Line Life #5
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Feb 22, 2024
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One of the things I like about living on the island is that I get a more or less constant
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blast of beauty. This is the forest trail that leads from my son Robert's cabin in the woods to our place
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We're about halfway between the two spots now. I just wanted to share this beautiful winter morning with you
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Sure I'm thankful to be here. About a month ago the people at Metal Tech sent me an email
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I've bought lots of scaffolding from them before and I really like their stuff. They've got this new product, they call it a scaffold bench
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They wanted me to take a look at it if I did like it. Sounds like a great idea. I've got to hack in
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I feel like I'm cutting into a mummy here. The Metal Tech scaffold bench system
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Support rollers. Looks pretty heavy duty. I guess in addition to functioning as a bench you can also work off of it a little bit
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You're probably the only guy I know who might possibly dull his utility knife just unboxing tools
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Yeah I do go through a lot of utility knives. This is my favorite knife. I don't know if I've ever explained this
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It fits nicely in your pocket. It's a Milwaukee. You press the button and then you go and it's open
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Just like that. Nice and fast. They have another model that holds extra blades in the handle
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This is just the basic one. It's a regular utility knife so you can take it out, flip it around, lock it in place
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It is currently the best utility knife in the world as far as I've seen
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Why don't I work at it for a while and then come back and show you what this thing looks like
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Wind noise. I've ruined the original audio on this footage so I'll just tell you what's going on here
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This is the platform. You can stand on it and then these uprights plug in
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On top there's a removable wire shelf for when the unit is in storage mode
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This is the outfeed roller that you can adjust to support longer pieces of wood that you're
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cutting or working on. You can also flip the platform over and you expose these rails here for bolting down a
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chop saw. So that's the chop saw side of the unit right there
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How does this thing work? Well, it's kind of a specific use tool
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It sits down on the ground and it can transfer a spot
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So if you wanted to make a spot directly plumb from say this bolt, you put this over top
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and it's going to broadcast a line straight up. So, I'll show you how this works when we're actually using it on a project
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But for now, let's just light it up and see if it's going to work for us
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It comes with a couple of batteries. Not as bright as I would have thought
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Maybe I didn't put the batteries in right. Yep, I put the batteries in wrong. That would do it
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That would do it. In fact, that's what did it. Ah, look at that
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Something is happening. The spot down here would be on our reference spot
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If you go and look at the ceiling, that's a perfectly level, perfectly plumb transferring
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It's going to come in very handy when we're building that railing for your place
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I thought you might like to see a little shelf unit I made up in our outdoor fabric shelter
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It's fast and easy to set up and very heavy duty. Concrete blocks, two standard height blocks here and then a half block
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Enough room between the two by twelves for lots of stuff. Seven feet long with a column of blocks in the middle
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There's also a half block underneath to get the wood up off the ground
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This took me about an hour to put together. It's just a great shelf. I want to show you a few different torches that I've got at my place
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This is the one I've had the longest and it's a great torch. Unfortunately, they don't make it anymore. I'm not sure why
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This is another torch. I use this for auto body work when I want to use lead to fill holes
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So it's a softer flame. This, I think, is the best propane torch head on the market right now
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It's an all-metal body, very strong. Built-in igniter. It'll keep on burning
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You just press this button and you get a flame. I've got two of these so far and I use them all the time
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So here's another torch that I use. It's an oxy-acetylene torch. It generates more heat than a propane torch
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And one of the uses I put it to is for facing stone
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This is a stone that has a natural surface here and a sawn surface there
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If I was working this stone, I would be chiseling around the outside to get rid of that sawn surface
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I can't always chisel off the stone right in the center. This torch lets me give it a natural surface in a different way
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So there's two fuels here. One is acetylene. Like this, it doesn't burn very cleanly, but once I add a little bit of oxygen to it..
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Very hot, concentrated flame. The kind of limestone reacts in an interesting way
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Stone flakes off under the heat and creates a much more natural surface
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My old tractor's been smelling a bit like gasoline lately. I see under here there's a shutoff valve and a sediment bowl
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And even when that valve is shut off, I've got some gas leaking here
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This tractor has been remarkable. It has lived outside for 30 years and I've done almost nothing to it
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So I certainly don't feel bad about having to tighten that up. Next time I'll show you what that looks like
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Just finished our woodcutting session here. I don't know if you can see it
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The days are short and that's why they have headlights on the tractor. So this is how I hone chisels and plane iron
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I use a buffing wheel. I've made this setup myself. It's a hard felt wheel. I charge it with a buffing compound
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When I turn it on, it's an extremely fast way of sharpening things
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So this chisel was dull. It's been about a minute or so on the wheel
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And it should perform very well. The hairs are just popping right off there
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I'm going to make myself bald on my arms here. I mean, you'd have to be at it for a while
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That's end grain cherry
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Well, thanks for watching. If you want to learn how to sharpen chisels like this
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