Did trim on resi new construction for two months and told my supervisors to never put me on a resi sight ever again. Just too cookie cutter to me even though it was a 300< unit apartment complex. The stapler kinda leans me towards something similar
Just got to say I absolutely enjoy ur tool videos and ur recent demo and remodel project ur such a great person to watch and listen to. I’m a tool nerd as well and being retired I can watch ur videos as soon as they come out. 😂Keep up the great videos and awesome content.-Dave
I never thought of running mag masters on your everyday belt. Seems like a great idea; instead of dropping your pliers in your pocket they stick to your side.
Very useful for a number of reasons. Keys, tools, random metal stuff. And hidden away. Much better on your pants, since they dont get mangled up by tools. Good stuff
@@wackyweyland8857 I always hate when I through pliers in my pockets because the handles inevitably spread out and wedge themselves making them hard to get in out. Magmasters work really well 👍
My daily setup is running 3 mag masters and a drill master. Two of the mag masters are on my normal belt with my drill master and my mp1x. One mag master goes on my carhartt suspenders. Normally use them most to hold screws / bits / any metal bits I don’t wanna lose One mag master will easily hold a whole hand full for screws you can pull off one at a time.
@@robholland5925 I originally bought the magmaster to hold my hammer. I was looking for a holster that doesn't break your hip if you bump a wall, like a typical metal ring type. A leather holster didn't work w my milwaukee hammer as rubber doesn't like leather. And then I found myself using my magmaster for everything. I use three on my normal belt and one on my tool belt. No belt, I run a pair of forged strippers front right, kleins back right and auxiliary tool on the left back. Whether it's a reamer or parts. Magmasters changed the game for me
@@JustinSpakable yea they did for me too. I’m can be a bit chaotic at times so having the ability to literally stick things to my person instead of putting them down and losing them pays for them alone. Like take something apart and I really can’t lose these 3 little screws or it won’t work again. Well they ain’t falling of a mag master that’s for bloody sure. And I hated sticking my hand in a pouch full of sharp screws only to stab myself Now I just peal one of the bunch The only thing stopping me from using them on a chest rig is that my company requires me to wear company logo shirts and does not want them covered in a chest rig or tool vest.
-I do keep my veto not so packed to the gills. Its easier that way. - joey. The southwire box jaw romex strippers are amazing and very useful. Yeah, a razor works but the southwire box jaw is awesome and worth it. American made and helps the wounder warrior project - thats the wera turbo screwdriver - my Phillips klein usa screwdriver walked away - the plano box has random screws, plate screws - both milwaukee and klein allen keys are sae - i have the klein mc cutter, its great. The milwaukee feels and works better, to me. - i absolutely love the m12 stapler -milwaukee hoodies, non heated, are cheaper and better than carhartt. I love carhartt but milwaukees are better quality. And they run larger sizes, yes. I wear large, but buy medium in their mid weight hoodies - the belt is a fairwin tactical work belt. Awesome and very comfortable. Its lasted 5 years at this point. So, i am a residential journeyman, commercial and service work electrician. In chicagoland area, so it gets cold. I buy two of every heated hoodie, not shown, so that i have some to wear that arent trashed from work. Ive been in the union since late 2017 but worked for the local poco for 5 years before that. So about 11/12 yrs electrical experience. I love me some knipex and milwaukee, as shown. But i just love tools in general. Thanks, Morgans maintenence for this video and thank you everyone who watched and commented! God bless
👏 👏 👏 appreciate the answers promptly and being a great community member. I thought Michigan was cold Chicago has epic lake effect snow ❄️. I know many places arnt energized or heated especially rooftop work. Being in bricktown I thought I'd be more sds or rotohammer related stuff. Heated hoodie collection makes perfect sense.
Yeah. It gets pretty cold out this way. But as they say, the heat is in the tools! And I was in a water treatment plants tunnel the other day working on a lighting circuit that was 480 and live. The nice gentlemen who wired it initially tied a lot of essential pumps and motors to the lighting circuit so we couldn't de energize it. It was fun. No one got blasted.
I see stuff like that on what we call a hospital circuit. It's a nickname we give to a breaker that has a lockout or reminder that this is an essential line to mission critical things. Sometimes they put a interlock with a lock on it. To us that know don't be guessing and turn that off and I like when they make things stupid proof.
I can't comment since we have had discussions in the past. I do think it's fairly obvious based on the tools he has though they lead one way. I will say this tech pac is very lightly loaded way less than day mine or American electrican. I applaud 👏 such restraint to not fill it so much or too heavy. I'm glad someone can use the packout tool bag (soft shell) since alot of people don't think there very useful aka a pit. I enjoy his community involvement and his tools definitely match his work!
I got a handful if thoes husky clones of the veto beach totes that were out during holiday sales. At 30 dollars each they are very close to veto quality but I can get 4 for the same price. I find I can load my wrists up with the beach bags or put them on moving dolly handles ect. That has kept me away from soft sided veto bags completely.
Heated hooves vest and jackets are a great thing! Even if your a warm person it keeps the layers down but still stays warm. Standard warning ⚠️ once you get one thr women in your life will steal them buy her one too! Mine has 3 herself quilted jacket hoodie and vest. I'm a little collector but not I use mine too. I have a 2nd gen soft shell w/ hand warming pockets nice hoodie beater work hoodie and vest. You can convert them to power banks for the ladies to have unlimited runtime in a day too with adapters and non kidney destroying battery bulge. I'm digging the high vis ones I've seen them in person bit maybe this is the year to get a rainbow bright edition 😆.
My girl has 2 hoodies and a soft shell. I'm jealous of the navy blue one I bought her. I want that color. And I love my rainbow Brite milwaukee! Ha I fell in love w hi vis for some reason. It's pleasing to my eye
Yep I get alot of compliments or what's that glow on your chest. Good hoodie is green looks nice. The work hoodie us black and off end season clearance rack who cares has caulk paint and concrete on it. Soft shell is the lovely blue and it's very dressy not really work use but it's worth the price for the color. Vest is Grey and clearance for 23 dollars who cares covered in concrete and drywall dust.
Also keep an eye out at local supply houses too I got my soft shell as a barley opened return and it was just over 100 dollars because of it. My woman got all her hoodies and jackets because of a special program. They wanted more women in the trades so a local union female electrican I know ought them for me since they offer only women 50% off women's heated gear. Us men don't matter 😆. So thanks to her I spend under 100 dollars a jacket or hoodie for the woman but she loves them none the less. Keep an eye out for programs like that makes Christmas gifts for mom alot cheaper!
Looks to be some sort of installation sparky but doesn't seem to have the test equipment our installation sparks use over here. But then doesn't seem to have many insulated tools that you would see our industrial / maintenance sparks carry. Same jobs but completely different!
@@three-phase562 sparky for sure… I don’t know the specifics. It is interesting how sometimes people are in the same field, but sometimes go about things differently
It's funny Comercial electrical dosent require insulated tools. I know overseas it's requires or why not. Alot of big sites here simply demand no live power period. Thank goodness for battery tools. Out of the 3 or 4 electricians I know 3 of which are in the Comercial space I carry more insulated tools than them. The people on the lower end of work residential handyman situations carry more insulated tools. If we had more isolation of power like in eu maybe things would change around here.
I haven't gotten any insulated tools because I never found myself wishing I'd had em. I'm lucky and careful enough to work in live panels and such but I do intend on getting some insulated hand tools, eventually. Also, the contractor is to provide the testing equipment required to megger and such. But I do want to build up my testing equipment more and more every year.
Obviously Sparky. Union? He had a leather IBEW Strap in 1 of the pics. But he had alot of power tools that aren't "On the List" I'm Union but not IBEW. They give us a tool allowance to buy our tools. I'd tell ya what I do but im going to send my pics in 1 day. Not a common Union Trade
I’m guessing an electrician, specifically I will guess residential new construction installation. The Milwaukee heated gear told me that because he obviously spends long days in the cold.
Wow, I missed this one somehow. It's obvious, especially judging by Knipex pipe cutter. We all know that everybody in the world uses this for plumbing. So naturally because Justin is US-based, he's a sparky.
Hi Joey an other fun video in this series. My guess is this guy is a commercial electrician specialising in work on bars and diners in oil towns in Alaska
The leather tape holder was a dead giveaway for thoes who know that name. Fyi if you like that tape holder check out the rack a teirs version under 10 bucks good leather. Thr special thing about it is it hangs down below the metal loop keeping whatever you gook on it from curling into your leg keeps it straight.
Definitely an IBEW electrician. That's obvious. It's interesting that union electricians can now have non-USA made tools. Even the parent company of Milwaukee is Hong Kong China. When I joined the IBEW in 1980 @ 18 years old you could only have American made tools. Today, I routinely see Knipex, Wera, Vessel, etc. in union wireman tool bags. HaHa, I brought a B&D electric screwdriver to the jobsite and the union job steward told me either the electric screwdriver goes home to stay or I could go home and stay with it. I thought it was ridiculous but he made it clear we were not in a hurry. Manual screwdrivers only. Drills were to make holes not install screws. No battery hand tools and definitely not non American tools. We were to work steady but not fast. Now I'm retired and what was a big deal then isn't now. Owners of foreign cars had to park them across the street from the union hall or the union would have them towed. Boy how things have changed. BTW I have all of the tools I mentioned above and I still love Klein. I even have some Craftsman tools that I still enjoy. Blessings to all
Thoes are the days I wouldn't have liked to live on the jobsite. I've gotten dare I say lazy?!? I'm all for giving money to the usa made tools as long as they meet a reasonable standard. Lately the milwaukee usa screwdrivers are so grossly miss machined it's comical. I get that and even the usa government does the same for the military demands usa made tools in alot of roles. I call all these lazy tools a lesson in how to not wreck your body. I do appreciate the history lesson scaring people into a time they would have had to work hard. Great insight!
Yeah. They still give grief to guys in subarus and nissans. I drive chevy but I mean even chevy isn't actually american. But when I started, over a decade ago, most all klein was american made. Nowadays, you're hard pressed to find american made klein tools. Or they bring em out sometimes and call em special edition. It's lame. I opened my eyes to knipex and wera in like 2019 and I haven't looked back since. And I agree w matt. I'm all for giving money to american made tools, but if they're not good or made not up to snuff, they're not worth it.
Heck lately I'm about 30% made in Japan it's creeping up into my German percentage. They can send me a tool thats more comfortable half the price of knipex and has outstanding fit and finish why not? I could go to to local hd and get some Chinese crescent brand ir send my money to Japan or Germany no brainer!
Easy. My guess: Non-Union Commercial Electrician somewhere frigid cold like Michigan or Minnesota. Why "Non-Union"? Too many power tools. No Local IBEW "Tool List" would authorize that many power tools on the Tool List - the contractor would provide that.
A union may provide power tools but I know a couple union comerical apprentice and journeyman that are allowed to bring there own tools if they want. Funny thing they use vessel usb and dewaly gyro along with there portaband of choice. Many people don't want a 5in deep cut for 1in or less emt. Also they provide them with 2hand dual safety switch portabands which drive many of us old timers batty. You never know..
I am union. But in some instances, contractors don't provide enough impacts or whatever. Obviously, you clear it w the contractors cuz lots of guys will get on you about having tools that ARENT on the tool list. But my thoughts on it are, if I have a tool to make me more productive and make the job easier w less fatigue, why not use it? And I won't use it unless it's understood that if my tool dies doing a job for them, it needs to be replaced by the contractor. If they don't agree to that, I don't use my tools
My wrists agree my local Comcast cable company provies dewalt 18v nicad to there installers and weigh a ton. For your long term health it's well worth a m12 surge or impact even out of pocket. Yet I see all these people killing themselves using archaic tools just because there provided wrists be darned.
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Did trim on resi new construction for two months and told my supervisors to never put me on a resi sight ever again. Just too cookie cutter to me even though it was a 300< unit apartment complex. The stapler kinda leans me towards something similar
I like commercial work better myself. I only do service work for residential.
He is an Electrician, said he does a little of both 👍
Trim is very mind numbing. Easy, but can get boring quick. Roughing is fun, but also gets old. At least w commercial, there's a bit of variety.
Just got to say I absolutely enjoy ur tool videos and ur recent demo and remodel project ur such a great person to watch and listen to. I’m a tool nerd as well and being retired I can watch ur videos as soon as they come out. 😂Keep up the great videos and awesome content.-Dave
@@davehowell4111 appreciate that.. it means a lot, I never dreamed I’d be a TH-camr on the side, but here I am 😂
Justin : obviously a beekeeper load out to keep the hive going strong .
As well as Disney Space Mountain ride preventative maintenance
@@vegancookiesgood.vcgtoolreview Jason Stathom type beekeeper
I am very obviously an apiary afficionado, yes. We build the hive, 40 hrs a week!
Thoes angry electric bee hives 😨 where's the vape pens to smoke them so we can get near it.
I never thought of running mag masters on your everyday belt. Seems like a great idea; instead of dropping your pliers in your pocket they stick to your side.
Very useful for a number of reasons. Keys, tools, random metal stuff. And hidden away. Much better on your pants, since they dont get mangled up by tools. Good stuff
@@wackyweyland8857 I always hate when I through pliers in my pockets because the handles inevitably spread out and wedge themselves making them hard to get in out. Magmasters work really well 👍
My daily setup is running 3 mag masters and a drill master. Two of the mag masters are on my normal belt with my drill master and my mp1x. One mag master goes on my carhartt suspenders.
Normally use them most to hold screws / bits / any metal bits I don’t wanna lose
One mag master will easily hold a whole hand full for screws you can pull off one at a time.
@@robholland5925 I originally bought the magmaster to hold my hammer. I was looking for a holster that doesn't break your hip if you bump a wall, like a typical metal ring type. A leather holster didn't work w my milwaukee hammer as rubber doesn't like leather. And then I found myself using my magmaster for everything. I use three on my normal belt and one on my tool belt. No belt, I run a pair of forged strippers front right, kleins back right and auxiliary tool on the left back. Whether it's a reamer or parts. Magmasters changed the game for me
@@JustinSpakable yea they did for me too. I’m can be a bit chaotic at times so having the ability to literally stick things to my person instead of putting them down and losing them pays for them alone.
Like take something apart and I really can’t lose these 3 little screws or it won’t work again. Well they ain’t falling of a mag master that’s for bloody sure.
And I hated sticking my hand in a pouch full of sharp screws only to stab myself
Now I just peal one of the bunch
The only thing stopping me from using them on a chest rig is that my company requires me to wear company logo shirts and does not want them covered in a chest rig or tool vest.
-I do keep my veto not so packed to the gills. Its easier that way.
- joey. The southwire box jaw romex strippers are amazing and very useful. Yeah, a razor works but the southwire box jaw is awesome and worth it. American made and helps the wounder warrior project
- thats the wera turbo screwdriver
- my Phillips klein usa screwdriver walked away
- the plano box has random screws, plate screws
- both milwaukee and klein allen keys are sae
- i have the klein mc cutter, its great. The milwaukee feels and works better, to me.
- i absolutely love the m12 stapler
-milwaukee hoodies, non heated, are cheaper and better than carhartt. I love carhartt but milwaukees are better quality. And they run larger sizes, yes. I wear large, but buy medium in their mid weight hoodies
- the belt is a fairwin tactical work belt. Awesome and very comfortable. Its lasted 5 years at this point.
So, i am a residential journeyman, commercial and service work electrician. In chicagoland area, so it gets cold. I buy two of every heated hoodie, not shown, so that i have some to wear that arent trashed from work. Ive been in the union since late 2017 but worked for the local poco for 5 years before that. So about 11/12 yrs electrical experience. I love me some knipex and milwaukee, as shown. But i just love tools in general. Thanks, Morgans maintenence for this video and thank you everyone who watched and commented! God bless
👏 👏 👏 appreciate the answers promptly and being a great community member. I thought Michigan was cold Chicago has epic lake effect snow ❄️. I know many places arnt energized or heated especially rooftop work. Being in bricktown I thought I'd be more sds or rotohammer related stuff. Heated hoodie collection makes perfect sense.
Yeah. It gets pretty cold out this way. But as they say, the heat is in the tools! And I was in a water treatment plants tunnel the other day working on a lighting circuit that was 480 and live. The nice gentlemen who wired it initially tied a lot of essential pumps and motors to the lighting circuit so we couldn't de energize it. It was fun. No one got blasted.
I see stuff like that on what we call a hospital circuit. It's a nickname we give to a breaker that has a lockout or reminder that this is an essential line to mission critical things. Sometimes they put a interlock with a lock on it. To us that know don't be guessing and turn that off and I like when they make things stupid proof.
@@JustinSpakable appreciate the answers and sharing your loadout. Great set of tool 👍👍
I can't comment since we have had discussions in the past. I do think it's fairly obvious based on the tools he has though they lead one way. I will say this tech pac is very lightly loaded way less than day mine or American electrican. I applaud 👏 such restraint to not fill it so much or too heavy. I'm glad someone can use the packout tool bag (soft shell) since alot of people don't think there very useful aka a pit. I enjoy his community involvement and his tools definitely match his work!
@@MattHmm-rq6dn yeah I’ve thought about getting some of those Packouts myself to load power tools in to carry in
I got a handful if thoes husky clones of the veto beach totes that were out during holiday sales. At 30 dollars each they are very close to veto quality but I can get 4 for the same price. I find I can load my wrists up with the beach bags or put them on moving dolly handles ect. That has kept me away from soft sided veto bags completely.
Heated hooves vest and jackets are a great thing! Even if your a warm person it keeps the layers down but still stays warm. Standard warning ⚠️ once you get one thr women in your life will steal them buy her one too! Mine has 3 herself quilted jacket hoodie and vest. I'm a little collector but not I use mine too. I have a 2nd gen soft shell w/ hand warming pockets nice hoodie beater work hoodie and vest. You can convert them to power banks for the ladies to have unlimited runtime in a day too with adapters and non kidney destroying battery bulge. I'm digging the high vis ones I've seen them in person bit maybe this is the year to get a rainbow bright edition 😆.
I don’t need mine real often, but they are super nice to have
My girl has 2 hoodies and a soft shell. I'm jealous of the navy blue one I bought her. I want that color. And I love my rainbow Brite milwaukee! Ha I fell in love w hi vis for some reason. It's pleasing to my eye
Yep I get alot of compliments or what's that glow on your chest. Good hoodie is green looks nice. The work hoodie us black and off end season clearance rack who cares has caulk paint and concrete on it. Soft shell is the lovely blue and it's very dressy not really work use but it's worth the price for the color. Vest is Grey and clearance for 23 dollars who cares covered in concrete and drywall dust.
Also keep an eye out at local supply houses too I got my soft shell as a barley opened return and it was just over 100 dollars because of it. My woman got all her hoodies and jackets because of a special program. They wanted more women in the trades so a local union female electrican I know ought them for me since they offer only women 50% off women's heated gear. Us men don't matter 😆. So thanks to her I spend under 100 dollars a jacket or hoodie for the woman but she loves them none the less. Keep an eye out for programs like that makes Christmas gifts for mom alot cheaper!
Looks to be some sort of installation sparky but doesn't seem to have the test equipment our installation sparks use over here. But then doesn't seem to have many insulated tools that you would see our industrial / maintenance sparks carry. Same jobs but completely different!
@@three-phase562 sparky for sure… I don’t know the specifics. It is interesting how sometimes people are in the same field, but sometimes go about things differently
It's funny Comercial electrical dosent require insulated tools. I know overseas it's requires or why not. Alot of big sites here simply demand no live power period. Thank goodness for battery tools. Out of the 3 or 4 electricians I know 3 of which are in the Comercial space I carry more insulated tools than them. The people on the lower end of work residential handyman situations carry more insulated tools. If we had more isolation of power like in eu maybe things would change around here.
I haven't gotten any insulated tools because I never found myself wishing I'd had em. I'm lucky and careful enough to work in live panels and such but I do intend on getting some insulated hand tools, eventually. Also, the contractor is to provide the testing equipment required to megger and such. But I do want to build up my testing equipment more and more every year.
Obviously Sparky. Union? He had a leather IBEW Strap in 1 of the pics. But he had alot of power tools that aren't "On the List" I'm Union but not IBEW. They give us a tool allowance to buy our tools. I'd tell ya what I do but im going to send my pics in 1 day. Not a common Union Trade
Good Guess. He said that he is… looking forward to it 👍
I’m guessing an electrician, specifically I will guess residential new construction installation. The Milwaukee heated gear told me that because he obviously spends long days in the cold.
@@chrisw8189 good guess… I know electrician for sure, we will see on the specifics 👍
Yea I was going to say Morgan ,I wear the extra large Milwaukee shirts but I’m 5’11 like 230 so no way it fit you right 😭good video bro
@@quiseplumbs I go between Large and XL on most shirts… depending where I’m at in my fatness 😂
Wow, I missed this one somehow.
It's obvious, especially judging by Knipex pipe cutter. We all know that everybody in the world uses this for plumbing. So naturally because Justin is US-based, he's a sparky.
@@Stefan_Kawalec 😂… that he is
Hi Joey an other fun video in this series. My guess is this guy is a commercial electrician specialising in work on bars and diners in oil towns in Alaska
@@robholland5925 seems like a really good guess to me
Are you saying "He's as cold 🥶 as ice 🧊 " 😆
Very good guess. I do work in a lot of commercial settings, sometimes residential. For both, I do new construction and renos
IBEW Brother
Correct!
The leather tape holder was a dead giveaway for thoes who know that name. Fyi if you like that tape holder check out the rack a teirs version under 10 bucks good leather. Thr special thing about it is it hangs down below the metal loop keeping whatever you gook on it from curling into your leg keeps it straight.
Definitely an IBEW electrician. That's obvious. It's interesting that union electricians can now have non-USA made tools. Even the parent company of Milwaukee is Hong Kong China. When I joined the IBEW in 1980 @ 18 years old you could only have American made tools. Today, I routinely see Knipex, Wera, Vessel, etc. in union wireman tool bags. HaHa, I brought a B&D electric screwdriver to the jobsite and the union job steward told me either the electric screwdriver goes home to stay or I could go home and stay with it. I thought it was ridiculous but he made it clear we were not in a hurry. Manual screwdrivers only. Drills were to make holes not install screws. No battery hand tools and definitely not non American tools. We were to work steady but not fast. Now I'm retired and what was a big deal then isn't now. Owners of foreign cars had to park them across the street from the union hall or the union would have them towed. Boy how things have changed. BTW I have all of the tools I mentioned above and I still love Klein. I even have some Craftsman tools that I still enjoy. Blessings to all
@@terryburton8072 really good guess… and thanks for the insight 👍👍
Thoes are the days I wouldn't have liked to live on the jobsite. I've gotten dare I say lazy?!? I'm all for giving money to the usa made tools as long as they meet a reasonable standard. Lately the milwaukee usa screwdrivers are so grossly miss machined it's comical. I get that and even the usa government does the same for the military demands usa made tools in alot of roles. I call all these lazy tools a lesson in how to not wreck your body. I do appreciate the history lesson scaring people into a time they would have had to work hard. Great insight!
Yeah. They still give grief to guys in subarus and nissans. I drive chevy but I mean even chevy isn't actually american. But when I started, over a decade ago, most all klein was american made. Nowadays, you're hard pressed to find american made klein tools. Or they bring em out sometimes and call em special edition. It's lame. I opened my eyes to knipex and wera in like 2019 and I haven't looked back since. And I agree w matt. I'm all for giving money to american made tools, but if they're not good or made not up to snuff, they're not worth it.
Heck lately I'm about 30% made in Japan it's creeping up into my German percentage. They can send me a tool thats more comfortable half the price of knipex and has outstanding fit and finish why not? I could go to to local hd and get some Chinese crescent brand ir send my money to Japan or Germany no brainer!
Easy.
My guess: Non-Union Commercial Electrician somewhere frigid cold like Michigan or Minnesota.
Why "Non-Union"? Too many power tools. No Local IBEW "Tool List" would authorize that many power tools on the Tool List - the contractor would provide that.
@@ElectroAtletico we will see what he says… I don’t know 100% the specifics
A union may provide power tools but I know a couple union comerical apprentice and journeyman that are allowed to bring there own tools if they want. Funny thing they use vessel usb and dewaly gyro along with there portaband of choice. Many people don't want a 5in deep cut for 1in or less emt. Also they provide them with 2hand dual safety switch portabands which drive many of us old timers batty. You never know..
The "IBEW" on the belt loop is the union for electrical workers.
I am union. But in some instances, contractors don't provide enough impacts or whatever. Obviously, you clear it w the contractors cuz lots of guys will get on you about having tools that ARENT on the tool list. But my thoughts on it are, if I have a tool to make me more productive and make the job easier w less fatigue, why not use it? And I won't use it unless it's understood that if my tool dies doing a job for them, it needs to be replaced by the contractor. If they don't agree to that, I don't use my tools
My wrists agree my local Comcast cable company provies dewalt 18v nicad to there installers and weigh a ton. For your long term health it's well worth a m12 surge or impact even out of pocket. Yet I see all these people killing themselves using archaic tools just because there provided wrists be darned.