That scaffolding being so narrow stresses me out. Were it me? I'd have to put two boards (and use a bracket to tie them together) so people had more than enough room to be safe. But ... all of you guys seem to have the balance of a daned BILLY GOAT! lol. And I'm probably a bit of a 🐈... I used to work on a boom-concrete pump. Freaking hard work that concrete is. I did it as a kid ... I couldn't imagine doing it in my 30s or older. Whoa. And the WORK you guys did building that retaining wall is so much more than I ever would've imagined. I saw those dates on the comment above and thought they were for the VIDEO!! lol. But seriously, I really wish you guys told us how many days each video represented. Bc we really have no frame of reference. Are they a day? A week? 2-3 days? We have no way of estimating, really. Lastly ... It'd also be freaking AMAZING if you guys could tell us the costs: Labor separated from materials at that. It'd let future aspiring customers estimate the kinds of projects they think they could afford from those in which our eyes are bigger than our wallets.
Looks like satisfying work, good job guys! Congrats on your 1 million subscribers, what an accomplishment! And thanks for allowing Arlo, your mom and me to come to the site to celebrate that accomplishment with a homemade cake, iced Cardinal coffee and balloons! Love all you guys! Great seeing the “Great Wall of Jackson” in person~
Get a stake puller. They are amazing. Twisting those ties with your hammer claw snaps them off. Floor scraper to clean the forms off. Long wooden wedge to drive behind the really stuck ones helps not destroy the concrete.
50 years commercial carpenter here, did a lot of this system back in the 70's- 80"s this is a young mans job for sure, yes you do discover tricks to make it easier. best part is after you wreck all the forms and get cleaned up then look back at those beautiful walls. great job!! 68 years old just a warning this work will break your body down, so be safe and take plenty of breaks
Essential Craftsman would probably say Burke Bar. I think that’s what he called it it’s a huge pry bar he always uses. I bet walking the top with that would pop em off easier. Congratulations on 1 million you guys deserve the success!
Just want to say your videos are the best example of reality TV. I live alone and to have your videos running makes me feel part of the family. It is really enjoyable to see the team with such great work ethic, respect for each other and still have so much fun. I live in Australia and my son lives in LA so I will definitely make to trip to North Carolina to check out the scenery and get a Cardinal coffee. Keep up the great work and congratulations on the 1 million
I don't watch the channel for the building or for the jokes or for the adverts - they are very good. I love work and I can watch it all day long. Thanks for producing good content constantly.
I am retired. This is so much fun watching others work so hard. Seriously, guys, it really is a joy spending time with you. Quality builders who know how to have fun. All of your videos are a pleasure to watch. Can't wait for the next one.
Gloves my friends, gloves. 30-year commercial carpenter here, just wear gloves with that concrete system. Also, corner chamfer really takes it to a new level of quality. Great to see a residential project use this hand set system, its fast, accurate and really usable. Well Done gentlemen!
9 years concrete Symons and Gates forming… gloves 100% agree. Concrete dries your skin out and rubs you raw. I think I mentioned chamfer in your previous video. Easy to use for grade. Also great time to grind and rub the walls. Green = Easier. Hit it with a large grinder with a cup. Knock down the seams between the panels and check grade. I think I wore the waffle head off my hammer in less than one year… Large bar + small block of 2x4 They make a stake puller 😀 super easy.
I was thinking the same thing but wasn't sure of builders like them have hard, leather skin. I don't any type of work around the house without gloves. But I'm a wuss.
2:58 -- When my parents' house was built, 60+ years ago, 2x12's used to form up the foundation footers were reused as joists in framing the floors. Seemed to be a common practice in NJ at the time, you can still see concrete on them.
@Perkins Builder Brothers Congrats on the turnover to one million subscribers Perkins Crew, I admire and don't envy Jamies job and responsibilities on each new house build your certainly need exceptional organizational skills which Jamie has in Spades. I have to Tip the Fedora to Eric for his persistence in battling the TH-cam algorithm, making consistent, relevant, and entertaining content. Putting in all his extra behind the scenes work arrangement and bringing in the sponsors, organizing filming and wrapping up all the editorial work then getting a couple of reels of film out weekly to the subscribers, a heck of a lot of work just thinking abou ...on yahs, Eric. The Walls are looking smooth as yeah. All the Perkins Crew have done a awesomesauce job on putting up the concrete shutters for this mega house build. Cheers for the reel Eric.....
I am inspired just about every time I watch these guys. Maybe it's like watching a pro surfer rip around in the waves- they make it look so fun and so easy. I can't help but wonder if this crew does the same thing- make hard work look fun and easy.
Best way I know of to remove rebar stakes from the ground: A vise grip and a 3-4 foot board. Clamp the grips on the rebar parallel to the ground towards the top, and use the board as a lever against the ground to pry up on the vise grips. Takes about 5-10 seconds per stake.
Protip, to remove the concrete from a screw head, keep a spare screw that you drive into the head of the other screw, it will clean it up really fast:)
Congratulations team for reaching 1 million subscribers... The long-awaited moment has arrived... the concrete was wonderful. There is a lot of work ahead, may God give you strength and health so you can continue working and providing us with great entertainment videos. A big hug to the whole team here in São Paulo - Brazil.
ahh pulling steel pins, the joy of concrete work! Tip, use a pair of vise grips when pulling the pins. It allows you to twist the pin and gives you a handle to pull on! Really appreciate the content y'all produce, Thank you!
You did great as first time users! I first used modular forms back in the 1980s. There are several brands of stake pullers that will work on those round stakes, that make it a LOT easiser to pull out of the hard red dirt. I'm in NC too.
5:08 lumber mill calls them sticks. The ones that go on the bottom that the straps go around are dunage. They have a slot cut in them for the straps. The sticks also allow for the wood to dry
2:09 I knew this would happen when I formed my footings for my house, so I put Tuck Tape over the screws, and left an end folded over itself to have a handle to pull up with. It all got splashed with concrete, but with a masonry hammer in one hand and pulling on the tabs with the other, it actually worked really well.
Burke bars are great for stripping forms and all kinds of prying. Essential Craftsman has great videos on them. Good job fellas. Love the videos I watch them all.
Try Steeldog or Advanced Concrete forms next time for wall pours like this. Used them for forming basements in Colorado. We would show up at 7, strip the footers, and be pouring concrete for walls by 3pm the same day on 2,000sq ft+ houses with walkout basements and 9' walls.
Put a 3:04 small piece of zip tape on your screws when you tie forms together on top or any other place where Concrete’s gonna come in contact with them
Taking out mass quantities of screws pro tip: get a speaker magnet and put a loop of para cord through it and hang it on your wrist that you're holding the impact with. It won't catch em all, but it will catch a lot more than hits the ground...
I bet right about the time you were doing this part, building a stone wall started to seem like a good idea, huh. LOL! Again, congrats on reaching 1 millions (+) subscribers. Woo-Hoo!
So satisfying to see the forms come off! Always fun to learn something new, but I'm sure you guys were thrilled to put this stage behind you and start moving back to familiar territory too...
Did you guys ever see the Essential Craftsman video about concrete & Spreaders? - CRISCO in/ over your nail holes. The crisco will resist the concrete, it can be knocked off AND you can actually back out the screw.
I know you are extremely busy but could you pleeeaseee put the videos in the right order in the playlist 🙏 I love watching your videos, they are always so educational and fun❤
Pro tip for removing the steel form stakes: Grab the top of the stake with a large channel lock plier at a 90° angle then pull up on the stake while twisting back & forth... Jay's way works but this method is much faster although less dramatic😂
Splash a bit of Diesel fuel oil on that formwork before you pin it up as that will help it to release from the concrete. And a loop of chain ('D' link and a hand's breadth) around a crowbar will lever those steel pins straight out of the ground. Those WIDE BRIMMED HATS should be mandatory. In later years your team will have suncancers on ears , nose and neck from those fashionable backwadds caps.
Ive actually got a gas powered wild badger weed eater. Its pretty good, its a powerful piece and was only 150$ on sale. Id never heard of them until i bought it
With those metal through ties, we used a "snap tie breaker", essentially a circular metal disk with two opposed handles. The center was a slot, long enough to fit over the tie and flush with the wall. A ninety degree rotation snapped them off real easy.
Jamie, if your Chevy still has the manual transfer case check to see that it didn't pop into neutral. They've been know to do that and you can't tell it by looking at the shift lever indicator.
Use wood wedges help a lot when stripping forms. using hammers, bars, etc. can chip out the edges. Also, if you don’t have duplex nails when setting forms use some tape where all the screws are placed! Vice grips also are a great way to, take out stakes once you can get it to spin they come out easily Great work Perkins team y’all doing awesome work can’t wait to see the whole house soon.🙌🏽 -Small Tips from a union concrete apprentice who’s sole job was stripping forms LOLOL
Really enjoying your show guys, its fun to watch, and your all mad, crazy dudes. I'm hooked, and I learn a shit load too. Especially how not to do somethings. LOL🌏
Another idea you can use band iron across the top of those wooden forms to tie your form together and you don’t have all that concrete unfinished underneath it
What?? There are still forms to take down in another video? As well as the ties. I’m looking forward to the next video, to fully see the complete wall.
With so many parts from the concrete forms, you could count out some quantity, weigh them and then just weigh handfuls or bucketfuls or whatever instead of counting each set. Of course that means you need a scale but. it would save a lot of counting
Use vise-grips to twist tight pins out of the ground. You would be surprised how easy it is to twist a rock solid pin out with a standard size pair of grips.
Junked-up screwheads can be cleaned with another screw - just take a straight junkscrew and use it on your bit in your impact - spin it a couple of rotations and voile its clean enough to use
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There's a quicker way to count parts. Weigh one, then add more until you get to the right weight.
That scaffolding being so narrow stresses me out. Were it me? I'd have to put two boards (and use a bracket to tie them together) so people had more than enough room to be safe. But ... all of you guys seem to have the balance of a daned BILLY GOAT! lol. And I'm probably a bit of a 🐈... I used to work on a boom-concrete pump. Freaking hard work that concrete is. I did it as a kid ... I couldn't imagine doing it in my 30s or older. Whoa. And the WORK you guys did building that retaining wall is so much more than I ever would've imagined.
I saw those dates on the comment above and thought they were for the VIDEO!! lol. But seriously, I really wish you guys told us how many days each video represented. Bc we really have no frame of reference. Are they a day? A week? 2-3 days? We have no way of estimating, really.
Lastly ... It'd also be freaking AMAZING if you guys could tell us the costs: Labor separated from materials at that. It'd let future aspiring customers estimate the kinds of projects they think they could afford from those in which our eyes are bigger than our wallets.
Looks like satisfying work, good job guys!
Congrats on your 1 million subscribers, what an accomplishment! And thanks for allowing Arlo, your mom and me to come to the site to celebrate that accomplishment with a homemade cake, iced Cardinal coffee and balloons! Love all you guys!
Great seeing the “Great Wall of Jackson” in person~
❤
Eric, a cup wheel on a grinder will make easy work of cleaning up that concrete.
Naw. He'd rather destroy his titanium hammer.
Get a stake puller. They are amazing. Twisting those ties with your hammer claw snaps them off. Floor scraper to clean the forms off. Long wooden wedge to drive behind the really stuck ones helps not destroy the concrete.
50 years commercial carpenter here, did a lot of this system back in the 70's- 80"s this is a young mans job for sure, yes you do discover tricks to make it easier. best part is after you wreck all the forms and get cleaned up then look back at those beautiful walls. great job!! 68 years old just a warning this work will break your body down, so be safe and take plenty of breaks
Essential Craftsman would probably say Burke Bar. I think that’s what he called it it’s a huge pry bar he always uses. I bet walking the top with that would pop em off easier. Congratulations on 1 million you guys deserve the success!
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Perfect timing. Just took off my tool belt for lunch and have entertainment for the break
Just want to say your videos are the best example of reality TV. I live alone and to have your videos running makes me feel part of the family. It is really enjoyable to see the team with such great work ethic, respect for each other and still have so much fun. I live in Australia and my son lives in LA so I will definitely make to trip to North Carolina to check out the scenery and get a Cardinal coffee. Keep up the great work and congratulations on the 1 million
Hey thanks Matthew!!
Jason pretending to get hit @16:02 was seriously so believable! You guys crack me up!
I don't watch the channel for the building or for the jokes or for the adverts - they are very good. I love work and I can watch it all day long. Thanks for producing good content constantly.
Two suggestions: 1. Burke Bar...2. Walk around jobsite magnet on wheels. Both will improve your experience by 100% ✌
I’ve built a few dozen houses on poured walls like that, and those are genuinely some of the best I’ve seen. Great work fellas
I am retired. This is so much fun watching others work so hard. Seriously, guys, it really is a joy spending time with you. Quality builders who know how to have fun. All of your videos are a pleasure to watch. Can't wait for the next one.
Gloves my friends, gloves. 30-year commercial carpenter here, just wear gloves with that concrete system. Also, corner chamfer really takes it to a new level of quality. Great to see a residential project use this hand set system, its fast, accurate and really usable. Well Done gentlemen!
When I used to do construction gloves were a must doing form work, between the splinters, oil and infinite pinch points
I have to agree, especially with corner chamfers. 👍👍
9 years concrete Symons and Gates forming… gloves 100% agree. Concrete dries your skin out and rubs you raw.
I think I mentioned chamfer in your previous video. Easy to use for grade.
Also great time to grind and rub the walls. Green = Easier. Hit it with a large grinder with a cup. Knock down the seams between the panels and check grade.
I think I wore the waffle head off my hammer in less than one year…
Large bar + small block of 2x4
They make a stake puller 😀 super easy.
I was thinking the same thing but wasn't sure of builders like them have hard, leather skin. I don't any type of work around the house without gloves. But I'm a wuss.
2:58 -- When my parents' house was built, 60+ years ago, 2x12's used to form up the foundation footers were reused as joists in framing the floors. Seemed to be a common practice in NJ at the time, you can still see concrete on them.
@Perkins Builder Brothers
Congrats on the turnover to one million subscribers Perkins Crew, I admire and don't envy Jamies job and responsibilities on each new house build your certainly need exceptional organizational skills which Jamie has in Spades. I have to Tip the Fedora to Eric for his persistence in battling the TH-cam algorithm, making consistent, relevant, and entertaining content. Putting in all his extra behind the scenes work arrangement and bringing in the sponsors, organizing filming and wrapping up all the editorial work then getting a couple of reels of film out weekly to the subscribers, a heck of a lot of work just thinking abou ...on yahs, Eric.
The Walls are looking smooth as yeah. All the Perkins Crew have done a awesomesauce job on putting up the concrete shutters for this mega house build. Cheers for the reel Eric.....
I am inspired just about every time I watch these guys. Maybe it's like watching a pro surfer rip around in the waves- they make it look so fun and so easy. I can't help but wonder if this crew does the same thing- make hard work look fun and easy.
Thanks for another video fellas. Been following before you guys even hit 100k subs. Glad to see the channel grow. Yall are great
Best way I know of to remove rebar stakes from the ground: A vise grip and a 3-4 foot board. Clamp the grips on the rebar parallel to the ground towards the top, and use the board as a lever against the ground to pry up on the vise grips. Takes about 5-10 seconds per stake.
Looks like you guys passed the 1 million subscribers mark. Congratulations & well earned!
Protip, to remove the concrete from a screw head, keep a spare screw that you drive into the head of the other screw, it will clean it up really fast:)
Congratulations team for reaching 1 million subscribers... The long-awaited moment has arrived... the concrete was wonderful. There is a lot of work ahead, may God give you strength and health so you can continue working and providing us with great entertainment videos. A big hug to the whole team here in São Paulo - Brazil.
Hey Jamie, the concrete around the safe room doorway came out awesome.
As you remove the screws hold a magnetic tray beneath it...
Wow, that looks great. Congrats on learning something new and getting a great outcome to boot!
8:40 a tru ray-jay builder buddy moment 😂
We think we’re smart, sometimes 🤣
ahh pulling steel pins, the joy of concrete work! Tip, use a pair of vise grips when pulling the pins. It allows you to twist the pin and gives you a handle to pull on! Really appreciate the content y'all produce, Thank you!
A big job for big men! Love to watch you guys work.
Definitely need a magnetic broom for this job site haha. Concrete looks awesome.
You did great as first time users! I first used modular forms back in the 1980s.
There are several brands of stake pullers that will work on those round stakes, that make it a LOT easiser to pull out of the hard red dirt. I'm in NC too.
2:10 Pro tip, use duplex nails, that is what carpenter that build concrete forms use.
5:08 lumber mill calls them sticks. The ones that go on the bottom that the straps go around are dunage. They have a slot cut in them for the straps. The sticks also allow for the wood to dry
15:55 Jono, nice catch!!
Thanks I appreciate you guys sweating in the humidity. It’s been bad here in Northern Virginia.
2:09 I knew this would happen when I formed my footings for my house, so I put Tuck Tape over the screws, and left an end folded over itself to have a handle to pull up with. It all got splashed with concrete, but with a masonry hammer in one hand and pulling on the tabs with the other, it actually worked really well.
Burke bars are great for stripping forms and all kinds of prying. Essential Craftsman has great videos on them. Good job fellas. Love the videos I watch them all.
Happy 1 Million Fellers! And hi from NC!
Try Steeldog or Advanced Concrete forms next time for wall pours like this. Used them for forming basements in Colorado. We would show up at 7, strip the footers, and be pouring concrete for walls by 3pm the same day on 2,000sq ft+ houses with walkout basements and 9' walls.
Congratulation! You got a 1 M subscribers. From Bangkok, Thailand.
You can twist a grade peg with a pipe wrench or large channel locks and pull them up most of the time
Pulling those forms off is so satisfying to see!
We had a real bent tip moment,😂😂😂 Jamie you are too funny 😂😂😂
Jay faking like he got hit by a board John-O was blindly throwing over the wall made me crack up!
Pair of vice Grips is your best friend when it comes to pulling stakes! Just clamp on and twist and it’ll pull right up!
Put a 3:04 small piece of zip tape on your screws when you tie forms together on top or any other place where Concrete’s gonna come in contact with them
great job. Its always a surprise when you do the formwork reveal.great feeling when no honeycomb .
congrats on 1 million guys
Taking out mass quantities of screws pro tip: get a speaker magnet and put a loop of para cord through it and hang it on your wrist that you're holding the impact with. It won't catch em all, but it will catch a lot more than hits the ground...
I bet right about the time you were doing this part, building a stone wall started to seem like a good idea, huh. LOL! Again, congrats on reaching 1 millions (+) subscribers. Woo-Hoo!
So satisfying to see the forms come off! Always fun to learn something new, but I'm sure you guys were thrilled to put this stage behind you and start moving back to familiar territory too...
I have been watching your builds for a while now and have enjoyed watching your projects, congratulations on your 1 million subscribers.
Take that "wonder bar" use the tear drop nail puller. Put that on the wall tie and spin. They pop off easily.
Wonderful. We saw the revealed concrete in a couple of ads, but it’s so satisfying to see you guys take that all off. Well, done my friends!
Did you guys ever see the Essential Craftsman video about concrete & Spreaders? - CRISCO in/ over your nail holes. The crisco will resist the concrete, it can be knocked off AND you can actually back out the screw.
Congrats on 1M subscribers!
It was inevitable 😀😀
Be kind to each other. Stay safe. Love to all
That's a lot of work Smella's! Good job!
I know you are extremely busy but could you pleeeaseee put the videos in the right order in the playlist 🙏
I love watching your videos, they are always so educational and fun❤
In Romania, we use the Doka system. After each pour, we pressure wash all pannels in order to remove them very easily without any effort!
Pro tip for removing the steel form stakes: Grab the top of the stake with a large channel lock plier at a 90° angle then pull up on the stake while twisting back & forth... Jay's way works but this method is much faster although less dramatic😂
visegrips even easier
So glad to see the walls taken down, seems like progress will happen now. I imagine us as well as you were thinking this house will never be built
Cutting some giant wedges from 4x4's that are like 2 feet long and using the persuader would help on the super tight ones.
Congrats on 1 million subscribers
Our guys use a piece of rebar to clean the top of wall. Cheaper than a hammer.
Forms looked pretty clean
congrats on 1 mil. you guys rock. hope to see more Arlo.
Splash a bit of Diesel fuel oil on that formwork before you pin it up as that will help it to release from the concrete. And a loop of chain ('D' link and a hand's breadth) around a crowbar will lever those steel pins straight out of the ground.
Those WIDE BRIMMED HATS should be mandatory. In later years your team will have suncancers on ears , nose and neck from those fashionable backwadds caps.
Congratulation for 1 000 000 Subscribers!
i wish i could just roam around and gather up all that stuff and organize it!! so therapeutic!!
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Pro Tip: use a piece of rebar to smooth the top of the wall. Works great.
With those metal through ties, we used a "snap tie breaker", essentially a circular metal disk with two opposed handles. The center was a slot, long enough to fit over the tie and flush with the wall. A ninety degree rotation snapped them off real easy.
For stubborn round stakes, use a pipe wrench and spin it out with a upward pull
For the screwheads on the forms, a piece of duct tape on them before concrete time makes them easy to remove.
Jamie, if your Chevy still has the manual transfer case check to see that it didn't pop into neutral. They've been know to do that and you can't tell it by looking at the shift lever indicator.
The wait inbetween episodes is killing me 😅 glad another episode is here though, cheers boys!
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A weelbarrow comes handy to collect all this little pieces like wedges.
While wizard Arlo is enjoying his retirement all I can say is who needs Arlo when we have Jono 😊
Love your channel. I just wish I could see it every day. Lol
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I agree wire wheel,or masonry disk to clean the concrete.
Use wood wedges help a lot when stripping forms. using hammers, bars, etc. can chip out the edges.
Also, if you don’t have duplex nails when setting forms use some tape where all the screws are placed!
Vice grips also are a great way to, take out stakes once you can get it to spin they come out easily
Great work Perkins team y’all doing awesome work can’t wait to see the whole house soon.🙌🏽
-Small Tips from a union concrete apprentice who’s sole job was stripping forms LOLOL
Surf booard wax in the torx screws work great keeping concrete off of it.
Always enjoy your videos, you guys are hilarious and professional. Remember to stay humble.
Jay’s cold plunge is the place to be after the pour and form pull. 😅
I’ve seen this video on Facebook where a lady explains when en how to use white caulk or when to use black caulk 😊really informative 😊
That was funny.
Really enjoying your show guys, its fun to watch, and your all mad, crazy dudes. I'm hooked, and I learn a shit load too. Especially how not to do somethings. LOL🌏
Another idea you can use band iron across the top of those wooden forms to tie your form together and you don’t have all that concrete unfinished underneath it
leaf blower and a cupping wheel on a grinder for the top of those green walls
Get a block to smooth those corners out on top of the wall . Broken cinder block should work
What?? There are still forms to take down in another video? As well as the ties. I’m looking forward to the next video, to fully see the complete wall.
Jono at 15:56 was next level!!
Is that when the board bounced back at him and he was able to field it and send it over? Good reflexes!
With so many parts from the concrete forms, you could count out some quantity, weigh them and then just weigh handfuls or bucketfuls or whatever instead of counting each set. Of course that means you need a scale but. it would save a lot of counting
Just about to post to the same effect!
They said in an earlier video thats how the company counts them
The rental company counts them by weight, but I wonder how they account for the extra mass of concrete that sticks to them.
Use vise-grips to twist tight pins out of the ground. You would be surprised how easy it is to twist a rock solid pin out with a standard size pair of grips.
Looks amazing what did you expect ❤
Junked-up screwheads can be cleaned with another screw - just take a straight junkscrew and use it on your bit in your impact - spin it a couple of rotations and voile its clean enough to use
Congratulatons on 1 million subs!!!
That's from working construction for over 20yrs jason is a smart man