I've been subscribed to this channel for ages but haven't actually watched for quite a while. I come back and you've got an entire bloody company with a bunch of employees, an office, marked vans and jackets... damn you really are going for it! I remember back when you were filming yourself doing fire panel testing and/or sub-board installations etc., all solo. It's pretty amazing to see how far you've come. Wish I lived in the UK cause I would apply for a job with you :)
@@DornacgoveI have looked at straps on the shelf of a store one rainy afternoon, and I can confirm that is completely the wrong way to do the strappy stuff!!!!
I’ve been forklift certified for several decades longer than you sir and I can safely say it is YOU strapping on wrong. Enjoy prison when you loose your load over of a bus full of school children.
tip for everyone i picked up from a hgv driver, when strapping a load you should leave a bit of slack to make sure the strap is wrapped round the ratchet a few times like tom had it
The whole “work on your business not in your business” bit is entrepreneur-bro bullshit peddled by people trying to sell coaching and courses. You shouldn’t feel the need to apologize for getting your hands dirty in an industry you’ve worked hard to establish yourself in. Enjoy the work you’re good at and find a balance that works for you. I personally think it’s easier to hire-in admin help than to replace your experience, work ethic and professional standards on the job-site. Thanks for the great video, good to see you thriving!
note the numbers of the wiper blades and anything for each of the vehicles makes it easier to restock later i make a binder with all of the relevant info on each of the cars i have had oil type amount air filters and so on spark plug numbers that sort of thing hope that helps
I throughly enjoy your videos and your no nonsense attitude, it’s hilarious 😂😂. I can’t tell you how happy I am to have you posting again mate, keep it up!
Its going to be more expensive .... but have a look at Victron for your van setup. You want to not have to worry, and that is one way to do it. Since you can then also add monitoring, you can catch issues before they become an issue.... Also means standardizing - which you can do over time - but basically if a main van completely borks, you can use equip from another easily. Also you could do like others and add solar on top of the van, and have it charge the battery .... just lowers the load on alternator side and gives a bit extra while on the road to make sure the battery is always full. And if the van is parked outside (like on the weekend) - you don't have to worry about that transit power draw issue like you had in the past :P (could do a DC to DC and have the big battery charge the van batt if it gets super low) ... so leave van outside for 2 weeks ... and it'll still be fine :P
whoever specified that server rack at 11:55 needed to go there clearly isn't the poor sod who will need to access it to work on it at some future point.
Hi Tom, I'm a long time subscriber of your channel, I love your sense of humour i.e. your liberal use of the standard industry term it's Fu*ked, keep up the good work young man. Regards from the old sod from North Wales.
Hi Thomas , as an electrical / mechanical engineer with over 40 yrs in tyre and car manufacturing , its nice to see good tray and conduit work , the amount of poor work I have seen over the years is a joke, taking pride in your work is why you get more work off the back of those jobs 😃😃👍👍
I like the inside of that building, lovely white walls, nice metal tray work, and then you see a shit load of green mould on the walls, ask them to buy a wire brush, just to give it a once over.
I have been an electrician for over of 40 years and running my own business for the last 21 years, I've always liked this guy, out of all the "TH-cam electricians' who all jumped on the band wagon, Tom was the original, the first one and the best content no bullshit. Normal sparks and worked like we all do.
Love that rant and completely agree 😂 A bit of common sense is good enough, not over the top health & safety but also not zero safety.. it's not that hard. Also I declare myself an armchair expert on the rachet strap and you did it perfectly, 10/10 job!!! 🫡 Don't listen to anyone that says otherwise they don't know what they're talking about 😂😂😂👍
One of contractors we use at work had the boss on the job. His comment to me was "i get a better feel for the company if i take some time to work in it" As for strapping down. If it in the same place when you have arrived at where you going, it strapped right.
Welcome back Thomas! I missed the rants, and the real electrical content. You, Nick Bundy and John Faultless are my go-to electricians content. Not that cobblers Artisan puts out now. Keep up the good work!
Mr Nagy becomes Mr Happy once again I see 😂 you are quite right though- we used to have to set up T.M to check if a hydrant chamber was empty which took 10s - but instead 5mins putting cones and signs up and down, just to move 30m down the road and do it again
Wait you lost your member , that must have been a nasty accident! "Some people dont need to be educated, they just need to be got rid of" ❤. 100% you tell em big fella.
I’d be expecting a big bill from Openreach. They have forms you can fill out and departments that deal with the moving/removing of THEIR equipment and cabling, it’s not yours just to cut and rip out.
Exactly, thats what i was thinking. I actually got into a bit of bother once for touching BT kit externally on a site we were decommissioning. You cannot touch it. Its all BT property, right up to the master socket in the house / building.
@@ckm-mkc It’s a DP (distribution point) and one of their cables, they absolutely will touch it and move it if you go down the right path. Cutting it and moving it yourself isn’t the way to go, it belongs to them.
re the straps - no expert on that but ..... I saw a vid the other day of a long hauler and the way they do the straps. What they did was instead of running the whole line of the strap through the gap in order to tighten it, what they do is pull near tight, then create a loop in the line. That loop is then fed through the hole and then tightened. Espec when you go to undo it, just a few turns and you can pull it out.... much easier and quicker :) Then what they do is create like S type of look of the excess line - bout 30cm-40cm back and forth over itself - nice and flat. They then (which you can't really do here) would put that over the cargo but under the strap line - so it holds it together and you don't have to tie it off somewhere
To be fair, there's likely a serial console->network adapter or an Ethernet KVM in there. I think it's up there on purpose so people don't f$#@ with it.
It's normally up that high in warehouses to stop it from being bashed into by workers or machinery otherwise someone would have to be out there to fix it most days
The hiab truck will 100% get written off with the air bags and seat belt detonators gone off as they see it as if it had enough force to set them off then it has enough force to damage the chassis and internal components.
yielding on the seatbelt anchor's on the chassis (where the mounting points are allowed to deform to lessen the energy, never mind the seatbelt detonators) will more than likely have gone as well, any shifts to crash structures as well (because even if they're slightly warped the insurer will think that *might* make a future accident worse and not want the risk), often how write offs happen where it looks fine but is affected just enough structurally that it gets written off EDIT: Should have watched to the end before commenting as it has been written off, but probably why
@@thomasnagy when that job is done/ you make a video on it would it be possible to measure it i would realy like to know if it has any influents on the resistons
Without tagging the pairs on the supply cable for the flat numbers etc, how are you going to restore services to the flats without needing to the ISPs?
@@thomasnagy now I must know if it was because no one was using them.. or more likely because the builder owner / manager told them nope feck off we asked
Tom you don’t need to employ a transport manager you can just hire a consultant and pay a fee for them to look over your driving hours and make sure your maintenance is up to date
You only require a transport manager for a standard national operators licence if you transport other people's goods for hire/reward. If you're transporting your own tools, equipment and materials, then a restricted licence is suffice.
Depending on what euro spec the van is should you not be using as DC to DC charger instead of that basic split charge relay. The newer stop start van charge at much higher voltage than a normal system. You may be cooking the second battery
Think you’d get away without a transport manager, you would fall into a restricted o-licence, your only transporting your own stuff. It’s still a fair bit to keep on top of, and an overweight 3.5 van is easier…
I did matenence work for a company fixing all the inverters moving the back of the vans for power twin charging but when it was found I don't read and wright so well I was well no more the guy they sent to fit the UPS did it all wrong costing £310k of damage but after all he could read and wright but did not under stand mixed cable colors
As long you had it in writing that they want you to snip all those telephone cables, it's their problems now 😀 Also that box seems to be obsolete, the state of it! 💩
Bin the van. Transits with their fisher price security and eco boom engine. You'd spend all that money to get it back on the road then the wetbelt would go. Take the hiab off and let the insurers replace the van.
I've been subscribed to this channel for ages but haven't actually watched for quite a while. I come back and you've got an entire bloody company with a bunch of employees, an office, marked vans and jackets... damn you really are going for it! I remember back when you were filming yourself doing fire panel testing and/or sub-board installations etc., all solo. It's pretty amazing to see how far you've come. Wish I lived in the UK cause I would apply for a job with you :)
Yeah same here. The algoritm really got us this time
Been under a rock for like three years? Haven't watched in a while, Yeah more like years.
I used to watch him doing distribution boxes and cursing old mess of London and then his inconsistentcy... Things going great.
@@brendanmichaelwelsh6260 Your point? I said quite a while.
Yes, he must have had quite a bit of capital to invest into the business!
So glad to see you putting content out again, mate. Thoroughly enjoy seeing you do your thing.
Much appreciated!
I've been in the haulage industry for 54 years and it's an absolute embarrassment how you are doing those straps! Mint.
I've been strapping straps for 108 years and I can confirm this.
@@DornacgoveI have looked at straps on the shelf of a store one rainy afternoon, and I can confirm that is completely the wrong way to do the strappy stuff!!!!
I’ve been forklift certified for several decades longer than you sir and I can safely say it is YOU strapping on wrong. Enjoy prison when you loose your load over of a bus full of school children.
😂😂😂
I’ve been doing Straps longer then Yoda’s life span. I can also confirm.
I work for NASA, and I would be ashamed if I was caught strapping the boosters to our rockets in such an unsafe way.
u dont work for shit
tip for everyone i picked up from a hgv driver, when strapping a load you should leave a bit of slack to make sure the strap is wrapped round the ratchet a few times like tom had it
always a balancing act isn't it, you want some strap on the spool but you don't want to run out of space before the strap is secured.
The whole “work on your business not in your business” bit is entrepreneur-bro bullshit peddled by people trying to sell coaching and courses. You shouldn’t feel the need to apologize for getting your hands dirty in an industry you’ve worked hard to establish yourself in. Enjoy the work you’re good at and find a balance that works for you. I personally think it’s easier to hire-in admin help than to replace your experience, work ethic and professional standards on the job-site. Thanks for the great video, good to see you thriving!
@DC
Well said.
note the numbers of the wiper blades and anything for each of the vehicles makes it easier to restock later i make a binder with all of the relevant info on each of the cars i have had oil type amount air filters and so on spark plug numbers that sort of thing hope that helps
7:09 Editor missed a trick not putting in an Austin Powers clip with the 50 point turn 😂
Nice to see you back on you tube missed ur videos dude
That lifter machine scene was brilliant!!
5:52 if they write it off buy it back and repair, all looks like fairly easy stuff.
Honestly it probably would cost more to repair it
Great to have you back mate. Your content inspired me to give it a go
Didn’t even twang the strap and say “that’s not going anywhere” embarrassment 😂😂.
I throughly enjoy your videos and your no nonsense attitude, it’s hilarious 😂😂. I can’t tell you how happy I am to have you posting again mate, keep it up!
Its going to be more expensive .... but have a look at Victron for your van setup.
You want to not have to worry, and that is one way to do it.
Since you can then also add monitoring, you can catch issues before they become an issue....
Also means standardizing - which you can do over time - but basically if a main van completely borks, you can use equip from another easily.
Also you could do like others and add solar on top of the van, and have it charge the battery .... just lowers the load on alternator side and gives a bit extra while on the road to make sure the battery is always full.
And if the van is parked outside (like on the weekend) - you don't have to worry about that transit power draw issue like you had in the past :P
(could do a DC to DC and have the big battery charge the van batt if it gets super low) ... so leave van outside for 2 weeks ... and it'll still be fine :P
Blue power! It's the way forward.
yea victron or epever. happy to fit a inverter for ya and other extra low voltage electrics
whoever specified that server rack at 11:55 needed to go there clearly isn't the poor sod who will need to access it to work on it at some future point.
Hi Tom, I'm a long time subscriber of your channel, I love your sense of humour i.e. your liberal use of the standard industry term it's Fu*ked, keep up the good work young man.
Regards from the old sod from North Wales.
12:00 I have literally never seen a server covered in shit before.
Great to see you putting out content mate, always loved your videos, very educational
Depending on how much the PTO costs to repair or replace it seems like it's a fairly easy fix for a decent garage
Hi Thomas , as an electrical / mechanical engineer with over 40 yrs in tyre and car manufacturing , its nice to see good tray and conduit work , the amount of poor work I have seen over the years is a joke, taking pride in your work is why you get more work off the back of those jobs 😃😃👍👍
I like the inside of that building, lovely white walls, nice metal tray work, and then you see a shit load of green mould on the walls, ask them to buy a wire brush, just to give it a once over.
Mate I love your videos! The ranting is hilarious! You certainly don’t mince your words
I was literally laughing at "the inverter is fucked" when said "what are you laughing at". Great content!
That containment and conduit work was proper good to be fair 😎☀️🏴
Beware of lifts & lintels
I called an ambulance for a guy who lost an ear moving from one area to the next in just that fashion
Hi Tom how are u ok today u do a rally good job on here keep up there good work on here
I have been an electrician for over of 40 years and running my own business for the last 21 years, I've always liked this guy, out of all the "TH-cam electricians' who all jumped on the band wagon, Tom was the original, the first one and the best content no bullshit. Normal sparks and worked like we all do.
Great to see you posting again!
God I have missed Tom 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣definitely need a section of the rants another great video.
19:00 You do all the maintenance! Oh well, at least ppl got their nice new wiper blades
Love the videos m8 and that plumber guy (grow up m8) is hilarious too 😂
Love that rant and completely agree 😂
A bit of common sense is good enough, not over the top health & safety but also not zero safety.. it's not that hard.
Also I declare myself an armchair expert on the rachet strap and you did it perfectly, 10/10 job!!! 🫡 Don't listen to anyone that says otherwise they don't know what they're talking about 😂😂😂👍
Thanks for the heads up to get the crips out. I'll enjoy them ;)
Nice pick up
Thanks for another great video has always tom and team 👍
One of contractors we use at work had the boss on the job. His comment to me was "i get a better feel for the company if i take some time to work in it"
As for strapping down. If it in the same place when you have arrived at where you going, it strapped right.
is that a server rack or a pigeon toilet ? 🤣
at 15:00 that shelf above your head looks rather dangerous
That laugh clip 😂 cracked me up😂
Top stuff as always!
My wife is an expert in strap ons and when she saw the absolute embarrassment of your efforts she knew somebody would end up in tears.
Rants with Tom... Defo should be Fix Radio regular ( Spotify special with the added effing and jeffing) Keep up the great content
Welcome back Thomas! I missed the rants, and the real electrical content. You, Nick Bundy and John Faultless are my go-to electricians content. Not that cobblers Artisan puts out now. Keep up the good work!
Mr Nagy becomes Mr Happy once again I see 😂 you are quite right though- we used to have to set up T.M to check if a hydrant chamber was empty which took 10s - but instead 5mins putting cones and signs up and down, just to move 30m down the road and do it again
Wait you lost your member , that must have been a nasty accident!
"Some people dont need to be educated, they just need to be got rid of" ❤. 100% you tell em big fella.
It's to be hoped that the MTBF of the kit in the server rack is high - like the rack is!
gotta have long sleeve high viz jackets to work on railways, not short sleeve... last I heard? spoken as an expert astrophysicist and brain surgeon
Rants with Thomas Nagy needs to be its own series.
Playing with an Openreach DP that's naughty but very good to see you back TN
10:38 that laugh was very Rik Mayall 😂
I spy my kit!, it's nice to know you're still doing it!
I’d be expecting a big bill from Openreach. They have forms you can fill out and departments that deal with the moving/removing of THEIR equipment and cabling, it’s not yours just to cut and rip out.
It's customer premises equipment, they won't touch it - well, they will but for a large-ish fee.
Exactly, thats what i was thinking. I actually got into a bit of bother once for touching BT kit externally on a site we were decommissioning. You cannot touch it. Its all BT property, right up to the master socket in the house / building.
@ Correct, they own everything up to the master socket so Thomas has most definitely done the wrong thing here.
@@ckm-mkc It’s a DP (distribution point) and one of their cables, they absolutely will touch it and move it if you go down the right path. Cutting it and moving it yourself isn’t the way to go, it belongs to them.
Don't think Thomas gives a fuck get a life
I'm a ratchet strap expert of 54 years and that's absolutely embarrassing how you are doing them straps!!
I’m sure be cheaper to swap the bed and hiab on to a new or used transit chassis ?
Depends what the cost to buy the van back is really but the already done conversion work isn't going to be cheap for a replacement.
re the straps - no expert on that but .....
I saw a vid the other day of a long hauler and the way they do the straps.
What they did was instead of running the whole line of the strap through the gap in order to tighten it, what they do is pull near tight, then create a loop in the line.
That loop is then fed through the hole and then tightened.
Espec when you go to undo it, just a few turns and you can pull it out.... much easier and quicker :)
Then what they do is create like S type of look of the excess line - bout 30cm-40cm back and forth over itself - nice and flat.
They then (which you can't really do here) would put that over the cargo but under the strap line - so it holds it together and you don't have to tie it off somewhere
Whoever installed that network rack at 12:00 clearly gave no consideration to the IT people that will need to work on it in the future.
To be fair, there's likely a serial console->network adapter or an Ethernet KVM in there. I think it's up there on purpose so people don't f$#@ with it.
That's how they normally do it at warehouses usually it's the clients request
It's normally up that high in warehouses to stop it from being bashed into by workers or machinery otherwise someone would have to be out there to fix it most days
love your videos man!
I appreciate that!
Keep the content coming 💪
For the Transit, try to get in touch with Salvage Rebuilds UK, those guys know their way around these crashed vehicles with salvage parts...
i love the "self proclaimed rocket scientists" gag....so true mate :)
The hiab truck will 100% get written off with the air bags and seat belt detonators gone off as they see it as if it had enough force to set them off then it has enough force to damage the chassis and internal components.
yielding on the seatbelt anchor's on the chassis (where the mounting points are allowed to deform to lessen the energy, never mind the seatbelt detonators) will more than likely have gone as well, any shifts to crash structures as well (because even if they're slightly warped the insurer will think that *might* make a future accident worse and not want the risk), often how write offs happen where it looks fine but is affected just enough structurally that it gets written off
EDIT: Should have watched to the end before commenting as it has been written off, but probably why
Top content!
50 years in trade retired now loved steel conduit nice conduit in the warehouse
Living for the Thomas Nagy rant 🙌🏼 say it how it is Tom! Worlds too soft 😂
"F off mate, that's three words". Gold.
I'm not sure if they will write it off, the repair is probably going to be cheaper than the cost of a new van with the specialized kit.
Ooooo you’ve made a rod for your own back with that PPE rant, you’ll get people looking for any little slip up of your own now
would the powder coting interfere with the grounding/earthing of the trucing ?
It shouldn't do in theory, we are using internal bonding links as well
@@thomasnagy when that job is done/ you make a video on it would it be possible to measure it i would realy like to know if it has any influents on the resistons
Ive been in the strapping industry for 54 years and fuck it, it will ride!
Send the van to Matt Armstrong he will fix it and put wheelmania wheels on it. #youtubecolab
Without tagging the pairs on the supply cable for the flat numbers etc, how are you going to restore services to the flats without needing to the ISPs?
ISP problem now, *£&# happens.
So how long till you were called to put the phone lines back? 😂
Funnily enough we never did
@@thomasnagy now I must know if it was because no one was using them.. or more likely because the builder owner / manager told them nope feck off we asked
Nagy been on the bench press!!!
Mate, sack off Amazon specials with inverters. Get a victron or a renogy. Oh, im a Nasa engineering expert with 90 years electrical experience.
love a rant -
Tom you don’t need to employ a transport manager you can just hire a consultant and pay a fee for them to look over your driving hours and make sure your maintenance is up to date
You only require a transport manager for a standard national operators licence if you transport other people's goods for hire/reward. If you're transporting your own tools, equipment and materials, then a restricted licence is suffice.
Great product placement at the start NT :)
You steering the scissor lift is like Austin powers driving the cart
Try to keep it! Else buy it as scrap and move the crane over to another unit. Good luck!
Like Austin powers with that lifter 😂
I love the content in these videos but oh my the editing in this felt like it was done by 8 year old me…
Depending on what euro spec the van is should you not be using as DC to DC charger instead of that basic split charge relay. The newer stop start van charge at much higher voltage than a normal system. You may be cooking the second battery
Rumour has it that the residents of those flats are still wondering why they have no phones or internet.
You can buy it back and give it to Matt Armstrong - his pretty good with replacing airbags 😅
Thomas Nagy man of the people .
What do you guys use the inverter for ?
To power equipment and traffic cameras from the bucket
The trailer should have a net on.
Think you’d get away without a transport manager, you would fall into a restricted o-licence, your only transporting your own stuff. It’s still a fair bit to keep on top of, and an overweight 3.5 van is easier…
Business must be good if you’re buying wiper blades in Halfords 😉
11.34 Power & data in separate conduits! Show off!
I did matenence work for a company fixing all the inverters moving the back of the vans for power twin charging but when it was found I don't read and wright so well I was well no more the guy they sent to fit the UPS did it all wrong costing £310k of damage but after all he could read and wright but did not under stand mixed cable colors
What walkie-talkies do you use?
06:46 hoping for secret content on those QR codes but they are literally just "BB03" etc
Your title picture says though times, I assume you mean tough?
Nagy back in Halfords practicing for when it goes tits. ‘I used to change light bulbs on the m25 you know’.
16:11 night shift effects never been more clear 😂😂😂
As long you had it in writing that they want you to snip all those telephone cables, it's their problems now 😀 Also that box seems to be obsolete, the state of it! 💩
Tom, don't burn out
Did Hived pay your invoices on time. They love to delay payments. Also now I know why it looked so good.
Bin the van. Transits with their fisher price security and eco boom engine. You'd spend all that money to get it back on the road then the wetbelt would go. Take the hiab off and let the insurers replace the van.