Not always true when needed I work very fast wed moved and reinstalled a whole 3phase mains board from on room to another including containment in 9h and have done a house in a day but I agree you can not work like this all the time you would be so tired.
I'n about to graduate my 5 year apprenticeship with the IBEW. I watched this performance early enough in my career to be influenced by it. Just came back to see how many things I picked up from Greg in a 20 minute video. It was a lot I wish filming on the job wasn't so stigmatized. We could alll improve a lot by watching film.
Very good, but there is room for improvement. Maybe it's a rule, but why doesn't he have a belt for tape measure, marker, screw driver, and pliers. He keeps having to reach for stuff.
I've been in the electrical trade for 20 years. I love bending pipe. I hate being watched. I would screw up a stub 90 if someone was watching me. This guy made it look easy. And neat
Yup I agree. Don’t understand people criticizing. This dude just breezed through four saddles like nothing. In a timed competition I understand some imperfections. This guy made it look too easy. Wannabes behind their keyboards would take an entire day to do what this guy did in 25 min with a pile of wasted scrap pipe😆
In the uk we call this the Am2..better competition would be plumbers vs electrician then when we beat them at there thing we would prove to be the king of the trade jungle
Greg is the type of electrician I always like to have on my jobs, thinks of the next few steps as he is working. More efficient and gets a nice product installed, I'd pay him top dollar for sure, get what you pay for.
As an apprentice coming up I once worked for a guy that if it was 1/8th inch out then you were going to fix it, had to be perfect. Learned a great deal from that man. Attention to detail mainly and how installing something that looks like art work can and will get you more contracts in the future.
Conduit serves a mechanical/electrical purpose that is all. If you think the job has to win an art contest than that's overbearing nonsense. That guy teaching you may have been a narcissistic mountain of anxiety. Wasting material due to an 1/8" doesn't lead to good workmanship either.
Just a fact that they have this kind of show brings me a hope that trade skills will live and strive in US. It is time to become independent from the rest of the world and get young generation to be involved in it.
In my opinion saddles like these are the hardest and i sometimes still struggle to make em look exactly the same next to each other... That greg guy is the real deal
I’m very impressed with how fast he works but definitely could see it be significantly more efficient! It hurts to see people not use the pass through method while bending pipe when you could do it standing up and never have to flip your bender around or do awkward bends. So much extra work being done. And you already know your 90’s are two inches farther apart so you could have just measured all those together to bend them at the same time then cut all together. Cut down on that back and forth between multiple tools. This is why efficiency is much better than speed. Main thing I teach apprentices to also help learn with looking ahead at next steps to come.
'Not perfect but pretty good' when they're that neat! This comment tells me Greg is a bit of a perfectionist at heart and is awesome at his job. Good to watch these videos from the uk, interesting to see the differences in how it's done!
@@SparkyChannel Are you guys in USA starting to get invaded with "made in china" products like piping,fittings and boxes?? Here in Canada it's starting to be a plague.. Very poorly made without any quality control.. Takes twice the time to install 😵
Now for the next coMpetition, 12 4" rigid conduits in a 35' deep slosh pit of mud 1100' from switch yard to new MCC. CONDITIONS: monsoon to sunshine after lunch in south side Houston Tx... where the mosquitoes carry you away to their nest
No one cares because no one sees it after it's done lol. I've had undergrounds kick my ass harder than days running emt surface mount and trying to make it look good
As a final, have a "beat the engineer" challenge, where there are a set of implementation requirements, which can no longer be met because a 'new obstruction' was not accounted for in the design. This would be a combined code and experience 2-part challenge where the first part is developing a plan to resolve the unaccounted for obstruction issue without using more than 10% more material than the original plans, still meet code, then explain the changes to the 'client' in a request for approval. The obstruction will not be in the plans, so must be accurately measured by the individual competitor before the plan changes can be formulated. Then the proposed changes need to not exceed 10% additional materials 'cost', points gained for each percentage under 10, double points lost for each percentage point over 10. A planned 15% overage will have an automatic 'denial' from the 'client' when explaining the changes and reasoning, when trying to obtain 'approval'. Phase 2 will be implantation, where the competitor must explain to an 'apprentice' chosen from a pool of 'available workers', and the faster your plan is ready and approved, the higher your pick priority, and the pool will have 1 less available apprentice than there are competitors: meaning the last approved (by time, since the 'client' will be the same for all competitors) will not have an 'apprentice' for phase-2. The plan from part-1, then has to be implemented. Any overages here will be docked triple points for each percentage over the part-1 estimated 'cost', up to a total of 15% from the original planned 'cost'. If the part-1 cost was more than 5% more than the original and the implemented 'cost' is more than 2 percentage points less than the part-1 estimate, then there will also be a triple point penalty for each percentage point more than 2 below part-1 'cost', as this will be viewed as trying to stiff the client. There will still be an implementation time limit, which will affect points, too.
@@ericross5048 I figured having something that can really separate the masters of the craft from those who are just master electricians would be appreciated by those who are competitive. Also giving an opportunity to 'show up an engineer' could be a bit fun too. The component of a plumber or hvac contractor encroaching on the space needed for the electrical, despite the plans is an all too real eventuality. So showing off the competitors' ability to cope with the problem is a valuable skill, particularly while balancing time and material costs. All off this together and the competitors have an ideal opportunity to show potential customers why they should be hired on future projects.
@@thomasbonse IDEAL seems to be the only one putting on this kind of competition. Maybe someone should reach out to them about this kind of thing. I kinda wish it were on ESPN.
@22:25... Called it... A secondary bit of shallow strut support after the offset and closer to the corner 90s would relieve that waiver in the pipe and even out the geometry some more the fact that it was bent in the offset configuration inherently put an instability in that pipe because the run is not flush against the surface for the entire area that would normally touch in an ideal flush mount... that 90 is the axis of a lever and if you support that axis it'll stay there... regardless a little hand tweaking on the corner will smooth it out to the eyeball on any latent tension due to those less than perfect 90s...
I've had many apprentices throughout my career. And military guys are hands down the best acclimated to pick up a trade. I've never had a problem with work ethic either. I've had more than my share of young kids who cant put their phones down. All set with that. That being said good luck!
@@osoriocorey Agreed and the faster you work the more work they give you. Don't be fooled by it being call a "profession". It gets painstakingly annoying after a few years! Once all the "HYPE" is over you realize you're still just another tool in the boss's pocket that can be replaced!
This is awesome, wish they had something like this for us UK sparkies ! What is the conduit made from in the states ? I ask because it looks a lot easier to bend and cut than our steel conduit 🤔
There are actually 3 different non-flexible metal conduit choices EMT, IMT, and RMC. This challenge was using EMT, the thinnest walled of the 3, and coincidentally the easiest to bend.
With compression conduit connectors would you still install all four connectors at once? I dont think that would allow enough space to turn your channel locks.. ?
You work from right to left, it gives you enough space to tighten your connectors from the left hand space. If you wanted to loosen them, you have to work from left to right.
No way you could tighten them with close spacing. You'd put up one conduit at a time with the Connectors on it already prepped. So you could still be fast, you'd just prep your pipe with Connectors not the box in that situation. Imo...
When i bend pipe i use a pencil to mark the pipe so after words I'll just clean the pencil marks and it looks cleaner and professional....that was a really good job from this thing man...love watching ure videos especially competition ones..
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i think the last offset before the 90 should have gone all the way against the wall then 90 up and offset onto the unistrut would of been more challenging and would of looked better than floating emt. just my opinion though.
That installation needs another piece of strut on the right side of the vertical PVC conduit to make it a good installation. A lot of Electricians seem to forget that the NEC code is just the bare minimum that is required. I guess these contests use the bare minimum code also? I also wonder how many Foreman and estimators go to these contest and use these competitor electricians to gauge how fast they think these job need to be done. These guys also don't have the proper hand tools and power tools to do the job safely. We need to do everything we can to keep our backs, knees and bodies from being torn up prematurely. Russ-J Electrician from Oregon.
Hi Russ! I'm with you brother. Our knees are very valuable so why be working on your knees when you don't have to? I think that older electricians in particular consider these things. I would like to see another piece of strut as well. Have a nice day!
Couldn't agree more regarding the unistrut. No point supporting conduit on the left hand side but not the right! Rough that is. Speed isn't everything. No-one cares how fast you did it if it looks shit!. I'm from UK and that's unacceptable with no strut on the right. The pen marks on the conduit are ridiculous. Use a pencil then rub off when finished!
Someone planned a pipe run for us down a hallway with 3- 1 1/4", 2 - 1", and 3 - 3/4" that would eventually have to turn 90 degrees to get around a corner with the 3/4" on the outside. Using regular benders would have made it look really bad. So I showed my partner how to bend them all with the 1 1/4" bender at the 90. The resulting spacing got a lot of attention from other electricians walking that hallway. I had learned that years ago as a 1st year from a younger woman from Chicago. Good video. Nice pipework guys. I'm surprised anyone knows how to use a hacksaw anymore. LOL
You just get used to kneeling down for most tasks since the ground more stable that most other things to use as a table, especially for making straight cuts with a hacksaw
How can i b a participating on these contest I'm a journeyman electrician from el infierno Arizona!! I i can do all this and with no couplings all in 1 pipe all
Overall decent, but writing on pipe and walls with sharpie is a no-go. You also had extra time, so why not clean up? I saw knockouts still sitting in boxs.
Cleaning up wasn’t part of the competition... the pipe bending was the challenge, not maid duty. If they were worried about those things they would have put it in the rules.
Do you have to run steel pipes in every electrical installation in the states? Australian sparky here and hardly never used it, lots of flexible Anaconda and PVC style conduits but rarely ever touch it. Typically steel wired armour cabling is popular in damage prone areas
Per NEC, we cannot use MC cable in areas prone to damage. The steel armor in the cable isn’t as protective as emt. PVC, we use a lot in underground and in corrosive environments. It’s not good for much else IMO. It’s problematic if installed outside exposed to sun. Even sunlight resistant versions become very damaged by UV. It also has a high rate of expansion and will rip the straps off the wall if you don’t install expansion couplings in long straight runs.
Kum Hydrant I’ve done plenty of residential emt installs for lighting (apartment and condo buildings). It’s the best surface-mounted raceway to use outside. Looks clean and lasts a long time as long as it’s galvanized. I’m in the U.S. Not sure if it’s more of a specialized raceway in Australia but we use it everywhere here.
I think a similar challenge, but where you not only have to maneuver over one obstruction, but also under another obstruction, such that you're just coming up on a cumulative 360 degrees of bends and the longest parallel should have no cuts or couplers. Basically having to navigate around both hvac and plumbing obstructions without wasting materials.
@@SparkyChannel As you know it depends on the material being cut but for conduit that size I prefer a 24-32 tpi. Gets through it quick but doesn't tear up the edges too bad. I'd take the 32 tpi over the 24 though if I have the choice.
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Greg works like you’re supposed to. Smart, efficient, and with good craftsmanship.
What I find most funny is that you would never ever in a million years see electricians working this fast on the job. 🤣
True story
LOL!
And if they are union they would work even slower
Not true, some service changes can get two guys trotting this pace all day
Very true .. especially when the boss says it’s time and material.. you make the job last
Not always true when needed I work very fast wed moved and reinstalled a whole 3phase mains board from on room to another including containment in 9h and have done a house in a day but I agree you can not work like this all the time you would be so tired.
I'n about to graduate my 5 year apprenticeship with the IBEW. I watched this performance early enough in my career to be influenced by it. Just came back to see how many things I picked up from Greg in a 20 minute video. It was a lot
I wish filming on the job wasn't so stigmatized. We could alll improve a lot by watching film.
Congrats brother 👍. I’m finished with 2nd year classes and will have 3 more years before I top out.
Congratulations!
Greg is just next level, the efficiency is off the charts!
Very good, but there is room for improvement. Maybe it's a rule, but why doesn't he have a belt for tape measure, marker, screw driver, and pliers. He keeps having to reach for stuff.
I just love to watch Greg work. He knows his work. Plans ahead and stays calm.
Right on!
I've been in the electrical trade for 20 years.
I love bending pipe.
I hate being watched.
I would screw up a stub 90 if someone was watching me.
This guy made it look easy.
And neat
Yep. He's cool, calm and collected! :)
Yup I agree. Don’t understand people criticizing. This dude just breezed through four saddles like nothing. In a timed competition I understand some imperfections. This guy made it look too easy. Wannabes behind their keyboards would take an entire day to do what this guy did in 25 min with a pile of wasted scrap pipe😆
@@JB-ud2gn Agreed, and I've bent EMT.
I get the part about being watched but this guy is the type that can zone in and get it done. A real master.
This is better then Golf.🤣
LOL! Thanks!
hjjj
a million times better than golf
You said it brother 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
Anythings better than golf 😂
Tip for apprentices, use a pencil or a silver sharpey marker on the conduit.
Good tips!
acetone works wonders
Bug spray "off" takes off marker like magic!
In the uk we call this the Am2..better competition would be plumbers vs electrician then when we beat them at there thing we would prove to be the king of the trade jungle
Just mark over it again with your sharpie and wipe with thumb. 😉
Greg is the type of electrician I always like to have on my jobs, thinks of the next few steps as he is working. More efficient and gets a nice product installed, I'd pay him top dollar for sure, get what you pay for.
Very true!
Grigs hands were working and his mind thinks the next steps
Someone taught him that, most important, it wasn't lost
Make an offer Jason😁
That is part of the purpose of this competition, competitive advertising.
That looks perfect! Never seen pipe bent that fast and accurate before.
Yes, he's really talented!
He did that in 25 minutes! Those are skills to shoot for.
Yes it does it takes practice
As an apprentice coming up I once worked for a guy that if it was 1/8th inch out then you were going to fix it, had to be perfect.
Learned a great deal from that man. Attention to detail mainly and how installing something that looks like art work can and will get you more contracts in the future.
Great points!
Yea right
Your work is your legacy.
@@TYMWLTL I agree, I have often signed my name on my work, only an electrician would ever find it
Conduit serves a mechanical/electrical purpose that is all. If you think the job has to win an art contest than that's overbearing nonsense. That guy teaching you may have been a narcissistic mountain of anxiety. Wasting material due to an 1/8" doesn't lead to good workmanship either.
I have been an electrician for 33 yrs now these guys all did a fine job GRATS!
I agree, thanks!
Just a fact that they have this kind of show brings me a hope that trade skills will live and strive in US. It is time to become independent from the rest of the world and get young generation to be involved in it.
Well said! Thanks!
Seth is ready for a cocktail or have a fight with that tape measure.
Another tip is sharpie will erase sharpie on conduit “Mark let it dry than Mark the same mark again and wipe with finger”
Thanks for the tip!
@@SparkyChannel i see what you did there
In my opinion saddles like these are the hardest and i sometimes still struggle to make em look exactly the same next to each other... That greg guy is the real deal
Yes, he sure is!
I always hated making saddles. I could get by when I had to, but didn't do it enough to be an expert at it. Greg makes it look way easier than it is.
I'd set and watch this any day over a football game
Me too. I love it!
Less politics lol
I’m very impressed with how fast he works but definitely could see it be significantly more efficient! It hurts to see people not use the pass through method while bending pipe when you could do it standing up and never have to flip your bender around or do awkward bends. So much extra work being done. And you already know your 90’s are two inches farther apart so you could have just measured all those together to bend them at the same time then cut all together. Cut down on that back and forth between multiple tools. This is why efficiency is much better than speed. Main thing I teach apprentices to also help learn with looking ahead at next steps to come.
Thanks!
You can tell Greg is a commercial electrician while Seth looks like he's never seen conduit. Get off your knees!😂
'Not perfect but pretty good' when they're that neat! This comment tells me Greg is a bit of a perfectionist at heart and is awesome at his job. Good to watch these videos from the uk, interesting to see the differences in how it's done!
Thanks Sam!
So, is this the X-Games for contractors? Never seen it before.
I guess you could say that. Yes sir, it's a truly great event!
It’s the Stanley cup playoffs. lol 😂
the fact that everyone in the backround has one or no pipes on the wall shows how preparation is key
Yes, it sure is!
Conduit bending is truly an art, loved the class at my LU 890
I agree!
You sound like Scotty. I am imagining you waving your hands around when you are talking behind the camera. Do you fix cars, too. 😂
LOL! I do some auto electric.
Lol. Rev up your engines!
10:16 i thought Greg pulled out a cig🚬 for the last bend 😂😅
IDEAL bender are the best ones.
The best thing about them for me, is that they have markings on both sides.
I'm lefty
They are true, and made in the USA too!
@@SparkyChannel
Are you guys in USA starting to get invaded with "made in china" products like piping,fittings and boxes??
Here in Canada it's starting to be a plague..
Very poorly made without any quality control..
Takes twice the time to install 😵
Now for the next coMpetition, 12 4" rigid conduits in a 35' deep slosh pit of mud 1100' from switch yard to new MCC. CONDITIONS: monsoon to sunshine after lunch in south side Houston Tx... where the mosquitoes carry you away to their nest
Dont get me wrong... these guys would school me sideways
I do get the point. Conditions aren't always so great on the actual jobsites. 😊
So glad I left Htown! I'm a Lineman so we always work outside and Htown is absolutely brutal in the summer.
No one cares because no one sees it after it's done lol. I've had undergrounds kick my ass harder than days running emt surface mount and trying to make it look good
As a final, have a "beat the engineer" challenge, where there are a set of implementation requirements, which can no longer be met because a 'new obstruction' was not accounted for in the design. This would be a combined code and experience 2-part challenge where the first part is developing a plan to resolve the unaccounted for obstruction issue without using more than 10% more material than the original plans, still meet code, then explain the changes to the 'client' in a request for approval. The obstruction will not be in the plans, so must be accurately measured by the individual competitor before the plan changes can be formulated.
Then the proposed changes need to not exceed 10% additional materials 'cost', points gained for each percentage under 10, double points lost for each percentage point over 10. A planned 15% overage will have an automatic 'denial' from the 'client' when explaining the changes and reasoning, when trying to obtain 'approval'. Phase 2 will be implantation, where the competitor must explain to an 'apprentice' chosen from a pool of 'available workers', and the faster your plan is ready and approved, the higher your pick priority, and the pool will have 1 less available apprentice than there are competitors: meaning the last approved (by time, since the 'client' will be the same for all competitors) will not have an 'apprentice' for phase-2. The plan from part-1, then has to be implemented. Any overages here will be docked triple points for each percentage over the part-1 estimated 'cost', up to a total of 15% from the original planned 'cost'. If the part-1 cost was more than 5% more than the original and the implemented 'cost' is more than 2 percentage points less than the part-1 estimate, then there will also be a triple point penalty for each percentage point more than 2 below part-1 'cost', as this will be viewed as trying to stiff the client. There will still be an implementation time limit, which will affect points, too.
This is a cool sport. I’d watch competitions like that for sure.
@@ericross5048 I figured having something that can really separate the masters of the craft from those who are just master electricians would be appreciated by those who are competitive. Also giving an opportunity to 'show up an engineer' could be a bit fun too.
The component of a plumber or hvac contractor encroaching on the space needed for the electrical, despite the plans is an all too real eventuality. So showing off the competitors' ability to cope with the problem is a valuable skill, particularly while balancing time and material costs. All off this together and the competitors have an ideal opportunity to show potential customers why they should be hired on future projects.
@@thomasbonse IDEAL seems to be the only one putting on this kind of competition. Maybe someone should reach out to them about this kind of thing. I kinda wish it were on ESPN.
that is hilarious.
It sounds like you had a bad day at work. 🤣🤣
Great planning and great execution you can get the job done fast without working fast
Very true! Greg sets a great example of how to work at pace without rushing.
Exactly. That's true with just about anything. You don't have to work fast or cut corners either.
@22:25...
Called it...
A secondary bit of shallow strut support after the offset and closer to the corner 90s would relieve that waiver in the pipe and even out the geometry some more the fact that it was bent in the offset configuration inherently put an instability in that pipe because the run is not flush against the surface for the entire area that would normally touch in an ideal flush mount... that 90 is the axis of a lever and if you support that axis it'll stay there... regardless a little hand tweaking on the corner will smooth it out to the eyeball on any latent tension due to those less than perfect 90s...
I'd love to get in on some of these competitions.. I have a blast just watching
I hear that!
I love hard work. I could watch it all day.
Me too!
If Greg worked for himself, took his own jobs, and consistent with the great work he does he would have no problem taking over an entire area!
Sounds right, thanks!
idk why i got recommended this but im here, and im gonna enjoy it.
Thanks for the visit!
That Dude is Awesome and Takes Pride in his Work
Yep.
Top notch work and top notch commentator!!!
Thanks so much Mike!
@@SparkyChannel Very welcome! I wish they played stuff like this on tv. Exactly like this though. No fake drama and called as it is.
@@mikeznel6048 I love these competitions! I wanted to be out on the floor so bad but I was very happy to be filming. :)
Greg is a beast.
Yes sir! And he makes it look easy too.
Honestly, was thinking about doing this when I get out the military. This really just sold it for me
IMO, electrical is the best trade. Best wishes!
I've had many apprentices throughout my career.
And military guys are hands down the best acclimated to pick up a trade.
I've never had a problem with work ethic either.
I've had more than my share of young kids who cant put their phones down. All set with that.
That being said good luck!
This is a cool competition. Great stuff
I agree!
Some very talented tradesmen
I agree!
i did this today at work. It took me like 8 hours
At least you did it! :)
This man talks truth
You're fired
Are you a plumber?
8 hours our Foreman's and super expect 200 feet a day. If you can't keep that pace you get ditch duty
Great video!! Did he end up using shrinkage? Didn't see how he measured for the 4 point saddle bend ?
Greg, the main competitor featured in this video, calculated the shrinkage in his head.
At first i was like why would anyone do this? $75,000 sounds like a good reason to give it a shot
Rather watch paint dry if you do this all day everyday you need to get a life.
@@osoriocorey Agreed and the faster you work the more work they give you. Don't be fooled by it being call a "profession". It gets painstakingly annoying after a few years! Once all the "HYPE" is over you realize you're still just another tool in the boss's pocket that can be replaced!
Good show Greg
Yep!
This is awesome, wish they had something like this for us UK sparkies !
What is the conduit made from in the states ? I ask because it looks a lot easier to bend and cut than our steel conduit 🤔
mostly mexico and india
@@narmale I mean what material is it made out of. 😀
@@Cablesmith its mild steel, but it IS easier to bend than the mexico emt, dont know if its physically thinner, or annealed
There are actually 3 different non-flexible metal conduit choices EMT, IMT, and RMC.
This challenge was using EMT, the thinnest walled of the 3, and coincidentally the easiest to bend.
@@thomasbonse that’s for that 👌🏼 ours is just steel or stainless steel 😩
I'm a spark from Scotland its so interesting how different your installations are
Yes, I'm fascinated by how other countries do their electrical as well!
How would you do it in Scotland?
I did some power modules being shipped to Brazil and their code is completely different
More with wiring but I get it
This is such a valuable production. It is definitely motivating.
I agree, thanks!
With compression conduit connectors would you still install all four connectors at once? I dont think that would allow enough space to turn your channel locks.. ?
You work from right to left, it gives you enough space to tighten your connectors from the left hand space. If you wanted to loosen them, you have to work from left to right.
No way you could tighten them with close spacing. You'd put up one conduit at a time with the Connectors on it already prepped. So you could still be fast, you'd just prep your pipe with Connectors not the box in that situation. Imo...
This was awesome to watch ............ looks like fun.
I don’t know how I got here but I’m enjoying
Welcome!
Looks good but I would get beat with a bender if I used a sharpie 🤣🤣
LOL!
This was solely for competition though and there’s plenty of things you could use that would take all the sharpie off in 10 seconds.
Is the announcer Scotty Kilmer's brother?
LOL! No, I'm Bill from Sparky Channel.
I’m surprised in a competition sponsored by an electrical tool company I didn’t see anyone using an actual pipe reamer
They also used marker. The point is it's not about preping it for wire or for the customer. No wire will be used. They r being tested on there bends
Why wasnt there a secon piece of unistrud after the pipes and befor the 90s
Economy?
Well I loved the way he didn't add the kick, he literally hand bent it, 3/4 emt is very versatile.
Agreed!
I had competed in VICA nationals years ago and they did not have the audience standing behind you like that. That would have made me nuts!!
I understand!
They should have had some things in there that provided a challenge like parallel rolling offsets and sweeping concentric 90s show true skill
Thanks!
This is why we need ESPN 8 "The Ocho"
That's right!
Scrolling youtube watching how to bend tube without a bender ... because I build bikes... how did I get to this and why am I still watching 🤣🤣
Welcome to Sparky Channel and I hope you enjoy the content! I love bikes and I subscribed to your channel!
Where can I check out some of your bikes
Is everyone wearing New Balance shoes?
When i bend pipe i use a pencil to mark the pipe so after words I'll just clean the pencil marks and it looks cleaner and professional....that was a really good job from this thing man...love watching ure videos especially competition ones..
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you can clean the mark easily by alcohol. It's hard to write on the EMT pipe by pencil.
@@John.23 Good tip, thanks!
i think the last offset before the 90 should have gone all the way against the wall then 90 up and offset onto the unistrut would of been more challenging and would of looked better than floating emt. just my opinion though.
how about a kick 90?
Nice and steady with a well thought out plan ahead of time seems to be faster than herky jerky movements
Yes, I agree!
That installation needs another piece of strut on the right side of the vertical PVC conduit to make it a good installation. A lot of Electricians seem to forget that the NEC code is just the bare minimum that is required. I guess these contests use the bare minimum code also? I also wonder how many Foreman and estimators go to these contest and use these competitor electricians to gauge how fast they think these job need to be done. These guys also don't have the proper hand tools and power tools to do the job safely. We need to do everything we can to keep our backs, knees and bodies from being torn up prematurely. Russ-J Electrician from Oregon.
Hi Russ! I'm with you brother. Our knees are very valuable so why be working on your knees when you don't have to? I think that older electricians in particular consider these things. I would like to see another piece of strut as well. Have a nice day!
Couldn't agree more regarding the unistrut. No point supporting conduit on the left hand side but not the right! Rough that is. Speed isn't everything. No-one cares how fast you did it if it looks shit!. I'm from UK and that's unacceptable with no strut on the right.
The pen marks on the conduit are ridiculous. Use a pencil then rub off when finished!
How about using a K-bender not a one shoot bender let see how past they work and what is the result..?
I feel pulling wire should be part of this
OK, thanks!
And clean up messy messy or dirty electricians clean up your trimmings and garbage and Gatorade bottles....
Let’s see, this was February 8th of 2020. I think I could have finished this week sometime.
LOL!
Someone planned a pipe run for us down a hallway with 3- 1 1/4", 2 - 1", and 3 - 3/4" that would eventually have to turn 90 degrees to get around a corner with the 3/4" on the outside. Using regular benders would have made it look really bad. So I showed my partner how to bend them all with the 1 1/4" bender at the 90. The resulting spacing got a lot of attention from other electricians walking that hallway. I had learned that years ago as a 1st year from a younger woman from Chicago. Good video. Nice pipework guys. I'm surprised anyone knows how to use a hacksaw anymore. LOL
How'd you manage to not flatten the 90 of the 3/4?
@@ghoul1shgobl1n49 I am a very tricky electrician. Just happens the bender was good and with slow easy pressure it worked.
Perfect job,am actually learning how to bend. This is helping me
Excellent!
I do have an actual question. Do electricians not have some version of a saw horse? My knees were dying watching them get up and down so much!
Me too! As an older electrician I know how valuable knees are so I really try to protect my knees.
They could have cut their conduit over their carts but no one did.
Rack a tiers cable racks are good for cutting on.
You just get used to kneeling down for most tasks since the ground more stable that most other things to use as a table, especially for making straight cuts with a hacksaw
So for the 90 you’d measure from the gutter to the right side of your pull box connector ?
Yes
Not such why This showed up in my recommended, but can’t sleep and watched all of this for some reason.
Thanks for watching Sparky Channel!
Very satisfying to watch that man work- WOW
The permanent marker marks on the conduit are ugly. Otherwise its nicely done.
Thanks!
Nothing break can't get rid of
@@U9Bwhat is break?
@@inkman002 Brake Clean.
How can i b a participating on these contest I'm a journeyman electrician from el infierno Arizona!! I i can do all this and with no couplings all in 1 pipe all
Hi fellow Sparky! idealnationals.com
I think the narrator is gifted
This project would take me til first break lol
You can do it!
As a tile guy. Greg passes as a good electrician. Probably even sweeps up after his self 😁
Have a great day Mark!
Himself
22:26 the strut came unfastened from the wall!
Yep.
So the guy who built the boards did not win. Lol
my boys pants, the tan amd black. where uh.. where uh did ya get thos bad boys?
I think those are CAT pants
Greg is a beast man 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Yep!
Can i use emt in the foam fire system at generator room
Overall decent, but writing on pipe and walls with sharpie is a no-go. You also had extra time, so why not clean up? I saw knockouts still sitting in boxs.
Exactly, stay productive.
OK, thanks!
Yup 👍 I agree
Is also another easy /Faster way to do it ✌️
Cleaning up wasn’t part of the competition... the pipe bending was the challenge, not maid duty. If they were worried about those things they would have put it in the rules.
@@Vbbv22 And thats the difference between you and I, work ethics.
would it make sense to actually be building a collage or housing, store with all this labor.
No
This is a competition, where the competitors get to prove themselves, which at the end of the day may even help them land work contracts.
Do you have to run steel pipes in every electrical installation in the states?
Australian sparky here and hardly never used it, lots of flexible Anaconda and PVC style conduits but rarely ever touch it.
Typically steel wired armour cabling is popular in damage prone areas
Per NEC, we cannot use MC cable in areas prone to damage. The steel armor in the cable isn’t as protective as emt. PVC, we use a lot in underground and in corrosive environments. It’s not good for much else IMO. It’s problematic if installed outside exposed to sun. Even sunlight resistant versions become very damaged by UV. It also has a high rate of expansion and will rip the straps off the wall if you don’t install expansion couplings in long straight runs.
That’s probably because you don’t work in industrial... I work in heavy industrial in Australia and use it all the time.
Kum Hydrant I’ve done plenty of residential emt installs for lighting (apartment and condo buildings). It’s the best surface-mounted raceway to use outside. Looks clean and lasts a long time as long as it’s galvanized. I’m in the U.S. Not sure if it’s more of a specialized raceway in Australia but we use it everywhere here.
Russell Brown Apologies, My initial reply was to the OP.
Kum Hydrant oh yeah that’s what I figured. I was just throwing in my 2 cents anyway. Lol
When a guy quotes you 12hrs show him Greg at work lol 😂
Great idea!
I like how he keeps the sharpie in his mouth the whole time
Yep!
I think a similar challenge, but where you not only have to maneuver over one obstruction, but also under another obstruction, such that you're just coming up on a cumulative 360 degrees of bends and the longest parallel should have no cuts or couplers. Basically having to navigate around both hvac and plumbing obstructions without wasting materials.
Cool! I love it!
James Jones is my bud !!!!
👍🏼😁👍🏼
See 25:50 . It's a great bunch of guys!
Greg...professional grade.
Yep!
One more channel is needed.
13:07
Did someone drop a sh.t load of pipes on the floor???
😆
I think so. I hadn't noticed it. :)
So when using the star you don't have to do the take up space subtraction of the 90?
No. You do measure to the back of the bend though.
no the star is the accurate bend just remember to turn the bender head around
Union or non union? Or both? All great workers. Need to pick up the pace though guys!
I'm not sure. It's not a requirement to enter the competition.
Does the competition work around business hours?
@@stihatch4492 It starts early and goes late for 3 days. And it's fun!
@@SparkyChannel So you have to miss work for it? Naaah im good.
Josh Newhouse but if u win u make $75,000 in 3 days not bad at all 🤣🤣
change struts to deeper , no saddles, easier to pull wire less bends means less grief :)
That's true!
Ok let's go back to Greg 😂😂
11:38 nice tight, and sharp, hack saw blade is the key to a good cut.
What TPI do you prefer for your blade?
@@SparkyChannel As you know it depends on the material being cut but for conduit that size I prefer a 24-32 tpi. Gets through it quick but doesn't tear up the edges too bad. I'd take the 32 tpi over the 24 though if I have the choice.
@@mikeznel6048 Good tips, thanks!
Excellent demostration
Thanks Freddy!
But what if I prefer my Klein bender?
Not a problem.
Then go to a Klein competition lol 😂