How To Read The Small Lines On A Tape Measure (Construction Knowledge)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Reading and understanding all the marks on a tape measure is vital to be in the trades and many don't know how to read one. Hope this helps some of you understand better.
Thank you for this. Some people are trying to learn carpentry but too afraid to ask simple questions like this.
Yes that`s me.I turned down a great opportunity due to this.
Do not be afraid, everyone starts somewhere. Nobody is born a professional 👍
@@michaelkolkmeier7400thank you bro
@@michaelkolkmeier7400 most in the industry including my grandfather would yell an make fun of ppl who honestly don’t know or can’t remember so grown men shy away from asking
I need to know this for plumbing
With this explanation took me 2 seconds to understand.
Truly appreciate it
Despite the dumb comments some will post. I can tell you even more will understand what they were affraid too ask or never understood in the first place.
You’re right. I think we’d be better off if we were a little more humble about ignorance. I’m using ignorance by its definition which means lack of knowledge. It doesn’t mean dumb or stupid. It’s sad that I have to add that but people tend to think I’m saying they’re dumb. I’ve been plumbing for 20 years on top of learning many other things along the way. However I don’t know it all. I’m always learning. I’m more than willing to admit when I don’t know something. I don’t mind telling a customer that I don’t know and I’ll have to either figure it out or research. I don’t mind calling customer support. I think if those of us that are relied upon to teach the next generation were more humble about ignorance then those learning wouldn’t be as scared to ask questions.
Yep agree with this so much. Over here in Australia we read metric and im still getting my head around imperial but this video helped instantly I understand it 100% now thanks to this guy. This video needs to be shared so people just learning can see it
This should be part of a high school course
Crazy thing is my school offered a construction class but I was too busy getting 60 absences a semester
@@ethanschlong4662 that’d be a great class
I freaking remember them teaching me in elementary school. Do they not do that anymore?
All I can say is THANK YOU!! The moment I saw your chart it made sense to me. I feel so free to do the projects I have longed to do with CONFIDENCE! ❤❤❤❤
OG here, back in 60s we used to call this reducing fractions to their lowest form.
Great information to know if you are in the trades!
Fractions really are my Achilles heel. For some reason I just can't wrap my head around them.
Omg me too!
Switch to metric system. You'll never have those problems again :)
Me too, I’ll look into the metric system..
The what system?@@Kuchenwurst
Me to I struggle with fractions too and really trying to wrap my head around it hard too sense I got some like dyslexia but with numbers but I don’t let that stop me I just gotta work harder to get it through my head 😂
Bro you helped me so much just started construction going to go crazy now
Thanks man, im still struggling with adding and subtracting them but imma get there. Thank you for this from a electrical apprentice!!⚡️⚡️
This really help me thanks 😊
Wow great video this is the best way explaining the easiest way 👍
The smallest line is the 16th. The next biggest line is an eighth. The next biggest line is 1/4. Just count left to right
Laughs in metric
Miss me with this ish, I'm a big boy who passed 2nd grade.
Sad that he even had to make this video. If you don't understand fractions of inches you've got much bigger problems than not knowing how to read a tape measure.
@@jrkbgk1111 that’s a real arrogant thing to say tbh. Some people miss shit, I never got to learn cursive, am I a retard??
@JM GueEve This video feels like I wondered into a 2nd grade classroom. I feel sorry for you. Truly.
Just get a tape measure that's in metric which is much easier.
We don’t use metric over here
This and tons of basic math can be so helpful. The thing I always teach after this is when trying to find half double the bottom number. I’m a plumber and there are so many ways math can makes things easier. The offset formula is the main one people think off with plumbing but the best math truck in plumbing is subtraction. I see people trying to hold up a pipe and measure. I’ll tell them just to measure from the ground to where the piece will terminate and then measure from the starting point to the ground and subtract to give them the cut measurement. I see too many people trying to hold pipe and fittings and eyeball things when math would make it so much easier.
PS two tricks with a tape measure is how to find half of any mixed number measurement or subtract any mixed number measurement. If you need half of 6’ 9 7/8”. Just fold your tape with the end lined up to that number and the center line of the bend is half. To subtract fold your tape so the end is lined up to the big number then find your smaller number and the measurement on the other side inline with it is the difference
Thats right its great to know these things. I'm a new construction plumber and I see exactly what you are talking about all the time!
I’m not electrical apprentice this helped out a lot
Nice! Very helpful.
Thank you indeed for this. I always felt like a moron. I passed shop class in high school somehow lol.
Thanks so much this video helped so much
I've watched video after video and they never broke it down this badass like you did now I get it it's so easy thank you so much you got a subscriber
Thank you for this was struggling in class to measure I understand a bit more now😊
I need this for apprentice in the machine shop CNC. They work with the thousands
this really helped me!
Thank you for this !!! I forgot all about this!❤
Thanks bro, just needed a refresher for this fabrication job…
We all been there, we might as well teach the people willing to learn
Been using the one with the fractions on this but rlly trying get out of the habit of of using the fraction one this helped a lot !
1st things first, get a metric tape measure. 😂
Omg the most simplest thing was the hardest for me OMg!!! THANK YOUUUUUU!
Thanks so much
16 sections equally devised sections in one inch, not lines. This will help you space things out evenly on any project, even as simple as hanging a pictures.
Metric and Imperial tape exists. It's great.
Damn it. I was confused with yesterday math. Now I’m confused again
Great video
My dad tried showing me how to this and I couldn't figure it out but this helps way more now that I see it thank you
Thank you!!😊
Culprit of counting lines
Doing the job that a lot of Dads never did.
Tysm homie
So basically we start measuring from 1 right ?
Things would be much easier if we used the metric system
Thank you!!!
Thank you I never knew how to read a measurement don’t know how I made it through math but i received a passing grade. But thx you anyway . Yo made it quite simple. So let me go measure my wall 😂
Just remember 1,3,5 and 7
how would you read if it's 11ft + 2.5?
WELL DONE. ILL SHOW TO MY BODY WHEN HE YELLS OUT 8/16s
How come the 3/16 is not in its simplest term???? Would it be 3/8
Thank!
after watching this i honestly realized that i’ll never understand this 😅
Why not just use metric, more accurate and easier
Because Americans are different people. Different in the negative sense of that word.
Just use mm
Which is more accurate the scale at the doctor's offices or the tape measure? Because my height is read different on the to of them?
Halves of halves...that is the basic principle.
I wonder where he got the tape measure with all the fractions on it.
Ohhh that’s it?? I’ve been around experts in the craft and they spoke the more advanced terms.. and I was always jumbled with how to understand it
America needs to dummy down and start using the metric system like the rest of the world.
My problem is when I’m watching the video and doing things my self I know this but ask me a question or if we at work and you watch me I’m all lost like with
Goated
What about 8.6?
Ty
Not gnl this helps a lot for new comers in the construction industry
With maths not being everyone's strong suit, I don't understand why metric isn't introduced!
Imperial is about as logical as adding more guns to minimise gun violence!
You should have learned that in grade school
Convert to metric system already !!!
Why are we not metric? It is much easier.
Reduced, not simplified lol
Cake 🎂
I got a small line you can read
Maybe it’s between the lines you are trying to get read.
😂
Maybe next video we be about brail tape measures !
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This is the worst example I've seen, watch other videos
U didn't keep going on the breakdown of the fractions. Because it doesn't work if u continue 😂😂😂