hi, guys kirk and family here with kirk Giordano plastering,
today, i just want to answer a question a fella called me actually a few of you guys called me and
said hey kirk what kind of truck do you recommend i got a lot of young plasters who watch what we do
young plasters don't make the mistakes i made in buying a lot of trucks i've had three of these
f 250s 350s 450s the 350 is the one you want a heavy duty they're asking me what kind of truck
i use and what do i recommend the longer the bed the better this 11 foot bed guys that means
i can put a lot of tools in here this is where we put all our laughing stuff here's where we put all
our snips and we got about six ten of these guys here i put my cements all up here or i put them
on the top rack i had this rack custom built for me uh for from a friend of mine who does welding
the rack is about 1500 extra pounds but man it is it is the bomb you need this we had these put
on it all our foot scaffold a-frames are on here we have six footers uh four-footers two-footers
extensions we have all that stuff and these boxes here they hold a lot of stuff everything we do
for lath and plastering we have on this truck i look at a job guys i have everything i need on
my truck here's where i have a lot of my caulkings tapes and staples you can put all your tools your
guns pneumatic stuff your glues and all bonding agents of course the truck itself is big enough
for three people one with uh king cab is less for stucco because that king cab is taking up
room that you can put your tools on back here we put our papers we have the same system all
the time i've had three similar trucks but this this actually is one of my better ones notice guys
brand new thread on all these tires i don't want a pretty truck i want a functional truck why don't
i want a pretty truck because if i have a pretty truck you lean something against it and then you
lose your mind like me i'll say dude what are you doing putting all that scaffold leaning against
the truck i don't want that i want a functional truck that works well and that's what i recommend
to you folks get a functional truck don't worry about what the outside looks like there's 50 000
miles on this truck only it's in 1989 i've had an 87 and 88 now it's an 89 that's a step up but
50 000 miles i keep it running like a top i could care less what it looks like guys
so that's my tip for you guys you buy a truck don't buy it for looks buy it for use
the ladder rack again up here we have four ladders i can put 10 rolls of wire up here we have about
20 plank on here we have every type of flashing for the plastering industry up on top now we built
this right here where if you're trying to climb up here jay's usually climbing up with carl they
just boom and they're up here it's got everything i got excess water hoses you name it is up here
so guys your young blasters if you're looking for a truck you might as well get either 11 foot bed
uh forget about those eight foot beds and forget about a pickup truck a pickup truck for plastering
is useless guys because you need a utility truck this is this is the difference between
a craftsman plaster and just a plaster who's got an idea these right here hold everything
i mean for example we got you can put your extension cords you can put all your floats your
uh green floats your plastic your everything all your tools right here guys this is just the only
container i have for our uh the things that like our waters and our personal belongings go in here
here that's where you get all your tools all those tools your plastering tools sometimes we have five
six guys got it all and most importantly guys a compressor with about four or five guns you
gotta have a lot of these guns because sometimes they break down you don't have time to fix them on
the job you put your chucks here we have our six footers here this truck has everything back here
it'll pull a mixer what you need to is a big strong guy like lou to help you out too that
always works but anyway guys i recommend to you since you asked my opinion and i've had many
many of these trucks utility truck i like the fords i don't like a pretty truck i like a used
truck and if it's too pretty then you worry again about every little dent and every piece of stucco
on it you don't want to do that you just want a functional truck 11 foot bed is even better but
if you can't find that eight foot bed as far as a custom rack like that you know two three thousand
bucks it's well worth it guys that rack saves me so much time energy and effort that i don't have
to go to the material yards all the time anyway you guys asked that's my truck and that's after uh
i've had this for about eight years now i haven't even changed those tires because i only put about
five thousand miles on this truck this truck is not for joyriding or for the prom it's too ugly
for that but it's definitely do the job for any of you young plasterers any of you old blasters
like myself this is the this is what you need man okay guys just to prove a point about trucks now
if you're a plaster a labor or or electrician a plumber if you got a pickup truck with a
lumber rack that's cool those are good but if you want a contractor's truck you should always buy
a utility truck it's like what we use and when i first got started we would spend a lot of money my
partners and i and we'd have these pickup trucks and we'd spend eight hundred dollars to put leaf
springs and really beef it up well if you buy a 250 or 350 with dual wheels you don't need
all that stuff guys it's just a waste of time and money and here's the best thing okay i got to this
job we're doing some work and i i see the vet here and it doesn't have a actually so i called the
guy said dude i see you need a van he says well i didn't think that could be fixed i thought what do
you mean anything can be fixed and so this is why i have a utility truck and this is why i recommend
for any of you future contractors get a utility truck i just happen to have all this stuff on my
truck so i told the guy well you tell me which one you want and i'll tell you what i can do for you
like we can put this one here and screw it in you just you screw it in here or we could break it out
i can put this one here i can put a luber here we got to break it all out and he might say
kirk you know i'm not going to spend 100 bucks but to do that or i could put this one here my
personal preferences are lubelers this has got it so that the bees and wasps don't go in it
plus it's got the lures to shed it shed the water so you put that there and that is why
guys i always say get a utility truck if you're gonna get get one or a van that has this not for
plaster or a van if you're electrician and all that stuff they're very useful chuck so
i just wanted to point that out because we're on a job here and i thought wow just we just
did that video two days ago i was about to upload it but this gave me an opportunity to say guys uh
go ahead and splurge because those boxes hold everything you need anyway my name's kirk jason
on the camera this time we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one
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