if you're an electrician don't use these tools [Music]
alright so throughout the years I've used a lot of tools use a lot of really crappy ones to start out
with I broke a lot blew up a lot lost a lot had to constantly re-buy try other people's tools and be
like oh crap mine sucks I'm gonna go get that now here are the tools that I cannot stand and some
things to consider about each ones I'll bring up the ones that I do like in their replacement so
the first thing to start out when you buy a tape measure don't buy a tape measure that is this thin
one of these crappy little Craftsman 16s and don't buy tape measures that just stay out on their own
and that require you to do something to pull them back in that's just a preference thing for me it
annoys the living hell out of me like this thing's tight all the time I want something that I can
just yank out and it slides back in and if I want to keep it held I can lock the Chuck make it whole
so uh yeah here's another one now this one's okay because it's the right uh it's it's like thicker
you know and it's got numbers on the front numbers on the back still holds out I hate that I want it
to retract how do you even all right yeah you have to hold a button to get it to retract I don't know
I hate that again just a preference kind of thing this thing is 30 feet so it's going to be bulky I
also don't really like bulky tape measures you know like something that's big I'd rather have
something that's kind of like more form-fitting in my hand unless you have like a big seven foot
tall banana hands kind of things then it doesn't matter grab a 30. in its place what I like instead
are these look how compact they are compared to this big beast a little bit bigger than that one
but both of these are 25 feet everything I use 25 feet 25 feet gets me everywhere that I need to be
if I'm in a bigger environment and I'm going to like 30 35 feet I can just slide it out to
25 Mark something and then add another you know five feet to it so I don't really need a 30 foot
tape measure but some people do like them usually if I'm in a big commercial place I'm bringing out
my 100 foot tape or I'm bringing out a laser distance finder and I'm setting things up and
getting very precise measurements on that but what I like about these tape measures is they
are small they're form-fitting in my hand I like that this little one has a notch in it so I can
hold it I don't have to like lock the thing down so if I'm trying to measure something I can just
keep my finger there and I'll hold on to it I love that it's got numbers on the front and numbers on
the back and this thing is a magnetic tip so if I wanted to stick this to a piece of metal it'll
actually hold on to that piece of metal so if I'm working up over my head I don't have to like have
both hands up there I can have one side free that's why I like these now both the fat Max
and this stud notice how wide the tape is the actual tape itself compared to this thing if I
try to use this and stretch it out it can't hold up its strength it gets a little limp at the tip
so with these I can go up to what is this one I think this one's 13 foot break meaning 13
feet I can hold this thing out this is all the way across my studio I'm sitting here at nine feet and
I'm already hitting my wall so I love that because we're always working up over our head you know and
I don't want this thing when I'm up on a ladder to constantly be falling and not be able to stand out
straight same thing with this one this one's just a little bit different design the actual tape of
it is more rigid durable whereas these fat Maxes a lot of the older style they're like super thin
so if you get caught on something it just rips the whole tape thing sucks back up in there and
now you got to throw it away and go buy another 25 tape measure but tape measure thing is like
get a good tape measure either the fat Max or the Milwaukee wide Blade with the magnet some of them
come with like magnetic kits you can add some of them have maggots magnets some of them don't some
people hate magnets because they're sticking on everything and they're in a commercial environment
and it just like naturally sticks but I personally it's kind of like a multi-tool to me like having
multiple things in one tool I like having a magnet on it and I like having the the tape on the front
and the back Reed just a personal preference plus they're more Stout I think if I drop this
thing it's going to shatter those things will take damage next up on the list is your hammers
don't bring a hammer like this to a job site if you're starting out as apprentice day one you
will get ridiculed for the rest of your career for bringing mom's hammer so we call this mom's
Hammer It's usually the hammer that your mom had in her drawer in your kitchen right for us 80s
kids I think every mom had this little like weird ball peen hammer thing which no one ever used and
then a normal tip it's like put a claw on it like we work for two in construction we're not like
you know like hitting metal and shaping metal and stuff like and and what like what world would you
actually use this as a professional so don't buy a hammer like that next don't get a hammer that
has a wooden handle so hammers that are good quality have a great balance to them they have
a good pivot point of where the balance is this thing is super top heavy and it has no insulation
for your hands so as you're banging all of that vibration gets translated into your hand and after
a while you're just gonna have a sore hand these things suck and this is gonna break like this is
just a cheap piece of crap wood Hammer don't get wooden hammers get a steel Hammer you're not going
to break that thing you can beat the living crap out of anything and sometimes we do you'll break
something like this it's just a piece of crap it's got a glued on head and the other thing is the
claw angle this kind of a hammer annoys the living hell out of me get something with a flat handle
so let's look at this probably every electrician on the planet has or has had this Hammer it's an
s-wing it's got a nice rubber handle look at how much longer it is so you can get lots and lots of
Leverage granted this is only a 16 ounce Hammer so like the weight of it's pretty light this is
a 22 I personally like kind of 22 24. I use a 28 sometimes if I'm like really swinging but
typically like I find you know in a residential setting doing like little stuff here and there I
like it 22 to a 24. so that being said you got to think about the weight of the thing but look how
there's no seam of anything glued this metal goes all the way down into here they just wrap it with
some some like rubbery you know insulated stuff so it dampens that vibration every time you hit
but there's no point in this that's going to break off like there is on this one it's just stupid but
also look at the claw this claw you can use it to claw into something to hit you can get underneath
things and dig in and pry really easily with it this thing you can't like you gotta like turn your
hand to try to get into it's just stupid don't do that look at the difference in the faces too
faces are huge you want a big surface area to hit with like really you want something that you're
when you're swinging hard and you've got your whole arm into it you have a higher chance of
actually hitting the thing because you have a lot bigger surface and then you've got stuff like this
foreign look how big this one is now this camera is a uh stiletto I know people out there that love
stilettos you're gonna be so mad at me for not knowing that but look at that like I love that
much surface area this is aluminum too so this is like super lightweight it's the same size
as this one but I can feel this one's way heavier so this is a lot lighter size so I mean even like
something like this that you're probably gonna pay 250 for is really awesome so notice the flat
cloth this one's not quite as flat but it's still way flatter than this craziness don't buy hammers
like this go out and actually buy a real good expensive Hammer because you're going to use
it every single day and you're gonna remember at not doing that all right next up for things that
I hate are screwdrivers like this what are you doing come on now your Tradesman your professional
go get some good stuff all right what I don't like about these is I hate any kind of this is
made for my deal I hate how their insulation is loose in my hand this thing moves and slides and
I hate that I hate feeling like every time I turn it I can squeeze and it's just this
loose thing and I just want to throw it away it's essentially one of these hammers they just put
some insulation on it don't buy this cheap crap buy something that's nice one thing to consider
these are clients I use all Klein Screwdrivers insulation solid feels really comfortable in
your hand they're wider so it actually takes it's it turns more for every time you turn not a whole
lot but it does turn slightly more and just the radius alone of these tools the skinnier
it is the more you're having to do this this one you can like turn the tool a lot more like that
plus it just feels solid I've beat on these things over and over I don't recommend the multi-tool one
that you beat on though because this thing will jam up in there and you'll end up breaking it
um take care of stuff like this if I were to beat one of these with a hammer because I'm trying to
like get into something I'm gonna shatter them plus they're hard they just suck I hate everything
about them so don't bring these play school lows or whatever Craftsman uh kindergarten [ __ ] to
your tool site or to your job sites like get good stuff this is Klein branded client if it
ain't client it ain't mine huge fan of Klein so bring Klein stuff all right next up we've got a
pair of lineman's players but this is a multi-use lineman's player what I hate about it is it's so
short I was just talking about Klein Klein I love you I hate this tool I really do like ever since
I got it every time I use it I find that I'm like irritated by it but for everything about
it I hate so when you get a pair of pliers when you want is look at the handle difference on this
these are longer the client makes normal lineman's pliers as well I just don't have them they're in
my truck sorry Klein but that extra inch that you have there every extra inch helps
so it gives you more leverage it allows you to really cinch down and cut things a lot easier
when you try to cut with something like this you have no handle so you can barely cut anything a
the handles aren't long enough so you can't get it apart as far and when you squeeze down you don't
have any leverage behind it so it's really hard to cut like number eight number six whereas this
thing will cut it no problem so get yourself some high leverage lineman's players you can
also use them as a hammer because they're heavier they're fatter this thing's kind of like a needle
nose sort of you can't use this as a hammer at all now be careful when you're using lineman's
hammer because you can mess that little pin up so if you hit things with this side of it
you can screw it up and then you're never going to be able to get it open and closed ever again
no matter it's not a WD-40 kind of thing you just mash the pin and change the shape of it
so now it won't open and close but I do love that they are putting multiple different features in a
tool absolutely love that this has got strippers it's got the tip of alignments pliers but it's
got kind of the profile of like a needle nose it's still got bolt cutters in it um it's got a crimper
inside of it but again with crimpers I want longer handles I want the leverage to be able to squeeze
um and I just don't like that this is so small profile and the stripping side of it is all the
way off to uh to one side so like I can't ever really see like where I'm stripping I don't know
I just I I think I'm trying to find more reasons why I don't like it then I actually don't like
it this is the only Klein tool I don't like out of their entire catalog Library everything the
one thing that I don't like so I don't recommend that you get these next up these loppers Milwaukee
if there's ever a tool that I want to throw at your face throw through the Milwaukee sign and
break it it's bees dude I hate these things more than anything on the planet the handle's
Too Short you can't cut anything with it you're meant to put a conductor in there and lock down
on it but you can't cut anything that's of any size because look just to get something in there
that's like I don't know like uh one odd or something like that like you have to have the
tool all the way apart so you're like sitting here trying to Crunch down on it and your hands aren't
far enough back to really get leverage like you would on like a large side of loppers it's just
a pointless tool I think it's it's silly like I can accomplish look at how far I have to spread
my hands apart I need to cut something look at this I have the same ability to cut with this
tool like this is a pointless tool in my opinion so I hate it really if you're cutting like number
six number eight something like that sure okay but most of the time you're gonna be cutting it with
this you could probably get some like number one number two number four stuff like that in
here and that would do the trick but I anytime I've got large conductors I always just use this
actually cutter so like why not have a ratchet cutter yeah they're expensive but like think
about once you actually get into cutting like I don't know 300 350 anytime you got like large
conductors it's the same tool it just ratchets there's no no need to like sit and like try to
break your hand using this when you can just have a ratchet cutter so I hate these things seriously
I don't even know why I have that it was I know I had it it was because it was sent to me for
free and I just have it there's like rust it's been just sitting out in the weather I don't
care about it stupid stupid tool all right next up levels every electrician every person that wears
tools or does any kind of trade work should own a level far too many people out there just hanging
stuff up and not checking just throwing it up oh it looks good no dude use a level on everything
you install ever ever ever always ever always if I'm putting a receptacle in and I put a plate on
put a level up make sure things level like if everything you do is level it's craftsmanship
it's actually caring about what you're doing rather than just like doing stuff so that being
said don't get a level that has no magnets on it but like you know this one at least it's got a
really weak magnet this Cobalt don't buy anything Cobalt ever joke but it's at least got like a
magnet on it why I hate this style of magnet is because there it's plastic a it's plastic what's
holding the bubbles in is plastic and there's a seam that goes all the way down the plastic so
when you drop this the thing starts to pull apart and break and it's just like I can't drop this
like a I know it's a level you don't want to like get it all messed up you want it to be Stout but
like I should be able to drop it because I'm a Tradesman and this is what I do all day every
day it's a rough environment we drop things we hit things we break things and give me some piece of
crap like this like this is for your dad's garage that he's never gonna use this is for the garbage
this is really for the garbage like look how wow this one won't pop out but these things yeah like
they just pop out in your hand it's just stupid don't buy cheap crap like this pay some money go
get you a cline check this torpedo level out this whole thing is a single piece of metal I can throw
this and get it to stick through a wall and it's going to be just as reliable as ever nothing wrong
with it it's got a little curve on there so if you're bending conduit you have this one part that
can get out of the way it's got a rounded SM well not rounded I guess it's like a little notched
Edge so it can sit on things that are round and it can hold itself up there but the magnets on this
thing bro they're so incredibly strong easy yeah like this one like with barely with one magnet
holding on look how strong that thing is and it's got four of them so when you stick this
on a metal can like it sticks up there it's super solid if I break it or if I drop it it's not going
to break and I know I've dropped it so many times off like 16 foot A-frame ladders all the way down
to the concrete floor I'm like Oh My Level and then I go get it I'm like oh yeah it's clean
it's like the best it's solid and the bubbles are you know isolated from like being damaged or
anything plus they give you four options you got zero degrees you got 90 degrees you got 45 degrees
and 30 degrees because we've been 30 degree bends in 45 degree bends but dude this is Stellar yes
it's more expensive but you're gonna buy Six of these and pay more money every time you try to
buy them than just getting one that you're never gonna have to replace unless you leave it on a
job site on the side of a tap can or something and then somebody's like oh mine get yourself a good
level all right last but definitely not least is anything Milwaukee no I'm just kidding I'm
just kidding I'm just kidding I love Milwaukee power drills this is my favorite damn drill in
the world what I hate are non-magnetic tipped bits so when I go to screw something in what the
come on man are you serious trying to work up over your head what are we doing here why would anybody
make this this is stupid why would you not put a magnet on it check this out stick this thing
in there not only like you can adapt these however you want actually this one's magnetic too I don't
even need to have this other one on there this whole thing there's a magnet inside of it it's
magnetic look at this pop sticks in there doesn't fall out check it out tips magnetic holy crap I
can sit here behind I don't have to worry this thing ain't gonna fall out like why would you not
use magnetic tip everything all the time why would you even make something like this it's what it is
is it's cheap and it allows them to put it in a little bit kit so that they can get that homeowner
Market where they don't know better they can just sell them because they just don't know better
magnetic tipped everything and that even goes for your extensions just the extension this thing is
magnetic here so it holds this in this is magnetic so it holds this in like magnetic everything get
magnetic everything your screwdrivers too um if you can there are some multi-tools like this Klein
makes one that's fully magnetic so this part's magnetic the tips stay in it magnetically whereas
this one is held in place because of this little ball so you don't really need to have them there's
some things where they actually make the tips of the screwdrivers magnetic a lot of Klein stuff is
and I love it because again you're putting a screw on the end of this and sometimes you're in a place
where you can't fit your hand and you're trying to like get inside of like a shallow Groove and you
want that thing to just to stay on there like why wouldn't you do that there are little magnetizer
kits that you can get where you can like run this thing through something and it aligns everything
magnetically but just using magnets like come on man so that's my list of tools that I hate please
leave some comments below show me some of the tools you hate maybe I'll make another follow-up
video because there's a lot more tools that I hate I just had to kind of narrow it down to like
the simple ones but we could get into like the the very complex very specific tools out in the
industry that I hate and the things about them you know like crap on some brands for a little while
anyways love you crazy people I'll see you in the next one