oh hey hello how's it going what are you wearing well you know safety is no joke
around here we take safety very seriously and sorry i can't hear scott brad here um today's
video is all about the safety equipment i use in my videos i get a lot of questions
about it so i thought today we'll cover it can't click with gloves on Paerau.
so i've had a lot of questions about the safety gear that we use on the building
sites throughout our jobs and i typically don't talk about that kind of thing unless you know
it comes up in a video so i thought for this video i would dedicate
from the top down dedicated to the safety equipment that we use
so keep ourselves safe on site starting from the top the sunglasses i've been wearing these for
the last few months i bought them on instagram i'll put links to everything down below as well
safety style is the brand name but basically they're like your typical ray-ban style sunglasses
but they put little windows on the side here they're for stopping things from flying
around your sunglasses and into your eyes and they also have the clear versions here so these ones
have been my go-to recently so i've probably got a bad habit of not wearing safety glasses i've been
called out on it quite a few times in my videos so i'm trying to get into the habit of wearing these
a bit more often but one area where i feel like my habits are good and that is wearing hearing
protection i always wear ear muffs in my videos and i worked with a lot of older guys who never
wore ms and had bad hearing as a result of it now i'm yelling so i was pretty diligent from a young
age and in terms of uh the particular style of vms i wear just these ones the ones that fold up into
little balls not that i particularly use that but i use this brand because i've had no problems with
this brand this is maybe my third pair in the last six years the first pair was exactly the same as
this they just got worn out so i got rid of them i got a slimmer pair a black pair that was more low
profile and they had a comfier sort of headband on them but then i felt like my ears weren't really
breathing enough it might have just been you know psychological but i went back to these again
i'll put the links below you can also get earplugs but my ears have always struggled with that kind
of thing i need like ventilation and and but that could be an option as well and then if i'm working
by myself i'll typically wear a pair of bluetooth headphones like this that way i can take calls
i can listen to podcasts while i'm working they work pretty effectively as must as well
mask this is probably where all the questions are it must come up now and again
safety glasses but man almost every other video someone will mention the mask i'm wearing and
why and where i got it from and all the rest of it i'll start from the top um this is the rz mask i
think this is an american company and they make a range of them with different styles and made from
different materials this is the neoprene it's kind of like a wetsuit kind of material they also have
like a more nylon meshy kind of material and they have different you know this is like a shark's
tooth thing they've got different styles so it's basically made up of this outer layer here that
has the metal on it that pinches your nose and it holds the filters then on the inner layer they
have the replaceable filter here 40 hours is the general use time before you have to replace this
so i typically use this mask when the dust isn't that bad maybe i'm working outside
maybe i've got a vacuum attached to the saw you know like it's not um a high dust environment it's
not as imposing you know it doesn't get in the way but more often than not i prefer a high level of
respiration and that is where this half face respirator comes in this is a 3m respirator i'll
pop the name up there it's actually pretty comfortable for something so big and bulky
whoever designed it has put a lot of thought into how the straps fit and how it sits on your face
sometimes with the rz mask it feels like it's pulling on your nose
because you're all you're doing is strapping it around your back and there's nothing that keeps
it up whereas this one has the straps on the top so that's that's keeping it from going down
and then you have the straps on the back that keeps it from going out you can make constant
adjustments to get that feeling good because of that i wear this more often in terms of where you
get this from um i won't bother with that because i just got it from a random safety store in new
zealand but i put the model number below so you can search for it wherever you happen to live
now if you want to go full crazy full face respirator that oh that takes away the need for
safety glasses and you definitely don't need to worry about dust so i wear this
whenever we're doing insulation i wear this whenever we're doing concrete dust
any time we're doing demo i often put this on and it was actually paid out that put me onto it
as soon as you put that mask on you're like oh you're just invincible yeah you feel invincible
yeah you can just basically just focus on whatever you're doing without worrying about
anything getting in your face yeah so if you're cutting something above you and everything's just
falling down you can just keep your eyes open and just not worry about yeah yeah breathing
anything and you just see everything yeah yeah it just allows you to focus on like the job better
so that's why we're here if you're doing renovations like we are
i would highly recommend it you feel invincible in a full face respirator
now before we move on from masks an important point related to masks vacuum cleaners
we try and use a vacuum cleaner like this or like the festool one that i have with every tool if we
can attach it to a tool we do so right now this one is attached to the drop saw here and we have
this port here on the router so anytime we do some routing we'll hook up the vacuum to that
as well circular saws have the ports on them as well we try and get the dust at the source
again with demo it's very hard to do that generally speaking you're just pulling things
apart with a hammer and a crowbar so you can't quite get the dust then but the combination
of wearing a mask and having a vacuum cleaner attached to your tools is a great combination
gloves this is another area where people question
my videos and say scott why aren't you wearing gloves you're handling all that treated timber
very good point i don't wear these enough but when i do wear them i like these ones no particular
brand pro sense is this brand uh no particular brand but it's one of those fabric gloves that
have been dipped in like a rubberized material so they're not the most protective you know they
keep the harmful treatment off your hands and they generally resist cutting but they have good
dexterity so you can feel what you're doing you can actually grab things and cut things
accurately you do need bulkier gloves sometimes like when i was on this job i pulled up a lot
of ceramic tiles and tile underlay and uh yeah i don't want to cut myself when i'm doing that and
the dexterity doesn't matter as much so sometimes you need thicker gloves but day-to-day carpentry
i use these these are great here in new zealand in particular if you're like an apprentice or
something i would highly recommend wearing gloves like this with the treated timber that we use
because there's a lot of chemicals in there that's another reason we're a dust mask as well um cancer
causing chemicals it says it in the literature i'm not like making it's not even a conspiracy it's
just the case so having a vacuum attached to your saw and other tools and having a mask and glasses
as well keeps the dust out of your eyes and gloves when you're handling the timber super important
ah knee pads i've got a friend who's a doctor a radiologist he basically spends every day
looking at scans and he sees a lot of knee damage in those scans he also watches the videos he
is very quick to send me messages whenever i am not wearing knee pairs he will send me screenshots
with like arrows pointing to my knees going scott what are you thinking so shout out to shout out to
jakub if you're watching i appreciate the constant reminders of my tardiness when it comes to knee
pads anyway these are my favorite knee pads these don't have straps on them clearly more
often in the videos i've probably been wearing these ones with straps around the back these
are occidental leather knee pads same brand as my tool belt they're very thin so they probably don't
have enough protection on them if you're gonna wear them every day like say if you're a floor
layer or something maybe you're a there you need something a bit more heavy duty than this and
the other thing is they've got the straps now the problem with the straps is it can
hurt the backs of your knees as you're bending over all the time and moving and sweating and
all that you start getting sort of rashes on the back your knees well i do anyway so i prefer
these ones but the only way these work is with pants like this
so these are the snickers workwear pants yeah snickers yeah they've been really good so far
now i'm going to pop the word advertisement here somewhere these were given to me by luke at euro
workwear direct they are like the australian importers of um snickers work pants he reached out
to me on instagram and said hey scott i noticed you where the euro style work pants uh do you want
to try some snickers and these have been great these are my favorite pants so far and these are
my favorite knee pads they also have more heavy duty ones that's what these are super heavy duty
i was using these in the last episode when we're up in the attic space there these aren't my style
because the pants are quite big and the only way to get this knee pad into those pants is by taking
the pants off and putting it in the slot inside whereas these ones i can just put them in and out
throughout the day as i'm wearing them and as i need them the other ones are also a bit baggier
so i'm a slim guy i like the fitted sort of style of these ones whereas those other ones
were quite baggy so maybe if you like baggy pants if that's your style then you might prefer them
and certainly if you're a floor layer um i mean look at the size of that is like a
it's like a couch cushion right it's huge yeah but i just said this is a couch cushion
and this is a coaster last but not least boots i know i said masks was the most common question but
i actually think it's probably the boots the john bull cougar 2.0 advertisement these were given to
me bloodstone who owns jumble uh gave me these for the last couple of years in a row they're my
favorite style work boots i like the slip-on work boot just like that you've got your boot back on
the slip-on boots help in general um especially with what we do we're renovating houses so
often clients are living in the house and we're towards the end of the job particularly like we
are right now we're going in and out all the time so you need something that's easy to put on and
take off again it's all personal preference like any of these things these are just the items that
i use for safety as long as you've got steel cap and leather generally speaking is quite durable
and a nice thick sole so if you stand on a nail you're not gonna have it go through your foot as
long as those boxes are ticked you should be sweet but when i was a apprentice i used to get the
lace-up leather ones and i used to look at my boss who had these slip-on ones and think
looks like you're gonna go horse riding or something they look like equestrian boots
so i never understood why he got them but now i'm a bit older i don't really care how they
look they're quite simple they're easy to put on and that's all that matters steel cap fantastic
so there you have it safety gear that we use as carpenters here in new zealand or at least that
i use as a carpenter here in new zealand let me know what uh safety gear you guys use if you'd
recommend any that i could check out um always keen to learn more about that stuff and then
maybe in the future i'll do another video about staying safe with the tools that we use because
that's a big one let me know if you want to see that in the comments otherwise have a good one
catch you in the next exciting episode hey potter nice jumper mate look at that huh
you look good now you know what time of day it is every day every day
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