Thread: DRILLLLLL!!!

Used to use a very similar drill with a 20"x3/4" wood boring bit for bolting corbel blocks in pole buildings. If you've never had a drill like that bind up half way through a 16" thick post while you're on a ladder 20' in the air, you haven't lived.

Steve, that sounds like my stepfather's stories. he used to run a big drill for doing electrical. drill through all the studs. monster drill, can't remember the detail now. he said sometimes other guys would try a turn on it, one tmie a guy got thrown off the second story when it bound up.

Red

Thought I was going to break an arm one time doing that sort of thing, a real eye opener!

Hilti are top of the shelf
I have a pro Bosch. It's still very good pro stuff, but not as good as Hilti. I could not afford a Hilti at that time. The Bosch has never let me down, drilling through over a feet of reinforced concrete, hitting the occasional piece of rebar...

Anyway, these days, most of the better class drills have kickback protection that will disconnect the drill shaft from the motorif it jams in the hole.
Someone I used to train with shattered his wrist like that. he was gripping the drill tight, and it was one of those monster sized drills. At one point it jammed, it kicked, andbefore he could let it go, his wrist was kaput.

Originally Posted by Bruno

Hilti are top of the shelf
I have a pro Bosch. It's still very good pro stuff, but not as good as Hilti. I could not afford a Hilti at that time.

I wish I could have justified buying it, but I only needed it for one hole so I rented. I can total see why everyone speaks highly of them though.....

-Rob

Originally Posted by VeeDubb65

If you've never had a drill like that bind up half way through a 16" thick post while you're on a ladder 20' in the air, you haven't lived.

Thank the sweet baby jesus I haven't lived.

But Hole Hawgs are so nice when you need them....

And how did I live without a good hammer-drill?

I'm a commercial Industrial electrician and to be honest I refuse to use hole hawgs, they are in my opinion the most dangerous tool made, and they do not come with clutches you have to just hold on and go for the ride.

Unfortunately I have lived.

Originally Posted by detroyt

Unfortunately I have lived.

LOL. I feel your pain. Literally.

And the thing about clutches, is that in my experience, it seems like the safety clutches and catches on power tools are frequently the first thing to fail. That's how I shot myself in the hand with a nail gun........

Originally Posted by VeeDubb65

LOL. I feel your pain. Literally.

And the thing about clutches, is that in my experience, it seems like the safety clutches and catches on power tools are frequently the first thing to fail. That's how I shot myself in the hand with a nail gun........

I knew a guy who once stapeld himself to a wooden crate through his thumb with an industrial compressed air stapler.

Btw, I have lived too.
It was a summer job. Granted, it was only 10 meters high, but insetad of having 1 long ladder, I had 1 long ladder which was basically 2 ladders of different widths cobbled together with rope.

My Dad actually nailed his hand to a post once, and it wasn't due to failed safety gear, it was failure to pay attention.

What was really bad, was that he was using 16 penny nails (too big to pull out by hand), was working alone that day, and because he way using a nail gun he wasn't wearing his tool belt, so his hammer and cell phone were both out of reach. (I always gave him a hard time about doing that, even before this happened)

He ended up being stuck to that post for over an hour until the home owner came home for lunch.

That wasn't the worst part though.

The worst part was that the home owner freaked out when he realized my dad was nailed to a post, and refused to hand him the hammer so he could pull the nail out. So, my dad had to wait another 30 minutes for paramedics to show up. They actually made him sign a form that he had refused medical advice with his free hand before they'd give him a hammer. As soon as the nail was out, he kicked them all off his job site and worked the rest of the day with tape around his hand.

This is the same guy who taught me to super-glue wounds closed, and a variety of medical things that would make most doctors cringe, and he didn't become a contractor until he got burned out working as an RN in emergency rooms after 20+ years in medicine.