Tool Tuesday – Level [Video]

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Tool Tuesday – Level

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hey kids it’s tool tuesday and i haven’t
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done one of these for a while and so i
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thought i’d just start going through
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some
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tools that i highly recommend that you
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have in your toolbox uh so
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um anyway we’ll walk through that here
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shortly before i do that i do have a dad
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joke for you so
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um
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i’m gonna level with you
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never date a tennis player
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love means nothing to them ah so
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anyway uh you know i was once asked what
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i thought was the most
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underrated tool uh i i hate to speak in
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absolutes so i it’s hard to name just
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one that’s the most underrated but i
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think
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a level is so key uh and i’ll show you
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why because there’s several things that
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you need to have it around for you know
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how a level works of course i think i
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showed you this in my um
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how to hang a shelf if you have things
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level it’s so key but you see that
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bubble you just want to make sure that’s
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in the in the center there as close as
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you can right to where it’s
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in the center it’s a little harder to
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hold this little tiny thing
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as you get into these so i would
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recommend you at least have one of these
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they’re about
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uh you know it’s gonna be under ten
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dollars maybe five dollars and then it
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has a usually has a magnet on the side
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so that sticks to something if you’re
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wanting to put it there and then you
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have not only the one where you can set
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it this way to make sure it’s level but
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this way um and i’m just going to show
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you a few practical things that you’ll
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definitely want to have a level around
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for
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and then there’s actually even a
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a laser level like this and
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it has a level on the top there and then
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it has a level
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here oh you can’t see it from that side
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and then it has a button on it and it
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actually shines a
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light you can’t see it when it’s out
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here
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since it’s so light out but uh and i can
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show you that inside um to show you
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because it actually makes
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cross hairs to make sure that uh things
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are level and you make sure that the
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thing is level and once it’s level then
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you know that it’s sending a a level
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line on your wall for you and those come
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in really handy so let me walk around
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and show you a few things
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a level is super handy for
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all right so if you’re ever building a
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fence
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you of course start with your posts and
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the posts have to be level
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uh so you make sure that this way see
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how it’s see that top one i don’t know
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if you can see the reading there it
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doesn’t have to be exact but you want to
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go for exact and then you got a little
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bit of wiggle room there right so and
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then you want to make sure you don’t
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have any anything on your level or on
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here that would be changing it to where
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it looks like it’s level when it’s
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really not right so you have that and
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when so when this post was set
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uh you put it in the cement and then you
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put braces in
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on this side and on this side you got to
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make sure it’s leveled this way as well
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right so you put that put that there and
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it’s level
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okay
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super critical if you’re building a
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fence and you don’t have a level
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you’re gonna be in trouble because
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once you build these level then
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everything else all comes together as
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you’re setting your posts just make sure
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that they’re they’re level and then you
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put those braces in before the cement
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hardens
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so if you’re ever installing drainage
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you know this is a piece left over from
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when i did some drainage recently you
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got the holes and you you may not know
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this i don’t know i’m not going to get
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into drainage but these holes are
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actually supposed to face down not up uh
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because then and you put it in rocks too
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so then it’s face down and then the
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rocks kind of catch it goes up the water
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flows right you might think that they’d
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go here so the water would come down
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here but that is not the case but anyway
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so
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so let’s say you’re putting this in so
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it’s here
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let’s see yeah it’s there
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you want to make sure
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that it’s not level it’s actually
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flowing the way you want it to go right
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so you would use a level for that too
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right you can see
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that would be level
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and then that would be where it’s
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flowing so you don’t have to have a huge
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grade necessarily on this but it needs
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to
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you know needs to be not level flowing
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the way you want it to flow so that’s
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important to have a level for that
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if you’re going to hang a picture right
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of course you would need a level and you
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can tell i mean you might be able to
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tell from your eyes but when you get
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that level on there and it sure shows
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you that that’s way out of whack right
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so let’s rehang it
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and now it’s in between
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there you go
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when you hang your whiteboard too
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you know it’s perfectly level here
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and so that’s
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it’s critical because if this was wonky
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your eyes would pick up on it so want to
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make sure that’s level
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right so these laser levels are pretty
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cool you just got to make sure whatever
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they’re sitting on
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is level and then it’s going to throw
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a beam across over there so it has a
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level sitting here
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okay oh i just turned it off okay so now
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it’s on and you can see that it’s
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casting a beam over there right
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up and down
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and then straight across too so these
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are really handy uh
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you know if you’re hanging something you
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can set this thing up too
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uh
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yeah to keep a line kind of steady for
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you if you’re putting up tile you could
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use it for that too so um yeah these are
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pretty
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pretty handy i picked this one up at
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harbor freight uh
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i’m not getting compensated for that
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so uh
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and i think it was
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under 30 dollars so it’s pretty handy
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for for different things like that um
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yeah
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pretty fun to to play around with you
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can see
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let’s see i’ll move it so you can see it
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and then like i said you just got to
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make sure that what you’re setting it on
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is level so that you get a level thing
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there if this isn’t level then your
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line’s going to be wonky right
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all right so i hope that was helpful for
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you you know um obviously you can see i
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have a a four foot level here too um and
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then i have a three two foot level so
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two foot
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and a four foot and they come in all
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kinds of shapes and sizes but i would
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recommend that you at least start with
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this size because it’ll
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come in really handy when you’re doing a
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lot of different things
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and it is probably a very underrated
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tool because
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you know if it’s not level
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it’ll show and if you’re just working
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with tape measure or what have you
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trying to get it level
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this just is an inexpensive way to to
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make sure things are level so
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all right so thanks for watching and god
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bless you

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