Archives: Safety & Work Wear

Makita XCV07Z 18V X2 LXT Cordless Dry Vacuum

Makita 18V X2 Cordless/ Vacuum, Review A good dust control strategy is essential to being a professional contractor and keeping your customer happy throughout a construction project. I’ve learned early on that capturing and controlling remodeling dust by keeping it out of the air and the non-remodeled area of your client’s home is often more important […]

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Milwaukee GRIDIRON Zip-to-Thigh Bib Overalls

Milwaukee Insulated, Weather Resistant Work Bibs  Contractor clothing trends can be interesting to say the least, especially when it gets cold. Tradesmen, including myself, traditionally layer like crazy, and mostly choose clothing that gives us warmth and mobility. It doesn’t always look pretty but it works – well, a little. Finding Durable Clothing When you […]

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Milwaukee Rechargeable Lighting Solutions

Milwaukees Lighting Solutions Milwaukee is now focused on offering a range of highly portable lighting solutions that can be carried, worn, and attached by contractors who need quick access to light. A few of our favorites from this new line-up of lighting includes: 700L Flashlight Hard Hat Headlamp Pocket Flood Light All three of the Milwaukee […]

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Diamondback Tool Belt

Diamondback Tool Belt Denali Rig Review Most carpenters consider their tool belt as an extension of their body.  It’s where these craftsman keep their tools that help them complete their day to day tasks.  Every tool has it’s own home within our tool belts and we can reach down and grab them without even looking.  […]

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Milwaukee Miter Saw Stand

  The Idea Behind A Miter Saw Stand What good is a miter saw if you don’t have a stand? I suppose you can set it on plywood and two sawhorses like I did for many years. Miter saw stands come in different shapes and sizes. Some have wheels, some are gravity rise and others […]

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Rockler Material Mate Shop Stand

Rockler Material Mate Panel Cart The Rockler Material Mate Shop Stand was designed to help the contractor and woodworker’s reduce the effort necessary to wrestling sheet goods around the shop. It will carry, and  transport 4×8 panels easier and safer, than manually carrying them. If you’re a one-man show this cart can save your back […]

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Festool Integrated Plug-it Cord and Sleeve 201778

Festool Plug-It Cord and Sleeve Review Until recently I used to get frustrated using my Festool TS55 Track saw with dust collection. The issue, I kept getting hooked on the rail or the corner of the board because to hose and cord would snag. It go to the point that I considered taping the two […]

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Milwaukee WORKSKIN Performance Shirts

Milwaukee WORKSKIN Performance Shirts Review I often wonder if there was an “Aha moment” at Milwaukee when they were discussing getting into heated gear, base layers and now lightweight clothing gear. To us at ToolBoxBuzz.com, it was a no-brainer. Milwaukee recently came out with a next to skin layer called Workskin. This new product is […]

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Milwaukee Dust Extraction Soultions

Milwaukee Dust Extraction Solutions Tick, tick, tick. That’s the sound of the time marching on towards June 23rd, the date when enforcement of the new OSHA silica exposure rule was supposed to go into effect. Until last week a lot of us contractors have been scrambling to get all of our concrete tools updated with […]

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3rd Hand Little Hand XL

FastCap – 3rd Hand Little Hand XL As a remodeling carpenter, I’ve hung cabinets a lot of different ways. Mostly I would screw a ledger board screwed to the wall. Other times, with help, I ganged cabinets together and installed them as one unit. A few years ago I saw plans for an adjustable, cabinet […]

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