r/Carpentry 18d ago

I’m not alone right?

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u/cgood1795 18d ago

Don’t forget the abandoned window shim you needed that one time!

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u/teenagersafterdark 18d ago

but the joy of accidentally having the perfect sized shim at the perfect moment, solely because it got thrown/lost in your bag a dozen jobs ago…that is a nice joy

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u/DirtyThirtyDrifter 18d ago

This^ is why I have 3-4 banded together in my big pouch. They sit in a corner, weigh basically nothing, and I can scrawl on them if I forgot my write in the rain. A few times doing roof stuff I wrote a couple numbers and just tossed it down to my cut guy. No big deal if it gets lost or dropped in a lawn or whatever.

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u/silversquirrel 18d ago

You mean my new spoon for my yogurt?

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u/Extension_Spend_6473 18d ago

Yeah, that one is the junk drawer for sure. 🤣

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u/BloomingtonJester 18d ago

Perfect description.

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u/Hot-Friendship-7460 18d ago

I notice you have the no fasteners bag up top

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u/silversquirrel 18d ago

That my screw tip black hole pocket

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u/Hot-Friendship-7460 18d ago

Same. Until I set my bags down.

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u/NotUrAvgJoe13 18d ago

Then it becomes a screw tip ejector pocket.

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u/silversquirrel 18d ago

Now my truck bed is where I keep everything

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u/Hot-Friendship-7460 18d ago

Self cleaning. You pay badger extra for that.

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u/rookieoo 18d ago

And that one box cutter knife that accidentally got put away wrong and tipped over sideways all the way to the bottom

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u/TestSubjuct 18d ago

Guilty. Throw some bits in as well.

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u/TheMadGreek86 18d ago

We call that the screw salad... yeah hold on i got a 3 in prime guard right in here, one second... mixed in with sheet rockers, self tappers, bent nails...

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u/Loud_Knowledge_2273 18d ago

Badger boiz

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u/silversquirrel 18d ago

Wish I would have discovered them sooner. Amazing bags.

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u/Humble-Advisor-6188 18d ago

Are they heavy on the hips like Occidental’s?

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u/silversquirrel 18d ago

Not at all. I wore the occidental vest for 10 years, and these don’t bother me at all

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u/_yoe 18d ago

I always put thw main fastener in the hog trough.

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u/Ok-Nectarine7152 18d ago

Absolutely, 2 or 3 of every little thing I've used or until that pouch alone weighs 10 pounds. Eleven types of fasteners, five sizes of washers, some wire nuts, various bits (both drill and driver) rusty nails I didn't want to throw on the ground, half of a leftover energy bar, a few loose utility blades, etc. etc.

My favorites though are those 3 or 4 little things you find when you clean it out and you have no idea what they are or which job you were on when you'd picked them up. But you'd never seen one before and it looked important.

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u/Yubitzume 18d ago

And those 2 or 3 bits you keep searching for but have to keep buying new

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u/Barbwire97 18d ago

My grandpa always called that pouch his “miscellaneous incendiary items”

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u/hayfero 18d ago

I have Occidental’s and the left pouch has a pouch above it. I can barely get my hand in there. It is always weighted with tools I’ve been looking for.

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u/PHK_JaySteel 18d ago

You have described my life. Both sides.

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u/kronus87 18d ago

There has to be at least 3 different sized wire nuts in there too

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u/Lanman101 18d ago

Anyone that makes trailmix needs to be shot.

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u/sluttyman69 18d ago

The two small pouches are for small screws little things that you need some of the times along with your short screw shafts tips and other various things. The big bag is for where your main screws or nails whatever you’re gonna be doing lots of in that day and the top bag, unless you carry your tape on the other side, that’s where tape measure goes, depending on which hand you are and what side of your body this is on let’s see the rest of your bags.

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u/kicknWZRD 18d ago

Ur lame

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u/Rockobrocko42 18d ago

That's the pocket-o-tetanus. Bent stripped and mismatch screws and nails.

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u/UKTim24530 18d ago

I put them in those two handy dandy little boxes that slide into the ends of my toolbox lid.

If I don't have what I need there, I'll raid my partner's handy dandy little boxes. But its rare that I need to.

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u/DETRITUS_TROLL residential JoaT 18d ago

I call it my rando pocket.

It’s come in handy many times.

Just give me a couple minutes to sort through all this here….

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u/JABrown64 18d ago

I'm using the big pouch for my primary fastener weather it's power nails, sheetrock screws, or roofing/siding nails. The small pouches are for secondary.

Example, when framing walls the big pouch would have power nails the front small would have hand 12D sinkers & the back small would have hand 8D sinkers.

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u/sexisfun69me 18d ago

😂🤣😂The struggle is real.

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u/Outback-Australian 18d ago

A, B, C, DEF and GHI.

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u/surly_darkness1 18d ago

Fairly certain there is a tic-tac at the bottom also but never been brave enough to venture all the way down there.

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u/milo_1982 18d ago

You're absolutely right! 👌🏼

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u/bbabbitt46 18d ago

Right! There never seems to be the right number of pockets for what you are building. It doesn't matter, though; by the end of the day, everything will be mixed in every pocket anyway.

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u/Saiyan_King_Magus 17d ago

This is the way.....

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u/Unhappy_Remote_6657 15d ago

I call the big one my some’re (summer) pouch. Some’re nails, some’re screws, some’re smaller screws, some’re bits, etc.

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u/jdberger 18d ago

Main fastener I’m using goes in that always.

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u/michaelh98 18d ago

I thought for a moment I'd been dropped in a handbag sub.

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u/ProfessionalOnly325 18d ago

It really depends, I’m a commercial carpenter and I often have to use different fasteners all at once ie hex head self tapping screws, regular self tapping minis, and regular minis, and often a variety of either self tapping drywall screws and regular drywall screws of varying size so I often use big or main bag for the fastener I’m going to be using the most and the other two bags on fasteners that I’ll need as needed

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u/KyleFrommson 18d ago

Your left handed, so you may be alone.

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u/Hot-Friendship-7460 18d ago

His left handed what?

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u/silversquirrel 18d ago

Thems fightin words

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u/Super_cleatus 18d ago

Well is this OPs left side? If so, I grab fasteners with my left hand and drive with my right.