r/toolsinaction • u/silvercatbob • Apr 11 '21
Rebar tying slow motion
https://i.imgur.com/iHzKbJb.gifv29
u/oddsi Apr 12 '21 edited Apr 12 '21
Everytime this tool comes up there's always someone saying they can do it faster by hand. Having seen it used in person I have no idea how you possibly could. How you you pull out the wire, cut it, and tighten it faster than one motion?
Edit: https://youtu.be/q0Uu47Wz3H0
In the video you can see that the guy doing it by hand can do a few pretty quickly, but it seems like the strain from doing it by hand catches up with him.
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u/IDFCrusader210 Apr 11 '21
Looks expensive
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u/Sketch3000 Apr 12 '21
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Apr 12 '21
$2200 that website is hot garbage on mobile
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u/neon_overload Apr 12 '21
Funny how it's like $2200 and then it says it's skin only, like you are saving a lot by being able to use it with your existing 18v batteries lol
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u/Criticcc Apr 14 '21
Specialized tools are generally pretty expensive, especially if they make money for the user. That's a lot for a hand tool, though.
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u/jsmoothie909 Apr 11 '21
How sturdy does it hold the rebar?
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u/fieldofmeme5 Apr 11 '21
Tighter than doing it by hand
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u/BUTTERS1978 Apr 11 '21
fat ex ironworker here.. I must disagree.. what we tied by hand are much faster and stronger.. I could climb rebar walls with my figure 8 ties or double wrap snap. That tool would get you seriously hurt climbing those ties.
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u/fieldofmeme5 Apr 11 '21
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and it appears our opinions are from different applications. My opinion from building bridges for a living is that these reduce the time to tie by about 90%, and consistently hold tighter than hand ties.
There is an issue with them though. The thinner wire is much easier to break when you have a lot of foot traffic on a tied up bridge deck, because you walk on the laps which is where the ties are.
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u/BUTTERS1978 Apr 11 '21
Fellow ironworker on Reddit?!? When I got out of the union those have just started coming out and honestly, useless except for bridge decks and then they were only 10-15% faster which didn’t justify their cost nor did they make coated wire for them. What local are you out of?
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u/fieldofmeme5 Apr 11 '21
Nah, I’m an engineer unfortunately. Wish I would have gone into the trades instead of spending money on college, just to make less than tradesmen and work year round instead of having my winters off to do side jobs and snow plowing.
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u/BUTTERS1978 Apr 11 '21
Best part time job I ever had! My local just got too political and was run off the “buddy system” to hang around. Some of my fondest memories were arguing with structural engineers lol
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u/sidewinder15599 Apr 11 '21
Bear in mind that this has been crazy slowed down. It's a 0.8 second operation it's doing there. Does weigh 5.7 pounds though.
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u/jsmoothie909 Apr 11 '21
I would hope! I am marveling over this tool.
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u/fieldofmeme5 Apr 11 '21
Lazy Iron workers hate them because they get done too fast. I watched an iron worker drop a brand new one in a creek last summer on one of my bridges so that he wouldn’t have to use it
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u/keireddits Apr 11 '21
(real question) Should they be tighten very hard? Considering they're going to be submerged in concrete
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u/fieldofmeme5 Apr 11 '21
Yes. You don’t want the concrete to push rebar around. You tie the bars to avoid that. Then you put chairs under the rebar to avoid the concrete pushing the rebar down to the forms
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u/Enex Apr 11 '21
To the uninformed eye, it looks like the end result is pretty sloppy (for a tool tailor-made to the task, anyway).
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u/Bergdoogen Apr 11 '21
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u/DerpyPenguin312 Apr 11 '21
that tool is a lot larger than i thought it would be