This is the second video about the construction of my new modular woodworking bench. I’ll start by gluing these two pieces of plywood together to make the bench top more sturdy. I mark their position on the bench and screw them on, and I’ll use wood glue as well. I’d cut them a little too…
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Construction Apprenticeships
Brisbane City Council can help you build your construction career. Apprenticeships are available in electrical, carpentry, painting and decorating, plumbing and fabrication. I’m currently studying cert III in electro-technology. I like working in the Council because of the people that I work with, the managers, supervisors, the experience, the friendship. I’m studying a cert III…
Stair Components and Terminology
G’day welcome back to Buildsum and in this video. I want to talk about stair components and some stair Terminology, so here’s a set of stairs. We’re going to build and Obviously the platform or floor whatever that we’re going to go up to So I’m going to now I’m going to get rid of…
The First Craftsmen Reviews & Hilti Goes Down Under! – This Is Your Coptool Week In Review 12/7/18
The first craftsman tools finally arrived and a great big tool cabinet gets reviewed by tiny little man. Now we find out what Australians think of Hilti and then we’re gonna give away a bucket of tools from OPT worth $400! It’s Friday December 7th 2018. This is your Coptool to a Week in Review…
Angle of Repose – Zone of influence
G’day welcome back Buildsum and in this video I want to talk about Something called the Angle of Repose and the resulting Zone of Influence That we’ve talked about in regards to excavation so all material has a Angle of Repose and it’s different for each different type of material depending on what it is…
Transition to Work helps Ethan find an apprenticeship
With the Transition to Work program I found it easy to get someone along. I was in school and I was looking for work for about five months. I wasn’t into school – it wasn’t for me. So Ethan came to us and he recognized that he wanted to be in an environment a little…
The First Craftsmen Reviews & Hilti Goes Down Under! – This Is Your Coptool Week In Review 12/7/18
The first craftsman tools finally arrived and a great big tool cabinet gets reviewed by tiny little man. Now we find out what Australians think of Hilti and then we’re gonna give away a bucket of tools from OPT worth $400! It’s Friday December 7th 2018. This is your Coptool to a Week in Review…
Australian Apprenticeships Ambassador Brad Meyers
♪ (Music Playing) ♪ I started my apprenticeship in ’97 straight out of school as an apprentice carpenter. One of the best decisions I’ve made in my career, because it’s given me the opportunity to carry on now and get my builder’s licence and keep working now, you know. It gave me an outlet during…
Reinforcement for Simple Slabs — Area
Today, we’re back out on the footpath job and in the previous video we went through and I showed you how to work out how much Formwork you’re gonna need for the job So today this video is going to concentrate on doing the area calculations to work out how much Reinforcing mesh we need…
Stepped Strip footing
G’day, welcome back to Buildsum and in this video. I want to show you another way of working with a sloping block of land But this time instead of leveling the block We’re going to step the footing so Here’s an idea of the footing going to end up with typical strip footing around the…