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Hello.
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Welcome to another
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episode of On the Floor
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with Wayne and Rob and Wayne.
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Hiighlander, Director of
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Adhesive Sales for Bona Adhesives.
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I think vacation needs very much.
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That you're about that one.
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Well, that's funny.
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You said that way.
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We are going on vacation.
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I'm Rob Johnson from Bonn Training.
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You know, we're really
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we say we're going on vacation,
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but I think
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only you're really going on vacation.
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And I think I'm still working.
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So I haven't planned a vacation yet.
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But okay.
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Well, we say we're going to vacation.
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That sounds normal.
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Normal people do that, right?
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Yeah, some of it.
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All right.
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Well, here's a here's
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a here's an episode
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I really think you're going to like.
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Let's take a look back.
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Welcome to another
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episode of On the Floor.
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I'm Wayne Hyun,
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the international sales
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manager, Bone Adhesives.
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And I'm Rob Johnson from Bonus Training.
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All right, Rob,
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I thought today
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we talked about power drives
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and everything that encompasses
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working with the power drive.
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You know,
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back in the old days
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of doing floors,
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we had three things
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against the world, right?
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We had the big machine,
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we had the buffer, we had the edge.
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Your against everything,
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you know, the herringbone floor,
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if you had it,
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what I call
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always running the wrong direction.
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We still do a lot of work
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in San Francisco,
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and it wasn't uncommon
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to see a hallway that was,
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you know, three foot, four wide by 40, 45
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feet long, going
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the wrong direction, going the short way.
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And you knew that
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you had to have your best edge
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on that job,
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you know, especially
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you go in a dark stain,
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maybe go in a semi gloss
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finish or whatever.
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That was going to be a challenging job.
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Did you install that job?
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Was that your. Install?
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We did a lot of installs
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that way, absolutely. Yeah.
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A lot of remodel work
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back in the eighties
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were we put them back
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the way we got them,
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just do a little bit better.
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And so yeah, absolutely.
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But you know,
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you had to put your best guy on that job
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and and that was a challenge man
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in back in
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this goes back before Palm
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Sanders and stuff right we.
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Had this guy on the job for doing that.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, it was one of your brothers.
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Well it could have been.
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Yeah, could have been. Yeah.
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I like to think that I was.
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You would go
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for coffee or something, Greg.
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No, go get sandwiches or whatever.
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Yeah, no, no.
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But I will tell you about going
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getting sandwiches one time.
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Now, where, you know,
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my brothers are pretty tough guys. Right.
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And later in the career, you know,
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now we've been working at about ten
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or 15 years.
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You know, the rule was
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if you left a job, say,
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you better come back with something,
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right? Yeah.
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You're going to come back
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with a couple of. Lutely.
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Snicker bars or something.
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You better bring something back.
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Something cold or hot to drink. Yeah.
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So I never, ever show up on a job site.
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Empty hand?
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No, no, but I did.
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I came back.
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It was hot, hot in October
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summer in San Francisco,
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a summers like September and October.
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And it was it was hot outside.
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I mean, you know, we're working hard
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and we're down to the hand sanding.
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Yes, hand sanding.
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Part of the job.
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This is the anybody use orbital's
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secret.
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That's way everybody's
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hands were bleeding.
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And, you know,
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you get in the shower
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at the end of the day
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after hand sitting all day,
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man, your hands are on fire.
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You know, I'll kick back a little
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I'll give you a little heads up
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about Pauline.
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Okay?
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She loves the rough hand backrub
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that she loves.
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Oh, I don't think you do.
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Yeah.
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Well. She.
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She doesn't like the little office
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boy hands.
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She does not want a back rub
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from a national sales manager,
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if you know what I mean. No. Really.
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She wants a work in Man Backrub.
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She wants a back rub from her
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working man's hands.
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So just to the truth,
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just to give you a little heads up.
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I've approached the whole thing
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wrong then. Okay.
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Thanks for the heads.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Also wrote
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Pauline told me,
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please do not mention me
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on these podcasts.
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Really? Yeah.
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Well, I've already
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sent the next gift, so.
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Well it's still a bit late then.
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That's all right at the burn pile.
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Always ready.
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Okay.
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I've ruined a lot of my wife's
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stockings with,
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after all, day of hand
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sanding on the floors.
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But in this particular case,
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I didn't
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I didn't come back with anything,
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you know, and they're tired
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and the guys are sweating.
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And when Abby and I
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went to the distributor,
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I pick something up that we needed
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for the next day.
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And I got back and my one of my brothers
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wrestled me to the ground
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and and put my hand on the ground.
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Well, the other one
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got the eight
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inch drum sander out
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with 36 grit out
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and brought up perilously
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close to my hand
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for not bringing
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anything back to the job.
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That's how you learned.
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It's kind of like James
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Bond in Goldfinger.
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Remember that scene and go, yes.
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Absolutely. Yes.
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Brothers can be tough man.
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The Golden beam head and right for
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you know what?
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So that's
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that's what we had back in the day
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and that was a technology
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and you mechanics had to be
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you know back
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then it was before
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before Bill Sanders
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we all ran drum centers
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and, you know,
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just the way you loaded the paper
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on the how much you tighten it on and,
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you know,
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talk about working through chatter and
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that kind of stuff
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and really taking care of your machines.
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But that's what we had
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the technology trainer.
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We had a guy who trained
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guys on our crew, really wasn't my dad
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or my grandfather or uncle.
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We had a guy
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who specifically trained people
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well, French guy. Everybody hated him.
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He was miserable,
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but the guy was a master at training.
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And one of the things that he said
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when you were talking about loaded paper
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is 60% of getting this machine right
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is learning how to put the paper on.
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Once you can learn
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to put the paper on correctly,
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the rest is pretty easy.
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Yeah, that's true.
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That's a big part of it.
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And we always see sometimes
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it's not the machine,
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it's the guy behind the machine.
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That's a whole nother.
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We can get into that in another podcast.
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Just what is this podcast about? Again.
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Power Drives Newest tech.
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Something the power drive.
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Let me give you what I
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what I talk about it
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the schools with the power drive
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before we hear another
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Wayne in his brother story,
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I think one of the biggest issues
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that guys have today is Labor.
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Would you agree.
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Is no question. Labor.
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It's impossible to find labor.
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And then when you finally do find
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that labor,
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he's going to cost you money
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for the first six or eight months.
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You are not going to make any money
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with this new guy
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because all you're doing
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is training and fixing his screw ups
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and at the schools, we have a lot of
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first time guys,
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a lot of rookies come to the school.
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And it's one thing that I'll show
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the owner of the company is right away
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with a power drive.
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This guy is making you money
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within 2 hours.
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He is an asset to your crew.
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He is knocking out floors
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just like a guy's been saying floors
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for 20 years.
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And it take him about 2 hours to learn
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how to do it right,
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get it right in the paper and everything,
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the right direction
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and operation of the equipment.
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But that power drive to me
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is the biggest game changer,
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especially with the new guys
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with bring in a new guy on the job.
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Is you said the same thing
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I when I first saw this machine
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I said to myself
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now you can finally start hiring guys
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because you're right,
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there's nothing more painful
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than putting a new guy on an edger.
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And if you're, you know,
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you're running a big machine,
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but you got one eye on him
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the whole time.
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And, you know, it's it's tough.
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It's tough teaching a new guy
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the trade,
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that hallway that I talked about,
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going the wrong direction
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in San Francisco
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where you could take the best floor guy
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in the business
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versus
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a kid who's been
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in the trade for three months
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and have them do that same hallway
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and the kid on the power drive
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is going to do a better job
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and he's going to do it faster.
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It's going to be flatter.
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And it's amazing that the technology
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in fact,
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the first one I ever sold
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was to my brothers.
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When I first saw it was introduced to us,
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I thought, man, this is
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this is a big deal.
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So I'm glad to hear you guys
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talking about it to schools.
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Well, to me, it's a game changer
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for like I said, for your rookies,
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where labor is
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almost impossible.
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Now, guys,
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I mean,
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you talk to every person,
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every company that comes to the schools
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that's everybody wants. It's labor.
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They can't get enough guys.
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You can't get good guys
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who can't get guys show up.
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Then when they do,
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like I said, it's
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six months to a year
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before that guy is really
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going to make you money.
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Now, in 2 hours,
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that guy's making you money.
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One of the other things we love
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the show about the power drive
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at the school
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is how much edging you can eliminate.
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With this power drive,
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you can eliminate 80% of your edging
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when you set the machine up correctly.
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We can leave about an inch, inch
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and a half of edging. That's it.
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I mean, it's the closest thing
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to a real standup edger that I've seen
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since I've been in the business.
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Well, you
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talk about
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rookies, but I think there's a couple
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other camps here, too.
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First of all, look at the you know,
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I think a lot of guys
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probably saw this at the NWC.
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I think they said the average
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age of the contract
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you today is like what,
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56 years old or something like that.
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You ever watch a guy edging all day
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or spraying adhesive all day
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and go to stand up?
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What's the first thing they do?
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You kind of stand up slowly
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and just kind of straighten out
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your back.
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Well,
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this can add longevity to your career
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by using the machine also for guys
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that are perfectionists.
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No, guys, I want that super flat floor.
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You know, homeowners are more educated
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now than they ever have been, right?
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I mean, we'll talk about social media
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at some point later on. But,
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you know,
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the demands and the expectations
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are greater than they ever have been.
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Also for the camp
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that wants to get the floors
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done quicker,
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I think it's a great tool
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for those guys, too.
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You know,
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you were talking about
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wear and tear on your body.
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There's a few new machines out there.
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There's a few new machines
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that are tying,
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trying to do with power drive.
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Does that planetary gear
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type of equipment
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like the Power Drive, the
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I think one of the huge differences
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and I know
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we probably shouldn't
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name names,
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so I'm not going to name
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what this other equipment is.
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But I've operated this other
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these other pieces of equipment.
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And I'll tell you what,
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my son asked me to be honest with him.
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He said, you know,
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I want you to try this machine.
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You're an NWA face.
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You'll give it a try,
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tell me what you think.
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And I came back to him and I said,
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You will be dead
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by the end of the
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day running these machines.
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And I
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could not
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believe that
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wear and tear on your body
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that these other planetary Sanders
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have wear run on the power drive is
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people put cell phones on it
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and coffee holders.
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I mean it's that easy
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to operate
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this pieces of equipment
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compared to some of these other people
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that are
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bringing their planetary Sanders
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to the game.
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Just the fatigue
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at the end of the day
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of running these,
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I ran one for about an hour
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and a half at an end of school.
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I thought my arms are going to fall off.
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I was blown away
430
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and I thought, jeez, I couldn't imagine
431
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running that machine all day long.
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And I heard it.
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I heard the same thing
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from some guys came to our PCC convention
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who want to take a look
436
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at the power drive
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and holy mackerel,
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they said the same thing
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that yeah, I bought that new piece, but
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nobody wants to run it. It'll kill you.
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00:12:02,021 --> 00:12:02,221
Where?
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This is just so simple to run.
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In the past,
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you go to these retail stores,
445
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you look at these high dollar
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floors, these dollars,
447
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these refinished floors
448
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that the designers,
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everybody wants that look
450
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that screws lug
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the wire brush lugs
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that we could never reproduce on site.
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There's there's a
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you know,
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00:12:22,074 --> 00:12:22,908
they would have to buy a pre
456
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finished floor
457
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but now you can now do that with a site
458
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finished floor
459
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is I'll talk about the wire brushes
460
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and some of the with the way to do
461
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some of the things that are going on
462
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with that machine. I'm fast.
463
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Well when they when they first brought
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that machine out,
465
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you know,
466
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it was the planetary type sander
467
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and now we found that
468
00:12:39,992 --> 00:12:42,528
there are so many other avenues to
469
00:12:42,595 --> 00:12:43,028
take it.
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And I was doing a class in
471
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Philadelphia and
472
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we were showing the wire brushing.
473
00:12:50,703 --> 00:12:52,571
That's one of the new
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00:12:52,671 --> 00:12:55,374
attachments for the for the power drive.
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You get a set of wire brushes
476
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and now with the weights
477
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and everything, that wire brushing is
478
00:13:00,412 --> 00:13:01,013
just,
479
00:13:01,013 --> 00:13:02,014
you know, amazing
480
00:13:02,014 --> 00:13:04,183
what you can do with this wire brush.
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But the amazing part was,
482
00:13:05,751 --> 00:13:07,153
like I said, I always want
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00:13:07,153 --> 00:13:09,421
everybody coming to the school
484
00:13:09,421 --> 00:13:11,724
learn to make more money.
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00:13:11,724 --> 00:13:12,358
So anyways,
486
00:13:12,358 --> 00:13:14,093
I had we're showing the wire brush
487
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and I see these two guys
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who are just shaking their head.
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I mean,
490
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and so I thought
491
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that's look like a negative shake,
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00:13:22,234 --> 00:13:22,601
you know.
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So I want to I want to talk to them.
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So I go over, I go,
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What do you guys think? He goes,
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I can't believe this works.
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I go, Why?
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He goes, We wire brush floors.
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I go, Oh, you do?
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I do.
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You have one of these?
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He says, No, we wire brush by hand.
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Now he's talking to the whole class.
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He goes, we wire
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brush everything by hand.
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He goes,
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I do a lot of work on the Jersey Shore.
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And I said, What do you charge?
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And he goes, 18 bucks a foot.
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I said, That's amazing.
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I know it's a lot of work, though,
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so I can see why you're
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getting 18 bucks a foot.
514
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You know, it's
515
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almost like doing hand scrape floors.
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So one of the students in the
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in the class
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said, well, now you don't have to charge
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18 bucks a foot anymore.
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And the guy said, Are you stupid?
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No, we're going to keep charging
522
00:14:10,216 --> 00:14:11,317
18 bucks a foot.
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This is going to be a hell
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00:14:12,084 --> 00:14:13,352
of a lot easier.
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00:14:13,352 --> 00:14:15,721
He goes, We already have the market.
526
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So like I said,
527
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when I talk about people
528
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coming to the schools
529
00:14:19,091 --> 00:14:20,492
and learning to make more money,
530
00:14:21,493 --> 00:14:24,063
this is just another avenue
531
00:14:24,063 --> 00:14:26,398
to make a lot more money
532
00:14:26,398 --> 00:14:28,868
and have a piece of equipment in your
533
00:14:29,368 --> 00:14:32,504
in your arsenal.
534
00:14:33,839 --> 00:14:35,708
Have a piece of equipment in your arsenal
535
00:14:35,708 --> 00:14:37,743
that's going to make you some more money.
536
00:14:37,743 --> 00:14:39,678
So, Rob, you talk about wire brushing.
537
00:14:39,678 --> 00:14:41,380
Why don't you explain exactly what wire
538
00:14:41,380 --> 00:14:42,281
brushing the floor is?
539
00:14:42,281 --> 00:14:44,817
Well, wire brushing is
540
00:14:44,817 --> 00:14:47,019
you have to look at furniture, oak
541
00:14:47,019 --> 00:14:48,721
flooring usually follows
542
00:14:48,721 --> 00:14:50,522
furniture trends.
543
00:14:50,522 --> 00:14:52,892
And the furniture trend over
544
00:14:52,892 --> 00:14:53,893
the last couple of years
545
00:14:53,893 --> 00:14:54,693
has been
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00:14:54,693 --> 00:14:55,694
wire brushing
547
00:14:55,694 --> 00:14:58,397
where you actually take this wire brush
548
00:14:58,764 --> 00:15:00,499
and you dig the soft grain out,
549
00:15:00,499 --> 00:15:03,335
leaving the hard grain pronounced.
550
00:15:03,903 --> 00:15:06,872
So you have that look of a pronounced
551
00:15:06,906 --> 00:15:08,707
hard grain, which is a little bit higher,
552
00:15:08,707 --> 00:15:10,743
and it gives you that textured look.
553
00:15:11,777 --> 00:15:12,811
So
554
00:15:13,379 --> 00:15:14,346
when I talk about it,
555
00:15:14,346 --> 00:15:16,749
we follow furniture trends.
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I said that
557
00:15:17,449 --> 00:15:19,385
Pauline one day trying to be a smart guy
558
00:15:19,385 --> 00:15:21,186
and tell her, you know, how cool I am
559
00:15:21,186 --> 00:15:22,955
and everything that I know.
560
00:15:22,955 --> 00:15:24,990
And I said, you know, flooring follows
561
00:15:24,990 --> 00:15:25,658
furniture trends.
562
00:15:25,658 --> 00:15:26,892
That's why we're doing so much wire
563
00:15:26,892 --> 00:15:28,160
brushing now.
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00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:30,663
I said, But I don't think
565
00:15:30,663 --> 00:15:31,664
I've ever seen any wire
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00:15:31,664 --> 00:15:33,732
brush furniture before.
567
00:15:33,732 --> 00:15:35,868
And she said, You know, you don't
568
00:15:35,868 --> 00:15:37,336
see a thing, do you?
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00:15:37,336 --> 00:15:37,770
She goes,
570
00:15:37,770 --> 00:15:40,005
You haven't seen the two nightstands
571
00:15:40,005 --> 00:15:41,206
that's like a foot away
572
00:15:41,206 --> 00:15:42,942
from where you sleep.
573
00:15:42,942 --> 00:15:44,043
Wire brushed.
574
00:15:44,043 --> 00:15:45,778
I said, I never really knows.
575
00:15:45,778 --> 00:15:46,412
I know.
576
00:15:46,412 --> 00:15:47,613
She goes, You complimented them.
577
00:15:47,613 --> 00:15:48,013
I said, Well,
578
00:15:48,013 --> 00:15:49,248
that was just being a good husband,
579
00:15:49,248 --> 00:15:50,149
I guess.
580
00:15:50,249 --> 00:15:51,583
But you have to remember
581
00:15:51,583 --> 00:15:52,418
and you same thing
582
00:15:52,418 --> 00:15:53,786
we're seeing with colors and everything.
583
00:15:53,786 --> 00:15:54,153
But we'll
584
00:15:54,153 --> 00:15:56,488
we'll talk about that in the podcast.
585
00:15:56,488 --> 00:15:57,523
But that's what the wire
586
00:15:57,523 --> 00:15:58,290
brushing does
587
00:15:58,290 --> 00:15:59,224
and it allows you to do
588
00:15:59,224 --> 00:16:00,826
the two tone floors
589
00:16:00,826 --> 00:16:02,428
give you that textured look.
590
00:16:03,395 --> 00:16:04,630
It's a trend.
591
00:16:04,630 --> 00:16:05,230
But, you
592
00:16:05,230 --> 00:16:07,366
know, when you see these trends
593
00:16:07,366 --> 00:16:08,434
jump on them
594
00:16:08,434 --> 00:16:09,601
because the first guy
595
00:16:09,601 --> 00:16:11,904
who spots a trend or a fad,
596
00:16:11,904 --> 00:16:12,705
those are the guys
597
00:16:12,705 --> 00:16:14,673
who are going to make money at this.
598
00:16:14,673 --> 00:16:16,542
The last guy who gets in on the wire
599
00:16:16,542 --> 00:16:18,377
brushing is not going to make the money
600
00:16:18,377 --> 00:16:19,745
that the first guy
601
00:16:19,745 --> 00:16:22,147
is making on wire brushing.
602
00:16:22,147 --> 00:16:24,817
I told Pauline there are two
603
00:16:24,817 --> 00:16:27,319
pieces on the side pieces on this by the
604
00:16:27,419 --> 00:16:34,660
by the better beautiful.
605
00:16:34,660 --> 00:16:36,061
You like those.
606
00:16:36,862 --> 00:16:38,931
So rob the wire brushes
607
00:16:38,931 --> 00:16:40,366
when you get a set of wire brush is
608
00:16:40,366 --> 00:16:41,900
what does that encompass?
609
00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:42,735
I mean there's I know
610
00:16:42,735 --> 00:16:44,436
there's four pucks on the bottom
611
00:16:44,436 --> 00:16:45,738
of the power drive.
612
00:16:45,738 --> 00:16:47,373
There's a Weber set come with four
613
00:16:47,373 --> 00:16:49,141
or you just.
614
00:16:49,141 --> 00:16:50,009
Get the wire brush
615
00:16:50,009 --> 00:16:51,777
kit comes with five pucks,
616
00:16:52,945 --> 00:16:53,379
the fifth
617
00:16:53,379 --> 00:16:57,583
puck is to go on a it goes on the wall
618
00:16:57,950 --> 00:16:59,485
polisher, not a grinder
619
00:16:59,485 --> 00:17:01,253
but at the wall polisher
620
00:17:01,253 --> 00:17:04,289
and it comes with a cover and everything.
621
00:17:04,289 --> 00:17:05,391
So you're dust free
622
00:17:05,391 --> 00:17:07,359
when you're doing this.
623
00:17:07,593 --> 00:17:10,396
Those wire brushes are going to last
624
00:17:10,396 --> 00:17:13,365
probably around 7000 feet.
625
00:17:13,365 --> 00:17:13,665
Yeah.
626
00:17:13,665 --> 00:17:15,000
When you're doing the wire brushing,
627
00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:15,534
you want to get
628
00:17:15,534 --> 00:17:17,002
a little bit of water on the floor.
629
00:17:17,002 --> 00:17:18,303
Not really water popping.
630
00:17:18,303 --> 00:17:19,805
But what we want to do is
631
00:17:19,805 --> 00:17:21,540
soften the wood up a little bit
632
00:17:21,540 --> 00:17:23,809
and also it keeps the brushes cool.
633
00:17:24,109 --> 00:17:24,877
I know
634
00:17:24,877 --> 00:17:26,545
some guys have tried the wire
635
00:17:26,545 --> 00:17:28,480
brushing with,
636
00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:29,615
you know, some buffers
637
00:17:29,615 --> 00:17:31,884
and getting their own type of wire brush.
638
00:17:31,884 --> 00:17:33,018
But we really worked
639
00:17:33,018 --> 00:17:36,021
hard on finding the exact
640
00:17:36,021 --> 00:17:39,291
time wire time to use.
641
00:17:39,291 --> 00:17:40,659
And it's really the
642
00:17:40,659 --> 00:17:41,326
the length
643
00:17:41,326 --> 00:17:45,164
and the spacing between the time and also
644
00:17:45,164 --> 00:17:46,131
by using it
645
00:17:46,131 --> 00:17:49,201
with the weights on the power drive,
646
00:17:49,201 --> 00:17:51,203
we get a much more aggressive cut
647
00:17:51,203 --> 00:17:52,704
without leaving any swirl
648
00:17:52,704 --> 00:17:54,473
marks or scratch marks.
649
00:17:54,473 --> 00:17:56,675
That's what's always blown me away
650
00:17:56,675 --> 00:17:57,376
was, you know,
651
00:17:57,376 --> 00:17:58,710
you would think to yourself,
652
00:17:58,710 --> 00:17:59,078
you know,
653
00:17:59,078 --> 00:17:59,678
you put a wire
654
00:17:59,678 --> 00:18:00,446
brushing for, well,
655
00:18:00,446 --> 00:18:02,247
I don't want to put a 60 grit screen
656
00:18:02,247 --> 00:18:02,681
on a floor.
657
00:18:02,681 --> 00:18:05,050
It's going to leave scar marks everywhere
658
00:18:05,050 --> 00:18:07,219
where this wire brush leaves
659
00:18:07,219 --> 00:18:08,787
no marks at all.
660
00:18:08,787 --> 00:18:09,822
Reason being
661
00:18:09,822 --> 00:18:11,590
is the length of the time
662
00:18:11,590 --> 00:18:13,592
and the spacing between each time
663
00:18:13,592 --> 00:18:14,226
that allows it
664
00:18:14,226 --> 00:18:16,995
to jump over the hard grain.
665
00:18:17,362 --> 00:18:19,498
Deep down into the soft grain.
666
00:18:19,498 --> 00:18:20,232
So, you know,
667
00:18:20,232 --> 00:18:23,035
we we had a bone and we preach a system
668
00:18:23,368 --> 00:18:24,603
and know with
669
00:18:24,603 --> 00:18:25,838
our stains are compatible
670
00:18:25,838 --> 00:18:27,039
with our sealers, our sealers
671
00:18:27,039 --> 00:18:28,907
and our finishes, our stains
672
00:18:28,907 --> 00:18:30,175
and all these different products
673
00:18:30,175 --> 00:18:32,611
in the same paper, the wood filler.
674
00:18:32,611 --> 00:18:34,513
This is just another part of the system
675
00:18:34,513 --> 00:18:36,582
that that that craft oils
676
00:18:36,582 --> 00:18:37,382
that are out right now
677
00:18:37,382 --> 00:18:38,550
that looked at the homeowners
678
00:18:38,550 --> 00:18:40,319
and the designers are after
679
00:18:40,319 --> 00:18:42,287
this place hand in hand of that
680
00:18:42,287 --> 00:18:43,088
the guys that are trying
681
00:18:43,088 --> 00:18:44,690
to get that Two-Tone look or
682
00:18:44,690 --> 00:18:45,757
their screws look
683
00:18:46,758 --> 00:18:48,026
with the craft oil
684
00:18:48,026 --> 00:18:49,895
you just can't get that look without.
685
00:18:49,895 --> 00:18:51,964
And this is another this is a $50 word.
686
00:18:52,664 --> 00:18:54,900
We never used to use the word texture
687
00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:56,101
when we talked to homeowners
688
00:18:56,101 --> 00:18:57,369
in the past about doing floors.
689
00:18:57,369 --> 00:18:58,003
You know, texture
690
00:18:58,003 --> 00:18:59,771
wasn't part of our vocabulary
691
00:18:59,771 --> 00:19:00,739
in this industry.
692
00:19:00,739 --> 00:19:02,875
You know, we say in a divorce,
693
00:19:02,875 --> 00:19:03,809
but now you're adding
694
00:19:03,809 --> 00:19:04,943
texture to the floors
695
00:19:04,943 --> 00:19:06,178
and you see people
696
00:19:06,178 --> 00:19:07,779
pick up the samples and feel
697
00:19:07,779 --> 00:19:09,515
and feel that that wire brushed feel
698
00:19:09,515 --> 00:19:11,049
and that look and what have you in it.
699
00:19:11,049 --> 00:19:13,318
So it's a great look.
700
00:19:13,986 --> 00:19:16,321
And I was talking to a guy and,
701
00:19:16,655 --> 00:19:19,024
you know, where is he? Cincinnati area.
702
00:19:19,024 --> 00:19:19,525
He goes, You know,
703
00:19:19,525 --> 00:19:22,060
I have to tell my guys to slow down.
704
00:19:22,060 --> 00:19:23,362
We're not supposed to make this
705
00:19:23,362 --> 00:19:25,531
this much money this fast.
706
00:19:25,531 --> 00:19:26,265
On the job is
707
00:19:26,265 --> 00:19:27,332
when we get the power of brushing
708
00:19:27,332 --> 00:19:28,500
because they're charging so much money
709
00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:29,835
for the wire brushing.
710
00:19:29,835 --> 00:19:31,136
So, you know,
711
00:19:31,136 --> 00:19:33,639
we talked about you on the estimates
712
00:19:33,639 --> 00:19:34,640
and making money
713
00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:35,574
and come away from schools
714
00:19:35,574 --> 00:19:37,109
and learning how to make more money.
715
00:19:37,109 --> 00:19:38,277
I just think this is something
716
00:19:38,277 --> 00:19:40,179
you can add to your arsenal
717
00:19:40,179 --> 00:19:41,580
with designers and architects
718
00:19:41,580 --> 00:19:43,015
that could really just really
719
00:19:43,015 --> 00:19:44,683
separate yourself from the pack.
720
00:19:44,683 --> 00:19:45,517
And Rob,
721
00:19:45,517 --> 00:19:46,785
just think back in the day,
722
00:19:46,785 --> 00:19:48,420
if you had a power drive back in back
723
00:19:48,420 --> 00:19:49,154
when you were doing floors,
724
00:19:49,154 --> 00:19:50,055
how much less furniture
725
00:19:50,055 --> 00:19:51,690
you would have had to move,
726
00:19:51,690 --> 00:19:53,058
covering up all those,
727
00:19:53,058 --> 00:19:53,926
putting the rugs down
728
00:19:53,926 --> 00:19:55,360
so no one would see the chatter marks
729
00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:56,428
in putting the putting
730
00:19:56,428 --> 00:19:58,096
the couches back for the homeowners.
731
00:19:58,096 --> 00:19:58,931
So now I'm chatter
732
00:19:58,931 --> 00:20:01,166
marks and stuff wasn't going to show.
733
00:20:01,166 --> 00:20:02,768
Yeah, I see that with that.
734
00:20:02,768 --> 00:20:04,570
You know, you're talking about texture
735
00:20:05,771 --> 00:20:06,438
and you're
736
00:20:06,438 --> 00:20:08,440
right, nobody would ever think of talking
737
00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:09,541
about a textured floor.
738
00:20:09,541 --> 00:20:11,510
But there is another accessory
739
00:20:11,510 --> 00:20:12,511
for the power drive.
740
00:20:12,511 --> 00:20:14,213
The latest one that came out is
741
00:20:14,213 --> 00:20:16,682
we now have steel plates.
742
00:20:16,682 --> 00:20:19,351
So were you were talking before about
743
00:20:20,085 --> 00:20:21,720
a textured floor.
744
00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,289
There is a ton of people out there
745
00:20:24,289 --> 00:20:26,892
that do not want to see any soft
746
00:20:26,892 --> 00:20:28,026
grain dish out.
747
00:20:28,026 --> 00:20:29,027
I mean,
748
00:20:29,027 --> 00:20:30,262
I remember a job
749
00:20:30,262 --> 00:20:31,697
I did back in the eighties.
750
00:20:31,697 --> 00:20:34,132
I came walking up the stairs
751
00:20:34,132 --> 00:20:35,934
and I just caught that hallway
752
00:20:35,934 --> 00:20:37,336
perfect in the sunlight.
753
00:20:37,336 --> 00:20:38,136
There was a window
754
00:20:38,136 --> 00:20:40,305
at the end of the hallway
755
00:20:41,206 --> 00:20:42,774
and it looked like
756
00:20:42,774 --> 00:20:44,109
it looked like a mortar range.
757
00:20:44,109 --> 00:20:44,943
I was shocked
758
00:20:44,943 --> 00:20:46,778
how much soft grain dish out
759
00:20:46,778 --> 00:20:49,248
I was doing using a screen.
760
00:20:49,248 --> 00:20:49,982
I felt it.
761
00:20:49,982 --> 00:20:51,083
You couldn't really feel it,
762
00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:52,851
but boy, you could really see it.
763
00:20:53,885 --> 00:20:55,954
But back then nobody really cared.
764
00:20:55,954 --> 00:20:56,188
You know,
765
00:20:56,188 --> 00:20:56,822
it was 40,
766
00:20:56,822 --> 00:20:58,590
80, sat in, probably in bad lighting
767
00:20:58,590 --> 00:21:00,859
and we were off to the races.
768
00:21:00,859 --> 00:21:01,893
But now
769
00:21:01,893 --> 00:21:04,329
I'm watching this from my own kid,
770
00:21:04,329 --> 00:21:07,599
not my Rebecca, but with my son,
771
00:21:09,401 --> 00:21:12,871
because I have three kids.
772
00:21:12,871 --> 00:21:14,740
We now have this steel plate kit.
773
00:21:14,740 --> 00:21:16,508
And what the steel plate kit does
774
00:21:16,508 --> 00:21:19,111
is give you the ultimate perfect
775
00:21:19,645 --> 00:21:20,779
flat floor.
776
00:21:20,779 --> 00:21:22,481
No soft grain dish out at all.
777
00:21:22,481 --> 00:21:24,182
So now you're talking my language
778
00:21:24,182 --> 00:21:26,551
because this is something that I
779
00:21:26,818 --> 00:21:29,821
you know, I'm
780
00:21:29,821 --> 00:21:31,390
that's my signature on the floor.
781
00:21:31,390 --> 00:21:33,125
My floor will be dead flat.
782
00:21:33,125 --> 00:21:34,993
That is that is the end.
783
00:21:34,993 --> 00:21:36,428
That's my goal on every floor.
784
00:21:36,428 --> 00:21:37,763
And I don't care
785
00:21:37,763 --> 00:21:38,730
what the homeowner thinks.
786
00:21:38,730 --> 00:21:40,198
I as a craftsman,
787
00:21:40,198 --> 00:21:42,401
I want my floor to be dead flat.
788
00:21:42,401 --> 00:21:44,403
And the steel plates are a huge asset
789
00:21:44,403 --> 00:21:44,803
in this.
790
00:21:44,803 --> 00:21:45,170
In fact,
791
00:21:45,170 --> 00:21:45,671
my brothers
792
00:21:45,671 --> 00:21:47,472
were already fashioning their own
793
00:21:47,472 --> 00:21:49,508
steel plates because of that.
794
00:21:49,508 --> 00:21:50,809
We just tried to take it to
795
00:21:50,809 --> 00:21:51,810
another level,
796
00:21:51,810 --> 00:21:53,945
and I think the steel plates
797
00:21:53,945 --> 00:21:55,047
has been a huge addition
798
00:21:55,047 --> 00:21:56,481
to also the weights.
799
00:21:56,481 --> 00:21:57,783
If people had the power drive
800
00:21:57,783 --> 00:21:58,517
before the weight
801
00:21:58,517 --> 00:21:59,718
or they're not using the weights
802
00:21:59,718 --> 00:22:01,053
on the power drive, man,
803
00:22:01,053 --> 00:22:03,422
that is a game changer
804
00:22:03,422 --> 00:22:04,856
that that puts that power
805
00:22:04,856 --> 00:22:06,425
drive on steroids.
806
00:22:06,425 --> 00:22:07,626
So great tool.
807
00:22:07,626 --> 00:22:09,094
I'm super excited about it.
808
00:22:09,094 --> 00:22:10,262
Any time you see
809
00:22:10,262 --> 00:22:10,862
you know
810
00:22:10,862 --> 00:22:11,363
like you say it's
811
00:22:11,363 --> 00:22:13,065
for maybe we com rookies for
812
00:22:13,065 --> 00:22:14,700
for guys are just getting in the trade
813
00:22:15,634 --> 00:22:17,269
for perfectionists
814
00:22:17,269 --> 00:22:17,703
for guys
815
00:22:17,703 --> 00:22:19,705
that want to have it easier on their body
816
00:22:19,705 --> 00:22:20,205
for guys
817
00:22:20,205 --> 00:22:21,673
that want a smaller learning curve
818
00:22:21,673 --> 00:22:22,541
when they're making money
819
00:22:22,541 --> 00:22:24,710
on their apprentices quicker,
820
00:22:24,710 --> 00:22:26,845
just all around great machine.
821
00:22:26,845 --> 00:22:27,679
So.
822
00:22:27,779 --> 00:22:28,480
You know, there's
823
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:29,748
so many other things
824
00:22:29,748 --> 00:22:31,683
that we didn't even get to talk about
825
00:22:31,683 --> 00:22:33,752
parquet floors, herringbone
826
00:22:33,752 --> 00:22:36,655
stair landings, all those crazy
827
00:22:36,688 --> 00:22:37,422
long those
828
00:22:37,422 --> 00:22:39,858
huge closets, you know, long closets.
829
00:22:39,858 --> 00:22:41,960
You can't get the big machine,
830
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:43,862
the ones that run the length of the wall
831
00:22:43,862 --> 00:22:44,463
in a room,
832
00:22:44,463 --> 00:22:45,097
you know, those ones
833
00:22:45,097 --> 00:22:45,931
that sneak up on you
834
00:22:45,931 --> 00:22:46,565
when you don't see it
835
00:22:46,565 --> 00:22:48,433
during the estimate.
836
00:22:48,967 --> 00:22:51,269
The you know, the other thing
837
00:22:51,269 --> 00:22:52,204
about the power drive,
838
00:22:52,204 --> 00:22:54,539
it's two machines in one.
839
00:22:54,539 --> 00:22:55,941
You can take the power drive,
840
00:22:55,941 --> 00:22:57,209
gear driven plate off
841
00:22:57,209 --> 00:22:58,143
and put a regular
842
00:22:58,143 --> 00:23:00,545
buffing plate on, drop the handle
843
00:23:00,545 --> 00:23:02,047
and now you've got a buffer.
844
00:23:02,047 --> 00:23:04,383
So it's it's two machine.
845
00:23:04,383 --> 00:23:06,485
It really is two machines and one.
846
00:23:06,852 --> 00:23:07,686
That's one of the things
847
00:23:07,686 --> 00:23:10,589
we also try to show at the schools, too.
848
00:23:10,589 --> 00:23:11,857
You know, Rob, you're right.
849
00:23:11,857 --> 00:23:13,825
And how about a kitchen
850
00:23:13,825 --> 00:23:14,793
that's 130 square
851
00:23:14,793 --> 00:23:15,894
feet on a diagonal
852
00:23:15,894 --> 00:23:17,462
with an island in the middle,
853
00:23:17,462 --> 00:23:18,029
you know,
854
00:23:18,029 --> 00:23:18,330
which is
855
00:23:18,330 --> 00:23:19,831
I would say you're caught between
856
00:23:19,831 --> 00:23:21,366
edging around
857
00:23:21,366 --> 00:23:22,033
those islands
858
00:23:22,033 --> 00:23:24,369
in between island in the in the stove or
859
00:23:24,703 --> 00:23:26,705
or very little use for the big machine.
860
00:23:26,705 --> 00:23:27,806
Now, you could just
861
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these are big machine in the truck.
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Isn't that usually
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when you'd leave the job and, you know,
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go get coffee
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or a sandwich for everybody?
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That's what I've learned.
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When you do that,
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there's an art to leaving the job.
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Tell me.
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Yeah, here's.
871
00:23:40,085 --> 00:23:41,753
Here's how you leave a job.
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So you look at your watch
873
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and you say, Oh, I got to go.
874
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And then you first re steps out the door,
875
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very hurried and rushed,
876
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like, you know, this guy's on a mission.
877
00:23:52,230 --> 00:23:53,031
You know, he's got something
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he's got to do.
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And then you can get in the truck and,
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you know, relax
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a little bit on the way to the next job
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while your guys are working away.
883
00:23:59,371 --> 00:23:59,971
There you go.
884
00:23:59,971 --> 00:24:02,040
So my dad used to call it,
885
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:03,241
hey, I got to get going.
886
00:24:03,241 --> 00:24:05,777
I got to go check out another job.
887
00:24:05,777 --> 00:24:07,612
Yes, that was a big.
888
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I need to leave.
889
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Get to go check out a job.
890
00:24:10,816 --> 00:24:11,316
Hey, Rob.
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So if you want to
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learn more information
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about the power drive, how would I do it?
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Well,
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one of the things you can do
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is go to our bowl
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00:24:17,522 --> 00:24:19,591
in a professional YouTube channel
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and watch some of the videos
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00:24:21,393 --> 00:24:23,428
we have about the power drive.
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The other thing is go to your local
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bondage distributor
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or contact your local Boehner
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rep, your territory manager,
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and you know he'll get you one
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child on the job site.
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I appreciate all your your input on this.
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As I said
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before, I wouldn't
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want to do this podcast
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with anybody else.
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And and you got a wealth of knowledge
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00:24:43,748 --> 00:24:45,784
and what have you. So appreciate it.
913
00:24:45,784 --> 00:24:46,985
And this has been
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00:24:46,985 --> 00:24:48,653
another episode of On the Floor
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with Wayne Hyland and Rob Johnson.
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Please stay tuned next
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week for another episode
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of.