Streamline Your Jobsite with Ron's Versatile Dolly
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- In this video, Ron shares his innovative solution for transporting the Smart Woodshop from the trailer to the job site: the Big Dolly. This heavy-duty dolly not only makes moving equipment a breeze but also serves as a crucial organizational tool on the job site, helping to reduce labor and increase efficiency.
Join Ron as he delves into practical tips and insights gained from years of experience in building new homes and undertaking major remodels solo. Learn how he maintains a system that is efficient, lean, and organized, enabling him to tackle large projects without working too hard.
Whether you're a solo contractor or part of a crew, Ron's strategies for optimizing your workflow and minimizing effort are invaluable. Don't miss out on these expert tips to enhance your job site efficiency and productivity!
Key Topics Covered:
* Building a heavy-duty dolly for the Smart Woodshop
* Benefits of using the Big Dolly on the job site
* Organizational strategies to reduce labor
* Practical experience and tips for solo construction
* Maintaining an efficient, lean, and organized system
Watch Now and Transform Your Jobsite Efficiency!
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Nice job, Ron! You have absorbed the Festool ethos....everything as part of an integrated system! It really does work.👍
Hi Ron. I enjoy watching your videos, and I like your current shop location. Your current shop proves that with organization, and efficiency it is possible to operate in a small shop. This is even accomplished with no mezzanine, and no junk on top of the rest room!
Great ideas for efficiency! I''m going to incorporate the rolling storage bins for my garage instead of having stationary shelves with storage bins. Makes much more sense when space is at a premium. Thanks!
Right on Ron! Wheels/dollys are always the way to go.
Efficiency saves time and allows a smother process. Great ideas. Thanks for sharing Ron.
Loved your ideas for the donuts.
Great work concept and info sharing, Ron!
I love your Dolly Ideas there great! just watching i get a lot ideas for being more organized. i purchased your first Paulk total station it has i think solved the problem of clamping anywhere the the work bench I LOVE THAT!!!!!!! and also work flow efficiency.
This is a great concept. Would love to see it actually deployed in the field.
Good video Ron. Interesting.
Wow , the dollies are a awesome idea to mobilize materials and equipment
Nicely Done Great Job 📐🔨 👍🏼
Ron,
I’m almost completely finished with my entire build of the Smart System. I cannot tell you how excited I am. At 33 yrs old, you’ve really given me a huge head start. Thank you again for sharing 30 years of your evolutionary and now REVOLUTIONARY process. My clients, my family, and I will reap the benefits for decades to come.
Technical question- if you even see this comment.
I built this dolly, just like you have. Have you come up with a good way to lock and unlock the casters-presumably you only do the rear ones since the isle is impassable with the assembly in it? I find myself getting down on my hands and knees abs reaching under to snap the caster locks. Perhaps you could comment or do a video on this? Thanks!
Just my two cents as a guy who moves furniture etc every day. The put it on wheels is my mantra. The best made and longest lasting four wheel dolly are made by New Haven in the Chicago style that stack into each other.
I really like the idea of the rolling carts, sure you have to store all those carts when not in use, but by the looks of the amount of bins you have, those carts will always be in use. I have always been using shelves and racks as a way to store things, but always disappointed with the amount of semi permanent square footage that is lost with the racks. Rolling piles is the answer. I want to incorporate this thinking in the wood shop at my school. We call them skates (Canadian eh) but now it’s about making them work. We do a lot of sawhorse work with students, have you ever made a tough sawhorse that can be used independent of the smart workbench. I have 16 sawhorses made of 2x4 and 2x6 that nest 8 high with a 6 inch height between sawhorse. I love them, and bc of then15 degree legs they nest really well, the draw back is that small students can’t hardly lift them, and certainly. It off the top, any ideas?
Was wanting to see the donuts attached to the bottom of the cart, so that any six dollies could be the used to carry the Smart system. But you now have the the wheels at the end of the cart, drop it all the way to the floor, letting the saw horses touch down for stability. Hmm that feature needs more thinking.
Nice idea Ron but I’m wondering now that you have your workbenches on wheels in the hallway where are you going to store the Sawstops? Are you moving away from them and keeping with the Dewalt now
The SawStop is my main saw and using the DeWalt as second saw. Now the SawStop is hanging using Smart Cradle. You will find lots of videos showing my current setup. 😎🤙
I have the same casters, they work but the hardware that comes with them is cheap metal and strips the threads easily.
Clever indeed!
hi Ron have you seen peter millards new portable work bench
Have you found anywhere to get those nice flip top crates? Costco’s in my area haven’t had them for quite a while. The HDX flip top crates from HD do not compare in quality.
They are all cheap unless you buy the commercial-grade version, but they are cost-prohibitive.
How do you keep the lids on all your plastic tubs from collapsing. That's an ongoing issue that I've had, even with taking care to maintain a "heavier on the bottom" order of stacking.
They all fail if too much weight is piled on them. You can buy the commercial version, but they are $30 or more each.
I've used some scrap laminate flooring to "save" a few of my cracked lids by just cutting it to fit in the lid recess, it's sturdy and not too thick to interfere with stacking another on top of it. I didn't even glue or attach them like I thought I was going to do in the beginning, no need to.
Ron, do you buy or build all the carts that you use?
So, the 'system' is to build wooden houses by constructing them from scratch on site. Like the Romans did. Imagine if they made cars that way. Efficiency is to use factory built modules that slot together, all plumbing and wiring already installed. Very common in Germany and spreading elsewhere. I predict that, if the industry does not change, they will start being bought in kit form from China at a price you cannot compete with.
I live in a ‘modular home factory corridor’. There are dozens of manufacturers of modular housing w/in a 90 min radius and they’re sold and delivered throughout the northeast. I’m not talking trailers and double-wides, I’m talking framed modulars. I was once a dealer for one of the best ones. And I’m here to tell you that industry has 100% FAILED to perform the way we all might predict. The quality is not there, the design is terrible, the cost is NOT competitive with site-building, and when you consider the amount of time needed to “marry” the units and repair what happens between crap work at the factory and what happens during transport, they take just as long or longer than stick-building. Those are the facts from someone who has been anxiously waiting for a better alternative to stick-building for the past 40 yrs. I’ve studied the Germans. The euro model you mention is fine, but Americans don’t want to live in that product and it too is 2x the cost of stick-building in the USA. I’ve looked at panelization and in fact had a panel shop in the 90’s. Promising for frame quality and trade shortage issues, but still not cost effective in most markets. So for right now, in the vast majority of places in the USA, the fastest, cheapest, most flexible, and IMO highest quality way to build houses is still the archaic way the “Romans” did it. Sad maybe.. but still true.
@@HBSuccess thank you for your experienced feedback on this topic
I have done about 10 very custom panelized homes that turned out well. They were not better than stick-built and they cost a lot more. I had a very high-end 1000' cottage built and the parts delivered for me to assemble on site. I also build a 7000' main house on the same project and the panel company was not interested in even trying. I would love to see some forward-thinking on this technique, but trucking, overpass heights, cranes, and all that really limit the possibilities. I have even tried precut kits and spent more time fixing them than just stick building. Maybe someday, but it isn't there yet and I will be long past building before it happens. 😎🤙
Take a drink every time he says trailer
Looking for somebody to build me The mobile Bench set up Both tables And cart I do not have a personal shop
I live in massachusetts
If you decrease the number of wheels, thats more point load on the floor per wheel. Would that damage the flooring underneath the cart?
I would venture to say so. The more wheels you have, the more the weight is dispersed evenly among them. The old adage strength and numbers holds true and also has other benefits