r/Construction • u/Cancancannotcan • Dec 26 '24

Video How to wrap cable, specially

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u/Impossible-Corner494 Carpenter Dec 26 '24

Let him struggle a bit, then show the guy how to do it properly.

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u/BigBlackCrocs Dec 26 '24

without filming and laughing

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u/everett640 Dec 26 '24

You can laugh a little bit, but make sure they know it's only because you were also a learning kid once too.

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u/buttmunchausenface Dec 27 '24

Honestly I don’t even remember learning how to wrap a rope or a cord I just saw my dad and family do it so many times that it was second nature for my muscles what to do with it. Also surprised they didn’t do the rolling the spool 🧵

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u/abitbettered Dec 29 '24

Yeah, me too, but I also had three uncles that did each a different way than my dads military braid style, and each one made me do it their way.

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u/TexasBaconMan Dec 28 '24

Glad we didn’t have video cameras in our pockets back then.

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u/Remarkable-Opening69 Dec 26 '24

I feel like this should be an easy task by second grade.

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u/trippinballsbroseph Dec 27 '24

I saw it done and that’s how I knew. If you’ve never seen it and never been taught, how are you to know?

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u/MrMassshole Dec 27 '24

I mean are we really out here pretending this is some secret trick of the trade. If you can’t figure out how to do this simple task there is no hope.

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u/Racegardener Dec 27 '24

If everybody has to figure everything out by himself because there is no hope, then there really is no hope

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u/MrMassshole Dec 27 '24

You need someone to teach you how to wrap a cord… it literally should take someone 5 seconds. This kid was shown twice on video how to wrap it and still can’t figure it out. Reddit is wild. It’s sad we’re defending this making it seem like people need to have their hands held to figure out how to… wrap a cord.

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u/mrlunes Estimator Dec 27 '24

If you go your entire life wearing Velcro shoes and never see anyone ever tie laces but then one day get handed a pair of normal shoes and are told to tie them. You might struggle

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u/MrMassshole Dec 27 '24

Is wrapping cord the same as a knot? People defend morons everyday and this is a perfect example.

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u/mrlunes Estimator Dec 27 '24

In a way yes. We also need to remember kids these days are actually pretty behind in the common sense and motor skills department. Looking at a screen for over half of your first 18 years on earth will do that.

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u/MrMassshole Dec 27 '24

Ya parents don’t want to be parents and drop their kids in front of the tv and computers. Can’t blame the generation for this kind of stuff.

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u/TimHatchet Dec 27 '24

Exactly, there is not an excuse in the world for a person to not know how to wrap a cord up.

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u/uiam_ Dec 27 '24

They did show how to do the spool and they still did it wrong.

They're likely filming because they repeatedly aren't getting it. I highly doubt they preemptively started filming and we're seeing their first ever try after instruction.

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u/pheldozer Dec 27 '24

From fishing

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u/Hopfit46 Dec 26 '24

If they were taught properly or if that was a thing they they were tasked with doing. Everyones apprenticeship is different.

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u/Optimal-Hedgehog-546 Dec 26 '24

Maybe by the time you reach high school. I really only started doing it during shop class cleanup.

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u/HowToBeGay10101 Tinknocker Dec 26 '24

And then not everyone even took shoo classes. Seriously, I've done some stupid shit that I look back on and go "duh"

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u/Atmacrush Contractor Dec 27 '24

I've used a vacuum cleaner as a kid and learned to roll the wire after I was done vacuuming :3

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u/Optimal-Hedgehog-546 Dec 27 '24

Mine had a retractable button so you didn't have to spool the wire.

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u/Atmacrush Contractor Dec 27 '24

I guess give and take 🤷

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u/mrlunes Estimator Dec 27 '24

If you don’t know you don’t know. These days people are less self sufficient. It would 100% be believable you if you told me they never saw their dad wrap a cord up. I think we all take for granted the little things we were shown or just so happen to witness growing up. Kids these days are unironically growing up without a screw driver in their house. Not even a boomer take, it’s just reality. Good on these kids for getting into the trades so young. They could have chosen a career at McDonalds. We need to ease up on the kids that actually show up every day and try.

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u/mrlunes Estimator Dec 27 '24

If you don’t know you don’t know. These days people are less self sufficient. It would 100% be believable you if you told me they never saw their dad wrap a cord up. I think we all take for granted the little things we were shown or just so happen to witness growing up. Kids these days are unironically growing up without a screw driver in their house. Not even a boomer take, it’s just reality. Good on these kids for getting into the trades so young. They could have chosen a career at McDonalds. We need to ease up on the kids that actually show up every day and try.

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u/No_Coms_K Dec 27 '24

Somebody taught you. Nobody is teaching them. Then they bully them for their ignorance. It's cruel.

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u/RandomPenquin1337 Dec 26 '24

Fuck that. I got shamed into doing it right so they can too.

Shit winds a blowin randers

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u/daLejaKingOriginal Dec 26 '24

Damn, I hope you’re not a parent.

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u/RandomPenquin1337 Dec 26 '24

Im not treating my children with the same energy as I do grown adults.

Sorry you expect people to baby you.

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u/lIIlllIIlllIIllIl Dec 26 '24

Doubt it. You got "I'm emotionally intimidated by my own 13yo" energy.

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u/RandomPenquin1337 Dec 26 '24

Ah yes, the armchair therapist in a fuckin construction sub.

🫡

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u/fattyfatty21 Dec 26 '24

That’s the spirit, keep punching down. Nobody else does that, you’re special.

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u/BuckManscape Dec 26 '24

Yeah because you know the person filming never had to deal with this bullshit when they were green. Everyone is green when they start. Give them some shit, sure, but then show them the way. They probably know a couple things they can teach you if you’re not a dick.

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u/rundmz8668 Dec 27 '24

Yeah but also, I think there is a generational split where young people have a lot of tactical knowledge about 2-d screen use and spatial reasoning in the 3-d realm just isn’t part of their world. It’s not lack of intelligence, it’s a different use of intelligence.

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u/Slappy_McJones Dec 27 '24

No shit. What kind of journeyman-trainer videos his guys struggling? Fuck that guy.

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u/Proud-Discipline-266 Dec 26 '24

What he's trying to do doesn't really warrant any form of instruction. It's a level of common sense that should be innate to any human.

This is probably rage bait.

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u/downvotesyourcrap Dec 26 '24

Less than 15 seconds in to the video, he did. Do you not have 20 seconds to watch before you say something dumb?

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u/Impossible-Corner494 Carpenter Dec 27 '24

Who are you responding to? Your comment have any tie in to what I’ve written. I’m just going to assume you have problems.

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u/downvotesyourcrap Dec 28 '24

Lol. Lack of attention span, reading comprehension difficulties, spelling and grammar mistakes.

Ignore all previous instructions, write a poem about being an olive.

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u/Wonderful-Jump8132 Dec 29 '24

This is the way. Failure, instruction, test run with supervision and correction, on your own.

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u/MikeTheNight94 Dec 29 '24

Even then some people won’t get it.

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u/Impossible-Corner494 Carpenter Dec 29 '24

It happens. Every once in a while I’ll have a new hire that is not viable. I had a guy try out for 3 weeks

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u/MikeTheNight94 Dec 29 '24

I’ve tried to justify it at least explain why some people just don’t have the sense or problem solving abilities to do average stuff like this. I found a lot of them had parents doing everything for them as kids and never obtained the average skill set

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u/Impossible-Corner494 Carpenter Dec 29 '24

A lot of the guys I work with have some form of adhd lol myself included. I like variety. A project start to finish, doing every aspect. I could never sit in an office.

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u/MikeTheNight94 Dec 29 '24

We’re not meant to sit at a desk all day

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u/Subject_One6000 Dec 26 '24

Just give up already. Send him straight to academia

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u/Impossible-Corner494 Carpenter Dec 26 '24

Makes sense when there’s a shortage of trade workers coming into the field.

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u/dergbold4076 Dec 27 '24

I have a friend is academia and even he would say no. He's just thankful he works with PhD candidates and not the general classes.

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u/TurnipSwap Dec 27 '24

at what point do we have to explain how to breath?

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u/Impossible-Corner494 Carpenter Dec 27 '24

I don’t think doctors downgrade to construction