Plumb bob

billygoat22

I have the one my father used in carpentry. Also use electrician tool bag, wooden tool box and wrecking bar. Coworkers all use canvas bags, but tool bag keeps tools at hand for wiring up. Wrecking bar good to pull duct apart.

mp1969

plumb bob

Let's date ourselves here ,how many carry and use a plumb bob these days? Gone the way of the offset rule? Just curious!

MP 1969

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Online Sheriff \"Murph\"

i use a gizmo

that reads level line horizontal or verticle!!

John Felciano

I gave

mine up for a lazer level,although I think my old plumbob is still in my truck somewhere....

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Bill NTSG

I've got.....

two. Plus I still use a folding six foot rule with the extension when I am feeling nostalgic. I also use a two foot framing square and sometimes masons twine to lay things out. A laser would be nice. If I ever have a real need I might get one.

eleft(retired)

I do

Mostly to transfer markings form ceilings to floor & floor to ceiling. Never needs to be calibrated! Can be used check accuracy of other equipment also.

(G)

al

PS I also fold!

maha

plumb bob

I use one all the time. Don't worry, have a laser also but a bob can't be beat for a quick reference. Also no batteries to run out, you know how murphy's law works.

Mike T., Swampeast MO

In the precision tool box

along with the combination square, folding rule, etched rule, machined torpodo level, magnetic jointer knife setter, Incra protractor, etc., etc.

Couldn't get along without it when building decks, installing new partitions, pouring walls/footings, etc.

Gary Fereday

AND you

Can tell which way is up! Sometimes, someone wants to see if you know. Then you can show them that there is a automatically calibrated way to know for sure, anyway bigugh

Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating

i use

an old lead fishing sinker for salt water- no one steals them. bob

Unknown

Nice!

Kind of a long-named bob... plumb bob is a shorter word than "an old lead fishing sinker for salt water- no one steals them. bob" , but I have one of those, too. Clever name...
Noel

mattman

plumb bob

I still have one. Used to use one a lot when I surveyed, actuallly liked the 16 ounce one best. We used to joke and call it a "plumb robert", course that also came from the guys who told me to turn an angle of 89-59-60!

pfitter_5

Sometimes ...

I get strange looks form co-workers as I lean over the tool box whistling and calling "Bob, here Bob!" The young snots also think i'm crazy when I tell them to "run out to the truck and get Bob"

sure them newfangeled fancyassed lazer thing-a-ma-BOB's are kinda handy, in the right spot, but what ya gona call it?

"here Laz, hear Laz" just dont sound right.

And for the record, my 8 foot "ruladiller" gets far more use then the steel tape i got.

p

Tones_2

Altitude check!

Plumb bobs crashing to the ground from the top of an eight foot ladder don't hurt as much as the lazer levels do.


......Tones