Other stories by David Frane

  • T-Shirts of WOC

    I was at the World of Concrete (WOC), looking at machinery, talking to tool manufacturers, and what do you know, I find myself photographing T-shirts.

  • Better Than the Grateful Dead

    It’s the long-lost original World of Concrete in 60 Seconds.

  • Incredible Self-Propelled Dumpster

    The Equipter is a self-propelled dumpster that can be towed to the jobsite and then driven under its own power (it has a gasoline engine) to wherever it needs to be.

  • New Festool Track Saw

    When Festool developed the TS 55 REQ, there was no need to go back to the drawing board. They already had the best track so the redesign was a matter of the New Festool Track Saw.

  • The Final Four Floor

    This year's NCAA final four will be playing on a portable wooden floor that was manufactured in Michigan, sanded and finished in Tennessee, and then temporarily installed in the Georgia Dome.

  • 50-year Stanley Tape Measure

    This tape probably won't last half a century on the jobsite but in a sense, it already has.

  • So You’ve Got a Dust Extracting Vacuum — Now What?

    Well you’d better have dust shrouds on your tools; otherwise, you won’t have anything to connect to. Here are a couple of shroud-equipped tools from DeWalt.

  • Blast From the Past: Cordless Nailers

    Here’s a blast from the past, a 1998 JLC review of two cordless finish nailers. One of these products is still going strong; the other died an early death.

  • Home-Made Portable Mortising Machine

    I can’t decide whether this guy is a genius or a wacko with too much time on his hands. I’m leaning towards genius…

  • A See-Thru Power Tool

    Just when I think I’ve seen every strange thing there is to see on the web, something like this pops up on YouTube. All I know about this video is that it involves a cordless impact driver, a fluoroscope, and I’m willing to bet — some guys in their early 20s...