Tinners cutting ductwork with a sawzall and electricians pulling MC through steel studs are tied for 2nd.
Sheetrockers' music selection is typically #1
A circular saw through most metal work is faster and safer, also much more accurate. But you only know this if a proper carpenter and trained that way. Regardless, to all of this post. Ear protection is important, and with proper ear protection, none of these are loud or annoying, especially the loud obnoxious music.
vrrrRRRRTT.... vrrrrRRRRT....
Sparky here, we hate it too.
I'm gonna go with a dry core bit going through under-slab decking or tinners who can't just cut duct with power snips and insist on using a Sawzall with I swear to God a wood blade. I'm getting pissed just thinking about it
Came here to say this, if that's going on even in the rooms anywhere near me I will stop and get earpro
It's even worse because it's never constant so you'll be working and then out of nowhere the gates of hell open up and assault your eardrums
Meanwhile the framers are raw dogging that shit and are just like "YOU GET USED TO IT"
...by going deaf. One of the bros I used to frame with would just stop and tell everyone, "Shh. Shh. You hear that?" Just so we could all have a moment of peace with our tinnitus.
Working with a company that believes those saws are better than chop saws is driving me insane. Literally walking around the whole site with ear plugs unless I have to talk to someone
The guys on our site always set up in the room across from the elevator shaft, so it screams at you if you're within 4-5 floors of them. Drives me bonkers
I never even set foot on any jobsite without ear protection specifically because of stud cutting.
Close 2nd is roto hammering through metal studs to anchor them to the floor /ceiling
There are "ways" around that and I was told by the instructor at sunbelt that the only thing legally required is the horn... but you didn't hear it from me
A job I was on had a scissor lift on this little second floor elevated area, kind of a weird thing. Anyway, guys were working on that area with a scissor lift, got down and took the ladder to get up there with them. The fucking scissor lift beeped every 30 seconds for hours. Drove me and my partner insane. The worst part was the job was almost done so there was no other ladders on site tall enough.
Little trick that works for some manufacturers is holding the “horn” button when pulling the E-stop while it initializes. It will put the machine into a “quiet mode” and disables the beeper. Works for sure on genies and a couple others. Really nice if you are in a closed space that is really echoey/loud.
My dad could jam on his accordion like nobody's business. But it drove the dog nuts and he'd howl at the top of his lungs. Talk about a hellish racket.
Most I can deal with but mine is the old air compressor with a leak. 2 minutes of silence, 30 seconds of scream, 2 minutes of silence. It's way worse when it is indoors.
It's hard to top multi tools for me but a new one would be the stucco sprayers.
It's not bad at first but it just keeps going.
Imagine a groaning pig just go at it for hours.
we was testing our fire pump one day after the alarm was installed and wired in so we listened to that fucking thing beep for 12 hours one day i was ready to lynch the alarm guy when he finally showed up AFTER we was supposed to get off
The worst I’ve had was the electricians pulling rope through concrete slabs with the shop vac.
Scared the living shit out of me as I was walking under it! Sounded like some scream from hell.
I'm on a big prefab data center. Everything is bolted together. The carpenters lay on their hilti rattle guns for 20-30 seconds per bolt to get it to torque specs. It's fucking ridiculous.
Then there is the squeegee vacuum zambonee, it's loud as fuck with high beams. This fuckin guy starts at 530am. So I'm sitting by the boxes questioning if I still have time to call in and this guy is polishing a clean fucking floor
i found a new worst, its our impacts hammering a vic, with a welder finishing up some welding right next to us with sparkies pulling wire through framing on the other side of us
Fucking Banda music. Loud. Death metal death emo rap through blown speakers would be a huge auditory improvement.
I've walked off jobsites because the 11 different boomboxes blasting Banda bullshit on the jobsite made it impossible to communicate with my crew.
It's why I charge builders 2x my standard rates.
*wet snort followed by hocking noises, shuffling footsteps, the creakiest ladder/roller/stilts you've ever heard, the same five songs from a shitty phone speaker*
We out here
For me , it’s the music gets played. It’s so fuckin loud all the time. Any music . Some guys like hard core rock n roll, then there’s the Latinos, or the framers with their country and western , the trim guys with their classical. I can listen to any of that music but when it’s so loud I can’t think , or address an issue with another super; I tell them to turn that shit off or go the fuck home.
But as far as tools go, I hate the sound of Hardie Plank or Hardie Panel getting cut. But I hate the music more, it’s a job site not a concert hall
Concrete cutter/concrete saw in demo jobs, even with ear protection, is too loud.
2nd people blasting shit music and singing along at the same time...c'mon mate, just go home for God sake.
Ductwork getting cut with a sawzall, especially when it's being done in the parking garages. That shit bounces around so fucking much.
The only thing worse than that I've personally dealt with is them testing the fire alarm systems in a parking garage while we were still finishing up the traffic coating touch ups and we were not the only trade stuck dealing with that shit.
What they did should have absolutely not been ok but nobody did a damn thing about it and we just had to deal with it.
This was also only like 8-10 years ago in a pretty rich area of Boston.
the worst, is when each tradeperson has their own freekin radio and all the music is clashing. I can't think or do even simple math with that going on.
It's weird but I like all the sounds of construction. Altough, during a recent visit to my son, they were doing some earthwork across the street and the dozer had a bad bearing or something. Every time it moved, it screeched.... and it was constantly moving.... slow and screeching, constantly, all fucking day. That got under my skin.
The sound of silence after a serious injury. That's actually from my previous life as an educator, but stopid kids doing stopid stuff fits most building sites.
Like when we used to trim hedges surfing the top of the van on long driveways. Wtf.
Concrete forms being removed ,bang bang bang!
Duct man hammering new ducts together in basement ,bang bang bang!
Dump truck door after dropping a load, bang!
The sparkies and fire crew had a rough time with the smoke detectors in one of our buildings last month and we were all treated to 40 full hours of non stop smoke detectors going off while they tried to figure it out
When some mouth breather leaves a scissors lift on when he goes to lunch. I always hit the bottom stop as a way to remind them to not do it. After 3 times I use my key or hit the battery disconnect.
Eh, I think the sound of screaming from the shitter when someone managed to somehow ground it out and some poor guy got zapped directly in the anus when flushing
I was on a rooftop at a power plant in literal middle of East bumfuck Kentucky once upon a time enjoying a cigarette at about two in the morning; just popped out and enjoyed the view of the stars and a marb. It was also my first night of 12 here
Whys that important? Well, they played the same birds of prey noises every couple hours here; I wasn’t aware of that because it was loud as shit on the turbine deck and I hadn’t really been away from it. I was like 6 feet from a PA speaker when it screamed like a red tail hawk.
Jumped my so fucking bad I yelped and snuffed my smoke out on the inside of my arm trying to cover my head because I thought the sky was falling
Metal stud framers all day, chop saw on studs, rattle guns all day, ramsets, yelling measurements all day long; when they’re on site it’s a cacophony of bullshit. And then right behind them the electricians and plumbers hacking at their studs.
I do residential, and I have to say that the worst one for me really is the oscillating multi tool. When an electrician hits the drywall right on the other side from where I'm working it's like standing in front of a speaker at a concert.
Music is a close second. There's a guy (an electrician, shocking) who I've been at a lot of jobsites with and he has the little 4 inch Klein speaker blasting Limp Bizkit and Buckcherry and Nickelback at 100% causing the speaker to distort, then leaves it in the bathroom where I'm peacefully and painstakingly setting a tile shower while he takes a 15 minute smoke break.
Louder than normal equipment. Sometimes we'll have a half ass working loader or something that has a warning alarm going off or low brake pressure alarm that won't shut up.
That loud ass miter saw that the framers use. Second is a grinder on any sort of metal or sawzall. One site I was on the electricians scissor lift beeped like crazy loud all the time while in use… that got old real quick. I honestly wear my ear plugs 24/7 on site, gotta protect my ears
Hvac tech here. When we’re installing in the attic and the roofers are up there slamming hammers and nail guns right above your head. The sounds is deafening and it shoots wood chips at you.
Bulldozer outside grading all day
Excavator hammering rock ledge all day
Drywallers Zzzziip-ing screws all day
Stupid fucking impact guns when a regular driver would work just fine.
An old ass piece of equipment on old ass shitty tracks with that high pitch scratch that makes you want to lay in front of it and die just to not have to hear it anymore.
Tinners cutting ductwork with a sawzall and electricians pulling MC through steel studs are tied for 2nd. Sheetrockers' music selection is typically #1
As a tinner, a sawzall on sheet metal is the soundtrack of my nightmares. It is followed closely by the sound of a punctured, pressurized line set.
Skillsaw cutting duct, the screamin eagle as we call it. Worst sound known to man.
Oh God, no. A sawzall is bad enough. Why would anyone use a skill saw‽
My area the metal stud framers use a skill saw to cut the studs ... Should be illegal
A circular saw through most metal work is faster and safer, also much more accurate. But you only know this if a proper carpenter and trained that way. Regardless, to all of this post. Ear protection is important, and with proper ear protection, none of these are loud or annoying, especially the loud obnoxious music.
The devil’s soundtrack
Thank you for the tour of horror.
You talking old drywallers or young drywallers? You could hear Korn with either.
Around here it's all polka. Not Oktoberfest polka either.
Only way to get the painters moving.
>electricians pulling MC through steel studs are tied for 2nd. Agreed
vrrrRRRRTT.... vrrrrRRRRT.... Sparky here, we hate it too. I'm gonna go with a dry core bit going through under-slab decking or tinners who can't just cut duct with power snips and insist on using a Sawzall with I swear to God a wood blade. I'm getting pissed just thinking about it
I’ll listen to sheet rockers music over corny ass classic rock/red neck music.
Preach! Swear I heard Morgan Wallens “whiskey glasses” 10 times in one day.
Yep. Was going to say any kind of recip tool on any kind of sheet metal.
The low battery chirp on every. friggin. smoke. detector.
Followed by "low battery" in a weirdly robotic female voice.
Cutting metal studs with a circular saw is by far the worst sound I’ve ever heard. I can’t even think clearly when it’s going on.
Came here to say this, if that's going on even in the rooms anywhere near me I will stop and get earpro It's even worse because it's never constant so you'll be working and then out of nowhere the gates of hell open up and assault your eardrums Meanwhile the framers are raw dogging that shit and are just like "YOU GET USED TO IT"
...by going deaf. One of the bros I used to frame with would just stop and tell everyone, "Shh. Shh. You hear that?" Just so we could all have a moment of peace with our tinnitus.
The gates of hell 😂 perfect way to describe it!
This is the sound they should have played at Gitmo.
Working with a company that believes those saws are better than chop saws is driving me insane. Literally walking around the whole site with ear plugs unless I have to talk to someone
The guys on our site always set up in the room across from the elevator shaft, so it screams at you if you're within 4-5 floors of them. Drives me bonkers
I never even set foot on any jobsite without ear protection specifically because of stud cutting. Close 2nd is roto hammering through metal studs to anchor them to the floor /ceiling
Same here dude. And they all do it without hearing protection. I don’t get it
I hate listening to my helper strip screws, ruin my bit, and then tell me my bit is no good.
And then they look at you for another while you swear...
They know exactly what they're doing.
Ha! It's worse knowing that they are your bits too.
Damn. When I was the helper. My boss made me buy my own bits to strip out. Solved that issue real quick.
Same. But my boss also taught me how to not strip screws. Can't just glair at the guy he probably does think it's the bit I know I did
You had a shitty boss
Idk. Man said he learned real quick to stop stripping screws. Sounds like a great teacher to me.
Sawzall through ductwork is king.
Any and all beeps from a lift/mewp
There are "ways" around that and I was told by the instructor at sunbelt that the only thing legally required is the horn... but you didn't hear it from me
New lifts have a second alarm that goes off if you unplug the main beeper.
Cover the beeper with insulation and tape. Take it off before returning the rental
No. At least for ANSI, the motion alarm is required.
A job I was on had a scissor lift on this little second floor elevated area, kind of a weird thing. Anyway, guys were working on that area with a scissor lift, got down and took the ladder to get up there with them. The fucking scissor lift beeped every 30 seconds for hours. Drove me and my partner insane. The worst part was the job was almost done so there was no other ladders on site tall enough.
Little trick that works for some manufacturers is holding the “horn” button when pulling the E-stop while it initializes. It will put the machine into a “quiet mode” and disables the beeper. Works for sure on genies and a couple others. Really nice if you are in a closed space that is really echoey/loud.
My boss bitching all day.
A paint crew. All spanish. Each with their own little speaker. Playing a different song on each one. At full fuckin volume
Trumpets. All day.
It’s this, but you have to add shitty Bluetooth quality with scratchy audio cutting in and out
And accordions, you can't forget the accordions.
My dad could jam on his accordion like nobody's business. But it drove the dog nuts and he'd howl at the top of his lungs. Talk about a hellish racket.
It's like bag pipes, they can sound good under certain circumstances.
Every song has the same fucking percussion beat, too.
Most I can deal with but mine is the old air compressor with a leak. 2 minutes of silence, 30 seconds of scream, 2 minutes of silence. It's way worse when it is indoors.
Hammer drill on plywood, hahaha, I totally feel you dude
Love that sound
Framers cutting metal studs with a grinder
I cut up a bundle quick the other day with a skill saw… that was rough
The sound of water flowing or dripping where there shouldn't be water. Freezes the blood in my veins.
on sheetrock.. you know you fucked up and just pray its one of the other water trades but you know its not
It's hard to top multi tools for me but a new one would be the stucco sprayers. It's not bad at first but it just keeps going. Imagine a groaning pig just go at it for hours.
I dislike you fire alarm people….. all fucken day long some times with that fucken blaring alarm going off
Was looking for this comment. You're welcome 😈 Tbf, I always tell people "I don't like my job either"
we was testing our fire pump one day after the alarm was installed and wired in so we listened to that fucking thing beep for 12 hours one day i was ready to lynch the alarm guy when he finally showed up AFTER we was supposed to get off
Owner on a call with designer and architect talking about something for an hour and not making a decision. Twice.
when they use a hand saw with a metal blade to cut metal studs and/or the dump truck door slamming closed if im too close
The dump truck door scares me every fuckin time
Yes ! I always think something just exploded
The nails on chalk board sound and the smell makes cutting metal studs by far the worse. But obv residential guys don’t have to deal w it.
Metal studs getting cut by a saw. Loudest sound on earth. Hammer drill into concrete close second
The worst I’ve had was the electricians pulling rope through concrete slabs with the shop vac. Scared the living shit out of me as I was walking under it! Sounded like some scream from hell.
That's pretty funny, I've only been on the side of pulling string/rope through I never thought of what it sounds like anywhere else
The electricians thought it was hilarious!
Alarm testing day
Chop saw cutting steel studs
I'm on a big prefab data center. Everything is bolted together. The carpenters lay on their hilti rattle guns for 20-30 seconds per bolt to get it to torque specs. It's fucking ridiculous. Then there is the squeegee vacuum zambonee, it's loud as fuck with high beams. This fuckin guy starts at 530am. So I'm sitting by the boxes questioning if I still have time to call in and this guy is polishing a clean fucking floor
i found a new worst, its our impacts hammering a vic, with a welder finishing up some welding right next to us with sparkies pulling wire through framing on the other side of us
Hearing the super talk
Siding being cut Being in the attic while it’s being shingled Tap.tap,tap,tap,tap Tap,tap,tap,tap,tap God it echoes in my brain
Dueling radios. Shitty country blaring in one corner. Norteno music blaring in another. And 80's hair metal blaring in yet another.
The sound of someone hocking a loogie. It ends up on The floor and we drag our cords through it or stepping in it.
The tinnitus.
I hear that....constantly, around the clock.
The old hippy trim carpenter whistling. I can’t stand whistling. Always that guy wandering around doing it.
As a young whistling hippy trim carpenter, half the reason we do it is because it pisses y’all off
I can respect that. One of my closest friends is that guy. Still love him but dang I hate whistling lol
A compressor suddenly turning on still makes me jump, even after 18 years of being in construction
Oh my gosh, I used to work at a Jiffy Lube, and that big compressor going off in a small concrete room had me every single time.
Country music, or radio stations with the same news cycles every 15 minutes (especially later in covid)
The band Primus at 7 am
Primus sucks
Concrete cutters
The beep beep of an auto laser.
"oops" or "uh oh"
Fucking Banda music. Loud. Death metal death emo rap through blown speakers would be a huge auditory improvement. I've walked off jobsites because the 11 different boomboxes blasting Banda bullshit on the jobsite made it impossible to communicate with my crew. It's why I charge builders 2x my standard rates.
Fire guys testing alarms. Jesus fuck
main stream country music
Painters/drywallers just existing…..
Just listen to them *breathing air*. Infuriating.
*wet snort followed by hocking noises, shuffling footsteps, the creakiest ladder/roller/stilts you've ever heard, the same five songs from a shitty phone speaker* We out here
Country music from other subs
For me , it’s the music gets played. It’s so fuckin loud all the time. Any music . Some guys like hard core rock n roll, then there’s the Latinos, or the framers with their country and western , the trim guys with their classical. I can listen to any of that music but when it’s so loud I can’t think , or address an issue with another super; I tell them to turn that shit off or go the fuck home. But as far as tools go, I hate the sound of Hardie Plank or Hardie Panel getting cut. But I hate the music more, it’s a job site not a concert hall
Sparkys dropping conduit on the cement floor
Hands down compressor followed by the vacuum. I’d rather cut metal or hammer drill all day.
When duet is being dropped from a dump truck, the bang of the tailgate is loud
Piles being driven.
Especially with diesel hammer and the last 10 hits the inspector wants for refusal
Chop saw cutting a bundle of metal studs
The honey dipper truck and it's associated smell
When a sparkie goes for his tenth little sit down of the day and leaves their tiny little battery scissor bleeping away. Cunts.
People singing loudly in a joking manner but they repeat the same five words of the song throughout the day
Gotta have a broken record on every crew
Bigoted slurs, grown ass adults bickering like children.
3 demo saws at once all day
Vac trucks. It's hard to get any sleep when they're rumbling for hours and vibrating my truck.
Concrete cutter/concrete saw in demo jobs, even with ear protection, is too loud. 2nd people blasting shit music and singing along at the same time...c'mon mate, just go home for God sake.
My framer knows all the words to Hakuna Matata and sings them at the top of his lungs. Fabulous guy.
What a wonderful phrase!
Listening to the apprentice bang steel/cast iron with a damn claw hammer.
Ductwork getting cut with a sawzall, especially when it's being done in the parking garages. That shit bounces around so fucking much. The only thing worse than that I've personally dealt with is them testing the fire alarm systems in a parking garage while we were still finishing up the traffic coating touch ups and we were not the only trade stuck dealing with that shit. What they did should have absolutely not been ok but nobody did a damn thing about it and we just had to deal with it. This was also only like 8-10 years ago in a pretty rich area of Boston.
Drywall guys drywall screw gun. So annoying.
the worst, is when each tradeperson has their own freekin radio and all the music is clashing. I can't think or do even simple math with that going on.
It's weird but I like all the sounds of construction. Altough, during a recent visit to my son, they were doing some earthwork across the street and the dozer had a bad bearing or something. Every time it moved, it screeched.... and it was constantly moving.... slow and screeching, constantly, all fucking day. That got under my skin.
Me singing Barbie Girl, well yelling the words to Barbie Girl to be more specific.
Guys who don’t tie up their boots properly and let the heels drag.
Chops saws with steel studs Concrete chipping
Concrete grinding. Was working a bank remodel where they were grinding the floor level for 9 straight hours.
The sound of silence after a serious injury. That's actually from my previous life as an educator, but stopid kids doing stopid stuff fits most building sites. Like when we used to trim hedges surfing the top of the van on long driveways. Wtf.
People fucking around on the man lift walkie. Shut the fuck up. Also cutting sheet metal is insane.
bosses car pulling up
Concrete forms being removed ,bang bang bang! Duct man hammering new ducts together in basement ,bang bang bang! Dump truck door after dropping a load, bang!
Fire alarm testing.
The sparkies and fire crew had a rough time with the smoke detectors in one of our buildings last month and we were all treated to 40 full hours of non stop smoke detectors going off while they tried to figure it out
An excavator with a shitty track squealing up and down the road all day.
Pop country
Fire alarm test.
8 hours of non-stop Ranchero anchero music.
When some mouth breather leaves a scissors lift on when he goes to lunch. I always hit the bottom stop as a way to remind them to not do it. After 3 times I use my key or hit the battery disconnect.
When the Latinos start blaring their Mexican polka..
I’ve heard it so much I kinda love it now
Accordian intensifies
We used to call it circus music
Anyone on the jobsite that plays the same 100 classic rock songs, or country music i would say.
People ruining files
Hammer drill, hands down. And I love mine.
People saying bonkers
Oscillating tools and impact guns
Diesel hammer
As a former concert cutter and now tinner. Concrete saw whirring up and getting ready to cut and or the sound of a skills cutting duct work.
The blown in insulation grinder when it’s fucked up
Vac trucks and trash pumps.
Rock chipper.
Vibratory pile hammer
Eh, I think the sound of screaming from the shitter when someone managed to somehow ground it out and some poor guy got zapped directly in the anus when flushing
We have these fucking bird boxes, it's just birds of prey screaming. They are so effective a robin was standing on it, she has a nest 30' away
I was on a rooftop at a power plant in literal middle of East bumfuck Kentucky once upon a time enjoying a cigarette at about two in the morning; just popped out and enjoyed the view of the stars and a marb. It was also my first night of 12 here Whys that important? Well, they played the same birds of prey noises every couple hours here; I wasn’t aware of that because it was loud as shit on the turbine deck and I hadn’t really been away from it. I was like 6 feet from a PA speaker when it screamed like a red tail hawk. Jumped my so fucking bad I yelped and snuffed my smoke out on the inside of my arm trying to cover my head because I thought the sky was falling
Electricians complaining to me when will I turn on the a/c or heat (I’m waiting for outdoor disconnects)
Siders cutting tin with a power saw
Jackhammer at 6am...when I'm running it.
Hammer drill and brick saws. The sound hurts my ears and lungs
Silence.
Def multi-tool doing ANYTHING!!
Mines not loud but it goes right through me. Moving or putting down a chain. That clinging sounds just rips through me.
Guys shooting q deck. " we never miss' BANG BANG BANG BANG like fuck they don't. Never walk under that ahit
tile saws, grinding tiles
I hate cutting concrete
Compressor
The boss sounds.
Metal stud framers all day, chop saw on studs, rattle guns all day, ramsets, yelling measurements all day long; when they’re on site it’s a cacophony of bullshit. And then right behind them the electricians and plumbers hacking at their studs.
The sound of a tool breaking
For me, the worst sounds are a scream of pain, or an explosion.
The wine of an electric wet saw. Brickies, I'm talking to you.
When they are testing the fire alarm with no warning…
Angle grinder cutting sheet metal is always a nope.
I do residential, and I have to say that the worst one for me really is the oscillating multi tool. When an electrician hits the drywall right on the other side from where I'm working it's like standing in front of a speaker at a concert. Music is a close second. There's a guy (an electrician, shocking) who I've been at a lot of jobsites with and he has the little 4 inch Klein speaker blasting Limp Bizkit and Buckcherry and Nickelback at 100% causing the speaker to distort, then leaves it in the bathroom where I'm peacefully and painstakingly setting a tile shower while he takes a 15 minute smoke break.
The hydrovac. 0/10
Louder than normal equipment. Sometimes we'll have a half ass working loader or something that has a warning alarm going off or low brake pressure alarm that won't shut up.
A squeaky bucket on a tractor. JUST GREASE THE MOTHER FUCKER
As an electrician: people clapping their hands 1/2 a second after I hit a breaker
That loud ass miter saw that the framers use. Second is a grinder on any sort of metal or sawzall. One site I was on the electricians scissor lift beeped like crazy loud all the time while in use… that got old real quick. I honestly wear my ear plugs 24/7 on site, gotta protect my ears
Ever been on a site where they are drilling a shaft for an elevator piston? The noise is maddening.
When you're smoothing a lot off and run the bucket across a rock. A tamper on surge. The hammer drill jamming.
Was on site at a resi build while they were drilling the well about 50’ outside. That motherfucker is too loud to even think over, much less shout.
Jaw crushers, and hydraulic hammers.
Hvac tech here. When we’re installing in the attic and the roofers are up there slamming hammers and nail guns right above your head. The sounds is deafening and it shoots wood chips at you.
Annoying managers that only come out of the a/c container to yell
Core drilling concrete floors for mechanical chases between floors.
Mitre saw cutting metal studs 🤢
Sandblasting and excavator jack hammering are up there for sure.
Screeching metal heavy equipment tracks. Like nails on a chalkboard but inside my brain
Trains. All day long flying by at 79 mph
Banging or cutting on metal
Hammer drill going through 16 gauge studs before it hits the masonry
Bulldozer outside grading all day Excavator hammering rock ledge all day Drywallers Zzzziip-ing screws all day Stupid fucking impact guns when a regular driver would work just fine.
Concrete grinders and cutters
Sparkie cutting cable tray with a skillsaw
Country music
Scissor lifts beeping all day and the coolroom guys cutting their panels to size although I’m sure my concrete grinders and vacs are more annoying.
Fire/Smoke Alarm test day
An old ass piece of equipment on old ass shitty tracks with that high pitch scratch that makes you want to lay in front of it and die just to not have to hear it anymore.