Transcript
Eric Triplett (0:04)
Welcome to the Deep End with Eric Triplett, the pond digger. This is the show for contractors, tradesmen and entrepreneurs who want more from their business and from themselves. Eric brings decades of experience as a seven figure contractor with expertise in leadership, sales systems, and the discipline it takes to build something real. Shaped by years in the aquatics world, his insights are rooted in precision, craftsmanship and performance. If you're done skimming the surface and ready to go deeper, it's time to dive in.
Eric Triplett (0:45)
Hey, rockstars, it's Triplett here. Welcome back to the Deep End. Listen, today we're going to talk about something that a huge percent of contractors absolutely hate and quite frankly bore a lot of people. But it's hard hats, you know, and for me, I don't know, it kind of gets me psyched out of my mind. I love hard hats. I've been wearing hard hats in the field for over 25 years. I wear a helmet when I'm out mountain biking all the time. Wore helmets when I was skateboarding. So it's, it's not new to me. It's fairly common. But you know exactly what I'm talking about. Half the guys on the job site either don't want to wear them, aren't wearing them, or they're wearing them because someone made them. You know, and in the pond construction world, we've been wearing them for almost three decades. And, you know, know, it's interesting because a lot of pond contractors, like, totally against it, but maybe if they're on a, you know, public workshop, they might have to wear them or something to that effect. But I think I've wore off on some of those guys a little bit. And sometimes they'll wear them because I've just been to all the trade shows and the big events wearing my hard hat, even if I'm the only guy out there doing it, you know. But, you know, when I mentioned construction helmets to one of my best friends, I. I don't know how new they are really, but because the tree guys use them all the time because they're climbing in their branches or hitting their helmets, but it has a strap on them, right? But I mentioned this, these construction helmets to one of my best friends, a guy who literally wears a hard at every day. He looked at me with pure disgust that he was. He literally said, dude, I hate those helmets. But here's the thing. Those helmets, they're not necessarily just some new trend. They're actually a massive upgrade in safety compared to old school hard hat technology. Not only from the impact, but, um, in the way that they
Podcast Announcer (2:34)
can stay attached.
Eric Triplett (2:35)
If you're climbing up scaffolding or you're up and down out of ponds or over in and out of ladders and, and, or potentially hanging over roofs to do something like that, that strap makes a, a real big difference. So that, you know, I mean, I, I really believe that chin strap alone changes everything. And that's actually the thing that is the pitfall to it that's going to keep all the contractors away from wanting to do it. But you know, from falls to impacts to slips, that helmet actually head when things go sideways. Now I'll be honest, at first glance, they don't look as cool as the classic hard hat. But for me, it doesn't really bother me. Like I said, I'm wearing a hard hat all the time when I'm out on my mountain bike skateboarding for years, all that stuff always had a chin strap helmet style. Right? But listen, if we're really being honest, does cool really matter that much? I mean, the coolest thing on a job isn't the hard hat. The coolest thing is actually making it home safe to your family, your friends, your goals and your dreams that you have in life. So today we're going to dive in a little bit deeper because you know how I love my hard hats. Into the world of modern job site protection with Kako America and pushing construction safety forward with helmet systems that are built for the way contractors actually work. Let's get into it.