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  • jimdeere
    my friend that I grew up with and his dad were master carpenters and taught me a lot of that. They knew what all those numbers on a framing square are for. His dad called the pencil a “carpenters paint brush” because a rookie would make several passes with the pencil, leaving a fat line. Never drop your framing square or circular saw on the ground and wax the shoe of your saw every day.
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  • hillbille
    that takes a dang strong/powerful saw also........
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  • jimdeere
    That’s a worm drive saw. If you run that thing all day on a job site, after a while your arm will look like Popeye’s.
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  • montanajoe
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    When I worked at the truss plant, I had a $280K, 20' long, 5 blade, automated saw to do what he is doing with a worm drive.  
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  • cbxjeff
    That guy is so good, it's scary!
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  • 4205raymond
    jimdeere said:
    That’s a worm drive saw. If you run that thing all day on a job site, after a while your arm will look like Popeye’s.
    Yep, you got that right. If you don't do it for a living every day that muscle that runs down the top of your forearm will feel like someone has been beating it with a sledgehammer for days after about eight hours on a job.

    About 15 years ago a fella sweet talked my father out of money before finishing demolishing a 46' mobile home in Fluvanna County,Va. and I finished the job with this saw. Craftsman Commercial 7.5" Double Insulated with Electronic Brake and develops
    2 1/8th HP. It is a beast and with the right blade it will do almost anything. If you don't use this saw for a living I promise you you will hurt for days after using it.
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  • select-fire
    Just waiting on him to cut the back of his hand like Big Sky Redneck. Playing with power tools will bite eventually. I suggest a nice table saw.
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  • redneckandy
    I have watched a lot of his videos. He is very talented.
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  • Ditch-Runner
     my dad was a carpenter ( would I want him to build be fancy furniture no not really  , Ok maybe if had the right tools and a bit of training he would pulled it off )
            I was just a labor at the time we were all union ( at that time all they other trades would take in for apprentices were minorities qualified or not that was the marching orders from  uncle sam ), Now  I can attest it was asses and elbows on all the job sites we were on ,  the classic lazy union stereotypes I did meet A FEW but never lasted more than a week 
            I worked with many carpenters rough framing to finish to master carpenters  when I was  younger learned a lot  I was young and willing to work and learn the old fellows gladly shared there skills with me and turned a blind eye to my stepping out of my class of workers 
         lucky only a few were hard nose about union rules and demand I not do carpenter work ,, ( but the heavy equipment operators were the same let me run and show me how to run equipment same with plumbers electricians , painters , drywall hangers painters ,  Spacklers   tile and carpet layers , painters , iron workers  ( the toughest bunch ) the  iron workers and pipe fitters taught me welding the list was endless ,  I was not suppose to even touch  any thing but a pick shovel sledge hammer and jack hammer LOL   in my defense I was a very likable guy back then so made friends easy and was so willing to learn they accepted  me  and a wealth of knowledge was gained  I will be for ever grateful  for my life for all of them and  my bosses  for the most part let me have free rain I was a hard worker and the more I learned the more valuable I became to them to do small jobs or pick list at the end of a job that and I was about 8 bucks cheaper a hour to pay to do the work  I would love to say I mastered all of it but I did  learned enough to get by or be dangerous some might say LOL  
       I worked on several jobs that  every one thought I was a carpenter that's all I did every day on the sites even my own business agents LOL  never ask to see my union card they assumed I was a carpenter   and all we ever used was the worm driven saws agree its a long day making hundreds of cuts with one  I sill have a couple of them but go with just the  side driven most of the time . all those old fellows are long gone including my dad but there ability has carried on thru me I have done what I could to teach both my sons a lot of it 

    not bragging but my dad amazed a lot of younger carpenters even some old ones , why ?  well he could not read or write or understand blueprints . and they never knew it  , he never spent one day in a school  mom taught him to sign his name that was it,  he had a mind he could visualize it  and build it . he got a kick out of younger fellows asking what trade school or collage he went to ..  would never tell them the truth just smile and go on 
     he would ask a job super sometimes to explain in a harmless way  now just what your wanting like he was comparing notes then go build it 

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  • mogley98

    Warbirds said:


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  • iceracerx
    Just waiting on him to cut the back of his hand like Big Sky Redneck. Playing with power tools will bite eventually. I suggest a nice table saw.
    Yeah, 'cause table saws never bite!
    Had a co-worker miss a few days after trying to 'free hand' a 4x8 foot piece of 3/4" plywood on a 7 hp table saw.  
    He was working 2nd shift and went to the shop (next door to our department) alone and managed to loft that 4x8 right into his forehead.  I imagine it happened pretty fast.  Good thing that the 'singing' of that saw vibrated the walls of the shop and the annoyed co-workers decided to come and see why the saw had been running continually for 20 minutes or so.  They found 'Ed' spalled out on the floor, unconscious in a pool of blood.  Got him hauled off to the ER.  The sad 'thing' was that not 5 feet away was a 'panel saw' for cutting sheets of ply.   He got worker's comp when he should have been canned. 
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  • NeoBlackdog
    I've used most of his techniques at one time or another in my nail-bending/wood butchering career.  The guy would be welcome on one of my job sites anytime!
    I just bought one of Skil's new beam saws for my upcoming house build.  It's an electric worm drive chainsaw, the Sawsquatch. 16" bar with 14 1/4" of cutting depth, 45 degree bevel, and unlike most saws of this type it has an oiler for the bar.  
    10 months and 10 days (but who's countin'!) and I'm puttin' 'er to the wood!

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  • pulsarnc

    Amazing skill set . I had a brother in law who was good enough with one he could build a set of kitchen cabinets with nothing more tha a square and his skill saw

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  • dreher
    That saw is big enough and bad enough I'm not sure I'm man enough!! 
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  • hillbille
    I've used most of his techniques at one time or another in my nail-bending/wood butchering career.  The guy would be welcome on one of my job sites anytime!
    I just bought one of Skil's new beam saws for my upcoming house build.  It's an electric worm drive chainsaw, the Sawsquatch. 16" bar with 14 1/4" of cutting depth, 45 degree bevel, and unlike most saws of this type it has an oiler for the bar.  
    10 months and 10 days (but who's countin'!) and I'm puttin' 'er to the wood!

     that right there, around my house, would just be an accident waiting to happen............
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  • Mr. Perfect
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    Just waiting on him to cut the back of his hand like Big Sky Redneck. Playing with power tools will bite eventually. I suggest a nice table saw.

    Exactly no one frames a house using a table saw.

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  • SCOUT5
    I'm a fair framing carpenter, I've done quite a bit of it.  With the right equipment I can build a pretty good set of cabinets, but I don't have that kind of shop set up.  I've thought about setting up a good wood shop, complete with a band saw mill so I can mill my own lumber.   I'm probably not going to do it but it's a thought.

    Most framing jobs I ended up being the saw man.   A lot of guys can drive nails and plum walls, but using a square to cut rafters, stairs and such isn't something they want to fool with.
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  • Mr. Perfect
    Sorry, Mr. P.  My post was quite a ways off-topic.

    You're fine FCD. It's all relevant.  :smiley:
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  • 4205raymond
    My dear friend Bill who fought in Normandy died last year at 93. He was a carpenter (shop steward etc) his whole life. Was working on a church roof (steeple?) I think with slate and standing board came loose and slid off. He drove wrecking hammer (I think the claws are straight an sharp) into roof and hung on four or five stories up until help could rescue him.
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  • lkannes

    Wow, I learned a lot in 20 minutes. I do have a worm drive skill saw like that except mine is not the light weight magnesium saw like his, it is a beast.

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  • select-fire
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    Exactly no one frames a house using a table saw.

    Funny I watched them build my home with one. Sure they had portable hand saws but the table saw was used also.

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  • Mr. Perfect
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    Exactly no one frames a house using a table saw.

    Funny I watched them build my home with one. Sure they had portable hand saws but the table saw was used also.


    Apparently you don't understand what framing is.
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  • select-fire
    Funny I watched them build my home with one. Sure they had portable hand saws but the table saw was used also.


    Apparently you don't understand what framing is.

    LMAO... I have built 2 new homes. Watched the builders bring in a huge table saw each time. Apparently you build differently but so say no one builds that way is not correct.  Each crew on both house also had a mitre ..or what I call a chop saw setup. :)

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  • Mr. Perfect
    Funny I watched them build my home with one. Sure they had portable hand saws but the table saw was used also.


    Apparently you don't understand what framing is.

    LMAO... I have built 2 new homes. Watched the builders bring in a huge table saw each time. Apparently you build differently but so say no one builds that way is not correct.  Each crew on both house also had a mitre ..or what I call a chop saw setup. :)


    You've "built" two homes but don't even know the difference between framing and other parts of construction.
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  • select-fire
    Funny I watched them build my home with one. Sure they had portable hand saws but the table saw was used also.


    Apparently you don't understand what framing is.

    LMAO... I have built 2 new homes. Watched the builders bring in a huge table saw each time. Apparently you build differently but so say no one builds that way is not correct.  Each crew on both house also had a mitre ..or what I call a chop saw setup. :)


    You've "built" two homes but don't even know the difference between framing and other parts of construction.
    Lmao at you.  Two brand new homes that were constructed completely..turnkey.  So don't run your mouth about how homes are constructed. Been there and done that. 


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  • Mr. Perfect
    select fire, noted house framer has spoken. It must be true.
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  • select-fire
    select fire, noted house framer has spoken. It must be true.

    Has experience hiring framers
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  • austin20
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    select fire, noted house framer has spoken. It must be true.

    Has experience hiring framers

    Aren’t you the guy with an exterior door, leading to your garage, in your dining room ?

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  • select-fire
    austin20 said:

    Aren’t you the guy with an exterior door, leading to your garage, in your dining room ?


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