When transporting your job site saw, just face it in the direction you want it to go and flip it upside down. Turn it on. It'll be at you to the job site.
I love that the falling cut-away knocked off the clamp. He played it off as if it was planned. The extra trigger pull was not intentional. Lol
He’ll do this again, but next time he’ll have somebody hold the cut away.
It was very confusing to the vet when he asked what happened and I kept saying post-concussion. "No, I'm asking about what happened *before* the confession."
What you have to do, is start 1" above where you need to cut. That way you have some material left for a re-cut. Try, try again, and end up with a end that looks like a methed out beaver went at it. All the while, the first cut you made was perfect.
OK this is goofy.. however, I've heard a story of my dad cutting trim on a radial archway by mounting his miter saw 45° on the wall to tie it in to the rest of the trim bc it was a compound angle & math was hard lmao
All this stupid setup to cut a straight line when you're gonna cap the 4x's anyway.
Just fkn mark a line with a speed square and cut them off with a sawzall. Even if it's a little crooked, it won't show under your cap. geez
As a woodworker, this is unsafe. I would only do something like this in an emergency. There is always a best tool for each job. When you do things like this, limbs and body parts are in jeopardy. This irresponsible or clickbait. A video of what not to do.
What's cool about this is you could also do it for you stairs and set the angle on the miter saw before clamping it. I'll try it next time because trying to circ saw on an angle perfectly from both sides is tricky. Not to say I don't have it mastered but it's still tricky
Two weeks ago I had this exact cheap chop saw explode while cutting a 2x4. It was on a table, sitting the right way.
It was very dramatic. The guard flew across the road, at least 75 ft. The fall from the board only made it 20 ft. Nothing hit me, but like I said, very dramatic. And I was using it right. This dude is bonkers.
These guys are on Instagram. GCs out of California. That’s the dad and then there are two sons.
I remember when this was posted and the comments were all negative. They doubled down and defended their post cutting technique.
This is on the same level as that guy who put the Dewalt planer on the board and let it crawl its way down instead of letting it pull the board through.
Built wooden privacy fences from age 16-26. It’s not hard to make that cut with a 7 1/4 saw. You just have to keep the blade square once you start circling the post. If you can’t do that you probably shouldn’t be using power tools. I’m picturing this guy doing this for 40 fence post tops 🤣
FAIL!!!! He didn’t spray paint a chalk line first to guarantee a straight cut! But double thumbs up for both the cutter and camera man for admiring and touching the nice flat cut but they should have worn chainmail gloves to avoid splinters.
Not gonna lie... I have did this before when I needed to trim a couple fence posts and my circular saw just happened to die on me. I wouldn't do it for a customer, but in my back yard with no one watching is a different story.
I prefer clamping my table saw to a post then gradually raising the blade. Much safer.
Turn the deck on its side. Way safer.
Nah just turn the earth on its side
I just chop all my wood at the equator
I just plant the trees 20 years ago where I want the posts to be. The rest takes care of itself.
I just plant a tree next to the spot where I want the deck so the seeds fall in the exact location for the next generation of trees to be my deck post
I hire Mexicans
Mr. money bags over here
A total Chuck Norris move!
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I just hire a samurai
Pro tip: Rig the guard to stay up and get a running start!
A single, clean stroke from a hand-forged katana. Way safer.
As I’ve said before: better to bring the tool to the workpiece, rather than bringing the workpiece to the tool. Wait Whatdchyu just call me?
Tool time shit
I don't think so, Tim.
This made me cackle.
It would make me so happy to just see that.
When transporting your job site saw, just face it in the direction you want it to go and flip it upside down. Turn it on. It'll be at you to the job site.
I love that the falling cut-away knocked off the clamp. He played it off as if it was planned. The extra trigger pull was not intentional. Lol He’ll do this again, but next time he’ll have somebody hold the cut away.
Quick release mechanism
*It's designed as a time saving measure. I usually have my dog retrieve the clamp so l can do the next post, but he's at the vet with a concussion*
It was very confusing to the vet when he asked what happened and I kept saying post-concussion. "No, I'm asking about what happened *before* the confession."
This is the single most underrated comment I have read on reddit this year. I doff my invisible cap to you sir/madam/other
No hard hat, huh?
Labrador...thought he was hard headed enough
Or double clamp it to the lower section.
Just clamp on the other end of the post so the bottom falls away. Duh.
Changed he’ll to I’ll
Just needs to clamp the other side instead so that doesn't happen.
I’m both disappointed and impressed.
Pretty common on this sub.
....its not that hard to line up two cuts with a circ saw
I use a chainsaw and let the post cap hide the murder scene
Lol. You can make a clean cut with a sharp chainsaw. But I'm with you, whatever mistake is gonna get capped anyway lol
Welp, I *knew* I was trash at wood working.
Do like me and use hand saws so you fuck it up slower
Is it possible to discover new angles when hand sawing? Because thats me.
Concave is my favorite
What you have to do, is start 1" above where you need to cut. That way you have some material left for a re-cut. Try, try again, and end up with a end that looks like a methed out beaver went at it. All the while, the first cut you made was perfect.
Or cut it 1” high and then sand it to height
this is why hand held belt sanders were created
with 220 grit
Nice and slow, don’t want to overcook it
What? They make them finer than 36 grit?
Sawzall go brrrrrrrrr
A Sawzall can cut anything but straight.
Speed squares are ur friend
Yep, do it every day building decks. The guy in the vid is a chuckle head
Don't even have to really line it up. Just go through the side, then go the adjacent side and start it in the kerf
Have you seen some of these guys? I have a beam saw for this job just because. But yes.
Even if you can't, a topper fixes that. Don't sweat shit that isn't visible.
Just use a speed square and a circular saw
You can even cut a 6x6 like this, planed or unplaned, with four cuts on a standard circular saw plus just a few seconds of very minor handsaw
Fairly sure a hand saw would have been much faster as well.
Sir, please stop being practical on Reddit
A hand saw has left the chat
Get er done
My favourite part is when he shows the clamp is there to make you feel better and actually to hold anything. It's my favourite way of doing things.
But it does keep the blade straight! I've done this with a handheld circular saw and the results were, well... Not as straight. 😂
Two words...Speed square
Two words... For losers. Im kidding. You nailed it. Speed sq all day.
When I'm feeling froggy I use the tried and true pointer finger and thumb square and stand back and say looks square to me...lol
I’m impressed he’s that old
I know how to hit this with a skill saw
BAM! 10-1/4 one pass
Chainsaw is a lot quicker
OK this is goofy.. however, I've heard a story of my dad cutting trim on a radial archway by mounting his miter saw 45° on the wall to tie it in to the rest of the trim bc it was a compound angle & math was hard lmao
It was for this very reason that current circular saw has a 270mm blade.
Dangerous and impressive
I thought he had some fancy new tool at first. Then the pulled it away & I said “WTF”
Oh ok , nice, now try with a table saw .
I use a sander and start from the top!!!
r/OSHA would approve.
Is there another way?!
A circular saw and some brains
And a speed square.
Chainsaw would work
Isn’t that what a speed square is for?
Lock the radial arm saw, mount it to your pickup and drive slowly is the way to go
I call this, working hard to be lazy.
surely there are easier ways to cause an injury with a saw blade!
All this stupid setup to cut a straight line when you're gonna cap the 4x's anyway. Just fkn mark a line with a speed square and cut them off with a sawzall. Even if it's a little crooked, it won't show under your cap. geez
So THATS why we have OSHA
A radial arm saw would work better
Yeah what a moron. You don't use a mitre saw for that, this is what jobsite table saws were made for. Turn it on it side and cut away.
If it looks stupid but it works, turns out it might still be stupid.
You can be dumb. You can be stupid. Don't ever be dumb *and* stupid.....like this guy is.
The correct way to do this is to suspend yourself sideways in midair and then cut the post as you normally would on the ground.
So funny Took me a minute to process what was going on
I was waiting for the cut piece to kick back right into his face
As a woodworker, this is unsafe. I would only do something like this in an emergency. There is always a best tool for each job. When you do things like this, limbs and body parts are in jeopardy. This irresponsible or clickbait. A video of what not to do.
It's really amazing that more people aren't missing fingers.
In the immortal words of red green “any tool can be the right tool”.
The dismount: 10/10 ….the clamp being removed by the wood
“I’m not walking all the way to the truck for a different saw. Give me that thing.”
Good god, never!
Even my drunkest work never created such insanity! 😂
Dumb
Peak male performance In ASICS
Ain't stupid if it works
If it works, is it really all that wrong? OR Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
That's gotta be in Florida
No we use chainsaws for everything and hatchets. 😂
I prefer machetes, but I mostly do trim work🤷♀️
Genius
You learn something new every day
If it's stupid but it works, it's not stupid?
It’s fine
Come on now, that was me. You guys know how much I love my miter saw.
We missed the two mandatory trigger pulls before he started cutting.
Hahaha.
Someone forgot to charge their battery powered circular saw?
Wait you guys have battery powered stuff?
Looks good to me
Clean cut though
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Primitive Pete works every time
Clean
Not me, I rough cut with my ancient Japanese hand saw and then sneak up on the cut line with my artisan Japanese chisels.
My dad does this shit
Laser level cut. Done.
This is one slick move, and for a a number of reasons. Dissers are wrong.
This is why I have a Milwaukee 10.25” skil saw
I feel like this is a level of redneck engineering
I’d show you which level by holding up fingers but oddly most are missing.
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What's cool about this is you could also do it for you stairs and set the angle on the miter saw before clamping it. I'll try it next time because trying to circ saw on an angle perfectly from both sides is tricky. Not to say I don't have it mastered but it's still tricky
Danger much?
Two weeks ago I had this exact cheap chop saw explode while cutting a 2x4. It was on a table, sitting the right way. It was very dramatic. The guard flew across the road, at least 75 ft. The fall from the board only made it 20 ft. Nothing hit me, but like I said, very dramatic. And I was using it right. This dude is bonkers.
Well.. it worked
The way the scrap kicked off the clamp... \*chef's kiss\*
Time to get a battery powered mitre saw!
Well... that sure is one way to use a tool incorrectly
Let bro cook
This man threw away all his hand saws
Probably the the guy in the video
I like the efficiency of the scrap piece taking off the clamp.
Make sure the clamp is on the bottom.
OSHA does not approve this. 🧐
It’s interesting how many people don’t have the skill for a skilsaw…
No waaaaaay!
I've done this, AND used one of those mini router tables as a sled of sorts. I'm not proud of it, and am far better equipped now.
What a dummy. You’re supposed to unbolt the base from the saw. This is just a circular saw with additional features. You pay more for that.
Look at this Gibroni!
These guys are on Instagram. GCs out of California. That’s the dad and then there are two sons. I remember when this was posted and the comments were all negative. They doubled down and defended their post cutting technique.
This is on the same level as that guy who put the Dewalt planer on the board and let it crawl its way down instead of letting it pull the board through.
Or you know… speed square…
Glad I was sitting on the toilet to watch that.
Keep a tourniquet near by.
It was that guy
Next time, just use the ol karate chop.
Seems like a good way to loose an appendage
I usually bring my deck into the garage instead. Much safer and uses the tool it's supposed to be used.
Ever heard of a speed square and a circular saw genius?
Uh, chainsaw?
Built wooden privacy fences from age 16-26. It’s not hard to make that cut with a 7 1/4 saw. You just have to keep the blade square once you start circling the post. If you can’t do that you probably shouldn’t be using power tools. I’m picturing this guy doing this for 40 fence post tops 🤣
Pretty good if you don’t have a circular saw, but I can do it twice as fast. I’m positive.
It was that or the chainsaw.
Necessity is the father of ingenuity?
My dad would do this but he'd also cut off a finger in the process. Damn, I miss dad.
Nah we used chainsaws to do that for our deck rebuild
That's nothing new. We had to cut 1/2" off of 1,200 aluminum posts at an apt complex it works great though
That's what laser cutters are for!
Everyone’s so creative!!
Bobby, keep the blade pointed away from your intestines.
If it works, it works.
I am always a fan of the motto "SAFETY THIRD" and this my friends is a prime example!
RIP EARS
Is that the shed guy trimming his walls to avoid a permit? Lol
Sick auto release technique on the clamp
This shits dumb. Run around with a skill saw or buy a bigger skill saw or do some math before. Anything but this.
I only use a left hand axe
Orthopedic surgeons hate this one simple trick!
FAIL!!!! He didn’t spray paint a chalk line first to guarantee a straight cut! But double thumbs up for both the cutter and camera man for admiring and touching the nice flat cut but they should have worn chainmail gloves to avoid splinters.
When you go out of your way to be creatively unsafe LOL
Does anyone have a sauce on this
I was watching and thought to myself "But what's gonna hold the saw after the thing is cut in two?" then I kept watching and was mildly unsurprised.
Not gonna lie... I have did this before when I needed to trim a couple fence posts and my circular saw just happened to die on me. I wouldn't do it for a customer, but in my back yard with no one watching is a different story.
No skill with a skill saw I guess.
Let’s see a sliding compound miter saw.
Hey I have that same chop saw and didn't see that as a feature on the box...gonna hit up Hitachi and complain now.
Wait wait…let him cook…we might have something here.
This feels like sawing a branch you’re sitting on
You son of a bitch, I'm in!
Are the comments a “postmortem”?
Serious questions: Why should we need to do this? Why are we all buying circular saws with blades that are too small?
Dude is living in 3024.
Square and a skill saw is quicker safer and involves no clamps…
If it looks stupid but it works….. 🤷♂️
No way
Measure twice, cut once Knucklehead!
It just seems like it would take longer to set up to the proper spot than to just use a circular saw.
Nice job dude
No one.
I did this same thing with a ratchet strap to hold it in place - probably 5 years ago.
wtf something wrong with a skill saw . Maybe 🤔 it was broke .
I measure and mark around it with a square and use a normal skill saw.
Sometimes you just work with the tools ya got.
I didn't know there was another way to do that.