hydraulic powered saw (pretty cool)

I’ve seen Ryobi’s cordless miter saw, but this is a cordless table saw

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Awesome! That design was way ahead of its time.

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How does the water enter? It’s a pretty forceful jet.

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yeah I’d imagine without that jet of water it probably wouldnt work that well. But the theory of it is pretty sound. You’d have to have some natural source of a pretty powerful stream of water.

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I don’t know. You could always get one of these. The giant hampster I mean. It wouldn’t be fair to expect the old lady to run that fast just to rip a board. :-)

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When they did Hydraulic Mining….they used progressive pipe reductions – each new length of pipe has a smaller and smaller id. This builds pressure in the lines as the water is forced more and more from behind. This could certainly power one of these – they used to blast away entire hillsides during the gold rush days. This would be a great sawmill for someone near water without electricity or a generator. I really enjoy these old designs….it is amazing how they got around not having high voltage….super strong small electric motors….all of the tech innovations we are so comfortable using today. A lot of us old timers can remember when lots of these innovations were discovered as quite a few of them have been made over the last 50 or so years.

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haha nice Andy. That thing is huge!

The video is awesome to see what they did back in the day, even the blacksmith shop. Thanks for posting this.

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that is one huge Rodent! :) haha

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Or a very small lady

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....and a very small sofa….

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What? No zero clearance insert? Where’s the blade guard? :-) That’s one awesome saw, though, and eco-friendly.

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Awesome.

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Really cool, thanks for posting.

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Has SawStop sued yet for not having their mechanism installed?

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Dak, that was a good one. Thanks.

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