Amazing Tools #4: cedar shake saws

holy carp
wonder how many people have been dismembered by machines like that -.-

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Wow. I was nervous just watching it. Could NOT do that for a living!

...and proper shakes are riven with a froe, the old-fashioned way. ;)

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omg, every time he reaches and then cuts the one in front of him at the same time i shriek, haha….anyone know on average how much you get paid to do something like that?? better have goooood insurance, and even if so, i don’t think six figures would even be worth it once u make that first mistake….guys have to be losing arms/hands/digits yearly (maybe even monthly, or daily?? lol)

Probably a min wage job:-(( Remind me of a friend who was building his house. He was hand splittliing shakes. An old man from the area came by, watched him for a while, then ask if he knew what was wrong with hnis shakes? Mark asked, “No, what wrong with them?” The old man said youi’re gonna have to replace them in about a hunderd years ;-)

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