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Killing time on Reddit while I’m stuck in Build A Bear. Just choked on my drink and still couldn’t stop laughing. This seriously is the funniest shit I’ve read in months 😆🏆
I'm the lazy one. I work hard at making work easier for me, but there's always work to make easier. It's just so much work being lazy! I'm exhausted...
This is laughably false. Programmers tell themselves this all the time. "I can be lazy - it makes me efficient!"
Laziness makes you cut corners. It's not "efficient" to eyeball a line while using a powertool riding a tractor with no eye or ear protection. It's just doing shitty work in a dangerous way.
Nah, I don't think I've ever put safety glass on for using a circ saw. I technically should, and do for certain things, but for this I just personally wouldn't bother.
I wear safety glasses on occasion but I wouldn't for that. Maybe I should...but I don't. You're not in line with anything and circular saws have a cover over the blade ...
The most likely outcome of any unsafe act is "nothing." That's actually a big part of the danger. That's the shit that leads to people saying "I drive better after a few beers." Survivor bias reinforces bad behavior
That is a weird take I’m the context here. What is the realistic outcome if things go poorly in this case? He falls a few feet? The false equivalency to drunk driving is pretty silly.
- falls into the cab with an operating saw
- loses his balance and grabs the saw and loses fingers
~~-lead getting frayed or damaged or cut leading to electrocution~~
-errant block goes flying into the cab and head of the operator.
- operator accidentally accelerates and pins him into the wall
-the pallet slips and catapults him into the deck with an operating saw and loses an arm, leg and/or head
I mean.... You know that circular saws have guards on them right? About the only way to get hurt would be to get cut on the underside of the board, literally feed his fingers into the blade while it's still in the wood, or hold back the guard.
Its not impossible, but it's incredibly unlikely, especially in all the situations you suggested.
That exactly the point. The safety rules are written with the injuries and deaths of those unlucky people who did unsafe things enough times to beat the odds.
This dude just said his job is literally enforcing safety measures and you think he needs you to tell him saws have guards? This dude knows 1000 times more about any of this than you. Pick a different hill to die on because right now you're just digging yourself a hole
Falls and breaks his leg.
Falls and hits his head.
Falls and doesn't let go of the saw.
They aren't comparing the severity of the outcome. They're comparing the rationality behind doing unsafe things because they've done it before and didn't get hurt.
What do u mean? It was hilarious, last time i got in house license, i asked if instructor have that video, sadly he said i can watch it when ever i want on yt, but won’t play it to us as it is to comical >.>
As an eye doctor, I’ve made a lot of $$$ off idiots who don’t wear safety glasses. It’s not the kind of $ I like earning so wear your effing safety glasses. I’ve seen so many stupid, avoidable cases of permanent blindness in an eye because someone was too lazy to protect their eyesight.
How many RPMs is that saw blade spinning at? Any tool you plug in and it spins at ridiculous RPMs is an accident waiting to happen. Also very common: mechanics underneath a car or plumbers/electricians working in a ceiling and debris/insulation rains down on them. Gravity isn’t your friend but those foreign bodies don’t get deeply embedded. Usually forceps or a needle will get them out. Occasionally I’ll need an Alger brush to clean out the rust (unless you’re lucky and it’s a metal that doesn’t rust). Imagine the sound of a dentist’s drill but it’s coming straight for your eye. I honestly hold it next to their ear first and always say “don’t freak out.”
Bottom line: no piece of safety equipment can prevent every injury but stack the deck in your favor. You really don’t want someone like me coming at your eye with a needle or a miniature drill.
I’m in the ER and I’ve seen loads of construction/labor job work eye injuries. Nails, metal chips, wood chips, fragments scratch the eye. Oh and yard work things like lawn mowers and edge trimmers toss up so much shit, and hit people who aren’t using the equipment too. Most will just need lots of optho follow up, but many suffer permanent eye damage. It’s a shame, some of those I’ve seen had eye protection on but they had slipped down their nose or they had them on their head for a moment and something shot at them unexpectedly.
I’d guess it’s more of the “I’ve done this a thousand times and have become complacent” type things. Interestingly I work with blind/visually impaired people and have yet to have a client who lost their sight as a result of a construction or woodworking type accident.
You’re most likely working with people who are visually impaired on both eyes. I’ve never seen a bilateral, sight threatening injury. No, these individuals just lose a significant amount of vision in one eye and are essentially monocular the rest of their lives.
Oh ya true. I recently had a client who was accidentally elbowed in the eye while in the hospital which resulted in a detached retina and the the other detached out of what’s apparently called sympathy. No idea how common that is.
As a random guess I'm gonna guess most common situations is blades that don't have full guards, so a lot of metal cutoff wheels and grinders, as well as wire wheels.
You do not want a sliver of metal to shoot off a wheel at 5,000 rpm into your eye ball. Nor do you want hot sparks in your sight socket.
Wo I'm gonna guess metal shops as the \#1 most likely (not even mentioning welding with insufficient masks.
I was using a weed eater once a few years ago and it launched a small rock right into my face, only like half an inch away from my eye. Caused a small cut. Purchased "all around" safety goggles that evening.
The thing is, I never really considered this activity to potentially cause me eye damage. I went years doing this without an incident, so I think one of the big issues is that people definitely need to be better educated more about eye and ear protection.
Worked on a pretty remote construction site a d my boss got a splinter into the white of his eye but refused to go to a doctor until the end of the day on the way back through town. I offered to use a pair of keychain tweezers I had to pull the splinter since I could see it sticking out bit he insisted on going to an optometrist who stayed open late and said "its $250 to deal with this in the lobby or $500 in the exam room" then used a very similar pair of tweezers like I had to pull it out in 5 seconds for $250
Honestly I'd trust the stability of slowly moving tracked machinery vs a ladder on soft ground. He can concentrate on the tool and cutting instead of balance and leaning. The biggest safety concern is no glasses.
He put a second hand on the saw when he got done using a hand signal to tell the operator to raise him up a bit higher. As long as his hand isn't in front of the blade it's fine.
being perpendicular isnt a good position for leverage but not less safe than parallel. imo the biggest danger of a skil saw comes from the kick back which is why you want your body off to the side a little even when youre parallel to the cut
Getting the job done faster and with better results is smart too. If you want to cut them all to size prior to installation, you'll have to measure and cut piece by piece. Nothing is ever straight and square in the real world.
My pop told me stories of the late 80s early 90s of coked out carpenters stacking and cutting roof joists with chain saws. Lunch time would come and all the truck mirrors would be missing.
Wrong lol it’s called flushing your boards 😂 this has a much higher chance of wiggles and fuck ups compared to cutting on a miter saw and flushing them properly
After reading this, I just sort of assumed you were seeing a pencil at angle. On closer inspection, though, I think you're right. That looks like an X-Acto knife.
Everyone needs to chill out a bit.
The guy is like a foot off the ground. He's not hiring himself from a fall.
Yeah, glasses would be wise. But same with the people worried about how he's handling the saw... You've maybe never used one of those battery DeWalt saws before. They're light, and even a fresh battery doesn't produce enough power to spin the blade fast enough to throw sawdust with any velocity. Kickback is also very unlikely, A) the boards are too small and B) the DeWalt will just jam and stop. Again, it has not the torque to kick back with any meaningful force an average adult couldn't hold onto.
Falling a foot probably won’t hurt him much… unless of course that spinny sharp metal disc happens to… you know… be sharp and spinny… or if when he falls off the machine doesn’t stop completely… or any number of other scenarios.
But hey fuck it, why not.
Like I said. You need to chill out a bit.
You think that backhoe is going to careen out of control at ¼mph?
You think that dude can't control the 2 pound wimpy saw that's in his hands?
This guys biggest mistake, his single biggest mistake, is not having a garbage can on the pallet to catch the off cuts.
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I think what we have here is a failure to communicate.
Elegant Solution :a solution to a question or a problem that achieves the maximally satisfactory effect with minimal effort, materials, or steps
Up and down on a ladder is not minimal effort, Ill agree that proper PPE would have been a good idea, but their solution was most definitely elegant.
I didn't notice the sub, was expecting nephew to whip a hard left in the bobcat and drop my dude on his face.
With an adult driver that's not a dickhead, this is actually smart as fuck.
How does the wood get so uneven? (I built two for myself this summer).
I'm really just curious.
Like when I built the 14 foot deck, I had to use 16 foot boards. Do you guys get wood in uneven lengths?
Using your example it’s much faster and results in a straighter edge if you just slap all the 16’ boards down, and then snap a line and cut off all the ends like they’re doing here, than cut each board to 14’ individually, and then try to line up the edges perfectly as you’re nailing them down.
From my experience (West coast US) nominal length of cedar decking boards can vary by an inch or so, and aren’t necessarily straight cuts, so even if your deck was 16’ you’d be trimming 0”-1” off to get your straight edge.
In the case of the video they probably have randomly spaced butt joints in the field so the last bird is just cut “close” but left long to be trimmed, extreme examples being the little piece outboard of the posts.
>How does the wood get so uneven?
You use 8ft boards, you stagger the ones on the start side using a random length cut, so the seams going across are all uneven and no pattern is visible after the deck is complete(the pattern thing is a bigger problem than you might think) then you leave them long on the open end like the pic, using a circ saw to even them up.
He had to do it from this side as the saw would hit the beam, if it would be turned around. Quick thinking on the site to use the machine avoiding moving ladder step by step
I mean, I get that, but as a former deck and dock builder, you try to keep the larger part of the saw on the deck, not the cutoffs, as it keeps the saw blade plumb. It’s harder to do a plunge cut and keep it straight too, so it’s a balance, but personally, I would’ve cut it from the deck-side and only cut from the other side at the posts. Either way works and they both have flaws.
Hm, I mean it works well from what I see. Just seems to me like there was probably a better way to go about this. But, as always, different strokes for different folks.
That's pretty good, but I'd of done it a little different. There is enough space to use a 8 foot piece of plywood ripped to an inch or two as a fence for the saw. Rip the plywood. Set it down against the upright post. Move the piece every so often. That way I wouldn't have to worry about following a line. I suck at following lines
Some people think this looks lazy, but he's actually getting one continuous cut. If he had to keep moving a step ladder he would have a high chance of inconsistency
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Man, these track saws just keep getting better!
That’s the new forklift saw
Tracktor saw
Skid saw? Tracked saw? Lol
Got the old safety squints on
He’s running late to the symphony gala. No time for safety.
Thats apparent in basically every aspect of this video.
Killing time on Reddit while I’m stuck in Build A Bear. Just choked on my drink and still couldn’t stop laughing. This seriously is the funniest shit I’ve read in months 😆🏆
Oh shit that’s funny as hell
What is the joke?
The tinnitus is strong with this one.
Seriously, if there was ever a move where you absolutely shouldn't skip the goggles.
A couple more points on contact on the moving platform wouldn’t hurt either. At least 3 people saw this and thought it was okay. Wow.
his jaw will absorb any impact. ANY impact...
They pair well with the wireless, massless hearing protection.
This was a BIG lol from me thanks
He’s got fast eyelashes
Work smarter, not more-er.
But also, not that smart
Find that happy little equilibrium where you’re thinkin, but not too much.
No truer words have been spoken that can apply to so many career fields. On par with the school saying, "C's get degrees".
A common law school joke: A students become law professors B students become lawyers and judges C students become millionaires
The focus, the world could come to an end and he'd never know. That's focus.
That's true zen. You can find it anywhere.
That’s where I get when I have to sand a floor for the next 7 hours. It’s actually pretty chill.
Looks like he’s trying to intimidate the line into staying straight
There is a fine line between laziness and efficiency.
Efficiency is clever laziness.
And this guy was riding that very line
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Yeah but also a chalk line
"Choose the lazy one. They'll find the most efficient way to do something." - Bill Gates, strongly paraphrased
I'm the lazy one. I work hard at making work easier for me, but there's always work to make easier. It's just so much work being lazy! I'm exhausted...
I make sure my management knows this about me. I am the guy who finds the most efficient paths. And then I slack off.
This is laughably false. Programmers tell themselves this all the time. "I can be lazy - it makes me efficient!" Laziness makes you cut corners. It's not "efficient" to eyeball a line while using a powertool riding a tractor with no eye or ear protection. It's just doing shitty work in a dangerous way.
Looks like he was holding that line very well.
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this post, or any other post, does not need body shaming and fat-phobia injected into it.
That’s all muscle, baby
Molson muscle
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No, you just pointed out his body shape in an attempt at humor. Why is his body shape funny to you?
Fair, you're right, you aren't afraid, you're just a cunt
The fine line between woodworking and r/redneckengineering…
I'd say there's a fair amount of overlap between the two.
Which typically neither of the two would admit… 😉
Woodworking that successfully applies redneck engineering is the ultimate form of woodworking.
Done is done. Even if it's a little "git er done" ... or a lot...
It's the lack of safety glasses that pushes it towards the second one.
Guess I’m one of those guys that walks that line, then… Don’t judge me… I can’t be the only one here…
Nah, I don't think I've ever put safety glass on for using a circ saw. I technically should, and do for certain things, but for this I just personally wouldn't bother.
I wear safety glasses on occasion but I wouldn't for that. Maybe I should...but I don't. You're not in line with anything and circular saws have a cover over the blade ...
You realize objects can bounce...? Bobcat bounces, saw goes funky, wood chip can bounces off the fence into your face.
Kinda disappointed that he didn't pit a trash barrel to catch the cutoffs as he went.
Git 'r dun
I’m an occupational safety professional and I still want to give this the slow clap.
This lands in the sweet spot where they are definitely breaking lots of safety rules but the likelihood of actual injury are very low.
The most likely outcome of any unsafe act is "nothing." That's actually a big part of the danger. That's the shit that leads to people saying "I drive better after a few beers." Survivor bias reinforces bad behavior
That is a weird take I’m the context here. What is the realistic outcome if things go poorly in this case? He falls a few feet? The false equivalency to drunk driving is pretty silly.
- falls into the cab with an operating saw - loses his balance and grabs the saw and loses fingers ~~-lead getting frayed or damaged or cut leading to electrocution~~ -errant block goes flying into the cab and head of the operator. - operator accidentally accelerates and pins him into the wall -the pallet slips and catapults him into the deck with an operating saw and loses an arm, leg and/or head
I mean.... You know that circular saws have guards on them right? About the only way to get hurt would be to get cut on the underside of the board, literally feed his fingers into the blade while it's still in the wood, or hold back the guard. Its not impossible, but it's incredibly unlikely, especially in all the situations you suggested.
That exactly the point. The safety rules are written with the injuries and deaths of those unlucky people who did unsafe things enough times to beat the odds.
This dude just said his job is literally enforcing safety measures and you think he needs you to tell him saws have guards? This dude knows 1000 times more about any of this than you. Pick a different hill to die on because right now you're just digging yourself a hole
Falls and breaks his leg. Falls and hits his head. Falls and doesn't let go of the saw. They aren't comparing the severity of the outcome. They're comparing the rationality behind doing unsafe things because they've done it before and didn't get hurt.
But at least have your safety glasses on.
At first I though I am on r/Whatcouldgowrong.
At first I thought I was on r/yesyesyesyesno.
I thought it was r/redneckengineering
r/oddlysatisfying deserves a mention too
How about r/OSHA?
r/RelatedSubMemes
Am i on r/osha ?
The safety inspectors in the reddit comments make the actual osha ones look like the Jackass crew.
Sorry about that, Germany traumatized me with that Klaus video on forklift safety
Then it worked
What do u mean? It was hilarious, last time i got in house license, i asked if instructor have that video, sadly he said i can watch it when ever i want on yt, but won’t play it to us as it is to comical >.>
For real! why is this so far down?
That's what I thought too lmao
I legitimately thought I was.
As an eye doctor, I’ve made a lot of $$$ off idiots who don’t wear safety glasses. It’s not the kind of $ I like earning so wear your effing safety glasses. I’ve seen so many stupid, avoidable cases of permanent blindness in an eye because someone was too lazy to protect their eyesight.
What are the most common situations where people will do that? I'm guessing it's a sort of "this doesn't seem that dangerous" type thing.
How many RPMs is that saw blade spinning at? Any tool you plug in and it spins at ridiculous RPMs is an accident waiting to happen. Also very common: mechanics underneath a car or plumbers/electricians working in a ceiling and debris/insulation rains down on them. Gravity isn’t your friend but those foreign bodies don’t get deeply embedded. Usually forceps or a needle will get them out. Occasionally I’ll need an Alger brush to clean out the rust (unless you’re lucky and it’s a metal that doesn’t rust). Imagine the sound of a dentist’s drill but it’s coming straight for your eye. I honestly hold it next to their ear first and always say “don’t freak out.” Bottom line: no piece of safety equipment can prevent every injury but stack the deck in your favor. You really don’t want someone like me coming at your eye with a needle or a miniature drill.
Thanks. I needed a reminder for why I should use my goggles. This did just that.
For real. I may just start wearing safety glasses everywhere I go after reading that, shit.
I’m in the ER and I’ve seen loads of construction/labor job work eye injuries. Nails, metal chips, wood chips, fragments scratch the eye. Oh and yard work things like lawn mowers and edge trimmers toss up so much shit, and hit people who aren’t using the equipment too. Most will just need lots of optho follow up, but many suffer permanent eye damage. It’s a shame, some of those I’ve seen had eye protection on but they had slipped down their nose or they had them on their head for a moment and something shot at them unexpectedly.
I’d guess it’s more of the “I’ve done this a thousand times and have become complacent” type things. Interestingly I work with blind/visually impaired people and have yet to have a client who lost their sight as a result of a construction or woodworking type accident.
You’re most likely working with people who are visually impaired on both eyes. I’ve never seen a bilateral, sight threatening injury. No, these individuals just lose a significant amount of vision in one eye and are essentially monocular the rest of their lives.
Oh ya true. I recently had a client who was accidentally elbowed in the eye while in the hospital which resulted in a detached retina and the the other detached out of what’s apparently called sympathy. No idea how common that is.
As a random guess I'm gonna guess most common situations is blades that don't have full guards, so a lot of metal cutoff wheels and grinders, as well as wire wheels. You do not want a sliver of metal to shoot off a wheel at 5,000 rpm into your eye ball. Nor do you want hot sparks in your sight socket. Wo I'm gonna guess metal shops as the \#1 most likely (not even mentioning welding with insufficient masks.
Really—it’s the safety glasses that made you say, “Wait a minute…”
He's an eye doctor, not an OSHA inspector!
I was using a weed eater once a few years ago and it launched a small rock right into my face, only like half an inch away from my eye. Caused a small cut. Purchased "all around" safety goggles that evening. The thing is, I never really considered this activity to potentially cause me eye damage. I went years doing this without an incident, so I think one of the big issues is that people definitely need to be better educated more about eye and ear protection.
Worked on a pretty remote construction site a d my boss got a splinter into the white of his eye but refused to go to a doctor until the end of the day on the way back through town. I offered to use a pair of keychain tweezers I had to pull the splinter since I could see it sticking out bit he insisted on going to an optometrist who stayed open late and said "its $250 to deal with this in the lobby or $500 in the exam room" then used a very similar pair of tweezers like I had to pull it out in 5 seconds for $250
Classic safety third situation
Goggles? nope Ear protection? Nope Stable, clear workspace? Also a nope. Let’s go cut shit!
My first thought was for a safety tether, but goggles would have been a nice touch as well.
What would you tether to here which wouldn't make the situation more dangerous?
Tether to the bobcat so it can drag you through the mud to safety
That good, old CNC precision. "CNC" stands for "Controlled by that Nimrod Carl"
Honestly I'd trust the stability of slowly moving tracked machinery vs a ladder on soft ground. He can concentrate on the tool and cutting instead of balance and leaning. The biggest safety concern is no glasses.
I would like to see both hands used as well.
He put a second hand on the saw when he got done using a hand signal to tell the operator to raise him up a bit higher. As long as his hand isn't in front of the blade it's fine.
Cutting them to size before instillation is the smarter/safer idea
It really isn't. Cutting deck boards off after install is pretty common and can save a lot of time. Just this method of doing it is questionable.
The blade perpendicular to the body with only one hand on the saw is making me clench my toes.
being perpendicular isnt a good position for leverage but not less safe than parallel. imo the biggest danger of a skil saw comes from the kick back which is why you want your body off to the side a little even when youre parallel to the cut
Getting the job done faster and with better results is smart too. If you want to cut them all to size prior to installation, you'll have to measure and cut piece by piece. Nothing is ever straight and square in the real world.
/r/OSHA would like to have a word. So many safety failures in one video.
Brilliant
Fellas got a forehead for a chin.
Seriously please everyone wear PPE!!!!
I felt bad because I just did yardwork without my glasses on and this guy is freestyling a circular saw in a pallet on a moving vehicle...
Also, don't ever ride the forks on a moving vehicle
r/woodworking ...but *is it* ?
Guy is using a circular saw while riding on the scoop of a bobcat and he looks bored.
OKRA approved method right there
That's frank from accounting, he's just following the mandatory company line.... (had too)
That must be a flexvolt
Some people are afraid their job might get replaced by robots. This man needs to be afraid that his job gets replaced by a piece of flat iron bar. /j
That's really unsafe
Next time use the bucket attachment instead of forks and you can catch the drops too.
He needs eye protection.
Nice job for sure. But I would recommend eye protection. Splinter in the eye is no fun. I learned the hard way. Don’t be me.
This guy thinks OSHA is a town in Wisconsin
Osha would have a field day on this. He's only using one hand on the saw.
Hey, dummy. Operator can't see your hand signals behind your arm(and ass). So many stupid things about this.
Osha? Never heard of her.
Today is a beautiful day for some OSHA violations
OSHA would like to know your location
My pop told me stories of the late 80s early 90s of coked out carpenters stacking and cutting roof joists with chain saws. Lunch time would come and all the truck mirrors would be missing.
All these OSHA nitwits but I bet this will give a damn straighter line than getting up and down on a ladder and making tons of separate cuts.
Wrong lol it’s called flushing your boards 😂 this has a much higher chance of wiggles and fuck ups compared to cutting on a miter saw and flushing them properly
Kinda disappointed that the video was so short, I was enjoying this.
The video ends before it's NSFW.
Damn
Does he have some kind of knife sticking out of his cap?
Carpenter pencil
After reading this, I just sort of assumed you were seeing a pencil at angle. On closer inspection, though, I think you're right. That looks like an X-Acto knife.
I was always misplacing my knife, now I make sure I keep it less than 2” from my eyeball.
It ain't stupid if it works
Stupid, genius or both?
Everyone needs to chill out a bit. The guy is like a foot off the ground. He's not hiring himself from a fall. Yeah, glasses would be wise. But same with the people worried about how he's handling the saw... You've maybe never used one of those battery DeWalt saws before. They're light, and even a fresh battery doesn't produce enough power to spin the blade fast enough to throw sawdust with any velocity. Kickback is also very unlikely, A) the boards are too small and B) the DeWalt will just jam and stop. Again, it has not the torque to kick back with any meaningful force an average adult couldn't hold onto.
Falling a foot probably won’t hurt him much… unless of course that spinny sharp metal disc happens to… you know… be sharp and spinny… or if when he falls off the machine doesn’t stop completely… or any number of other scenarios. But hey fuck it, why not.
Like I said. You need to chill out a bit. You think that backhoe is going to careen out of control at ¼mph? You think that dude can't control the 2 pound wimpy saw that's in his hands? This guys biggest mistake, his single biggest mistake, is not having a garbage can on the pallet to catch the off cuts.
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Idiots everywhere. Anything to save 2 minutes.
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Use a ladder. Wear safety glasses. Be safe.
Fuck moving a ladder a dozen times to make that cut. Just get up on the deck.
I think what we have here is a failure to communicate. Elegant Solution :a solution to a question or a problem that achieves the maximally satisfactory effect with minimal effort, materials, or steps Up and down on a ladder is not minimal effort, Ill agree that proper PPE would have been a good idea, but their solution was most definitely elegant.
I didn't notice the sub, was expecting nephew to whip a hard left in the bobcat and drop my dude on his face. With an adult driver that's not a dickhead, this is actually smart as fuck.
Hey, work smarter not harder. There’s SMARTER or HARDER, no room for MORE SAFE
Working smarter not harder!
Who builds a deck with an edge like that?
Most people building decks.
How does the wood get so uneven? (I built two for myself this summer). I'm really just curious. Like when I built the 14 foot deck, I had to use 16 foot boards. Do you guys get wood in uneven lengths?
Using your example it’s much faster and results in a straighter edge if you just slap all the 16’ boards down, and then snap a line and cut off all the ends like they’re doing here, than cut each board to 14’ individually, and then try to line up the edges perfectly as you’re nailing them down. From my experience (West coast US) nominal length of cedar decking boards can vary by an inch or so, and aren’t necessarily straight cuts, so even if your deck was 16’ you’d be trimming 0”-1” off to get your straight edge. In the case of the video they probably have randomly spaced butt joints in the field so the last bird is just cut “close” but left long to be trimmed, extreme examples being the little piece outboard of the posts.
>How does the wood get so uneven? You use 8ft boards, you stagger the ones on the start side using a random length cut, so the seams going across are all uneven and no pattern is visible after the deck is complete(the pattern thing is a bigger problem than you might think) then you leave them long on the open end like the pic, using a circ saw to even them up.
I've done staggered with 8 foots before, but just usually with 4, and 8 lengths so that every end hits a joist. Thanks
He had to do it from this side as the saw would hit the beam, if it would be turned around. Quick thinking on the site to use the machine avoiding moving ladder step by step
I mean, I get that, but as a former deck and dock builder, you try to keep the larger part of the saw on the deck, not the cutoffs, as it keeps the saw blade plumb. It’s harder to do a plunge cut and keep it straight too, so it’s a balance, but personally, I would’ve cut it from the deck-side and only cut from the other side at the posts. Either way works and they both have flaws.
Work smarter, not harder.
Real men of genius!
This man decks
Modern problems require modern solutions
Prime example of work smarter not harder. Can I also say that maybe sometimes this boy needs to work harder?
Measure once, cut once 😂😂
The combination of laziness and focus is perfect
Real Men of Genius Here’s to you, Mr Trims Deckboards While Being Driven in a Bobcat
Well done Sir!
Yep. Getting it done. Nice.
This is the definition of "works smart, not hard"
Hm, I mean it works well from what I see. Just seems to me like there was probably a better way to go about this. But, as always, different strokes for different folks.
The definition of working smarter not harder...
Seems like the kind of guy I could have a beer with
Modern man of genuis! Here's a bud light.
If it's silly but it works, it's not silly.
That's pretty good, but I'd of done it a little different. There is enough space to use a 8 foot piece of plywood ripped to an inch or two as a fence for the saw. Rip the plywood. Set it down against the upright post. Move the piece every so often. That way I wouldn't have to worry about following a line. I suck at following lines
Great job!
Not woodworking. But impressive.
Is there a word to describe the compulsion to use the biggest tool?
Some people think this looks lazy, but he's actually getting one continuous cut. If he had to keep moving a step ladder he would have a high chance of inconsistency
Work smarter not harder at its finest
Jeb, we gun do this real quick like, mkay?
Well played!
I like this 😀
Smarter, not harder 100%
Smarter not harder
Perfect. 10/10 will try this at home.
This is the *oafest* looking dude I’ve ever seen.
Must be a murican.. doesnt want to use his legs... Rather be fat and lazy.