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  1. 03-23-2013, 7:52 AM #1
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    See that pic in FW Yikes!

    Guess that's a home-made Table Saw.

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  3. 03-23-2013, 9:05 AM #2
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    Is it the April edition?
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  4. 03-23-2013, 9:16 AM #3
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    Not so long ago I got a thick aluminum plate from my FIL. With a heavy "skilsaw" mounted to it. the blade passed though a slot in it. This was the "tablesaw" FIL and his brothers used to build houses on Milwaukee's south side 50 or so years ago. The first thing I did was detach that saw and take the aluminum plate to a recycle yard. The saw itself ended up similarly. It was a heavy cast aluminum behemoth.

    Today I find it incredible that he and his brothers didn't have any missing digits or limbs. All of them passed away from old age.
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  5. 03-23-2013, 11:21 AM #4
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    Guess that answers my question...

    This guy is really that stupid and lazy to set something like this up to cut potatoes.
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  6. 03-23-2013, 11:31 AM #5
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    I'm missing something here, that's not an ordinary tablesaw, and he is not cutting wood. What is the rest of the story?
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  7. 03-23-2013, 2:21 PM #6
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    It looks like he's cutting Tagua nuts. I do like the finger protection😧
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  8. 03-23-2013, 2:53 PM #7
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    Correct - those are Tagua nuts.

    The craftsman is from Ecuador, and the email is from the FWW email "eletter" that was sent today.

    Edit: Now that you know that the guy is from Ecuador, I wouldn't consider it "stupid" but more like resourceful to make a living!
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  9. 03-23-2013, 3:33 PM #8
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    Right up until the time that's his fingers on the table and not the nuts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Day View Post
    Correct - those are Tagua nuts.

    The craftsman is from Ecuador, and the email is from the FWW email "eletter" that was sent today.

    Edit: Now that you know that the guy is from Ecuador, I wouldn't consider it "stupid" but more like resourceful to make a living!
    Wow, how is stupid and resourceful interchangeable based on where you live?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard Wolf View Post
    Wow, how is stupid and resourceful interchangeable based on where you live?
    When you don't have a Woodcraft on the corner to sell you a Sawstop.
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  12. 03-23-2013, 5:19 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by johnny means View Post
    When you don't have a Woodcraft on the corner to sell you a Sawstop.
    +1. We should be thankful for all that we have.

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  13. 03-23-2013, 8:19 PM #12
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    Well, at least he's not in any danger of a kick back with that set up. And he's wearing duck tape finger extenders, so what's the real danger?
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    Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be a hard a$$ or anything, but this does not pass any logic of resourcefulness I know of.

    The blade it turning towards him...if he gets his metal wrapped finger between that and the metal thing there, I'm pretty sure the metal isn't going to be a match for the blade.

    I'd be curious what the rest of the article was. Surely FWW wasn't advocating his resourcefulness
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    Quote Originally Posted by John McClanahan View Post
    +1. We should be thankful for all that we have.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy Turner View Post
    Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be a hard a$$ or anything, but this does not pass any logic of resourcefulness I know of.
    Have you ever literally had no food to eat? People in third world counties do worse stuff than this to survive.
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