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u/Lanky-Scientist-5137 23h ago
Once sparks start flying, it's time to see what the hell is going on, not try to power through.
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u/Mypopsecrets 22h ago
"Hmmm, dis wood spicy"
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u/bierbottle 22h ago
„Haha saw goes brrrrr“
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u/Quick_Extension_3115 21h ago
Meanwhile in OOP’s headphones:
🎶 Making my way downtown! 🎶
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u/CYBERSson 19h ago
Nah it’s just an Ash tree
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u/SpeakToMePF1973 18h ago
Or Iron bark. (an Australian hardwood)
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u/Kelevra_55 14h ago
Ipe will fuck a blade up go, too. I got laid off from a job just before the contactor I worked for did a deck in it. I've heard that sparks, too, whilst fucking up your blade
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u/-UsernameHere 19h ago
What kind of fucking moron finds this much resistance and sparks and goes 'oh well must be this iron-wood i hear so much about'.
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u/Burakkurozu9 22h ago
The beginning really confused me. Never seen sparks when cutting wood. Only ever seen it when sharpening lawnmower blades.
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u/movzx 21h ago
If you're only buying new dimensioned lumber you probably won't run into nails. If you're buying live edge or reclaimed wood, nails can be an issue. You would run a magnet or metal detector over the piece to check.
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u/skccsk 20h ago
You would. The guy in the video wood not
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens 16h ago
The dude can drop $900 on a Festool circular saw and another few grand on a sawdust vac system, but is too dumb to use a proper bench or realize he's hacking through a forklift.
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u/Why_Did_Bodie_Die 11h ago
A guy can be on reddit for over 8 years and have over 1 million karma points (WTF dude?) and still be to dumb to realize a video is staged.
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u/damsie101 20h ago
Found a flattened pipe inside a sheet of plywood once. That was a fun morning in the shop
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u/Early_Koala327 15h ago
But wouldn't nails be a quick spark? And not continuous sparking?
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u/BodaciousBadongadonk 15h ago
Congratulations, you are confirmed smarter than the fella in the video!
"Well i must just be cutting it perfectly lengthwise" he mustve thought lol.
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u/Burakkurozu9 20h ago
That makes sense. I've mostly used dimensional lumber so that would explain why I've never seen a nail. I guess every time I've ever put or seen a nail in a tree, there would always be a protruding head to yank it out when you needed to so it never crossed my mind that people would leave nails after cutting down the tree.
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u/JeanArtemis 20h ago
I honestly thought he was cutting through the guide rail lol
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u/Burakkurozu9 20h ago
That was my first thought, but then I thought that would make no sense as it defeats the purpose of the guide rail lol.
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u/mxzf 18h ago
Nah, I don't think an aluminum rail would spark like that.
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u/Emperor_Palpatine_2 14h ago
It would not. You can actually cut it fine with a typical for-wood carbide blade, you just have to go slowly. I've run a ton of aluminum through my chop saw.
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u/GoatCovfefe 18h ago
Ive cut wood straight from the sawmill when i was in a technical high school.
We hit bullets twice, two separate occasions. Thats always fun.
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u/Odd-Ad-8822 20h ago
I helped a friend cut the black locust trusses from the roof of his old house and we raised the roof (literally lol). He used a chainsaw and I held the ends that came off. That wood sparked when he cut it. It was insane.
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u/mandelbrots 18h ago
I saw sparks one time when I was cutting the forks on my forklift.
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u/TheEldenRang 18h ago
Are you confused as to how metal might get into a tree? 🤨 There are a ton of ways.
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u/lackadaisical_timmy 20h ago
I was gonna say, that's one hell of a nail if it takes that long
Say goodbye to your blade, and apparently the forklift ... Spoon? What're they called in English
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u/el_babo 19h ago
Forks
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u/lackadaisical_timmy 18h ago
Well that makes sense lol
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u/Attention_Bear_Fuckr 15h ago
This is the best thing I've read all week.
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u/lackadaisical_timmy 9h ago
Lol
In my defense, they're called "fork lift trucks" in my language and the things in the front are called spoons xD
Didn't realise how dumb it is until now. But also, the word is literally just loaned from English. Dunno who came up with spoons tho
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u/el_smurfo 20h ago
If I could afford a Festool tracksaw, I'd be worried about using it even on wood. Would probably just put it on the shelf as a display.
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u/Distantstallion 22h ago edited 22h ago
Depending on the blade you can just send it
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u/nostrathomas85 22h ago
I think if he didn't stop it was going to cut it clean off. That's impressive for a blade meant for wood
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u/Koolguy007 21h ago
Probably a carbide tipped blade. I have one from Diablo that is made specifically for metal, but works great as a wood blade. I'd put it halfway between a roughing and finish cut. Looking at other Diablo wood blades, I think they would probably eat metal too if persuaded.
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u/Tirace33 18h ago
If only this video wasn't made to rage bait people and get view from their reactions. Then yes.
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u/DeltaBravo831 17h ago
Yeah i wanna know what the dude was thinking when the wood started throwing hot metal shavings everywhere
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u/rustRoach 15h ago
This makes me think of the time my grandad was drilling a hole in the wall and hit steel. So he removed the masonry bit and used a metal drill bit to successfully drill a hole in the galvanised steel pipe.
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u/zirky 22h ago
at least he was being irresponsible with a really expensive tool
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u/deepasleep 22h ago
The fact it didn’t let smoke out after that abuse is a testament to the quality.
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u/DanKoloff 22h ago edited 22h ago
the disk is the real winner here, disks for wood tend to deform and break when used on metal
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u/feralwolven 17h ago
Yeah, im surprised it lasted this long. I cut half inch aluminum with a regular circular saw for specific fixtures, but forks are a differnt ball game.
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u/LoganNolag 20h ago
Depends on the metal you can usually cut aluminum just fine with a wood blade.
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u/aint_no_throw 20h ago
Rednecking carbide tipped blade through mild steel is manageable, unless you try to nibble a solid one inch chunk.
Take a closer look at the fork - Its not solid like a forklift fork, its more like bent sheet metal of a pallet truck.
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u/thickbeardgoggles 16h ago
First, it’s an ad for the tool if that wasn’t clear enough. Second, that is definitely the solid fork of a reach truck.
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u/Tomsboll 16h ago
Festool is like THE wood worker brand. Many great tool, but best palm sander will forever be mirka tho.
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u/gamingonion 22h ago
"I've never seen wood make sparks before, but I'm sure it's not an issue."
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u/TheLazyAssHole 22h ago
I guess you’ve never tried to cut Mesquite…. But that’s certainly not the problem here.
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u/exipheas 22h ago edited 19h ago
Osage orange will do it too because the wood has natural silica deposits in it. So when you feel like you are trying to cut stone while you are working it... in a way you are. Janka harness over 2,600.
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u/gratusin 21h ago
My buddy has some Osage orange growing on his property and asked if I could make some picture frames for him. They look nice, but I’m not doing that again. Dulled the hell out of my blades.
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u/exipheas 21h ago
Yea. I have always been curious about using it for a baseball bat but I have never had the desire to put in the effort. It would be super strong, have the flex needed to not shatter, and it would let you put more weight at the tip. But damn it is it a pain to work with, you're almost better off hitting it with a masonry grinding wheel or something.
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u/gratusin 19h ago
I bet it would make a great baseball bat. It was probably the most prized wood for making bows by native tribes, so the flex has to be on point and it’s as you said ridiculously high on janka scale, but making it would be the problem.
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u/197326485 15h ago
When I first started woodworking one of my first projects I thought "Oh, purpleheart will look real cool" so I bought a slab. It was beautiful, but what I'd gotten was a particularly dense and particularly resinous species that smelled like vomit when being cut, so not only did it dull every blade I used on it almost immediately, it also made my brand new workshop stink like throw-up for a year. It also loaded sandpaper super fast and I went through so many sanding discs.
0/10 don't recommend.
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u/Raneynickelfire 20h ago
I once had to cut a 5"x5" chunk of lignum vitae on a bandsaw.
3 (new) blades later, I got thru it, and mostly straight. No sparks, but the shit just wouldn't cut.
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u/Shaggy_One 19h ago
I've definitely hit a nail or bullet before. Unless you hit the nail straight on it never sparks this much. Quick short stream of spark and done.
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u/Justeff83 22h ago
Festool commercial?
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u/7Drew1Bird0 22h ago
If festool made the blade, it's a good promotional demonstration
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u/total_looser 18h ago
Festool saws have a specific arbor size so you can only use Festool blades on them
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u/rogamot520 18h ago edited 18h ago
They have European arbor size, lots of other blades fit.
But what does suck is that they use blades just a tad smaller than 6 1/2" (165mm). They use 160mm blades. You can put in 6 1/2 blades but the riving knife won't work.
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u/thuskjaer 8h ago
They do work, the first blade you use will just have to do some "modification" to the riving knife.
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u/MrPenisWhistle 22h ago
I can't even tell anymore, they've been sponsoring so many woodworking creators. Not that I'm bothered about it, never gonna be able to afford them anyways.
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u/SleeplessInS 22h ago
Their track saws are everywhere, but my WEN track saw performs just as well for a $100 investment. Festool is quite pricy and hyped up.
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u/movzx 21h ago
They are pricey, but hyped up is the wrong phrase. They are just overkill for the vast majority of people. The things like dust collection, track stability, and antikickback are better on it than the WEN.
Same deal with their domino. There are lots of other options out there that work fine for a majority of people, but if you're in a shop where time is money then the domino can be worth the price.
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u/KuromanKuro 14h ago
Also, in places requiring dust collection on even hand tools, they make the most complete system. That means it’s no longer a high priced tool, it’s the keys to the printing press. I learned a long time ago that some tools cost a lot not because they are that much better, but because they get paid off within a few days of the jobs that need them.
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u/Dragongeek 19h ago
Festool is professional tools. Not really hyped, it's just near the best that money can buy, and since time is money in a professional environment, even the most expensive tools amortize very quickly because you save money through working faster and you make less expensive mistakes. For example, if you are cutting a $9000 slab of wood for a dining room table, and you fuck it up because your track saw doesn't run straight or it makes a shitty cut, your crummy saw just cost you a bunch of money that you could've not wasted with a more expensive tool.
That said, if you're not in an environment where you make money off your work, it's likely overkill.
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u/thesuperunknown 22h ago
What kind of idiot can afford a Festool saw but has to cut on the forks of a forklift
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u/Mharbles 19h ago
A LOT of people put the tools before the project. They have a vague idea, buy all the high ticket tools, find out their idea is bad or demands actual work to complete, and then I buy nice tools at a steep discount.
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u/wheniaminspaced 15h ago
This is pretty on brand actually, RL example, my company has a fairly sizeable heavy equipment fleet, but not a single service truck with a crane. You see some very interesting excavator attachments as a result.
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u/LowerBed5334 22h ago
Reminded me of this classic safety video:
Skip ahead a bit if you don't want to listen to the beginning
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u/3amGreenCoffee 22h ago
Holy shit. That's awesome.
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u/LowerBed5334 20h ago
They still use it all the time in Germany 😅
The first time saw it was at an orientation for a summer job in a production hall, a long long time ago.
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u/SteveIndigo421 17h ago
I'll use it if I have extra time during a course. Best forklift safety video ever!
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u/Nasty____nate 22h ago
I thought it was going to be a rail road spike. People use to drive them into trees to ruin chainsaws of loggers.
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u/eamondo5150 20h ago
I thought it would also put the loggers at serious risk.
Like it was a form of militant anti logging pushback, I can't remember where I got this from but break the chain that could then fly off and kill the person using it.
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u/Nasty____nate 19h ago
Yea anti logging. There was only 1 person that was close to death recorded and it was at a saw mill. There is other injuries but the main point was to mess up the saws and mills.
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u/Ok-Iron-4352 20h ago
Holy shit lol. I mean if anyone has been a carpenter we are all guilty of something close to this.
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u/DragonflyPositive466 20h ago
Jup.
So nen Kevin hatte ich auch in meiner Berufsschule. Schreiner, 1. Lehrjahr.
Wir haben einfache Zapfen- und Zahnungsverbindungen mit der Gestellsäge geübt. An dem Tag waren Schwalbenschwanz Verzahnungen dran. Nix kompliziertes. Einfach nur ein dünnes Brett mit ein paar Zacken an einem Ende sägen, dann ausbeiteln und fertig.
Der Typ rödelte und rödelte und rödelte da mit seiner Gestellsäge rum. Nix passierte. Der stand schon komplett im eigenen Wasser und fluchte wie ein Rohrspatz, dass sich an seinem Werkstück nix rührt.
Bis irgendwann mal einer zu ihm rüber ist.
Dann war ziemlich schnell klar, das der Typ original seine Klemmbacke von der Werkbank zu 3/4 durchgesäbelt hatte.
Is ihm nicht aufgefallen.
Bei ca. 2x2 cm großen klassischen Schwalbenschwanz-Zinken-Verbindungen.
Kannste dir nicht ausdenken sowas.
Und ja, der Typ war blond und hieß wirklich Kevin. Und er war genauso hohl in der Rübe, wie du denkst.
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u/DecadentHam 22h ago
Well the blades damaged either way. Might as well commit.
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u/Senselesspassion 22h ago
Well I wonder what he thought when sparks were flying out, like this wood is kinda metal
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u/blorbschploble 20h ago
Only 2 kinds of people use festool. Experienced craftspeople who sell their stuff at sufficient profit to use festool.
And whatever this guy is.
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u/subjekt_zer0 18h ago
My jaw literally dropped at the sheer stupidity of this video. Those forks are fucked now, great job.
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u/durzostern81 18h ago
I don't think this is real. No way a skil saw carbide blade cuts through a hardened steel fork. It would be demolished immediately. They must have pre cut the fork with a metal cutting blade.
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u/Hobo_Hungover 18h ago
This is YT influencer nonsense when you have a workshop with $50K of Festool tools and not understanding why your track-saw is making mad sparks and smoking.
Truly the dumbest fucks with agency, these people are. Yuck.
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u/roofilopolis 22h ago
Yeah I just put a nice foot long cut into my garage floor with one of these. Barely even slowed it down
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u/Not_athrowaweigh 22h ago
Hell of a lot sparks when during through wood. That should have been an instant stop. Destroying the saw blade, burning the wood, and potentially causing a fire.
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u/3amGreenCoffee 22h ago
The saw blade isn't the real problem. Those forks come in pairs and cost $700 to $800 to replace.
He could probably weld it up, but I'm not sure I would trust this guy with a welder.
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u/Efficient_Maybe_1086 22h ago
All of this while standing in the line of fire. If the blade or the nail fractured goodbye balls.
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u/PDAnasasis 22h ago
Somehow I feel like that tool is even more expensive than replacing the fork on a forklift, those roustabouts are fairly specialist tools.
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u/triplegerms 22h ago
Lmao the editing got me. Was thinking damn how is it still sparking, are you cutting a block of nails? Cue shot of the underside
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u/bsmknight 22h ago
As a woodworker, I was all about to say how I've gone through many a nail.... nevermind....
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u/One_Wing_4059 21h ago
You can't imagine how much it pisses me off that such uses that kind of expensive, professional equipment.
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u/Pelthail 21h ago
What an absolute idiot. 🤦🏼♂️
I think this is more a testament to the quality of Festool products.
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u/ActualWhiterabbit 19h ago
When that fork hits a wall 20 min later, its going to break the fork and whatever it hits in 15 min
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u/Iconoclasm89 19h ago
I don't know whether or not it's an ad but either way people aren't thinking it's an accident are they?
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u/irishpwr46 19h ago
These tools are way too expensive for someone that inexperienced to be using them. Thats a 600 dollar minimum saw, with a blade that probably costs over 150.
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u/North-Government-865 19h ago
My first thought was that it was AI because wood sparking just doesn't look right
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u/gringoloco01 19h ago
It L be aight. Little bit of caulk and no one will ever know the difference LMAO
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u/Practical-Sink-3987 18h ago
This is proof that even the best tools won’t make you a good carpenter. Who tf is cutting wood and doesn’t think to themselves… “Wow my blade appears to have hit some resistance that is much tougher than the wood!” “Wow this wood produces sparks!”.
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u/askyidroppedthesoap 17h ago
Damn 😳 is that some sort of diamond blade? Maybe tungsten? Impressive regardless 👌
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u/nirvana6875 16h ago
I did that with plasma cutter once. Couldn’t figure out why it was shooting sparks back at me all of a sudden. It was my first time using one so I thought I was just going too fast, so I slowed down and it almost fixed the problem. Decided to take a look and sonofabitch goddammit
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u/tenphes31 15h ago
Funny story. Im a stagehand and the department I work for has a phrase for when youre building something with screws and one screw hits another screw. Years ago a guy was teaching me how to build something. We had a set of 2x4s joined together at 90° and were adding plywood on top. I asked if we had to worry about hitting the screws we had already put in. He replied, "When youre having sex with a pregnant woman, you dont hit the baby." A few seconds later, as he was putting a screw in, he stopped it short and declared, "I hit the baby."
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u/Salty-Brilliant-830 15h ago
This happened to me but it was an aluminum bench, so no spiciness, I had no idea why the wood was so tough
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u/PerfectDayGermany 15h ago
Went through the fork with the perception of a Skyrim city guard: „must’ve been the wind“
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