Forty years ago, the abrasive disk chop saw flooded into farm shops across the country. Compared to using either a hack saw or an acetylene torch to cut dimensional steel, the chop saw was an easy ...

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There’s no reason to use a hacksaw in a modern farm shop. Cutting metal on a farm often used to involve either an oxy-acetylene torch, a hacksaw or tin snips. If a shop was “high-tech,” it might have ...

Carpenters who have been around a while probably remember a time when the answer to what a chop saw is was simple: a new, time-saving innovation on the jobsite. By performing one simple ...

There’s no easy way to cut steel. By now, we’ve cut it with every tool imaginable, including circular saws, cold chisels, band saws, hack saws, torches, jig saws, and an industrial machine called a ...

Miter saws are great tools for cutting pieces of wood at a variety of angles. If you have ever cut a really long piece on a miter saw there is no doubt you’ve either propped up the extended end on a ...

When you think of a high-speed cutting implement like one of Ryobi's circular saws, your first inclination would probably be to use it on wood. Indeed, circular saws, much like unpowered saws, are ...