Edited December 8, 20178 yr by Ron Dudelston
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Yup, the sawman got $.10/hr more.

Herb

I missed the PPE and guards.   Impressive work done.   I wonder where all those saws went..

Doubt if OSHA would approve now, but we would probably have a robot do all that cutting, lifting and toting... 

1 hour ago, p_toad said:

I wonder where all those saws went..

I have my father's...

Neat!

My son has his Grandfather's saw.

I remember it as being LOUD and SCARY!

I was around 10 years old when my Dad was ripping a board and it kicked back and sent the board out thru the garage door. My Dad just shook his head and went onto the next one.

2 hours ago, Harry Brink said:

My son has his Grandfather's saw.

I remember it as being LOUD and SCARY!

I was around 10 years old when my Dad was ripping a board and it kicked back and sent the board out thru the garage door. My Dad just shook his head and went onto the next one.

Didn't he send you to bring it back?

Herb

Awesome piece. Thanks!

I wanna know where they got all that good looking lumber.  Amazing the difference between then and now.

Pretty Cool! I love all the "jigs" they used to help them speed up the repetitive cuts and such. A few shots showed some knots in the wood - rare for that time.

Edited January 20, 20179 yr by Chips N Dust

I think he just said that's why you don't stand behind it!!!

12 hours ago, Dadio said:

Didn't he send you to bring it back?

Herb

 

1 hour ago, HandyDan said:

I wanna know where they got all that good looking lumber.  Amazing the difference between then and now.

government spec'd and bought w/ tax dollars...

still that same today....

2 minutes ago, Stick486 said:

government spec'd and bought w/ tax dollars...

still that same today....

Very true, I worked at a Navel Base upgrade one time and had only the best material money could buy. Even if we had to wait weeks for the supplier to have it special cut.

Herb

1 hour ago, HandyDan said:

I wanna know where they got all that good looking lumber.  Amazing the difference between then and now.

 

That was Old Growth then. Do not get that today by any means

56 minutes ago, Stick486 said:

government spec'd and bought w/ tax dollars...

still that same today....

 

Yes sir.  I know first hand they have been known to use Purpleheart for equipment trailer decking.

Richard...thanks for posting this...I enjoyed it tremendously. Makes you stop and think the war effort was more than just building planes, tanks, ships and ammo...easy to overlook the importance and need for this type of support. Very, very interesting.

 

I did wonder what/how they handled & moved all the cut-offs that had to accumulate in a short period of time. I guessed it might have been transported & stored to be used as a heating source for some of the barracks & training facilities???

I remember my earlier years working at the shipyard. The teak decking on the old fleet type subs would be removed and discarded in the shipyard dump.

Thanks for posting that video Richard, it brought back some memories. I spent the first two years of my WW career running one of those bad boys in a production shop back in the 60's.

If OSHA was around then we would have been shut down.