Pretty cool Dewalt war video

[Dennis Thomas]

Cool war video on the Dewalt RAS building Ft Lewis in Washington. https://youtu.be/HiGH0Qsu3ak

[TDKPE]

"The large twenty-two inch saw . . . " at 7:14, cutting stair risers.  Yikes, that's a big RAS.  

[stav]

Pretty incredible what can get done with some good tools and a bunch of people with the same goal. 

I wonder where all the small cut offs were going.

[JDuke]

I might still have a RAS if I could find one like the last one that had a hand crank feed with a 5/8" arbor so I could use 10" blades.

Duke

The one at 21:33. Is a 24" blade with hand crank chain feed.

Looks like they are using a dado set that's several inches wide.

[Steve N]

Hey Dennis, ya been good?

I loved the intro music, pure USA


I started watching too late, it's bedtime. I'll have to come back tomorrow, it was interesting untillllll





Thanks for posting

[tomsteve]

thanks for that,dennis. i saw a little idea of how balloon framing was accomplished in there,too.
always intersting to see how " it was done back in the day.

[Dennis Thomas]

I thought it was interesting how fast they were going on some of the cuts. The safety police would probably have a field day with that today.

[CARYinWA]

They didn't buy that lumber at the BORG.

[Steve N]

Actually if you get a bundle of 2x material, and use it right after the bundle is popped open, your experience might be different, but lumber grades were probably more consistent back then, but that wood hadn't been laying around. The moisture content of 2x lumber is thus, now or then, that if laying around it's gonna go crawling around as it dries.

To compare BORG to a real lumber yard, you will always pay more at the lumber yard, and sometimes get much better stock. At the BORG the average guy is just looking at price, more than quality.

When LOML and I built our first, new to us, home the guy across the road was a long time framing contractor. He didn't care what our names were, he just wanted to know where I got the "incredible" lumber and cedar siding I had sourced for the build. He had always gone to the lumber yards in the area where we were building, and they had snot compared to the BORG, sometimes it's bass ackwards....