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Making cedar shingles. 2:57 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpd3ZOoI7kk
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...878#post148601
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...099#post115520
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...699#post133062
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...313#post135086
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...878#post148601
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...950#post164255
The price of cedar shingles will be paid in blood.
I can see the workplace health and safety guys changing their undies already.
My cringe reflex cramped up after only 30 seconds or so
I think I beat them to it!!
I saw a couple of guys running a machine similar to that at a museum event in Rhode Island a few years ago. I'll have to see if I can find the pictures and the video. It was a "portable" one, mounted on a trailer so was a bit smaller than this one, but still an awfully intimidating machine.
Double posted inadvertently...
That job gets the "not worth it" rating in my book. In my youth I got to experience cutting logs into firewood lengths using a PTO driven buzz saw (much like the one below)... a 36" circular blade with no guard, just a pivoting carriage that the log rested on and would get manually tilted into the blade. Way too much opportunity for error.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrGdgjoUJSg
I sent the link to my two brothers, along with my 'cringe' comment.
They both helpfully pointed out that the fellow in the video was safe since he was wearing eye protection.
That's big brothers fer ya! (even if we are all over 60)
:-)
And, yes, I was their ever-present 'disposable probe droid'
No, but I've dealt with some messy stuff as an EMT before going back on my tools and doing H&S, simple guarding isn't an option on such a machine.Quote:
Originally Posted by old kodger
mike rowe on dirty jobs went to a cedear shingle&shake facility..he said it was the skeerest thing he had ever done.... Im curently building a "barn" air conditioned of coarse. im using ceder 6"x6' dog eared pickets to make the all trim out of...less than half price than the same thing with out dogears and in the lumber dept....and there is much more color to them too, if they are rough sawed and you want smooth/not furry, but not planed, then just use a razor knife and shave them. works great. they dont look so good sanded.
I remember them being split by hand w/a mallet and a special tool, called a shrove.
Do you have a picture of a "shrove"? I've always known the tool used to split shingles off a log as a "froe".Quote:
Originally Posted by katy
No picture, that was about 70 years ago. I think you're right w/the word "froe", my memory ain't as good as it used to was. The blade of the tool was about 12-15 inches long and the head was at right angles to the handle.
Wooden shingles are cut with a saw, while shakes are split with a froe & wooden mallet.
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