How this man still has 10 fingers is nothing short of a miracle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xDclEWYEvE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xDclEWYEvE
Story of a Briar Cutter
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Great video Dave. It is really neat to see what goes into finding a nice peice of flaw free briar. I worked as a paper cutter at a commercial print shop before I learned to print. The first month I worked there we were invited to paper factory and I got to meet all the old timer paper cutters.....not one of them had more than 8 fingers(including thumbs). I was much more careful after that and still have all ten...though some had been mashed or cut up pretty good...thanks for sharing.
Thanks for posting that video, it was very interesting. I cannot believe he still has all his fingers with the way he handles that wood next to the saw.
great video! I love to see processes.
ha, chop all your fingers off, breath in fine briar dust and destroy your hearing, so long as you dont get any of that dust in your hair!
Isaac
ha, chop all your fingers off, breath in fine briar dust and destroy your hearing, so long as you dont get any of that dust in your hair!
Isaac
Also instructive to me was the boiling of the blocks after cutting.
You wouldn't find me within three feet of that saw! Amazing.
You wouldn't find me within three feet of that saw! Amazing.
Amazing saw work there. That blade would take your arm of in a split second.
The blue collar roots of pipe smoking.
I worked with a guy in a supermarket meat dept. who loved to show off his daring on the band saw. What he would do is defy company policy, and create problems for all the other meat cutters, by shaving smoked ham hocks into 1/4" thick slices. He'd do it w/o a guard and he'd do a whole box and tray them for me to wrap and price in about 10 minutes. People would see him going at it and their jaws would drop. It was insane. zing, zing, zing, zing, just as fast as that saw would cut right down to the last little sliver.
He'd do it to taunt the rest of the cutters and management. Called himself what he'd heard others refer to him as, which was, "the machine".
I only saw him get cut once in 6 years, and that was when somehow a 14" knife fell off his table and pierced his foot. The store manager accused him of doing it on purpose! ha ha.
Customers would bring up whole hocks from the shelf to the window and ask for them to be sliced like "the machine" did.
They would be denied.
The Machine would always say: "I'm not afraid of the saw". He was a tad crazy.
The blue collar roots of pipe smoking.
I worked with a guy in a supermarket meat dept. who loved to show off his daring on the band saw. What he would do is defy company policy, and create problems for all the other meat cutters, by shaving smoked ham hocks into 1/4" thick slices. He'd do it w/o a guard and he'd do a whole box and tray them for me to wrap and price in about 10 minutes. People would see him going at it and their jaws would drop. It was insane. zing, zing, zing, zing, just as fast as that saw would cut right down to the last little sliver.
He'd do it to taunt the rest of the cutters and management. Called himself what he'd heard others refer to him as, which was, "the machine".
I only saw him get cut once in 6 years, and that was when somehow a 14" knife fell off his table and pierced his foot. The store manager accused him of doing it on purpose! ha ha.
Customers would bring up whole hocks from the shelf to the window and ask for them to be sliced like "the machine" did.
They would be denied.
The Machine would always say: "I'm not afraid of the saw". He was a tad crazy.
I cringed every time his hands got close to that blade.....which he also happens to be straddling !!!! 8O
Mark
Mark
Haha, Newbroom I just knew your story was going to end with a missing hand !
I understand it's rare to see missing fingers on a Briar Cutter, and they ALL use similar saws as far as I know. Has to be some obscure Italian Saint involved, best I can figure.
I understand it's rare to see missing fingers on a Briar Cutter, and they ALL use similar saws as far as I know. Has to be some obscure Italian Saint involved, best I can figure.
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