Safety cops--Don't look!!

big tee

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• Jan 11, 2023

• #1

I got the other cannon cut out of the other light pole using my 7 in. grinder and a 12 in. chop saw blade. I usually use ones that are wore down more but the 12 incher was the smallest one I had. It is not the safest thing to use but it worked 10 times better than fighting that 30 foot steel pole in my De Walt chop saw. That big of a blade means there is not much room between blade and the off-on switch so I always wear leather gloves--not for nicks from the blade but so when the wife takes me to the hospital and forgets to take my severed fingers they can call the local fire department and they will be easy to find--In my gloves!!!---Tee

Cut good--used a couple inches of the blade

 

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Mark Poss

Well-known Member

• Jan 11, 2023

• #2

You need to upgrade and keep your fingers

 

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SDE

Well-known Member

• Jan 11, 2023

• #3

A person is probably safer when they know that it is dangerous, than the person who has done it a hundred times. I fully understand the feeling that you are expressing. Numerous times I have wondered how long before someone notices that I haven't been seen or heard from in a while. It hasn't happen yet, but I did call my son to walk me back to the house once.

 

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Mark-Mi

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Location

S.E. Mi.

• Jan 11, 2023

• #4

My neighbor used to bring home .062 thin blades that were 12 to 13 in in diameter from the factory he worked at. The factory used them in a stationary cutting process and when they got down to that diameter they discarded them. I used probably about a foot tall stack of them in my lifetime. My
old neighbor who did a lot of scrapping and never owned a torch use many times more than I did.
I used a Black& Decker 7 to 9 in grinder because the RPM was slower and matched the rpm of the cut off disc.
Still use on rare occasion, but kind of an old scaredy cat now.

 

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bradley martin

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• Jan 12, 2023

• #5

I tried that once but ended rather quickly when motor in cheap grinder burned out. Larger blade greatly increases load.

 

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sms

Well-known Member

• Jan 12, 2023

• #6

Can even rent one in many places.

 

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big tee

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• Jan 12, 2023

• #7

That old Milwaukee has been good over the years--Bought it used on a sale 30? years ago--I buy those $10 4 in. Harbor Freight ones though -Throw them away when they smoke!!

 

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big tee

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• Jan 12, 2023

• #8

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BarnyardEngineering

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Location

Rochester, NY

• Jan 12, 2023

• #9

12"? How wasteful. My Dad would run them until they didn't extend past the motor on the chop saw.

 

UncleTom

Well-known Member

• Jan 12, 2023

• #10

Those are cut off saws are spendy but compare it to surgery and rehabilitation to the hand or face or an eye.This is tractor related as you need hands or eyes to work on tractors.

 

ADB-Ia

Member

Location

New Sharon, IA

• Jan 12, 2023

• #11

I'm enjoying seeing your cannon project progress. It made me go and find this photo from a vacation several years ago. It took a few shots but I got this one timed just right.

Revolutionary war field exercises reenactment.

 

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big tee

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• Jan 12, 2023

• #12

I took that one out of my saw to put a new 14 in. one in it to cut the first cannon out of the first pole. I use them until they are the size of a SILVER
DOLLAR!!!!

 

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big tee

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• Jan 12, 2023

• #13

OSHA won't like that--NO ear protection!! How ya been ADB--Are you reading this in Florida, or are you enjoying the Iowa winter like me???

 

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big tee

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• Jan 12, 2023

• #14

Six years ago the Wife came out to the shop to check on me and found me on my hands and knees bleeding--Tripped and fell on face on the cement---Clumsy

Got my bell rung!!!

 

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KDCannon

Member

• Jan 12, 2023

• #15

I am a Cannon!
I've always thought I would like to build a non-working model for yard art. I have the metal scrap and old steel wheels to build one with.

 

ADB-Ia

Member

Location

New Sharon, IA

• Jan 12, 2023

• #16

Doing pretty good, Tee. Spending the winter at home yet this year. We have our old D6 Cat tore down in the shop. Putting in sleeves and pistons. The air filter went bad when my brother was using it this summer and it got dusted pretty bad. I used it to clean up a slough this fall. Ran it for 4 hours and it used 2 gallons of oil. Time to do something!!! Crystal is putting in her last year teaching. Next year we plan to try heading a little further south for the winter just to see how we like it. Iowa hasn't been bad this winter. We've got a ways to go yet though.

 

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tomturkey

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• Jan 12, 2023

• #17

I had a neighbor that wanted a bunch of old machinery gone. My torch isn't very mobile so I used a quicki type cut off. Did fine til my pants leg caught fire from the sparks. did a few new dance steps and a leg roll and did not even burn the skin. I believe its was easier to take the saw than the acetenyl torch. just gotta be careful, the older we get the more careful we need to be. We gotta know when to hire someone else!!! gobble

 

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big tee

Well-known Member

• Jan 12, 2023

• #18

Good luck on your Cat--Hone the sleeves and put new oil rings on and a new filter away you go--Poor man's overhaul. Except for those 3-4 days just before Christmas it has been a good Winter up here also. Take care and stay warm---

 

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big tee

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• Jan 13, 2023

• #19

Hey--I said----Safety Cops--Don't Look!!!!!!!!!!!!