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Power tools...blasphemy! - bobs64ford352 - 02-02-2016

Heck, even Roy might use this one.



Bob


Re: Power tools...blasphemy! - Bill_Houghton - 02-02-2016

He's getting nowhere in a hurry!

Very similar to early 20th century designs.


Re: Power tools...blasphemy! - Rob Young - 02-02-2016

bobs64ford352 said:


Heck, even Roy might use this one.



Bob




Probably but might need a more Victorian flair before it appears on the show...

There was an episode in the 2015 season where he had a lever powered cross-cut saw.

http://www.pbs.org/video/2365554469/

And of course there are his Barnes treadle-powered tools that have been featured many times.


Re: Power tools...blasphemy! - Steve N - 02-02-2016

I saw this crazy bike powered shaper in John Sindelar's Traveling Tool Museum at WIA a few years ago. Just inside the door it sat.



They get to it at about 2:10 in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hapqlje6O5s



I never did work out how a guy could pedal, and manage a board across those really sharp looking cutters without throwing himself in


I caught this guy defacing John's trailer, and turned him in. He turned out to be an ok guy.








Right after that I caught this guy stealing closely guarded trade secrets from Lee Valley





Re: Power tools...blasphemy! - tim_leo - 02-03-2016

bobs64ford352 said:


Heck, even Roy might use this one.



Bob






First thing I thought of is 'Red Green'


Re: Power tools...blasphemy! - Bill Wilson - 02-03-2016

Couldn't be Red Green. I don't see any duct tape anywhere.


Re: Power tools...blasphemy! - Rob Young - 02-03-2016

Not sure if Roy had one or if it was this as a loaner but a peddle or treddle powered shaper also makes an appearance on the WWS a few seasons back. Running it himself, it certainly seemed a bad idea. It might work if you had two people. Maybe. Or maybe just more blood.


Re: Power tools...blasphemy! - KLaz - 02-03-2016

Ah, not so fast! Did you check his bike for a motor?? Yes, mechanical "doping" in cycling is real

Don't believe me.....here is a story on this past weekend's cyclocross worlds where an under 23 girl had an internal motor in her bike. This has been reported for years and there have been suspicions before, but they got caught red handed this time

Hidden Motor

Anyhow, the saw-bike is pretty cool!


Re: Power tools...blasphemy! - Steve N - 02-03-2016

Rob Young said:


Not sure if Roy had one or if it was this as a loaner but a peddle or treddle powered shaper also makes an appearance on the WWS a few seasons back. Running it himself, it certainly seemed a bad idea. It might work if you had two people. Maybe. Or maybe just more blood.




Rob the thing that got me was there was no place for your hands, except the table, and you would get in the way if someone else was working the tool, and perish the thought you grabbed the cutters But seeing that they didn't have a [place for the cyclists hands I kept coming back to it was a solo machine. This is what John thought too.