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Guys… I got yer back on this one! The saw you was grasping for is called an “Oscar-lating Cutter”. It’s called that because my great-great grandpappy once broke his leg in an epic sprint to avoid a particularly upset boar hog. It required a cast from his hip to his ankle. Because he had so many tusk gouges in the leg, they wanted to make the cast reusable. So, they spackled the plaster on and waited a couple of days for it to dry. Then, the doctor came by in his brand new Studebaker pickup to check the leg. My daddy was about 12 at the time. He got to watch as the doctor cut the cast into two halves so that he could redress the wounds beneath it. (Two halves because they couldn’t afford a new cast every few days. The just taped it back together for the whole fortnight that he wore it!) What he used was what you call a ‘Jiggle Saw’. But my dad swore it was called an “Oscar-lating Cutter”. No amount of arguing would ever convince him it was called anything else. After all, it was Dr Oscar who cut the cast! Now about that Jiggle Saw… my uncle had to quit carpentry when the moonshine shakes set in. No one wanted to pay him to make anything that used cut lumber. His saw hand jiggled so much that every stroke of the handsaw jumped to the opposite side of the witness mark. It kinda looked like one of those EKG charts hooked up to a shorted out electric hog fence! Folks swore that it was the alcohol… but, I have that very same saw. He handed it down to me when he went to that great distillery in the heavens. And, you know what? It still cuts the same way! I’ve even tried it stone cold sober!!! It truly is a ‘Jiggle Saw’. So, fellers, just send the haters here to Sassafras Valley and, I’ll pull out a jug of corn squeezin’s for an orientation session.
It is fast becoming my dream to work for these guys. I've been a crew leader for my company for going on 6 years, but I think I'd have to be a helper for them for a while before I could lead a SWI crew.
Attach the u-channel!!!! I try to tell my guys, the other crew leaders, my boss, but nobody ever listens. It drives me nuts to see a fence one of my other crews installed, and I see daylight on every other panel. So glad to here y'all talk about u-channel.
A bevel square will give the exact angle to cut once you lay down the rail on the ground, use a miter saw and cut both top and bottom of the board, there’s a formula for the board length !!! Working alone for years I had the figure it all out!!!!
If you can bounce between only to states, Florida + Wyoming might be the best 2 state combo there is!! DeWalt took notice of this video as they just changed the name of their multi-tool to jiggle saw.
Totally agree should have used longer boards if needed and custom route the holes in the posts to avoid SAWTOOTHING the rails down the slope. Great reviews I have seen this video long time ago keep us the reviews awesome 💪 he got the fence up 😀
Former vinyl siding installer here who used J-channel at the borders, I can’t imagine putting up siding without it😅. I like the U-channel to keep it neat. Do you have to worry about the pickets expanding and contacting like siding? Thanks
I will admit I have never heard/thought of screwing the C channel untill seeing your vids.... I can't think of one good reason to not do it from here on out 👍
If you rout the hole down 2 inches to prevent the lightning bolt pattern, how do you cover the gap at the top of the rail. as it sits now, the top rail is flush against the top of the routed out hole, but if you route it down 2 inches, there will be a 2 inch gap between to top rail and the top of the routed hole, no? or am I not seeing it correctly?
I came to ask the same question! The only thing I can think of is Mark was referring to actually having your fencing designed at the factory with the slot moved down. I don't think you can do the modification "in the field" without leaving that 2 inch hole.
To Hell with all of YT's OSHA-wanna-be's that start bombing creators' Comments section over PPE (or a lack there of). We're all grown men, with extensive experience in the field, we've earned the right to use our tools however we choose.
It’s very irritating when someone (let alone 3 guys) does a reaction video without paying attention to the video. He says why they used a double rail. And these guys being fence builders should already know why they did that.
