Rookie stuff. It matters which way the crows foot points. Tells you which side of the line to cut. You should also draw part of the crows foot straight and the other angled.
You have some serious skills. I have only ever started the V in the middle Or if it’s just me, i still get lazy and cut to one side or the other of a straight mark. 😊
Crow's foot is also more visable than a single dash type mark, and less likely to be confused with other "marks" on lumber, and reduces the chance of a miscut, or losing your mark and having to measure/mark again ..so yhea, it is faster and more accurate. 🔨
Nope, make a tick mark at your desired length, place your pencil on the mark, and then pull your straight line to the pencil, that way your line is as exact as possible, rather than the line being off the width of whatever you are marking with
Yeah, but this is just for rough cutting, if you want anything to actually be accurate, you're most likely making an incredibly small perfect line that only takes half a second longer to think about, drawing an x to either side of the line and calling out line on or line off to whoever's cutting
I Remember working with an older guy and he kept laughing at how I marked my lumber asking why I put check marks on it….. this was always somthing that I naturally did and tried to explain but he was too old haha
A CONTRACTOR ASKED ME 45 YEARS AGO how do you mark a piece of wood. I said, "I mark it once like a crows foot, but only use one mark with the tail heading the way the saw blade should cut on." Ha! got me ten dollars more an hr. just for that. Same thing as to why we sharpen both ends of our carpenters pencil. not just one. YES!! another ten dollars an hr. Make only one line, time is money boys.
@@rjcontra dude 20 an hour for general knowledge in the 80s sounds like a guy planning to go broke. Also, I've literally never seen a chippy sharpen both ends of a pencil, so I'm curious as to why that would be worth $400 or more a week
@@grahamclarke3931 I was hired to build condominiums in the mountains for 11.00 per hr. The contractor quizzed me on those two things the pencil. Back then the best builders new the best tricks. So if he knew those two little things he knew I knew how to get the jobs done and done quickly which we did. so it was 31.00 per hour. Ha, it takes around 130.00 dollars an hour today to have what you had in the 80's. When Reagan was president, you could just walk down the street and find 10 different jobs if you didn't like who you were working for. As far as sharpening both ends it meant you didn't have to stop at that moment and re sharpen it, you could keep moving. Oh and by the way, we could nail 12 16 penny nails in eleven seconds. I think now I can only do 9. But hey, not bad for being 70 years old. :) Almost forgot, we were twenty years old.
