How to wreck a saw in 10 minutes (african style)

[jpm1]

This proves that there are REDNECKS in other parts of the world too! I've done numerous things that are dangerous in the means of getting the job done but. . . this is the best one yet. Seems that there is one man in charge and they seem to be aware of the dangers involved, just glad there not on my insurance. When you have little or no money you do almost what ever it takes to survive! git-r-done.

 

[Taylortractornut]

I second the fact that they are working is a admirable I agree with Rox on the tshirts.
I think if more Americans put fourth a tenth of this effort into something the ycwould be better off than the way alot of us are now that think they should be protected from themselves. Dad told me when he was a boy he and a Cub tractor cut many thousands of oak slabs and logs for firewood, that was high tech then. Also running an old sawmill with a Detroit or old UD9 IHC skid motor with an open belt drive. One impovement they could rig up a simple frition sistem to run a carriage like the old mills dad used to off bear for. That little rig could benifit with a wooden wedge in the end of the cut to help keep the log from binding. THat saws teeth are also too fine for ripping. I have family that if faced with using that saw and not eating they would probably lay down and die right there. I wonder how Lowes got the board all the way to their Corinth MS store lol.

 

[KennyV]

I have cut lumber using a tractor flat belt driven 4 foot saw just like that.
When you are working you are careful, when you are not part of the production it's easy to be a critic, but fortunately for those that are getting the job done no one is asking you to help. Not that I think there are many in our mechanized world that would have a clue as to how to help.
Tools are only dangerous when used by unskilled or reckless people. Those doing this job seem to be neither unskilled nor reckless.
As was correctly pointed out, where do you think lumber came from before the lumber yard?
Regarding the t shirt, if you do not like the message on a t shirt, give them a shirt with a different message. I doubt most were wearing the shirt to convey the message... Just my thoughts.

 

[kmdigital]

You'll have to forgive me for not saluting tiier ingenuity nor sympathizing with their crude set up. Fact is when our son was in Dar Esalam Tanzania in 2003 he saw literally hundreds of Tanzanians wearing T shirts depicting the World Trade Centers falling down with two thumbs up and this is the consensis of the overall population. It is notablly not a very friendly country to Americans. As far as I am concerned they can sit there and push that log all day and I wouldn't lift a finger to help them. Our son said it was very creepy being there.

Funny, I was in Dar Esalam as well in 2003, and I never once saw that T-shirt. Mostly, they are too poor and concerned about surviving to pay much attention to world politics and events.

I was there working on the new U.S. Embassy to replace the one blown up by terrorists in 1998. But we stayed in in local hotels and and ate at local resturants, even walking around downtown, with never any fear, at least in the daytime. Others I knew were in Kenya, and there they had armed guards to escort them from the hotel to the Embassy, so it was very different in Tansania.

 

[rox]

Oh were you there when the Semester at Sea ship was there? Did you go to local open air markets and such? It is really intersting to hear your impression as is sure is different than the one our son had, and all the kids really. They all left to go on Safaris and none of the students felt comfortable in Dar Esalam. It really freaked him ou seeing the t-shirts with the fallin World Trade centers on them. It is hardly something he would make up. And hsi comments about seeing a lot fo the same t=shirt was real shock. I am starting to think that perhaps where the ship docks could perhaps not be in the part of town where a US Embasy is being built. Perhaps he saw a different slice of the population that you did. The ship was supposed to go to Kenya and do thier safari's there but it was judged to dangerous so they went to Dar Esalam instead. Our son and his small group of freinds was followed and they ditched the shady guys who were follwoing them by going into a store or bar or smething. What they did was a group of them would circle you, he had a teenager tring to get into his fanny pack serupticiously hower I had thought to buy our son a small combination lock for his fanny pack so the kid didn't get in. One held up a cardboard sign or something to block your view and another one fumbled trying to get the fanny pack open.

He also served 30 months in the Peace Corps in Guinea West Africa and those people are poor poor poor. But very nice people, he always felt safe in Guinea but Dar Esalam gave him the creeps.

 

[Renze]

It really freaked him ou seeing the t-shirts with the fallin World Trade centers on them. It is hardly something he would make up. And hsi comments about seeing a lot fo the same t=shirt was real shock.

There is a lot of difference in Africa. Some dont care about anything than their daily survival, others are oppressed by muslim rebels who choose to be in war with every other living soul on earth that doesnt share their points of view...

Its mostly in the area where Africa borders to Arabia with the sea inbetween. Even if the Arabians have these groups under control in their own country, across the sea in anarchist africa, these groups just go ahead because the lawful authority doesnt have the resources to do anything against them.