DEWALT SAWS IN WORLD WAR II PROMOTIONAL FILM 50674

[@theroofcutter]

I have tried for most of my life to describe these early days of production framing to folks. Unfortunately words could never do it justice. Now they can see it. Thanks for uploading.

[@larsonhomeinspection9932]

It's so impressive.

[@thankyou1107]

I am not sure there will ever be a generation as great as my grandparent’s.

[@obfuscated3090]

Not in the US, and the difference is already a thoughtcrime to point out.

[@arzainc1]

The best tool I have owned, I bought one from Sears 40 years ago and never regretted the purchase, never had an accident... most practical saw ever invented.

[@wolf-walker]

Love these saws. As a professional furniture maker, I keep mine dedicated for 90 degree large cut-off and some precision dado work. I will never give it up, always spot-on! You'll never get a new machine of this quality. Keep the old stuff going strong.

[@Ritalie]

The Dewalt MBF saws do retain their accuracy when moved around. Since there is actually zero clearance, not even 0.001" clearance of side play, when you return them to zero. The key is, putting some light oil on the 90 degree locking tang, so it can wedge in fully, and once it's wedged in, it removes 100% of the play, so the saw is effectively one solid piece when returning it to 90. I think people didn't maintain their saws, and so they got the impression that they couldn't do miter cuts without knocking it out of alignment. I do know that my Craftsman saw has a very good locking mechanism with no side play, but the carriage bearings that slide back and forth on the arm, are so loose on the Craftsman saws, due to the bearings being extremely coarse, low quality bearings, that the bearings have much more play than the arm has.

[@Satchmoeddie]

I have a first year AMF DeWalt built in the original DeWalt factory. I mostly use a special blade to cut fret slots in guitar fingerboards with it.

[@aaronatherton7431]

I enjoyed reading the crawl at the beginning. "Inventive ideas only free men can achieve."

[@terryherrera5252]

As a Carpenter I have used these SAME SAWS This week n months !!! 2 are ACTUALLY “1941” saws !!! One had the motor rewound 3 years ago !! Our Owner WUZ able to get many heads n Jigsaw adapter parts !!! They are JEWELS !! RIP video participants !!

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Thanks, Periscope! I like DeWalt equipment but then was when it wasn't farmed out to a foreign land to be made. And I was housed in WW-2 barracks all through my Army hitch in the 70's. Still standing. Thanks again!

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[@seanseoltoir]

Can you imagine how much sawdust that project ended up producing?

[@martinoamello3017]

I have an old DeWalt joiner from the 40s I paid a hundred bucks for ..Always spot on and heavy as hell.

[@BrassLock]

DeWalt Radial Arm saws are featured here, no mitre saws or table saws to be seen. Today, Radial Arm saws are rarely featured on KZbin, yet they obviously set remarkable records for accurately cutting millions of linear lumbar feet in the 1940's. Strange how fashions change for no particular reason.

[@glenbjack]

"good" marketing playing on mass ignorance....works for a lot of things!!

[@whitacrebespoke]

I sold my ELU radial arm Saw (a model copied by dewalt after the merger) to buy a Wadkin 16inch machine. 5 years ago I took it out of my shop yet more and more I want it back in the shop. Good job I still have it in storage. The mitre Saw has its place for one off cuts but the radial arm really is king.

[@jackleo8726]

Been using DeWalt saws and tools for 40 years as a professional journeyman carpenter. I still have the 7-inch heavy duty circular saw that weighed about 5 lb more than everybody else's but they can't buy a new ones every year and mine just kept on running. That's all is now 25 years old, runs clean and true and has not slowed at all like some older electric motors do. The only DeWalt tool I ever had to fade or fail on me was a reciprocating saw fit somebody tripped over the chord and caused it to fall 30 ft to the concrete. He was 8 or 9 years old heavily damaged I took it to the shop to see if they could fix it and they gave me a new one instead. Excellent product good people great service.

[@Dougie085]

Weren't radial arm saws phased out due to safety concerns or something?

[@gingertimelord5]

i have and am restoring the 9" (little guy) dewalt radial arm saw .... the built quality and dependability is incredible my brother has not three identical craftsman radial arm saws and the modern lesser grade overheats and stalls or the motors wear out (this is why he has three)

[@michael.schuler]

Thank you! I've owned and used many Dewalt RAS. Properly tuned, they can yield great accuracy at terrific value, especially if each of them is set up and dedicated to just one of the many functions. For example: 90 degree cross-cutting; 90 degree dados; etc.

[@mjc11a]

Man, how I miss the smell of fresh-cut wood! Thanks for posting.

[@melotone3305]

The production numbers they cite here are very impressive. And pay attention the the variety of jigs used for crosscuts and angled cuts . Great creativity!!! 👍

[@djsi38t]

Fantastic...I personally worked in the manufactured housing industry from 1990 to 2015 Building modular homes indoors on a line from start to finish.Well we had one of these Dewalt saws and I swear it looked exactly like the saws shown here...A good 60 plus years later...The saw was very old but kept in fine tune.I believe it had an 18 inch blade and it cut by itself most of the lumber needed to build 3 to 4 houses per week.I can still here the whirr of the sawblade...It almost sounds like high speed wind...something missing from this film is that sound. Probably some of the finest saws ever made in the 20th century and with good care an almost limitless life.I was well aware of the Dewalt name before their rise with battery powered tools.I still remember when I saw the first cordless Dewalt Drill and though how amazing it was that the DEwalt name was being brought back to the forefront of the industry after so many years ago when the saw we had was built.

[@JohnAdams-xc5yk]

My son in law bought a DeWalt Radial Arm Saw at auction he called me to help load it, when I arrived I couldn't believe my eyes this saw heavy cast iron, 48 inch cross cut 5 hp motor 20 inch blades it runs perfect the company that had it made doors, it is not WW2 but made in the 50s

[@loftsatsympaticodotc]

WE have 3 or 4 earlier DeWalts. Really solid machines, with machined groove, ball tracks for the moving saw-head. I loved those heavy the all-cast iron overarms. Great invention. We never did find someone to re-machine the grooves with larger balls to fit when the grooves became worn.

[@A6Legit]

Im sure the saw is great but lets be real, they hit all those production goals because the people on the job were busting their asses to get it done.

[@basketballjones6782]

They hit all those production goals because they had a much higher work ethic, an immensely larger sense of responsibility, and far more morals than you could ever dream of obtaining.

[@rlic9206]

This is when America knew what hard work was. Get er done!

[@bobtaylor3574]

Look at the growth rings on that wood!

[@thedubwhisperer2157]

A wonderful video. As a Brit, it's always amazing to see that mass housing in the US is essentially variations of wooden sheds. In contrast, the stone and lime walls in my C17th century home in the south west of England come in at about a ton per square yard... In terms of effort, I think I know which I would rather build!

[@burntorangeak]

More than the outstanding use of capable saws, I'm amazed at the uniform nature of the raw stock they were feeding into them. Ever look at framing stock these days? Entire bunks of blems and rejects.

[@WoodworkingforAnyone]

I wish I could have seeny grandpas face when he first saw one of these. He was a pretty decent hand tool farm boy wood bodger. He was such a big kid with neat tools.

[@Ritalie]

Beautiful footage and beautiful Dewalt radial arm saws. Although I'm too scared to watch anymore of it, it looks like they are rushing as fast as possible. Now days, there's no way that 3 men would be allowed to operate one big industrial saw that quickly. Workers don't move that fast anymore either. It's amazing to see how focused and motivated the workers were in that era.

[@ZeeFrankensteel]

They are moving fast indeed, but I looked attentively at different tasks and moving vehicles, and how some walked and it seems accelarated at 1.25 times the speed. But still a quick crew!

[@FantomWireBrian]

Nothing better than a good Radial ,and nothing better also is getting half of what you paid for your table saw. No need for one at all. I have a 12" Delta commercial. I don't know why but I just have to have a 16 " vintage DeWalt. 😎

[@pyropls]

I love the Style of safety glasses they used back then

[@davidyoung8521]

Look at that quality of that lumber. Nothing like the crap we have today. All that old growth lumber.

[@thedubwhisperer2157]

Agreed, I've just been re-purposing a century-old pitch pine roof beam which is considerably straighter than new timber from my local builders' merchant!

[@denjhill]

I lived in Seattle and have owned and restored several Dewalt RAS. Love those machines for their quality. Still run a small 9" in my shop. But that video of the floating bridge is almost unbelievable. See it today and the traffic is bumper to bumper regardless of time of day.

[@Monuments_to_Good_Intentions]

17:50 the guy pulling the saw by the blade guard! 😂👊🏻

[@nicolasbroodryk3407]

I feel stupid, lazy and cowardly after watching this video, but have a new found respect for the machine.

[@terryherrera5252]

AWSOME Production!!! True PATRIOT’S !!

[@Nighthawke70]

Imagine if pneumatic nailers were made then instead in the 1950's. Believe it or not, they STILL make and sell parts for these models. Original Saw has a cross-reference guide on dating your inheritance, telling you how old your DeWalt is. They also have parts, ranging from round-button power switches, lower guards, bearings, and return pulleys. These are not NOS parts, but modern equivalents.

[@billoxley5315]

Recently, I was given one of these beasts.was told," If you can load it, you can have it" It was built in 1979. Twenty minutes later, I was on the road.

[@jaminova_1969]

I knew a guy growing up who owned a saw mill and that is what he used!

[@Matt2chee]

All of a sudden I'm happy all my cordless tool's are DeWalt.

[@bobwild9995]

Don't get to excided.......the New DeWalt is just Black & Decker "re-branding" the name they bought back in the 70's, after they crashed the B&D name with junk tools.

[@Matt2chee]

My set 20v set is 6 years old , I think I got a good value, they are all built in the same city in China according to their design. I'll probably got to Harbor Freight when these croak, these batteries have got to be getting ready to die. I use them quite a bit. I think thats why they lasted so long.

[@agostinodibella9939]

I never knew the brand had been around for so long.

[@FIGGY65]

The very first were in the early to mid 1920s!

[@peep39]

they could have showed these videos to the Japanese to demoralize them. The manufacturing and construction complex in America at that time was astounding

[@whirled_peas]

The foot clamp at 9:40 is genius, going to have to try that

[@timmensch3601]

Still have one of these saws in my old.mans cabinet shop

[@davidbray6515]

Wouldn't be without mine love it to bits

[@heyitsmecarl1]

Beautiful!

[@brandonfuller2254]

Incredible film. I actually have one of these.

[@gene2728]

You really have one of the seven that was made shown in this film, that must be great !!! Where did you find it? I only have a 10 inch Craftsman that I have had 40 years.

[@richardschaffling9882]

That was a fantastic video and it was cool how the rigged the saws

[@Monuments_to_Good_Intentions]

Richard Schaffling agreed. Looked up these videos again after cutting with mine for the first time today.

[@dionpeek4339]

I have finally experienced true love at last

[@djone4201]

wish I was alive in those times hard work but you got what you worked for and the American dream was fully alive now it's a joke everyone just wants money not happiness from life.

[@radstorm]

Wow that old school radial arm saw was hardcore.. lol

[@christianguenther1276]

I'd buy one of these US made saws, rather than the Chinese made crap of today.

[@mrwaterschoot5617]

this is way kool. i now have a better understanding of the 1959 sears craftsman 10 inch radial arm saw that probably built like the dewalt designed home owner version of the saw. dad wore out the internal track in the cast iron.arm. it would not surprise me that he saw this video in his post world war2. trade school trade school training

[@mrwaterschoot5617]

dad survived in nazi occupied holland. in january 1952 january 1953. in the royal dutch military in the comando corp as a foot soldier and may have been sent to war in korea as part of dutch nato peace keepers. dad was 21 and a half when he started and parted at age 22 and a half. when he was promoted to korporal. and 3 days after my mom turned 18. her married my mom on january 26,1953 for the state in a civil service. then a church service on may 6 1953. i was first born october 6 1956. a dutch born daughter in 1957 and a a first born american son born between saint nicholas day and christmas day 1958. with the yeat of the new york world fair 1964 dad bought his first new north american built pontiac station wagon with a 350 v8. he had his dutch born family leave the dutch behind and become naturalized american citizens and there was so much love of mom and country. that they had one last baby boomer daughter that we nickname ans american crash dummy. in 1965 oma and opa took a cruise from a dutch harbor called rotterdam on a vessel of the holland american lines bound for the port of new york. they were with us most of the summer. and early fall. we saw together the second year of the world fair and fall was the last time that we saw oma and opa together in the land we loved america. by 1966 dad had to go to dundee scotland for a plant ser up for veeder root. he took some free time to visit his duth born predecessors. he looked happy but you could see opas hand and it might have been shaking from parkinson's disease. by may 27, 1967 opa died and it was the only time i saw my dad shed a tear for his dad . on june 8,2012 my dad passed and because of dry eye or shell shock or ptsd i could not cry i guess because of the water in my last name and the blood running through my viena. randy travis wrote the song about his grand pa and he thought he walked on water. and the judds sang grandpa tell us about the good ole days. and last but not least. a jimmy buffet song about the son of a gun a son of a sailor son of a tailor son of carpenter son from a momma and a papo hey i am a jerry lewis joker in a slap stick man from asia nation china ass hole i am a honorable a number one first born son of a dutch born man who can walk on his first half of his last and can schoot across a low land in wooden shoes or shooter a pop gun or a cap gun or a pea shooter. thanks dad john foldgerberg sang it best dad was the leader of the band. dad was a and mom was b and i turned i turned out ab- because of dyslexia and my baby brother was ab+ with the smarts in our generation of mom and dad's offspring . my brother died due to terminal kidney failure. that make me heir apparent and i an a king of something and my mother changes fro dad queen be and now is the queen mother for me. i married a lady jane francis beebe and she toke my last name before the millennium change and she loved me so much that see called me honey bunny. and i called he queen beebe. and on 9-11-2019 god called her to heaven to join her ancestors in a church hand bell choir or in song and praise in the voice choir with heaven and saints in surround sound somewhere of a sunny sky and a rainbow it a pot of gold or a bucket of tears if i had no tears to spare. in beatle fashion saying words of wisdom let it be let it beebe.

[@neilfurby555]

Wonderful pace of working, but terrifying in places! Would be interesting to see the accident log?

[@BR-bj3ot]

Only three fingers and one hand were lost in the making of this film. 😂

[@qalamkaar1984]

i love ♥️ DeWalt tools...

[@tomupchurch4911]

Back then they called it a DEEWALT !👽

[@flashgordon6238]

We have one of those giant 1940s Dewalt saws sitting in a pile at work. 440 VAC 3 phase with all the parts. Sad sight too. Maybe they will let me restore it.....

[@everardjohnson1359]

Hi do you still have it I would like to buy it

[@flashgordon6238]

@@everardjohnson1359 Sorry, it is not for sale. I'm hoping I will be able to move it to my department and restore it.

[@dewaltaholicuk5435]

Guess which brand of tool i like... ^-^ just love this video..!!!

[@danielq9755]

I love Dewalt too

[@brucey39]

At the end of the work day one of the guys goes round the work site saws with a bucket to collect all the severed fingers .

[@Monuments_to_Good_Intentions]

Bruce Scott did you notice the guy pulling the saw with the blade guard? 😂

[@richardskola3570]

My dad taught me to use a DeWalt RAS older than these when I was 8 years old. Never an injury to me, or anybody else in his shop.

[@samueljewell5712]

I'll cut all day on my Radial Arm Saw, I'm terrified of a table saw! No doubt there were a few injuries on these sites but I guarantee, you didn't have guys wanting to go to the ER for a splinter! Yes, I have saw that on a construction site!

[@edb3840]

Instead of needing many carpenters to do calculations and layout for construction, prefabrication allowed for only a few talented men to do the more complex angle calculations and machine set up. Fewer carpenters would be needed onsite as well, allowing cheaper, less skilled laborers to handle the assembling of prefabbed material. Construction prefabrication is a growing operation now. Computer modeling, coupled with factory styled prefabrication departments for electrical, plumbing, HVAC mechanical and even concrete will allow less skilled laborer to assemble the items being constructed under the direction of fewer knowledgeable people. George Carlin explains further in this clip. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpnUgXuHmLuYfpI

[@dionpeek4339]

Now I finally know what love is

[@kimchee94112]

I know couple of old timers on production lines with missing fingers.

[@word2RG]

Its war baby, its all war.

[@iginiobluevest9259]

very good job, DeWALT radial arm saw, hardworking, working too much, look saw guard above and without guard cover bottom

[@doct0rnic]

Curious if there are any current operations using gang cutting like this

[@bobwild9995]

Not any projects like that anymore, and most large apartment projects today, every thing is pre-cut or panelized in a shop and shipped to site. Plus, most buildings are steel studs today.

[@metalmicky]

Up to watching this film I had been told that De Walt was just upmarket Black & Decker is there any connection ?

[@tamachining]

Anyone know where I can find one of these +/- 7hp saws?

[@patricelebrasseur5649]

They are still made, the DeWalt radial arm saw still exists, just under another name

[@armanflint]

You can buy new ones from the "Original Saw Company," who has the license to produce all the original DeWalt Cast Iron arm saw designs. You can also send old ones in to get them refurbished. They're not cheap.

[@tamachining]

@@armanflint What an ironic name for such a company.

[@FIGGY65]

Search on YT for Leo Flannery. He has over 100 DeWalts, and restores them all from the babies to the beasts. His recent videos cover restoring a 7.5 horse chain driven GE model as depicted in this video. He can steer you in the right direction. If you regularly search CL they are out there….Auction sights too !

[@TheManLab7]

Is there any reason why they use Rule Britannia at the end?

[@machineshopbasicsforthehom2291]

dam if that doesn't make you proud to be an American.

[@samhouston1673]

I want one!

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally released in 1942.

[@seanseoltoir]

And not a single mention of "safety" in the entire video... Just shows you how things have changed...

[@miguelsontay280]

Actually I have 1 it's a great saw I 💘

[@brianhanson9367]

22 inch !!!!

[@mrwaterschoot5617]

it would not surprise me that howard hughes had used a dewalt radial arm saw in the production of that spruce goose airplane that hughes aircraft produce and the avial aviator howard hughes tested and flew out in california. maybe long beach. i was at a military base in monterey california and you can see the barracks wer still alive in the 2015 timeframe they probably could have used a new coat of paint but still usable now. just imagine if we took abandoned safe buildings in america and give it to american home challenged people a place to think and plant a ww2 victory garden for food to eat. until the person or family could get back on their own feet to live a good way of life. for service men and women who served our america. and suffered pstd from activities that caused them to take a human life in violation of the 6th commandment. do not kill and my addition is another human life. and there are plants and wild life and domesticated animals that are used for food an animal protein. homeless is another word for hopeless with no sign of hope. we need a way to find hope and turn homeless to a temporary lack of housing and make a way to help those down and out.give them a hand up and a way to help them selves oup and back on there feet again. don't make service man and women with life altering challenges be disabled. look at senator duckworth. she is a double leg amputee yet it did not stop her from finding a lover and becoming a mother. she took a life altering situation for most normal typical persons and she took the lead to be the best she could be. a true red white and blue american of the female gender who server our country and suffered consequences and lived to talk about and did her own carry on and be the best she could be. regardless of cost or loss of limbs. she acts enabled to me and she has no disability that she can not work around.

[@edb3840]

0:10:15 when you need it properly hammered and gummed, who better to call than Mr. Dick Johnson?

[@michaelpeluso4313]

Was Dewalt the heavy duty division of black and decker

[@bobwild9995]

No, they were an independent company, B&D bought the company/name in the late 70's or early 80's and after B&D destroyed their brand with cheap junk, started to use the good DeWalt name on the tools. I still have many B&D industrial brand tools, and ELU brand but I went cordless 20 years ago with Milwaukee.

[@snarfinigus]

no guards.

[@frankyalvarez7160]

snarfinigus lol people back then had something called “common sense” it is not all that common anymore.

[@brucewelty7684]

They operated on the motto: Stick as much of your anatomy in the machine that you want to lose.

[@TreeofLiberty1791]

I cringe when I see these men not using push sticks with the table saws.

[@andrewofford1533]

And how many fingers were lost...........

[@andrewofford1533]

Tell that to all the guys who did loose their Fingers

[@andrewofford1533]

pagansforbreakfast Oh Dear,your one of those. Just because there's no Names of people who have had any Incidents,does not mean it didn't happen...

[@andrewofford1533]

And to add: a quote from Fairtrade Mag; Table saw accidents are painful, life-changing and expensive. Each year, more than 67,000 U.S. workers and do-it-yourselfers suffer blade contact injuries, according to government estimates, including more than 33,000 injuries treated in emergency rooms and 4,000 amputations. And that is happening now,it would have been worse then.

[@WileysShenanigans]

Andrew Offord, dangerous tools aren't for the masses to use....only for those with common sense and the ability to pay close attention to what they're doing at all times when operating powerful equipment. Similar today to not using your cell phone in any capacity while driving as it too is a dangerous recipe for disaster.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

My dad told me that when using a saw or any kind of dangerous equipment you should show the same attention to what you're doing as if you're carrying a rattlesnake. One inattentive moment and it might bite you.

[@maxasaurus3008]

Not a lick of PPE 😂, something in one’s eye was a lack of skill not a lack of safety squints.

[@littleshopofsawdust1157]

Is it really necessary to have that annoying counter obscuring the screen? It's irritating as hell.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@littleshopofsawdust1157]

@@PeriscopeFilm thank you for taking the time to explain that. I've watched this video numerous times over the years and I'm always in awe. I appreciate that you've made it possible for us to view this. I thought someone had ripped off the original and put this on the screen.

[@KUGW]

I bet this work done on todays equipment would kill most of the stuff made these days lol

[@danielg.1707]

its back when white people worked like colored folk.

[@tedjones450]

When men were men and women were women, now you don't know what to call them.

[@jsaurman]

I wonder how many fingers got chopped off each day. Some of the things they were doing looked hideously unsafe.

[@scottleft3672]

superior...lol.,,house the homeless.

[@andydelarue9344]

Unwatchable with time stamp, even wrecked open titles, not even there copyrighted

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[@bernie129locksmith]

No health and safety whatsoever !

[@tjlovesrachel]

And thank god for that

[@michaelcooley3381]

That's what I call production framing.