Forty years ago, the abrasive disk chop saw flooded into farm shops across the country. Compared to using either a hack saw or an acetylene torch to cut dimensional steel, the chop saw was an easy ...

The big difference in this chop saw is its abrasive wheel. While it runs at 3,800 RPM (revolutions per minute), the actual ...

If a shop was “high-tech,” it might have a metal cutting bandsaw or abrasive-disk chop saw. In recent decades plasma cutters appeared in some farm shops to take slicing metal to a higher level.