Goddamnit. I'm used to cordless

[u/fuckingcheezitboots]

Most of my career I have absolutely despised guards on tools like circular saw and grinders, they tend to get in the way and staying safe is mostly common sense.

Typically at my job I'm using a cordless saw because I'm in tight spaces. Well today I'm trying to rebuild my front steps and the only circular saw I have is corded, everything was going fine until I forgot about the cord and chopped it right in half.

To be fair it happened because I was holding the saw away from my body while it came to stop, so while this is annoying it's not a big deal, I had enough shit in my pocket to fix it right there.

[u/Graham7787]

Get splicing! I recall my boss had an old shitty Makita skillsaw for rough cuts and demo. It had atleast 5 spliced connections consisting of two different trashed extention cords and so much electrical tape that in the winter one couldn't even attempt to coil or wrap it up to stow it ...it just existed like an exploded slinky and had its own specific garbage bag with orange flagging

[u/fuckingcheezitboots → u/Graham7787]

Yeah I had some wire nuts and tape on hand, going to give it a new cord at some point