okay so you guys saw the video of the cut hub when I met with Dave the owner
of cut hub and he kind of introduced me to the product which I introduced to you
guys now we're out here on site and had a lot of questions about you know it's
not gonna be very efficient it's not gonna be quick you're better off just
making a table or whatever well you just see me bring it out of the trailer now
it's sitting here everybody's gonna have a different situation whether you're
backing your truck up to your job site you've got a work trailer so that really
that time that it takes to come out of the trailer to where you're gonna use it
it's kind of not really that important because no matter what you're gonna have
to do a different thing every time now I've got the three pieces remember this
is the Pro Edition and I'm just gonna show you how quick it is to set up I've
done this twice literally two times this being the second so I really only can
say I've done it one time so let's just get right into it all you're gonna do is
you're gonna pull the leg pushing a button
see you got this button right here it's gonna push it in and it locks into the
aluminum frame so there that's how easy it is to set one up we're just gonna
kind of set them and then we'll organize them later okay so now that we have the
three pieces set up we got to join them and it's quite simple if you look right
here we got a little button and the inner rod you push it it's gonna pull
out you're gonna line it up with the one that you're attaching to you're gonna
find the hole then you're gonna come back over here I don't know where it's
at there once you get them started to set up it does get a little bit easier
and look I'm not on perfectly level ground this is big large gravel so not
the easiest of conditions
okay so there you go now it is set up and you might be wondering well what if
it's unlevel what do you do let's take a look down the table itself
so you can see we're just a little bit off level you can see right here just by
attaching it it straightens it out but you see how the leg the leg is not on
the ground so you got to adjust this no big deal there's these knobs right on
the back you loosen it it will slide down tighten it back up now it's sturdy
so you can go around check all the legs and make sure we got one here that's a
little loose let me go get the miter saw we'll put the miter saw and I'll show
you how that works
cordless miter saws gotta love them so you can see here on the bottom you've
got these a little bit of a round little spots obviously that's pretty intuitive
that's where it's gonna go and then when you actually fasten this once you set
this on the rod you're gonna want to make sure you push down see that you
want push down tighten this what it's doing is it's securing underneath the
curvature of this tube so it can't come back up now you have your saw set up and
you're almost ready to cut but the next thing you want to do is you want to zero
in the stopper and the stopper is the coolest thing that you haven't seen you
so I'm gonna go grab that out of the trailer next so this is one of the
things that Dave tells me the owner of cut hub is this prize and joy or pride
and joy I should say and it is the thing that's gonna make you efficient and what
makes cut hub I think really special above and beyond just a miter saw
station so this is the thing that you're gonna use to go on this station
- once you zero out your saw repetitious cuts never pulling out a tape measure
you're just gonna move this once you've got this centered or zero - off of the
edge of your blade now you can just move it to whatever measurement you're trying
to cut lock it in and now you're good this is actually I got this flipped
around I'll go to the next this little thing right here is an additional piece
that's for safety and I'll show you exactly how you use that but you get the
concept you're just gonna slide it wherever you want it to go and if you
want to cut a bunch of 48-inch blocks boom
48 inches so we're gonna set that up real quick I'm gonna zero this in just
so you can get an idea as to how it works so I'm just gonna set this at 24
inches right now it's at 23 and a half it's actually it would be at 24 here
we'll just do this we'll take this off for now
so edge of blade I'm at like 23 and 7/8 so I just need to move this saw over an
eighth of an inch so I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna loosen these guys remember
all of this stuff it does take a couple minutes but it's all the first time in
the day once once you've done this it's set up for the whole day
so it's one of those delayed gratification not instant gratification
things they're 24 so now no matter what we can check let's go to 48 inches and
if I check I'm at 48 inches so hopefully that makes sense as to why this is gonna
be efficient for you and let's say you want to cut longer lengths you can get a
different ruler that's going to go in the table so you can set it so that that
one is you can see only goes to 84 inches and then this one can pick up at
whatever the dimension is but my guess is you're probably if you're gonna cut
like us a lot of 16 footers I'm gonna go ahead and set the stopper at 16 foot
with my tape measure one time and then I know where it's at so I'm gonna do that
regardless you don't have to worry or use this but it's a nice feature to have
so it's there all the time and it's never going to change so I'll go ahead
and show you guys what this is this is just an attached piece that you store
with this guy but you actually attach it this way so that you can get into this
unsafe zone this for a safety thing Dave tells me that he didn't engineer this so
that it could go all the way into your you know miter saw
that would be kind of unsafe so this guy allows you to let's say you want 10
inches or sorry I guess it only goes to about 12 and a half inches you see the
small numbers on the ruler I can go 14 inches so it's basically a
10 inch offset so now I can but my material right into this guy and get a
14 inch cut so hopefully that makes sense what that's for
you're obviously not going to use this anywhere past it looks about like
probably 30 inches you're just going to go ahead or sorry 20 inches you're going
to use it off of this guy all right so let's actually show you how the thing
works I'm gonna cut some window boxes up which are kind of repetitious I need
some 51 inches I'm gonna lock this down at 51 inches
got my material just gonna slide it slide it till I touch it first one out
of the gate I'm gonna check every time I don't care
51 inches now we're at the point where this system is going to start saving you
time and make you money I'm not gonna pull my tape measure out I'm just gonna
trust in this guy
because it's so easy I already know I need a 36-inch er so from my window box
it's gonna slide this real quick 236
this is what I really like about the cut hub only using it one time is that
16-foot lumber it's it's comfortable it's not hanging off the end flexing and
making it hard to cut it's actually very safe so that's the thing that normally
contractors don't care about safety it's always obviously something we talk about
but we would rather buy a tool to make us money than to keep us safer this one
to me is going to hopefully do both of those I need one more 51
so now we're going to talk about something that a lot of contractors are
very proud of and that is their ability to cut a perfect line every time with a
hand skill saw it doesn't happen I don't care how good you are you're still gonna
get some crappy cuts with a miter saw you're always gonna get as good of a cut
as your miter saw has been set up so all of these boards that I just cut in a
matter of minutes are not only efficiently cut and accurate and
consistent to each other every time but they're all cut with perfect ends that
you know you're just not going to get from a circular saw this to me is what
really the cut hub is all about being able to accurately safely cut two by six
sixteen footers which is what we use for almost all of our structures
nice now one of the major disadvantages of hub versus cutting off of a lumber
pile is that everything is right there you're literally just pulling your tape
marking and you're cutting everything right there but for us we still have to
move the pile of lumber by hand we're gonna cut it we're gonna put it into our
piles so really all I'm doing is I'm I'm skipping the steps of pulling my tape
measure marking it putting a square line on it
cutting it then sliding it to a different pile I'm just taking it I'm
bringing it over to the club lining it up so I'm kind of just changing how I
move my lumber but the important thing is that every time I cut one I'm getting
an accurate measurement with a nice clean end the very little effort and the
lowest man on the totem pole that doesn't have a lot of skill can do this
exact by the way that Metabo HPT which used to be Hitachi is no longer I think
he's got some power for cordless this is how you stay fit anyway stay in shape
can't be too easy so we've cut 40 boards let's just check the we just check my
measurement
all right there you go so one thing I noticed is that when you
want to slide these two stands together there's no real good way to lock it
there's some tightening bolts that kind of do the pressure they like lock in
compress basically but there's no like physical lock I would like to see that
because if I'm the reason I say this is because you can't set the measuring tool
here at like let's say eight foot it's right in the middle of where these two
come together from the saw and I can't really move the miter saw enough to
achieve eight-foot you got to put the two together which then means if you're
sliding your lumber and you hit the stop or hard enough it can pull apart so I
want to be honest with you guys you know I'm not just all rainbows unicorns and
all that good stuff this could be improved I would like to see maybe if
there was a little bit of a of a mechanical lock that locked these two
together I could be missing something so maybe I'll talk to cut hub and see what
they come up with but where all these little knobs go to lock it there's not
one that actually locks it together yeah just something something to know I mean
I don't think it's a deal breaker but I think for a premium tool it should have
that and that's probably a great version 2.0
so there you go obviously the disassembly process is as important as
putting it up in the morning and how much time it takes I think that's pretty
simple it really doesn't take much it's a couple slides of the aluminum rails
fold it up and this is the box that gets shipped in that's the box you can store
it in I went ahead and just we screwed it all together
we got the mounting bracket here for the the saw that just sits there and holds
it nice and steady if you really wanted to cut in your trailer you kind of have
a nice mitre station here too so there we go