A new version of the chop saw is quickly relegating those original soot-covered noise machines to the back corners of farm shops. Their name — metal-cutting miter saw — reveals the reason for ...

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.

Cut-off wheels and abrasive saw blades are used to cut bars, stock, pipes and other materials that are made of metal, concrete, or masonry. These center-mounted devices consist of an integral shank, ...