For me, the ideas in kzfaq.infoUgkxAfqpMLyFn37qcqUl0FAzqkkycQeXqrhP Plans were a starting point for building different sheds . Ryan gives ideas that allow an individual to draw nicest conclusions into the design and building of his or her own shed.

I dont do this kind of work but I really enjoy your videos! The amount of effort you put into them and what you do is great!

I have an old miter saw with a 16 5/16 blade. I use it all the time, will cut 6x6 on a 45°. Got it for $9 at an online auction.

Great review, these reviews are very important to me. Nice to have your honest non biased thoughts.

Finally! Even though I'm not in the market for either of those saws, I love the way you went about the review! Long term, real world use and an honest assessment of the performance and individual quirks that could be a deal breaker for some folks. I'd love to see more of this.

👍👍👍👍thanks, got to borrow the skilsaw this weekend to cut 14- 6x6's. You and the loaner pretty much sealed my decision what to buy.

Super good review! 👍🏼👍🏼 Thanks for explaining the differences. Very thorough.

One thing I like is this guy doesn't brag himself up he just gets right into it.

Thanks. The left and right angle , 200 rpm , the holding of the shroud was a real help for me , oh and $100 savings. Very good presentation

Great video and review thank you keep the videos coming 👍🏻

As a contractor cutting often large beams, you should check out/ test the big capacity Mafell saws! Very expensive, but worth the money for traditional frame builders!

Next time you're in Deutschland: Mafell. To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee: "That's not a beam saw. THIS is a beam saw."

A timberframing company (or one of the organizations, I don't remember anymore) used to make an aftermarket base for the Makita. Big improvement, but MAN is the wormdrive an improvement, especially in hardwood.

Great review, very helpful content

Nice review, I had to cut back 6x10 rafters with a Makita saw, it felt real heavy pushing it up to make cuts

been considering purchasing for cutting 3" live edge slabs - great info and help.

Excellent real world review. Your doing an awesome job with the channel! Keep up the good work brother!

Excellent review... thanks

Thank you Ryan for releasing a great product as this shedbuilder.work Most of the plans I have imagined in my mind are put down on your woodworking plans. This is more like a genius job. I love it!

Good review, well balanced and you presented nothing but the facts!

Hey Kyle awesome review, last week I bought a old 1990 Makita Beam saw this thing is a beast. I don’t think I’m going to use this so often but I’m looking forward to try it. 😉😅 like always fantastic content 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻👍🏻👊🏻👌🏻

Ya know, This was a great review. I think my mind is made up. I used a Makita years ago to cut a giant slab for a mantel, no complaints,but back then it was the only one available. I saw the Skilsaw at my local tool repair shop that sells tools as well.I am a big Skil fan and am very happy with the 7 1/4 and the 10" This new Skilsaw will make cutting giant 6'' maple slabs much easier. Thanks for the review.

I use the Makita at work everyday to cut 6” metal insulated panels....works like a champ...holding the guard back is not awkward at all unless you are inexperienced....I ripped 67 feet in one shot of IMP never had the dust get in the way of my line

Also use the Skill, like the blade on left side for easy viewing cut. Great Video with solid tips‼️👍 Vinny 🇺🇸

Excellent review!

Digging the content... solid info backed by real-world experience. Great job, thanks for sharing!

Have had a Makita 10+ years. We use them for 5.25 PSL headers for mostly flush header flatroof modern homes. If i could trust the brand Skill to holding up durability wise i might have to try one. We use Makita everything tho so im biased, but it also means that they last. Ive had the same Impact as well ever since Makita came out with them and on the 3rd set of brushes.

Excellent review. Really informative and objective. Well done.

I hear you about the guard. The guard on the makita has always been an issue for me and as you said I always have to hold the guard up when I go to make my cut.

cool review! i have an 8 inch skill worm drive and it is about as heavy as i would attempt, it does make everything else feel like a feather. i use an 8 and 1/4 blade versus the stock 8 blade for a tiny bit more depth. although heavy at 18 plus pounds, it has roughly same footprint as smaller worm drives and comparable cost...

Hola. Gracias por el video comparativo. ¿podrías darnos tu opinión respecto al uso de algunas motosierras para este tipo de corte? De antemano gracias.

Good information Thanks

I never regret investing my time to watch your content ...strong work!

Thanks for the clarification on the blade size being in and imperial and not metric.

Love it brother . Would have been great to have this over the weekend . Was cutting some 7x7 bean with a regular skillsaw lol . Too many cuts . Love the channel brother

Awesome video - thanks for posting!

Great review! Probably won't buy either but if I do I know which way I'd go!

Thanks for sharing.

First video of yours I’ve watched. Great production value, especially the visuals. Gotta did that echo in the audio though. :)

I’ve had a Makita for years, I’m left handed so the blade is on the side I want but I agree with the dust fan, on one side you get the blade dust and on the other the motor fan blows in your face. I keep meaning to put a deflector on it. There is no kickback and I don’t have any problems with the guard. I’ve repaired them a couple of times and is not too difficult. I rip with them but it is a little slow mostly because there aren’t any good ripping blades.

Great review. I wore out a makita on timber frame work. I wish i had the skill instead. I want to buy one now just to try it out.

I like these tuesday videos , whether they are unboxings or actual reviews. Keep it up

Great review and completely agree with your observations having owned and used a Makita. Looking for a Skilsaw now ;)

Nicely Done.

Thank you! I have no more questions which saw I am going to buy and that red blade

Both of these are beasts. Thanks for the side-by-side comparison.

The Skilsaw looks like a great tool and ideal for our historical church timber jobs: well-designed ergonomics, rugged dimension choices and balanced power/capacity output for a very realistic price (certainly compared to the ridiculous +6000 dollar Mafell tomfoolery-toolery, as if they're selling a Swiss minilathe). I'll try and get one shipped to Belgium for medieval cathedral work, but unfortunately Skilsaw seems to be almost nonexistent as a brand in Europe compared to Milwaukee for example. A petty because I like their worm-wheel longitudinal designs a lot.

Now this is a great tool review. Much better than seeing a new tool that has no real review behind it.

For your standard circular saw, having the blade on the right isn’t too bad as far as visibility. When your blade is 16 inches, I think a blade left is much better.

Just wondering... how do you stay current on the latest and greatest? I'm a Technical Architect for a living, which means that I run software development teams. Probably the hardest thing to do (aside from educate the client) is to stay current with the latest and greatest tech. Not just learning it, but learning it well enough so that I then know whether it's worth adopting for the next project... use it, or just keep on using the tried-and-true stuff already in the toolbox that has a track record and is a known commodity. How do you do that for your gig? Conferences? Magazines? Websites? Blogs? Ever tried something new that didn't work out as expected? On that note... in my world, knowing what not to do is almost more important than knowing what to do, so we spend a lot of time doing postmortems on failed projects... sharing with others the "we did this and woah did it screw us over and this is how" stories to help others in our field learn from our mistakes. Ever had anything go really, really wrong on you? Real "well that's not at all how I expected that to go" moments? Care to share them sometime? Again, thanks for doing what you're doing... very interesting and engaging!

The thing I like about the Makita is, they last forever. Bad thing about the Makita, as you pointed out, dust port on wrong side plus, direct drive vs the worm drive. Worm drive IS the only way to go when it comes to any circular saw. I do have 2 skilsaw wormdrives, love them, base should be better but, nothing beats them. Thanks for the review, cheers :)

I've been using the skil worm drive since the 80's. In my opinion, the strong worm gear and the left side blade beats all the games in town. I own a few others including a few strong Milwaukee standard sidewinder for rip and demo, Ass kicking saws but for go-to, it's the skil and a new Bosch worm drive which is holding up well. Also, while I'm over six up, I can only easily stretch a worm across a 4 by sheet in one push because of the blade/saw configuration. Great review man, working crew review.. For that, thank you and I trust your opinion! Cut On men!!!!

Very nice vídeo! Best regards from Brazil!

2:05 I don't see us having any battery technology in the near future that's going to make one of these cordless. Milwaukee..."Hold my beer."

Good review! Definitey like the mag base on the skil saw. Get some more build videos up.

Nice video, your correct on everything. I have the skilsaw which I love. We are deck builders and it makes our work lives much easier. One thing, I feel the blade is not so good. I will replace with a Freud blade.

I watch this at 1.5 speed and its still good to watch keep it up

Thanks for sharing... !

Visibility of the line. Ergonomics of the guard lever, sawdust port and the flat and true shoe plate make the Skil a no brainer without having a price difference.

Thanks. I'm interested in your thoughts on regular sized circular saws. If you get a chance, would you make one of those reviews, please?

Like this first-hand review format - hands-on experience is far better than promo blurb!

Dude, you are the best. Love you man.

Your videos are gonna get expensive for me. Great review.

What do you think about the Prazi beam cutter attachments for circular saws?

Only thing I wish it had is a swing table like its cousin the bigfoot brand that retrofits on a bosch or skill worm drive. But it definitely looks a little easier to handle and a much stouter base plate. Great review

I didn’t know about the Skillsaw! After seeing this video I like it more! Better features!

Thanks, good to know.

Cool saws!

Could a saw like one of these be used to rip green oak/pine/yellow-poplar? Do they make specialized rip blades for them?

I maybe different than everyone else but, I'm right handed, and when I'm cutting anything, I'm always looking at my cut and the line I'm cutting on the inside of the saw. Meaning, I'm looking in the opening of the right hand side of my saw, that's where the outside of my line is and that's where I want to make sure I'm cutting, on the left hand side of the line. Because my usable lumber is always on my right. That's where I want to guide my saw blade. I guess you could look at the left hand side of your cut but, I always use that little opening on the right hand side, so, if the Skilsaw has the exhaust port right in the way, it would be a pain for me. But I really like the fact that you can attach a vacuum to it. The Mikita saw is a poor design right out of the gate.

I have the Skillsaw and love it, I hate the case wish they made an improvement on it as you I also lost a clip latch now I use a rubber bugle cord

Love the worm drives! Thanks for point out the blade being on the left side, perfect for us right handers.

The TFG used to sell a bigger/better base for the makitas - but without that better base I’d go for the skill saw. I use my 10.25” milwaukeee more and sometimes just finish the middle with a hand saw when I don’t feel like lugging the bigger saw to a remote location.

There's a Hitachi beam saw sitting in the shed here. It got used at a timber laminate factory and it got ridden hard and put away wet god knows how many times. It got written off after one of the boys dropped it and bent the base plate. I need to take to it with some panel hammers at some stage and it'll go another round. They also have 24 inch 3 phase beam saws as well, which have their own trolley and are a 2 man job to lift and use, especially when ripping 8x2 and 10x2 laminated beams

I use a 16"beam saw for timberframimg, I also use a electric chainsaw alot.

Skilsaw work drives and sidewinders also have a "clutch" type arbor that in a kickback situation, it will allow the blade to slip on the arbor to mitigate the kickback. I've never had the blade slip while cutting even at full depth but in a binding situation it will allow slip as long as you follow the directions on how much you torque the arbor bolt. If you tighten too much you lose the clutch slip ability.

Good review Kyle, As a follow up video what about care and maintenance of each saw. Are the motors brushless? Cost of brushes? How easy is it to replace the blades. Is the gearbox in the Skill saw sealed? do you need to change the oil if so how often? Once again thanks for all the videos over the years

I used makita 16” blade for 25 years and I’m still use works perfectly no issues. They make make 100.000 s $$$ dollars Great vids. Bro

At the thickness of stock being cut-would it be easier to use a chain saw?

Seeing the “regular” saw next to them is impressive but it’s comical to see you hold it at the beginning. That really put the size into perspective.

Great review man. Being a welder/fabricator for the past 43 years and counting, I don't have much need for a "beam" saw, but I am currently putting together a little post and beam building out of wood, and funny I could use one of these...LOL! Your metal subscriber... Razor!

Does it do well on deep rips on green wood?

Great review Kyle. Thanks for giving all of us the benefit of your real world application experience.

I feel like the skill is probably the longer lasting saw. I've never used either, but I feel like running the motor so slow on the Makita will put a lot more heat and strain on it, as opposed to the skill which gets a much faster motor, much faster spinning fan, etc.

That worm drive skilsaw looks so delicious! I bought a 12" beamsaw right after watching this video. Neither of these models are available in India, so I had to buy the only 12" model on offer. The skilsaw clearly wins this in my opinion. I've done jobs with poorly designed/abused/broken tools at times. Use what you have at hand to earn today, until you can afford to pay for a tool that will pay for itself many times over. 👍 Is it fun using ill-suited tools to finish real jobs on a deadline? Hell, NO!! It is painfully frustrating knowing you could have done this or that so much faster. But does it teach you things you wouldn't have learnt otherwise? YES Thanks for the comparison! 👍👍

Just bought my Sawsquatch. The price has gone up considerably over the past two years but found one on sale for about the price you quoted in the video.

I just got my first beam saw, the skill. My question for you is doing rips on beams is there a blade you prefer over the 32T that comes with the saw. Yes, they are priceless, but when someone shows on the job site with one they almost always know what they’re doing. Thanks for the review.

Great Review, I was considering buying the Maikita, but thin I will go with the Skilsaw. Unfortunately the last 4 year has seen a dramatic increase in price with the Skilsaw now as of 2 November 2023 right at $700.00 and the Makita at $1100.00 Sheesh!

I don't like having my circular saw in a bag either so I made a wood mount for my bag. I cut a peice of plywood to a 12 inch bigger than my circular saw base and cut a hole with my circular saw blade to put the blade into the wood. I glued 1/2 inch pieces of wood around the edges on top and put wood underneath the bottom of the plywood to prevent the bag from touching the blade, lifting the saw base. I have space under the saw and I put a hand held brush and dust pan and a few things like a pencil, square and tape measure that I need with my saw. I basically took a soft bag and made it a hard case, specifically for my circular saw. My life is easier since I did this cause I use it alot and I can put my saw in my truck bed and it's safe if it tips over cause I kinda overbuilt it to prevent damage but it's lite enough to grab and go, while having everything I need to use my saw in one bag. I even have a knife for cutting straps off lumber or to sharpen my pencil. I just thought I would share this to give someone else a idea to store they're circular saw and to prevent damage to it and having everything in one bag from measuring tape, square and pencil.

Great review. My go-to saw is a 35 year old wormdrive Skilsaw that I bought new. It's hefty since it's pre-magnesium base, but is like a handheld table saw in my opinion. I also have a Makita sidewinder that rarely gets used. The new guys start with that one. I would pick the large Skilsaw for two of the reasons you highlighted- cut line visibility and a way to safely retract the blade guard on the few occasions that are necessary.

Good video, :) am getting the skill one, seems like the better saw!

I don’t NEED one but I WANT one!

Great presentation. Made my decision easier. Thanks.

Great comparison. Skil for the win!

I use to have the Makita bean saw back in the late 90's when I was putting up log homes. But now at 78 not sure if I want to use such a large saw anymore. Ron USCG RET

Nice review, you should try if you'll have a chance mafell mks130ec.2500W, and 130milimetres of cutting depth. Amazing timber saw

Wasn't expecting the better one to be the cheaper option. It almost never is. But very good review and video!

Okay? I've been using a large portable chop saw with a wood blade on it for years for this sort of work. Cheap and reliable to own and use plus easy to switch out to do metal cutting with abrasive blades. Also it throws all the sawdust out the bottom not the top or sides.

Bought a super sawsquatch today. It's a beast, for sure. So far, so good.

Great video, thanks for sharing. Do you know if anyone makes a blade that can cut through nails? I have a Diablo for my 7-1/4. None of the 16-5/16 say anything about nails. Thank you for your time.