So TOOLS contributor and owner of an actual aptronym @kasselconstruction Jeremy Kassel—see his excellent Makita sidewinder review here—and I were talking about the wide variety of projects we take on and our approaches to work. Jeremy has a number of different revenue streams within the larger context of his remodeling company and there’s a whole story there for another time. Anyway, I told him that I was doing a landscaping job. As I am more of a deck guy, the landscape arts are a little outside my wheelhouse.
Well, I did some of the edging with Milwaukee Tool’s M18 string trimmer, which I am also reviewing. I don’t want to get too in the weeds (see how funny I am) on this right now, but it rocks. And I sent Jeremy this IG video of the unit in action and I said: “This thing chooches.”
Though I thought this was the exclusive parlance of one YouTube breaker BOLTr, Jeremy told me he picked up the lingo from another Canadian YouTube breaker, The Samurai Carpenter, whose video of a choochin’ deck detail I share here.
If you like it, thank Jeremy. I wouldn’t have looked were it not for him. Miters open up. Laps and butts mainly don’t.
I would do this technique a little differently. He really has to mutilate the cedar to get the near-genius use of a half-lap to seat, but other than that, I’m totally stealing this for my deck building demos at DeckExpo, where I hope to meet those of you I have yet to meet.
Apparently “chooch” and “skookum” are British Columbia terms, not just BOLTr’s own language.
