A couple of decades back I was employed at a DIY store that also had wood stocked for construction purposes. In the spring, we in the stockroom end of the place had little seasonal jobs to do. One of these jobs was to make wooden stakes for gardening , layout of projects and whatever you might want to pound wood into the ground for. I am not MENSA material , but this was truly stupid , so I did outdoor work to avoid it. You see , when they made stakes they take a piece of 2 by 2 material and shove it into the naked blade of the tablesaw at an angle. Fast, easy , pointy sticks were the result. I won't say they were cheap because of the huge breakage suffered at the ejection end of the process. After watching this go on for a full season I was quite pleased to be layed off the next winter.
