It took two or three years before we were fully independent. Still working for John Carter, my brother Charley and I started our own business on the side and built our first home. Even with the discount, it was $125, and for a guy making $.72 per hour, that was a lot of money. It had many sidewinders that were in the $50-to-$70 price range, but then I tried the Skilsaw 825 wormdrive, and it was far superior to all of the others. I wanted one of my own, so I went to Western Machinery. I came out of the Army in 1947 and went to work building houses for a man named John Carter, who had a Wappat wormdrive saw. Before then, I had used only handsaws powered by my arm muscles. That was the first time I ever used a wormdrive saw. I was sent to Fort Lewis, where I trained in combat engineering. In 1943, I was 16 going on 17, and like many other young men at the time, I fibbed my way into joining the Army. I began learning construction at about age eight in my grandfather's cabinet shop. It wouldn't be far off to say that I have had a wormdrive saw in my hand for most of my 84 years.
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