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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 3589599, member: 87404&quot;]In a Google search about the topic, there was a Forvm DB post that in which someone didn&#039;t believe the Romans word expend so much effort in cutting a planchet mentioning that it&#039;d take at least 10 minutes with a modern hacksaw. But I&#039;ve seen a documentary about how the ancients had cut stone slabs in quarries with a saw with multiple saw blades of after another and it got me thinking that this could maybe be the case with these too? Maybe 10-20 saw blades set 8-10mm apart all moving back and forth together? Also, Roman&#039;s used work animals to ease efforts in industry, so maybe the saw was driven by a set of donkeys walking in circles spinning a spindle? Like they did with grinding grain?</p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ancient.eu/amp/2-907/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ancient.eu/amp/2-907/" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ancient.eu/amp/2-907/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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