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I'm trying to make sense of this.
I'm presuming there's a crankshaft below them that's driving a grindwheel at each of their workstations that they use to sharpen the blades they're working on. The motor that drives all of it is probably somewhere off screen.
I guess it beats using your feet to constantly crank the grindwheel.
This article suggests a few reasons!
The video in that article is fantastic.
Agreed, I just wish the voiceover wasn't AI
Oh, I wondered about the weird cadence, but dismissed it as a recording/editing issue. Thank you for pointing that out.
In a year or so, nobody will be able to tell the difference