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thing is HUGE. The smarter part of me knows this thing is more- or-less useless for a weekend woodworker but another part of me wants to buy it because it seems so cool.Holy heck--what do you use this beast for?
Feb 09, 2011
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Darn, only a 16" saw blade on the 18" saw. I'd buy it if it had an 18" blade....
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18" American Sawmill Table Saw
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To cut the body parts into little pieces making them easier to hide.
7-1/2HP? Yeah, I'd say it was useless, at least for this weekend woodworker.
That's Paul Bunyon's saw, the green "Babe" model.
Sonny
Darn, only a 16" saw blade on the 18" saw. I'd buy it if it had an
18" blade....Might be for tapers. Odd.
Mart> 18" American Sawmill Table Saw
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made "many" very large pieces of equipment.
Cool works... it would go well with my 36" Crescent bandsaw... ;~)
John
Depends on what you want to build as a weekend woodworker - for ripping 3" jarrah stair treads it'd be great! JP
It will swing a 3 inch wide dado and rip 4x4s. What's not to like about it? Big downsides I can see other than parts availability are that it needs 3-phase power (and lots of it) and blades aren't going to be cheap.
I suspect that it will either teach you proper technique or kill you trying though--with that much power it's capable of _serious_ kickback.
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