Holy heck--what do you use this beast for?

[busbus]

18" American Sawmill Table Saw

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.

[SBH]

To cut the body parts into little pieces making them easier to hide.

[krw]

7-1/2HP? Yeah, I'd say it was useless, at least for this weekend woodworker.

[Sonny]

That's Paul Bunyon's saw, the green "Babe" model.

Sonny

[Goose]

Darn, only a 16" saw blade on the 18" saw. I'd buy it if it had an

18" blade....

[Martin Eastburn]

Might be for tapers. Odd.

Mart> 18" American Sawmill Table Saw

[Pat Barber]

[Pat Barber]

Here is a little history on the company with some more pictures...

made "many" very large pieces of equipment.

[John Grossbohlin]

Cool works... it would go well with my 36" Crescent bandsaw... ;~)

John

[Jay Pique]

Depends on what you want to build as a weekend woodworker - for ripping 3" jarrah stair treads it'd be great! JP

[J. Clarke]

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.