Is this a Safe Table Saw Operation?

[Robatoy]

Looks similar to these. The one on the right is 32 years old.

may note a small drive-by..)

[Morris Dovey]

[PCPaul]

Ha. I can't even lift my push stick.

Or get to the saw at the moment, for that matter :-(

[LEGEND65]

I disagree. You can easily come off the fence at the back and not realize it if you don't have a splitter, which isn't possible on every cut. It may not necessarily cause an incident, but it's sure going to ruin the stock. If the stock is thin it can bow significantly before a splitter can do anything. With the proper precautions you can hopefully prevent any incident from causing you harm, but you don't necessarily prevent the incident from occurring in the first place, and once things get out of whack anything can happen and you don't have time to react to it. It's always better to prevent it from ever starting to happen at all, and you do that by being aware of everything that is going on and using all of your senses. You can often see the problems starting to happen in time to correct it, if you are paying attention. If you are only looking in one different spot, then it's just going to happen in an instant and you may very well both have no idea what actually caused it and assume it could not have been prevented. I'm not saying every incident is preventable, we all make mistakes and sometimes unforeseeable things go wrong. So I am not saying prevention makes safety precautions unnecessary, just that we don't want to fall back on the last line of defense if we don't have to.

-Kevin

[jo4hn]

See abpw for my personalized push stick. An oldie mouldie...

[Robatoy]

Is that an accurate profile, Jo8hn?

[Leon]

Ok, I'd much much much rather ruin the stock then my hand. I'll keep my eye on the blade.

If the stock is thin it can bow significantly

If you are watching the blade you can simply stop feeding and turn the saw off, I did this routinely before adding a splitter.

It's always better to prevent it from

If you know what you are doing, you know what can cause a problem. Perhaps you don't to this yet but reviewing what can happen and preparing can cut down significantly on the unexpected. My number one priority it to keep from getting cut again. Me keeping my eyes on the spinning blade has been very successful for the last 20 years and not every cut has been text book smooth. I have had several incidents for one reason or another, a majority of the time the stock was the cause, and I so far I have been able to controll the unwanted reaction.

I'm not saying every incident is preventable, we

We agree.

[Swingman]

"New fangled" makes a helluva broadband modem for the laptop when in the boonies. Even does a good imitation of Hilda, Jr ... re-calculating!

[Lee Michaels]

"Robatoy" wrote

Looks similar to these. The one on the right is 32 years old.

may note a small drive-by..) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I notice that the table saw fence has a Canadian flag on it.

Is this a socialist state reqiurement?

[Swingman]

"Robatoy" wrote

Duly noted ... one of these days, maybe, but let me get the last one out of college first before succumbing to that particular compulsion.

ITMT, you and Morris just keep on providing the vicarious thrills ...

[FrozenNorth]

Yep, Bald Eagles are push sticks. ;-)

[Robatoy]

I was talking about my blow gun.. from the SnapOn truck. Okay... not really...

[Swingman]

An expression with two positive words that, combined, make a negative: "Yeah, right!"

:)

[Larrybud]

Kent wrote in news: [e-mail]. com:

I wouldn't do it, not after a board a few inches wider, and a few inches longer kicked back on me when doing a rabbit about 5 years ago and split my right index finger down the middle about 1/2" from the tip, and that was with the blade only raised about 1/4".