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Yeah! When you use all the safety rules and read the safety manual before every use of the tool Nothing will happen. LOL

Sounds like me when the Saw Stop showed up and I was saying why not and getting the response, If you are careful and don't do anything stupid you will not get hurt.

Who among us has never done anything stupid?

Did you use the LFAS method? ;~)

That might work on my Craftsman 113 TS...as long as I removed the motor. ;-)

In my case, the same outfeed table that rests on the workbench most of the time can be mounted in a similar manner as the HTC OFT so that it moves with the saw.

At the TS side, the OFT is friction fit between 2 pieces of angle iron and 2 drop-in bolts act as pins to keep it inside the iron. I've got 2 extra storage holes in the angle iron upstream of the OFT so I don't ever have to put the pins down. Haven't lost them yet. ;-)

In a shop as small as mine, you have to do what you have to do. Ask Gunny Highway.

I think I had that saw too. Funny how the pulley guard, On the motor, eats through the guard. So I had and our feed on mine too. It was from WoodSmith plans. It had a slotted arm on each end of the saw. The out feed slid along the arms with dowel pins and bolts.

I used to have my shop and equipment ins a 2 car garage along with n upright freezer, washer and dryer, wife's car, and yard stuff. It was a puzzle to get everything out and back in. I am now in a 3 car garage,and thought I was running out of room minus the washer & dryer, freezer, and yard stuff. And then I added the jointer and moved a couple of things to a new location. Seems I no longer have a space issue. Funny how doing a little rearranging really opens things up.

I'm not picturing how an OFT would mount on the saw based on that limited description. Could you expand on that - after reading the following - ?

When I pull the TS straight out of the hole-in-the-wall - the only way it can be pulled out - I have about 12" between the back of the saw's table and the workbench. Look to the left of the saw. That's the edge of the workbench just above the motor.

Without hefting the saw sideways on its 3 wheeled base - (2 fixed, 1 swivel) and keeping in mind the lack of space to make sweeping turns, would the OFT you are describing work? I'm not against building a different OFT, but it has to work with my space limitations.

I've been drawing different layouts for years and haven't come up with anything that will work. There really is no other place for the TS based on the room to use it and the fact that I gain a foot of room when it's stored. Everything else, including the interior and exterior doors basically means that my current layout is really the best option.

I've seen those. I believe Grizzley was selling the too.

I should add, that it moves out of the way but it's always moving, too.

Like spend time reading the Usenet?

Then it rolls sideways. I could deal with that, probably but if there's anything next to it, not so much. I mounted it backwards so the levers are at the back. It stands out from the wall 6" more but such is life.

LFAS?

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Lift, fall and scream?

I sure hope you didn't have to employ THAT LFAS method! :)

Puckdropper

A term given, here, when I posted this link several years ago. ;~)

Leon's Fat Ass Sagulator.

That too! LOL

No, just swap the front, wheels, Leave the rear wheels alone.

And or just swap the wheel that swivel and leave the fixed wheels alone. Swapping the swivel wheels and jack levers will move the lever to the side and away from the front.

The rollers would be an additional aid, not the only aid. I've found that it takes a combination of things to safely and effectively work with 12'+ boards on a jointer... long beds, adequate jointer weight (or securing it to the floor), enough room in the shop, infeed/outfeed stands, adequate down pressure on the outfeed table, reasonably flat stock to begin with (no excessive crook, bow, twist, etc.), etc. For my next project with long stock I've have my stock feeder set up and that will take care of many of the challenges.

Back when I had a 6" jointer I was edge jointing some 16' stock (don't recall if it was 2x6 or 2x8) and had the jointer standing up on end at one point... the jointer wasn't big and heavy enough to cope with the leverage the long boards exerted and I didn't have an outfeed stand set up. That led me to the DJ-20. That kind of stuff is why I have big stationary tools now... the smaller stuff was too dangerous for the tasks I asked of them!

I have no problems with rollers but one, only 8" from the table seems useless to me. A full roller table, or any sort of infeed table would be good but as you note, take a lot of space. I'm considering the Laguna rollers. I'd have bought one if 1) I could see them and 1), if the price hadn't gone up 33%.

For me, it's go big or go home. I'm only going to get one chance to buy a tool. It has to be what I'll want for the next 20 years (we can all dream ;-).

I don't see how that's going to work. I don't understand what's moving. I'll have to go downstairs and look at them closer but I think we're talking about very different things.

No, LGI (Lift, Groan, Ibuprofen)

You sure do like that pose.