MRG
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You guys are scaring me about my new toy!
Don't worry about it.
I was 17, working at a sawmill when my buddy got his pant leg caught in the arbor running the 60" headsaw. It was attached to a 100 HP diesel turning it at 600 RPM.
He was very lucky, his cheap jeans ripped away from his body, or he would have been flopped to death(I'm glad that didn't happen, as I am fond of the sob).
When the mill shut down we all looked around at each other in an eerie silence. This place was 5+ miles away from a road and we had almost lost a co-worker to a stupid accident. That reality hit all of us.
My buddy is standing there shaking, in his tidy whities, as another crazy guy looks up and says "you just lost your pants in front of the wrong bunch of 6 guys".
There was a nervous laugh, but we all knew what could have happened.
Enjoy the toy, what's the worst that can happen?✌
SawStop is a great choice,they were recently acquired by the company that owns Festool.
Festool makes very high quality power tools so quality will only go up.
I have a SawStop table saw on my 2018 acquisition list.
When I was 16 I drove a carpenter to the ER, he had cut his hand 90% off at the palm, only a thin flap remained. He ran it through a table saw on a home build jobsite.
Something you never forget.