woodmanipulator

this reminds me of something I saw happen at work a few years ago. this carpenter was cutting furring strips on a table saw in a house where I was doing stair work, and the guy rigged the saw to throw his cuts thru a door into another room where he had a pile going. he would hold the board from the outside of the blade so that his strip would fly into the other room. pretty soon two guys came thru the house carrying a window and you can probably guess what happened. This kind of iddiocy is wide spread among common hacks who think they are clever. in defense of antique tools though, I use a 1945 16" northfield table saw in my home shop, completely lacking in guards-no splitter, no blade guard, and I love it. Safety is the opperators responsibility, not the machines. furthermore there is a safe method for doing anything with any machine, regardless of built in safety features.