Killer deals on table saws?

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  • Pappy
    The Full Monte
    • Dec 2002
    • 10490
    • San Marcos, TX, USA.
    • BT3000 (x2)
    #1

    Killer deals on table saws?

    Found these on Austin craigslist. Company is a mobile home mfg.

    http://austin.craigslist.org/tls/218015814.html

    http://austin.craigslist.org/tls/218019798.html

    For most it would require changing out the motor but if the price is right...
    Don, aka Pappy,

    Wise men talk because they have something to say,
    Fools because they have to say something.
    Plato
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    • kramer katt
      Established Member
      • Aug 2004
      • 375
      • SO CAL, USA
      • BT3100 and Craftsman 100
      #2
      Did anyone notice why the saws are being replaced?
      SS wins
      wonder what the company safety record has been
      kk
      Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler
      --Albert Einstein

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        • jackellis
          Veteran Member
          • Nov 2003
          • 2638
          • Tahoe City, CA, USA.
          • BT3100
          #3
          Originally posted by kramer katt
          Did anyone notice why the saws are being replaced?
          SS wins
          wonder what the company safety record has been
          kk
          I don't blame the company for replacing their saws, especially in places like Texas where juries are often irrational about personal injury cases. If employees keep taking the guards off because they're inconvenient, the cost of replacing 200 saws at 5 grand apiece is cheap compared with the cost of paying one claim on severed fingers.

          Those of us who are hobbyists are making a different economic judgement that's not entirely rational either. For me, the cost of losing a finger in a saw accident far outweighs the cost of a Sawstop-equipped saw, but I choose not to spend the money and hope like **** I'm careful enough (gotta get a Shark Guard here soon).

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            • Jeffrey Schronce
              Veteran Member
              • Nov 2005
              • 3822
              • York, PA, USA.
              • 22124
              #4
              [QUOTE=jackellis;215915]I don't blame the company for replacing their saws, especially in places like Texas where juries are often irrational about personal injury cases. [QUOTE]

              This would be a Workers Compensation case, not a personal injury case. Medical and paid time off would be expensive but there are no punative damages.

              I know that Middletown Lumber (shop/retailer) recently replaced their cabinet saw with a SS after an employee cut his finger off. I saw the saw and went into the shop and asked how he liked it. He showed me his reattached finger and said he would have liked it a lot better a couple months ago! LOL!

              I would not be suprised to see workers comp carriers giving small discounts for SS equiped shops.

              Are we ultimately going to end up with this technology on all machines? My worst injury was as a kid involving a BS.

              Finally, I would take a liability case in TX any day over CA! LOL!

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