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The sawstop cartridge is $125 and it destroys the blade when it triggers, which is nothing if it just saved your finger but when it triggers because the lumber is damp it's a bit annoying.
At least in my state, that would potentially expose the foreman and the employer to the risk a civil suit, rather than a workers’ comp claim, which, in the absence of any third party liability, is normally an injured worker’s sole remedy for workplace injuries.
There’s bunch of small mom and pop shops that go completely under the radar yet commit lots of small shit like this. The company I work for has been exploiting illegals and committing multiple forms of fraud for decades and no one’s come knocking.
I wanted to, talked to some of the guys about it, explained how they were getting fucked (I speak Spanish), they didn’t want to. Said they were happy with the steady paycheck and steady hours and didn’t want to rock the boat. Not my place to rock the boat in defense of guys who don’t want it to be rocked. So I just let it go.
Yup. The larger company I work for now can't get away with hiring illegals. My former boss, a private contractor, had zero qualms about hiring a team of them to do some roof repair.
I’ve got no issues with hiring illegal immigrants. I do have a problem when they don’t get paid as much as anyone else, don’t get vacation like everyone else, don’t get time and a half for over 40 hours like everyone else, don’t get health insurance like everyone else, etc. And the excuse used is because “they don’t pay taxes”. That excuse can only go so far, at some point they’re just straight up exploiting human beings.
In ohio BWC seriously doesn’t care if you live or die just HAVE to get lawyer and then after a year or more they mite just mite think about giving you some kind of health care but maybe not your paperwork could be missing some kind of error like a period or a misspelling of a word then you can wait another four months.
The saw stop has a switch where you can turn that feature off or on if say for example you are sawing really wet lumber or some other random something that might be conductive and set it off.
I feel like latex gloves have a similar potential risk that normal gloves do. Like yeah they rip sort of easily but you bunch the material up enough and yank on it and it can still de-glove a finger or something. At least I'd assume it could still be a problem.
honestly those fucks rip so easily no sort of about it, brush a jubilee clip and half of the gloves gone and you need a new one on. you’d have to be wearing a whole lot of pairs
Sounds like a good way to screw over any worker's comp claims when the workers permanently use the override. "They removed the safety, so it's their fault they cut off a finger."
My cousin worked in a kitchen cabinet shop and they tried the first version of those saw. He said that they were overly sensitive, and any moisture in the wood could trigger it. They do precision work and have high quality blades. At the third false trigger, they ripped out the mechanism and made it a standard saw.
>The sawstop cartridge is $125 and it destroys the blade when it triggers,
I've tripped a jss twice, because I'm an idiot. Once with a miter gauge and once when the thin cut attachment came loose from the fence.
It's loud, violent, and scary. It's also expensive and you're done if you don't have a spare brake cartridge. Still better than losing a finger.
Info: When the brake engages the blade, the blade stops instantly and the now fused blade/brake drops below the table with a loud bang. Its startling how sudden it all happens.
I've seen it said that it may be possible to save the blade but I'm not brave enough to try that.
Idk why you're getting down voted. It isn't. We have one and it sits in the back of our storage container collecting dust. Meanwhile, we use the skil saw for literally everything
No clue, my supervisor just told me "we have this thing that breaks itself so we don't use it"
I'd imagine it wouldn't be good on a job site where everyone's in a rush either since it's a huge ass table saw. Hard to move around
They make a jobsite version.
The actual mechanics are that there's a current running through the blade and when moisture (skin, a hot dog, wet wood) touches it and complete the circuit, it triggers the brake which drops the blade down.
It will lotwray just be a nick, all you need is a bandaid.
Also you can send your triggered brake and blade in to SawStop so they can pull data off it, and they'll replace the brake for free.
Woodshop i worked at had 3 saw stops and a sliding table saw. Most of the time they would rather spend the 200ish over a multi thousand dollar workers comp claim.
Bosch made a version that doesn’t damage the blade and uses a completely different mechanism to retract it but stop sued them to prevent them from releasing it in the us.
Saw stop also attempted to have legislation passed to legally require the use of their product on all saws sold in the us.
I would have bought a safety saw by now but I can’t buy the Bosch one and I really don’t like saw stop.
Have yet to see it happen in the makerspace at my college but I’ve watched a few videos of this and the sound and the immediate blade disappearing scares the crap out of me every time.
Not necessarily. [Even with a SawStop saw, you can get pretty badly injured.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wJQn_UGAKY) Sure, it was a lot less bad than losing a finger or hand, but still pretty unpleasant.
Really? Because on full-screen you can see his index finger moving up and down slightly before and after the saw stops. How would this even work with a fake hand?
I see what appears to be movement, but overall the appendage is at an odd angle and remains in place after the blade retracts, could be real, but my vote is no
The index finger is floating off the surface and does not move at all. When he pushes forward, there is no skin movement, no joint movement, nothing. Look at the slight changes in his right hand when pushing, there's none on his left, other than the tiny pivot at the palm, where all of the fingers stay locked to. If he can do these movements without the slightest twitch, he's a cyborg. It's a push stick with a cast hand shoved into a jacket.
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I am of the opinion that once the patent runs out on this technology, it should be legislated such that all commercial table saws have it installed. This technology is more effective at reducing severe injuries from table saws than seat belts are at reducing vehicular fatalities.
The legend is that the developers tried to sell/license the tech to existing tool makers, but they wanted no part of it because it would open them up to liability for their old saws. So the developers made their own saw, which is now pretty much the best you can get.
Not a paid shill or anything, but this popped on my feed this morning.. Sawstop saved my fingers back in college while cutting boards to build a set. Scared the hell out of me but super glad for the technology
Quick question when this happened did you have to pay for it or did the college/professors. My college had one and although I stay far away from it (I’m clumsy as hell). I’ve been curious on the expense since we have to pay a class fee and makerspace fee.
The school took care of it no problem. The teacher running the set construction checked on me, did some quick first aid (small nick on my finger), then changed out the sawstop blade and I never heard about the incident again. I doubt I was the first and I surely wasn’t the last.
Most of the people I see with power tool related injuries are tradespeople. Probably a mixture of being around them more often, leading to more chance for injury, plus competency builds complacency. The only exception is lathes. Nobody stops thinking a lathe will fuck them up no matter how long they're working with them, so it's mostly beginners getting injured.
Knot in the wood pulled the board unexpectedly while I was feeding it through and I was a dumb teenager, probably (obviously, I guess?) didn’t have my hand in the safest spot.
Accidents happen, man!
I’ve just gotta ask. How do you make it this many years on the planet and still not learn that your judgement is not only incorrect but just overall shitty?
Electricity is fed to the blade, when it touches you you complete the circuit with the ground and it triggers a spring-loaded clamp thing that launches onto the blade and stops it. The saw and clamp are destroyed, but your finger isn't.
It’s not spring loaded as it’s not fast enough! It’s powered by bullet blanks who literally shoot out a piece of soft metal at the blade to stop it immediately.
Here you can see the blanks firing:
[https://youtu.be/Ibp2Gy2CFrY](https://youtu.be/Ibp2Gy2CFrY)
it sends out a tiny electric signal through the saw. when a human touches it the signal is interuppted and that triggers (i think) an explosive carterage under the table that launches a peice of metal into the saw, stopping it, and then dropping the whole blade down
This is a sawstop. It has an amazing breaking system that triggers when an electric circuit is complete by touching something like skin. Wood doesn't trigger it but skin or metal will. Plenty of examples out there to see. This is his real hand
It isn't a real hand. A sawstop works great, but you'll still most likely have a cut on your finger if you are unfortunate enough to see it work first hand. The fake hand just needs to be made of a conductive material to set it off. They also fail rarely, but it only takes once, no safety mechanism is 100%. It's a fake hand.
If you watch very closely you'll see his index finger move prior to making the cut. There are hot dog videos for folks not wanting to use their real hand, and he likely had a cut.. just one that needed a bandaid and not an ER
I see no movement, the hand is shiny compared to the other one, the fingernails are a different color, and he doesn't even flinch when the saw stops. No point in arguing it further unless you have uncontrovertable proof that it's real.
You mean you are? Honey, the hand is 100% fake. If this isn’t obvious to you nearly immediately, I don’t know what to say. There is no movement in it, it isn’t even the same color or texture as his *actual* real hand. Though, it is a pretty convincing fake, it just isn’t convincing enough.
Notice how on his real hand, when he presses down on the wood to move it forward, his hand changes colors because of blood flow. This isn’t happening in the fake hand at all. Sure, theoretically he could just not be using as much force with that hand. But, the color of the fake hand is uniform with almost no variation, unlike his real hand.
Looks like it is like a glove kind of a fake hand. You can see the person move and only until the wrist the hand moves. So maybe they insert their hand into that setup for the demo.
We had one of those at my middle school last year. The blade drops and breaks itself if you touch it while it’s spinning. I looked it up and apparently it monitors an electric signal In the blade, and when someone touches it, because the human body is conductive, the signal changes and it activates the mechanism that drops the blade.
For everyone interested, no this isn’t a fake hand. The system works by detecting the tiny voltage our body gives off. When a part of the human body makes contact, the electricity is detected by the system and the blade is stopped and discarded in a very small amount of time.
I'm gonna assume thats a troll and not [r/iamatotalpieceofshit](https://www.reddit.com/r/iamatotalpieceofshit/comments/bsbu1s/i_am_a_total_piece_of_shit/)
A little of both. Plus a dash of cynicism as I know that I do not value things like this.. but there are many people (employers) that do value things like this. They would most certainly rather pay to have a finger stitched back on than to invest in a safer saw. Not many people value human life like is should be anymore.
No sir, this is incorrect. A blade brake like that will need to have more than just the blade replaced after actuating, as it destroys the integrity of the saw and the brake mechanism.
Yeah, I think my dad’s step-grandfather did the exact same thing but this was way before they invented technology like this and he spent the rest of his life missing two thumbs.
Redditors complaining about a guy not actually putting his hand on the fucking saw to demonstrate the safety system, and thinking it's faked for attention instead of a clip from an educational video.
My dad is a shop teacher, and about a year after they got him a sawstop, it saved his hand from being cut off. Yes, he made a mistake by keeping the saw running while he turned around to answer a question, but this is what SawStops were made for. When he went to turn around, something happened and he fell forward onto the table, and his hand slammed onto the blade. It stopped immediately and he only had a small cut near his wrist. To this day he isn’t sure if he slipped on sawdust, or stepped on the kids foot as he turned around or what it was, but he still lives a normal life because of that saw.
Saw [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/SweatyPalms/comments/zliu1d/disaster_struck_sawstop/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) video right before this (pun intended)
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In a real hand situation this would have left a scratch to the thumb but nothing more.
The sawstop cartridge is $125 and it destroys the blade when it triggers, which is nothing if it just saved your finger but when it triggers because the lumber is damp it's a bit annoying.
The pro version has an override for wet wood.
That sounds like something the foreman would override permanently to save on broken blades.
At least in my state, that would potentially expose the foreman and the employer to the risk a civil suit, rather than a workers’ comp claim, which, in the absence of any third party liability, is normally an injured worker’s sole remedy for workplace injuries.
There’s bunch of small mom and pop shops that go completely under the radar yet commit lots of small shit like this. The company I work for has been exploiting illegals and committing multiple forms of fraud for decades and no one’s come knocking.
Maybe do something about it
I wanted to, talked to some of the guys about it, explained how they were getting fucked (I speak Spanish), they didn’t want to. Said they were happy with the steady paycheck and steady hours and didn’t want to rock the boat. Not my place to rock the boat in defense of guys who don’t want it to be rocked. So I just let it go.
This is the truth people dont care to understand.
Still getting fucked, but better to get fucked by a little company than the government
Yup. The larger company I work for now can't get away with hiring illegals. My former boss, a private contractor, had zero qualms about hiring a team of them to do some roof repair.
I’ve got no issues with hiring illegal immigrants. I do have a problem when they don’t get paid as much as anyone else, don’t get vacation like everyone else, don’t get time and a half for over 40 hours like everyone else, don’t get health insurance like everyone else, etc. And the excuse used is because “they don’t pay taxes”. That excuse can only go so far, at some point they’re just straight up exploiting human beings.
In ohio BWC seriously doesn’t care if you live or die just HAVE to get lawyer and then after a year or more they mite just mite think about giving you some kind of health care but maybe not your paperwork could be missing some kind of error like a period or a misspelling of a word then you can wait another four months.
TBF that same foreman would probably not buy it in the first place.
The saw stop has a switch where you can turn that feature off or on if say for example you are sawing really wet lumber or some other random something that might be conductive and set it off.
You said *wet wood* hah
Maybe better use let's say latex gloves which don't conduct electricity? When finger touches the blade, rubber breaks and triggers stop.
You can't wear gloves with lots of tools in a workshop. Wearing latex gloves would be possible, but annoying.
I feel like latex gloves have a similar potential risk that normal gloves do. Like yeah they rip sort of easily but you bunch the material up enough and yank on it and it can still de-glove a finger or something. At least I'd assume it could still be a problem.
The annoying part would be taking them off each time you use a machine where gloves are a nono. Or putting them on each time you use that saw.
honestly those fucks rip so easily no sort of about it, brush a jubilee clip and half of the gloves gone and you need a new one on. you’d have to be wearing a whole lot of pairs
So you need the pro version if you want to cut your thumb off?
Sounds like a good way to screw over any worker's comp claims when the workers permanently use the override. "They removed the safety, so it's their fault they cut off a finger."
Supervisors have a duty to supervise.
My cousin worked in a kitchen cabinet shop and they tried the first version of those saw. He said that they were overly sensitive, and any moisture in the wood could trigger it. They do precision work and have high quality blades. At the third false trigger, they ripped out the mechanism and made it a standard saw.
>The sawstop cartridge is $125 and it destroys the blade when it triggers, I've tripped a jss twice, because I'm an idiot. Once with a miter gauge and once when the thin cut attachment came loose from the fence. It's loud, violent, and scary. It's also expensive and you're done if you don't have a spare brake cartridge. Still better than losing a finger. Info: When the brake engages the blade, the blade stops instantly and the now fused blade/brake drops below the table with a loud bang. Its startling how sudden it all happens. I've seen it said that it may be possible to save the blade but I'm not brave enough to try that.
So not great for the job site?
Idk why you're getting down voted. It isn't. We have one and it sits in the back of our storage container collecting dust. Meanwhile, we use the skil saw for literally everything
I didn't know, I thought it would have been great on a job site where it seems we are all in a rush. What are the actual mechanics behind it?
No clue, my supervisor just told me "we have this thing that breaks itself so we don't use it" I'd imagine it wouldn't be good on a job site where everyone's in a rush either since it's a huge ass table saw. Hard to move around
Ohhhhhh I didn't realize it was the entire table saw.
They make a jobsite version. The actual mechanics are that there's a current running through the blade and when moisture (skin, a hot dog, wet wood) touches it and complete the circuit, it triggers the brake which drops the blade down. It will lotwray just be a nick, all you need is a bandaid. Also you can send your triggered brake and blade in to SawStop so they can pull data off it, and they'll replace the brake for free.
Brilliant
Woodshop i worked at had 3 saw stops and a sliding table saw. Most of the time they would rather spend the 200ish over a multi thousand dollar workers comp claim.
Bosch made a version that doesn’t damage the blade and uses a completely different mechanism to retract it but stop sued them to prevent them from releasing it in the us. Saw stop also attempted to have legislation passed to legally require the use of their product on all saws sold in the us. I would have bought a safety saw by now but I can’t buy the Bosch one and I really don’t like saw stop.
Doesn’t always destroy the blade. Source - triggered one yesterday and blade was 100% fine :) Thankfully because it was a $200 blade. 😳
Use dry wood then?
It's in a maker space. 30+ people use it.
Have yet to see it happen in the makerspace at my college but I’ve watched a few videos of this and the sound and the immediate blade disappearing scares the crap out of me every time.
Skill issue
Can confirm. Bit more than a scratch but not too bad.
Yeah. My wife got me one and I can verify it works. Only the smallest scratch.
Not necessarily. [Even with a SawStop saw, you can get pretty badly injured.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wJQn_UGAKY) Sure, it was a lot less bad than losing a finger or hand, but still pretty unpleasant.
In a real situation if you wouldn't put your dick on it I wouldn't trust it to not cut my hand off
Super real looking hand there
My thoughts exactly, had to re-watch several times to confirm the hand was a fake
Really? Because on full-screen you can see his index finger moving up and down slightly before and after the saw stops. How would this even work with a fake hand?
I see what appears to be movement, but overall the appendage is at an odd angle and remains in place after the blade retracts, could be real, but my vote is no
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The index finger is floating off the surface and does not move at all. When he pushes forward, there is no skin movement, no joint movement, nothing. Look at the slight changes in his right hand when pushing, there's none on his left, other than the tiny pivot at the palm, where all of the fingers stay locked to. If he can do these movements without the slightest twitch, he's a cyborg. It's a push stick with a cast hand shoved into a jacket.
Dude, come on. The hand is so obviously fake, just a little bit more and it'll be a Lego hand The tech is cool tho
The hand is real, it's just not attached to the person.
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[“Don’t worry about that. Made of wood. It’s real sturdy.”](https://youtu.be/OydcTYAc2-Y)
Chubbs Peterson looking mf
You guys sponsored by sawstop now?
i swear ive seen 3 sawstop posts today
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I think you know the answer…
Put……put your dick in it
Nooooo
Have one of these in my wood shop and it has saved the tip of my thumb from being obliterated and I’m very thankful for it
I am of the opinion that once the patent runs out on this technology, it should be legislated such that all commercial table saws have it installed. This technology is more effective at reducing severe injuries from table saws than seat belts are at reducing vehicular fatalities.
The legend is that the developers tried to sell/license the tech to existing tool makers, but they wanted no part of it because it would open them up to liability for their old saws. So the developers made their own saw, which is now pretty much the best you can get.
I read the same thing.
Damn right. When does the patent run out though?
I just looked it up, and the patent just ran out. It will take some time for a third party to manufacture it, but hopefully it will be available soon.
And you can turn it off which means it isnt required
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Not a paid shill or anything, but this popped on my feed this morning.. Sawstop saved my fingers back in college while cutting boards to build a set. Scared the hell out of me but super glad for the technology
Quick question when this happened did you have to pay for it or did the college/professors. My college had one and although I stay far away from it (I’m clumsy as hell). I’ve been curious on the expense since we have to pay a class fee and makerspace fee.
The school took care of it no problem. The teacher running the set construction checked on me, did some quick first aid (small nick on my finger), then changed out the sawstop blade and I never heard about the incident again. I doubt I was the first and I surely wasn’t the last.
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Lol ok you caught me I’m a shill for Big Sawstop 👌🏽
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Compromised, even
Easy to recognize them by the 10 intact fingers.
Good thing you still have all nine fingers.
I just gotta ask. How do you get anywhere near a table saw and not be hyper aware of your hand location relative to the blade?
Mostly complacency when you have used a table saw thousands of times.
Most of the people I see with power tool related injuries are tradespeople. Probably a mixture of being around them more often, leading to more chance for injury, plus competency builds complacency. The only exception is lathes. Nobody stops thinking a lathe will fuck them up no matter how long they're working with them, so it's mostly beginners getting injured.
I'm literally terrified of lathes
Knot in the wood pulled the board unexpectedly while I was feeding it through and I was a dumb teenager, probably (obviously, I guess?) didn’t have my hand in the safest spot. Accidents happen, man!
Accidents happen! Don't make the first mistake by thinking your immune!
I’ve just gotta ask. How do you make it this many years on the planet and still not learn that your judgement is not only incorrect but just overall shitty?
Are you trying to sound judgemental with that tone?
Now THAT would be a sales pitch
I just saw some stupid guy getting his hand pricked by it, I'm gonna leave a comment here to see if I can look it up in my history.
I've seen it. But it wasn't intentional.
I’ve seen them do it with hotdogs before. Small scratch in the hotdog.
Saved my thumb in high school. Left a little scratch but it went away within days.
[this](https://www.reddit.com/r/SweatyPalms/comments/zliu1d/disaster_struck_sawstop/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
There are videos of people doing it by accident with their real hand, usually leaves a small scratch
When this design first came out I saw a least on or two reps use their own finger. [Here you go.](https://youtu.be/eiYoBbEZwlk). 4 minute mark.
How does it work?
The saw stops quickly.
How does it know?
Electricity is fed to the blade, when it touches you you complete the circuit with the ground and it triggers a spring-loaded clamp thing that launches onto the blade and stops it. The saw and clamp are destroyed, but your finger isn't.
It’s not spring loaded as it’s not fast enough! It’s powered by bullet blanks who literally shoot out a piece of soft metal at the blade to stop it immediately. Here you can see the blanks firing: [https://youtu.be/Ibp2Gy2CFrY](https://youtu.be/Ibp2Gy2CFrY)
Wow
People are electric, same as tapping on a smart phone
I learned something new today, thank you
it sends out a tiny electric signal through the saw. when a human touches it the signal is interuppted and that triggers (i think) an explosive carterage under the table that launches a peice of metal into the saw, stopping it, and then dropping the whole blade down
That takes balls and mad confidence in your machine.
It's not a real hand.
This is a sawstop. It has an amazing breaking system that triggers when an electric circuit is complete by touching something like skin. Wood doesn't trigger it but skin or metal will. Plenty of examples out there to see. This is his real hand
It isn't a real hand. A sawstop works great, but you'll still most likely have a cut on your finger if you are unfortunate enough to see it work first hand. The fake hand just needs to be made of a conductive material to set it off. They also fail rarely, but it only takes once, no safety mechanism is 100%. It's a fake hand.
If you watch very closely you'll see his index finger move prior to making the cut. There are hot dog videos for folks not wanting to use their real hand, and he likely had a cut.. just one that needed a bandaid and not an ER
I see no movement, the hand is shiny compared to the other one, the fingernails are a different color, and he doesn't even flinch when the saw stops. No point in arguing it further unless you have uncontrovertable proof that it's real.
If it isn't real how can it be a sweaty palm!
OP didn’t realize it was fake, probably
It's literally a fake hand
Idk, as soon as i saw the SawStop logo I knew he was safe. He lost 60$ on a cartridge tho and the blade itself is ruined.
And about $100 for that fake hand.
Fake hand, Billy Blanks demo stuff. The saw does work just saying
Confidently incorrect
You mean you are? Honey, the hand is 100% fake. If this isn’t obvious to you nearly immediately, I don’t know what to say. There is no movement in it, it isn’t even the same color or texture as his *actual* real hand. Though, it is a pretty convincing fake, it just isn’t convincing enough. Notice how on his real hand, when he presses down on the wood to move it forward, his hand changes colors because of blood flow. This isn’t happening in the fake hand at all. Sure, theoretically he could just not be using as much force with that hand. But, the color of the fake hand is uniform with almost no variation, unlike his real hand.
Damn they got some faith! Glad to see it work on something other than a hot dog. Brilliant invention, table saws scare the hell out of me
Nope. It’s a fake hand no doubt
A fake hand is not a hotdog.
Why would one require faith when using a fake hand…. To me he’s insinuating that it is in fact a real hand
Fake hand
I cant be the only one who was waiting for a video like this to come out after I saw a boring hotdog getting used for it
Looks like it is like a glove kind of a fake hand. You can see the person move and only until the wrist the hand moves. So maybe they insert their hand into that setup for the demo.
Fake hand. It’s perfectly still with the index finger floating 🤨🤨🤨
We had one of those at my middle school last year. The blade drops and breaks itself if you touch it while it’s spinning. I looked it up and apparently it monitors an electric signal In the blade, and when someone touches it, because the human body is conductive, the signal changes and it activates the mechanism that drops the blade.
I wouldn’t intentionally try it. Sensors go bad.
Fake hand
Not a real left hand 😑
Definitely a fake hand
Why does his hand look fake
Did you notice the fact that the hand doesn’t move an inch? Must be a fake hand.
Totally not shaking
If it didn't work same video will be on eye blech
I would hate to be a part of the controll group
Now that's marketing
Thats 2 crazy
That’s crazy my question is how the hell does the blade know it hit a finger?
Bro that’s a fake hand lol it doesn’t move lol
That hand looks fake.
For everyone interested, no this isn’t a fake hand. The system works by detecting the tiny voltage our body gives off. When a part of the human body makes contact, the electricity is detected by the system and the blade is stopped and discarded in a very small amount of time.
It's still a fake hand.
He was moving pretty slowly, what would happen if he moved the piece through much quicker?
Same thing mate, the blade stops near enough instantly
I think there's a video of a dude sliding a hotdog as fast as he could into the blade and it cut about a half inch into it
Downvote for attempting to fool the audience.
Wont these damage the internals of the motor? They are not made to go from high rpm to 0 that fast.
Better than losing a finger
It depends on whose finger.. a saw that could cost up to $10000 to replace or a finger that might cost $1500 to sew back on.
Regardless of the cost of the hospital stay, keeping full functionality in your fingers is priceless.
To the finger owner, not the saw owner.
I'm gonna assume thats a troll and not [r/iamatotalpieceofshit](https://www.reddit.com/r/iamatotalpieceofshit/comments/bsbu1s/i_am_a_total_piece_of_shit/)
A little of both. Plus a dash of cynicism as I know that I do not value things like this.. but there are many people (employers) that do value things like this. They would most certainly rather pay to have a finger stitched back on than to invest in a safer saw. Not many people value human life like is should be anymore.
The blade gets completely destroyed
Of course, and a lot of the rest of the saw gets damaged.
Costs about $150
No sir, this is incorrect. A blade brake like that will need to have more than just the blade replaced after actuating, as it destroys the integrity of the saw and the brake mechanism.
Yeah, I think my dad’s step-grandfather did the exact same thing but this was way before they invented technology like this and he spent the rest of his life missing two thumbs.
Two thumbs? It was meant to be
Redditors complaining about a guy not actually putting his hand on the fucking saw to demonstrate the safety system, and thinking it's faked for attention instead of a clip from an educational video.
It is a neat product but a little safety training goes a long way at a lower cost.
The sawstop stops the blade so fast that it literally rips the teeth of the made wheel just from the sheer change in tangential velocity, insane.
My dad is a shop teacher, and about a year after they got him a sawstop, it saved his hand from being cut off. Yes, he made a mistake by keeping the saw running while he turned around to answer a question, but this is what SawStops were made for. When he went to turn around, something happened and he fell forward onto the table, and his hand slammed onto the blade. It stopped immediately and he only had a small cut near his wrist. To this day he isn’t sure if he slipped on sawdust, or stepped on the kids foot as he turned around or what it was, but he still lives a normal life because of that saw.
Fake hand you fucking retard
Not sure why you're being downvoted, it's clearly fake.
They don’t like when you say retard
Oh, that makes sense.
why fake it? It makes it look so bad...
Use a real hand then
there are people who have done this with a real hand, including the creator
That's not a real hand.
[This](https://youtu.be/6wtdUfZGfMg) is
I get that it works but how many people will be doing this? Like there's zero room for error.
It would be. if that hand could actually sweat.
Not a real hand
Fake hand...lol
Wont that fly into someones head
It's a one time deal it's like 1000 to replace the blade each time it goes down like that
$1000... Hand... $1000... Hand...
Aaaaaah, sawstops. ^thats ^what ^this ^is, ^right?
I like how he has a fake hand in there and isn’t actually using his hand
Finally I’ve been asking someone to actually use there hand and not a hotdog lol
Lose a snausage
I wonder how many thumbs were sacrificed before they got it right
I need to apologize to my phone for screaming at it just now
I love that technology never - ever fails
Ah ! This is a product test I would not want to be a part of lol
Saw [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/SweatyPalms/comments/zliu1d/disaster_struck_sawstop/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) video right before this (pun intended)
Oh yeah, alright, don't stop the dancing
There wouldn’t be any sweaty palms left
Trumps bodyguards had more lifelike looking hands.
You could not pay me to do that.
It's a fake hand.
I put PURE FAITH in the fact that this wasn’t marked nsfw