Sawstop demo and thoughts

[Doug71]

Felder also do a version similar to Altendorf which they seem quite confident in......

 

[Inspector]

One of the local High Schools where our woodworking and turning clubs meet replaced all their table saws (Wadkin Bursgreen, General and Unisaws) with SawStops a number of years ago. Even though the grade 10's get safety instruction for half a semester and have to pass to use each machine supervising up to 30 students by one teacher is never going to be totally safe. Having the SawStops will save some kids from having a life altering accident. Pretty much all the schools here have done the same or shut down their woodworking programs completely.

Businesses buy them because a worker triggering a brake is a lot cheaper than the downtime of a worker recovering from an accident and the increase in Workman's Compensation rates that follow.

SawStops are among the best selling saws here in spite of the higher costs.

Pete

 

[TRITON]

In what markets, do you think sawstop will takeover ? Do you really think it will replace products from companies like Itech and SCM in the industrial market.

It is not aimed at the industrial market as you are well aware. It is aimed at the small shop, predominantly hobby/craft users who might not follow all the rules.
They might have no official training whatsoever.

And I think you will find that the majority of accidents happen with the home user.

I wonder if you were this negative when braking came in under law. I suspect the argument there was 'accidents happen in a fraction of a second, and this system is stopping at 10 seconds'

 

[Spectric]

It is not aimed at the industrial market as you are well aware.

Sawstop is not but it seems bigger industrial brands like Altendorf are looking in this direction. When you look at tablesaws there are two distinct groups which also tend to fall into the home user or industrial. If you have a large sliding table saw then there is no reason at all to work close to the blade but us home users with limited space do not have this luxury.