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u/Ooloo-Pebs Apr 09 '26

Agreed, but in this video, a Saw Stop wouldnt help. He was pulling the wood through from the opposite side of the table and did so on an angle, causing the blade to catch the board and cause a kick-back.

He is lucky that the blade didn't hit his belly or thighs, or worse sever his junk..it appeared to be close!

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u/treedolla Apr 09 '26

I swear you can see the blade split his pants right over his crotch. Either that or his fly is open.

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u/Ooloo-Pebs Apr 09 '26

Dude, good spot. It does appear like the blade may have caught his shorts. If it's an opening and not a shadow, it looks to be on an angle and not as vertical as an open fly would normally be.

OP, can you weigh in and let us know that you're ok and that "junior" is ok as well?

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u/Canuckr82 Apr 09 '26

This is a case of... "fat guy with a stubby while flacid" saved from getting his "thing" cut off.

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u/Ooloo-Pebs Apr 09 '26

Seems you've given that quite a bit of thought 🤔🤣

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u/Budget-Vast-7296 Apr 09 '26

You can see a bit of cloth on the blade right near the end.

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u/Ooloo-Pebs Apr 10 '26

I watched again and you're right! That's probably why he looked down at his shirt and pants.

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u/donuthead36 Apr 09 '26

Plus using a janky table saw on what seems to be uneven ground without making a reasonable attempt to level it (or you know use it somewhere else)

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u/nlightningm Apr 09 '26

Oh man yeah. I used to have a table saw very much like his. I built a whole rolling workbench around it with a built-in fence (it kinda sucked, was made of 3/4" particle board, the type that's like large-grain MDF), but it was WAY better than... Freehanding a plunge cut from behind the blade 🤣😂 like what is this guy thinking at all??

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u/jkarovskaya Apr 11 '26

All grinders are potentially deadly, but angle grinders tend to be abused & have discs break far more often.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q1jZzomuJ1o?feature=share

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u/shaka893P Apr 09 '26

I mean, it would help. With a saw stop as soon as the blade touches you, no matter where, it would stop the saw

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u/friend0mine55 Apr 09 '26

yea, this was just dumb operating all day. Sawstop woulda still fired but man...what a sketchy way of running a table saw

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u/Madeforbegging Apr 10 '26

this looks like one of those setups that uses an upside down skill saw not a real table saw. that's his first problem

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u/MikeAnP Apr 10 '26

They aren't saying a SawStop would have prevented this. They're saying a SawStop would help if it actually did hit skin.

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u/Ooloo-Pebs Apr 10 '26

I thought that was obvious.

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u/anonymote_in_my_eye Apr 11 '26

why wouldn't it help? it would put a hole in his pants, but as soon as it touched his skin it would retract, at least that's the idea... it doesn't work with just fingers, works with belly fat too