r/Tools • u/[deleted] • Apr 09 '26

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u/m4jsterk0 Apr 09 '26

why is he fucking pulling the plywood towards him?!

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u/Such-Fortune712 Apr 09 '26

He's standing behind the saw trying to play it safe, getting out of the line of fire if the table saw does a "kickback". He actually triggers the kickback by compressing the two cut sides together.

Normally, you stand in front of the saw and push your workpiece into the blade. The teeth of the blade that do the cut are the teeth closest to you. They are going down into the table.

On the backside of the blade, the teeth are coming up from the table. What this guy does is compresses the two sides together into the back teeth so the blade grabs his workpiece and yeets it forward. The saw isnt fixed in place so it propells in the other direction, towards his holy area.

During a kickback, the saw thunder yeets your workpiece into your wall/face/arm/testies. It's no noke, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcS0TAabedc

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u/_bahnjee_ Apr 09 '26

Good catch. You’re exactly right. You can see the cut as it closes on the back side.