Thread: Tablesaw Feeding

Originally Posted by keith53

And all along I thought it was the sheep that made them strange....

No - the sheep make them happy.

I have quickly skimmed this thread and found it quite interesting, but is there anyone out there using a power feeder on their saw? I know they are commonly used on other finger / hand confiscating devices such as spindle moulders, but not that common for saws.

We had a massive old General Electric ripping saw come through here as a second hand machine a few weeks ago. The beastie wore 600mm blades:eek:. I gave it a wide berth even when the thing was unplugged.
However, as we like to know whether or not things are working when we sell them, we decided we ought to fire it up and run some timber through it. Suffice to say we attached a power feeder first and stood a fair way back. It worked really well and our 'red-zone' was probably about 450-500mm.

We sold that machine and my nightmares stopped immediately.