Flutterby™! : Tablesaw Technique

Howl! In response to the safety concerns in that video of the home-made Festool tablesaw that I linked to, my Dad sent along this FineWoodworking blog entry which embeds a YouTube video of a guy who's restoring an old tablesaw and doesn't yet have a starting capacitor. Starts a little slow, so you can skip forward to where he's putting the bucket of sand on the 2x4...

(No, no blood and gore in the video, it's just a little Rube Goldberg)

And, to all those 'net commenters who are denigrating the guy's safety techniques, yea, no hearing protection is kinda silly, and using the fence with the push sled... well..., but in terms of filming that startup sequence, I'm still trying to get the cojones to film the last kickback I got on the router table as an educational experience. I know where the wood's going to go, my fingers would be well clear 'cause of the push sticks, and I think the video would be very instructive (the setup seemed like the obvious way to do the cut and the results surprised the hell out of me). This guy's just entertaining and educating us.

And, yes, I say this as the guy who once suggested to my Dad that rather than asking me to run all the way to the basement to throw the breakers he should just short the circuit... And my Dad did.