crpntr4life

Thanks "saw stop" for allowing me to enjoy passing on my trade to my son in a safe manner.

Oh wait! I have an idea: lets ask congress to pass a law that requires everybody interested in buying a power tool take and pass a safety training and get license in order to buy the tool and we can pay through our taxes...makes sense right?, just like removing safe-guards from power tools! I want my son to learn my trade because he has shown interest on it...guess what table saw I am switching to?, no it's not ryobi! I love my son and will take every safety measure out there in order to protect him.

I strongly disagree with the outcome of this settlement. For one, most of us, if not all of us, who use power tools in our respective professions, are aware of the inherited dangers therein and even more so what could happen when we neglect the safety measures built in to the tools we use: rotary saws have blade-grads, grinders have wheel-guards, table saws have blade-guards, rip fences, feather boards, pushing tools, large off-switches (most of them any ways), riving knives, we can build sleds for them..... I mean, perhaps this poor fellow was not properly trained, perhaps he was taught to use the tool without the safety gear......the "saw-stop" is not a safety device required by law, if it were I would agree with the jury. Perhaps safety gear in power tools should become a law rather than an option, that way tool manufacturers would be protected against the negligence that some of us exhibit when using this tools.