Just courious, if you aren’t at this moment using your tablesaw how many items does it hold?
second how many days since you last used it?
I’ll start
46 items unless you count the items in an open bag then it’s 54.
It’s been 41 days..
MY excuse is space is always at a premium and that’s a great big flat surface that’s handy..
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Actually I'm not doing too bad. I've got two rolls of veneer that a friend gave me... But you'd be shocked to see the floor. 200 bd ft of cherry looking for a place to live in my shop.
I'm just over 30 days since I used it; but I've got a great excuse... twin boys. Arrived a little early, and have taken priority since then.
As I remember mine mostly just has some odd size scraps from the last project sitting way over on the side, and maybe my coffe cup that I had just finished drinking. Last use was 15 days ago about 10:30 in the morning on Memorial Day. I had just cut a piece of cedar trim that I was putting up above the second story roof when the ladder support bent and tossed me 20+ feet onto a railing on the deck that crushed my femur amond other problems. Finally got out of the hospital this week but at least another 4 weeks in bed. Really looking forward to getting back in the shop but I have narrowed down my to-do list to things that only require me to stand with both feet on the ground. Anybody interested in a slightly used ladder?
To give you an idea how hard my 195 pounds hit the railing it is a 2x6 PT laying flat on top of a 2x4 PT on edge, and 2x4 supports spaced 12" OC. I cracked the 2x4 on edge between two supports. How much weight do you think a 2x4 PT can support on edge in a 10.5" gap, with a 2x6 on top? I actually feel very lucky I am here to joke about it, but very sore still. Thank goodness for net forums to keep me entertained!
Go make some sawdust and tell me about it on here so I have something to read! Go!
I feel your pain.
I was on top of an old 6ft wood ladder a few years ago when it decided to fall apart.
I was lucky and only landed on my fat ####.
Could have been alot worse.
Get wll soon.
Jeff
Woodwish, so glad you didn't get hurt even worse! Somewhere, I read that the fatality rate for that kind of ladder fall (20 feet+) is pretty darned high.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Fresh sawdust, a few scraps, a pencil and a guage. Same as the day before. Same thing tomorrow...
Right now, four different scraps of panel moulding that I am deciding on for a project. A combination square, various pencils, a gallon of primer paint, and a few other cut-off scraps. I used it last night and just cleared enough area to operate the saw. In my next life I hope to be more organized.
Rob
Well, I have a new GI hybrid that's a month or so old—my first real TS—and I'm so smitten that I hate having as much as a fingerprint on it. I'm like a man who is always wiping bits of dust off his lover's face as an excuse to just touch it.
I last actually used the thing about a week ago, and this weekend when I went into the shop to get something, I noticed I'd left a pine scrap on the edge of the one of the wings. Was I becoming inattentive? Was the passion beginning to wane, ever so subtly?
I quickly put the scrap in the scrap pile, blew off a bit of sawdust from the wing, and left.
Edited 6/13/2007 10:02 am ET by nboucher
Let's see....
Bless me Norm, for I have sinned...
It's been 6 days since I last used my Unisaw. I have defiled its surface by stacking 75 BF of QS Honduran mahogany on it because I was too lazy to rearrange my wood rack.
I am guilty of sloth, as I have not yet put away the the combo square, #4 smoother, 6" rule and sanding block that sit to the right of my fence. I have left a 1/2" upcut spiral bit in my right-side router extension wing, but I did, at least, lower it below the surface of the table.
I have had impure thoughts concerning over the use of MDF in "quality" furniture. I have creatively taken the lord's name (and many others names) in vain after cutting a table apron too short.
I am guilty of gluttony and greed when I bought that last load of 300 BF of air-dried walnut for $100. (it was just too good to pass up)
I am guilty of lust when I read the craigslist ad for a 12" Northfield jointer.
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I await my penance.
Jim
Much to my suprise, Just the meter gauge and fence. But don't ask about my 4X8 bench and 5X6 assembly table, I would have to spend an hour counting.
Work Safe, Count to 10 when your done for the day !!
Bruce S.
A scrap length of 2x6 SYP and a #2 Robertson driver bit that I can never find until I look on the saw. Tinsnips. Sawdust. A black Arkansas stone I use to sharpen lathe skews.
Thanks for the reminder, Frenchy, I'l put the #2 bit away where it's supposed to be and then buy another set the next time I can't find one.
:)
At the moment I'm in the midst of ductwork installation for my DC. So not much woodworking going on and the TS top has been a collecting ground for getting things out of the way while doing the PVC work. Off the top of my head:
Crosscut sled, dado jig, router, laminate trimmer, jointer plane, scrub plane, a 10"x36" stack of shopmade curly spalted maple veneer, numerous layout and measurement tools, a couple of saw blades, a few QuikGrip clamps, a couple pieces of curly redwood bought off eBay...
I know there's more but I'd have to go look to see what I'm forgetting.
If you build it he will come.
There's absolutely nothing on my table saw!! I just used it this morning, but it's spotless. And, my work bench is clean, all the tools are stored where they belong, and the floor is free of all sawdust, wood chips, glue drips, etc. The bag on my dust collector is empty, the shop vac was emptied and the filter cleaned.
Oops, I almost forgot the first line for this post...................
Once Upon A Time
Are we counting items or inches of accumulation. Having been in the apartment business for some twenty seven years, I suddenly had to move all the accumulated stuff somewhere. The only place I could think of is to the newly built barn (shop). I have since actually spent several days gathering and dispersing the junk in preparation of once again attaining a usable shop. but I do have this sheet of plywood with one end on the saw extension with the other propped on a support. Yes it is full of stuff. I could wire a small house and do some other jobs with the supplies on that sheet of plywood. I did shift it far enough to the side so I could doing some sawing today though. If there is a prize for the most messy, I should win.
3 Days - have been doing plumbing.
To the right of the fence there are 2 push sticks, 2 push blocks, a small mallet, 6 pieces of scrap wood, a wad of waxed paper and a plastic bag from I don't now what.
George
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. - Michael Pritchard
Doesn't take me 1/2 hours to fill mine up if I'm not actually using the saw. It's such a great surface for puttin' "stuff"! With a small extension on the right, small outfeed table, and a nice flat router table on the left, the temptation is irresistable.
The RH extension tends to have "stuff" on it all the time -- measuring tape, push-stick, square, whatever. And the overhead guard boom (metal pipe) has GripTite featherboards, ruler attached with magnet, drafting triangles looped over the boom knobs....on and on and on.
Frenchy, I "speed read" the replys. I did not see talk about the weight and sag.
I had a Delta contractors for years. I had a habit of using it to hold things "for a while". Over the years, I developed quite a sag in the extension table to the right of the blade. Now I have a PM 2000 and I am careful not to put anything heavy on any part of the table that is not steel.
I used my ts today, but will go a week or two sometimes and not use it. That said, when I need a table saw, nothing else will do for me but a tablesaw.
All the plywood parts to build a mobile cabinet to set the saw on. And the parts for the new wing that goes all the way to the end of the new fence. Nice cabinet that extends all the way to the ends of the fence with some drawers to hold the tools that keep cluttering up the tops of the assembly table, and bench.
That way I can use the bench/assembly table that I cleared off to put the cabinet together on, to actually assemble the cabinet.
And, I used it last weekend to cut the parts for the cabinet.
ROTFLMHO - I see a few folks here suffer from HSS (Horizontal Surface Syndrome). Welcome to the club. ;-)
Dust brush, push sticks, recently planed pecan wood (so flat it creates suction between the boards and the table - gotta love that), various jigs. Used it last weekend.
Frenchy,
I may be alone here but there is nothing on my table saw.
My saw is integrated in to a 7' X 8' table which allows me to run sheet goods through with out any problem the long way.
Now, if you were to ask what is on the table, that's another question.
I'm not willing to answer that now.
ASK
Are we allowed to give two answers? I fully retract what I said in post #13. From having a saw stacked several inches high, I finally have it cleared of junk. Only the fence and a push stick are left. And the whole shop is getting fairly respectable. After working several days on cleaning, only a few pieces of furniture are left. I had it so full of junk it was almost impossible to do any woodworking. I took some before pics (messy) that I would post if I knew how to do so. Basically I'm a pretty neat guy and it bothers me to have such a mess.
Edited 6/17/2007 1:19 am ET by tinkerer2
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