Did I win yet?!?

Fantastic video!

How do European wood workers make datos with dato stacks being "illegal in europe"?

Awesome video!

Hey bud I have a high speed hotdog critique. The dog deflected quite a bit because there was no internal skeletal structure. Also it was right on the tip, allowing it to whip back faster. I think a more reasonable test would be to slip a wooden chopstick through a dog and then go full speed a bit farther down, like maybe an inch or two. The chopstick is about the same strangth as a finger bone. CHEERS!

@@user-sl4ul4nc3t Worth it if it’s your profession though

Thats one specific name lol

What? You mean you don't use a table saw to make Sushi? Okay then...

Ah yes, stone sushi

I dont think this would fit in your kitchen, so i get it

True and it’s clear that it stops much faster than human reaction time. Sometimes people take minutes to realize they have been cut. Some of the comments on this video are giving me new appreciation for my fingertips 😬

@@blackmber So true, my colleague had it happen, but luckily noticed "in time", by then, the blade already went in halfway through his finger... He got to keep it tho, but most people would have cut a finger straight off.

Yeah, i’d rather have a hole in my finger that not having a finger at all

Also, why would anyone ram their hand into the blade

@@coldones25 It's not so much why but how. A stupid stumble when passing by or a hand slipping on the wood while trying to cut it is enough

Probably tens of thousands of accidents if not hundreds of thousands, cumulatively over the decade(s).

Bosch system was better, it did not damaged the blade , but typical US, lawsuits by sawstop stopped it in US, so were they actually interested in safety or just making money. Now of course they let part of sawstop tech free, when consumer safety start to mandate sawstop from all table saw ... you are going back to people rigging circular saw to the tabletops, when cheapest table saw is over €1000. We in Europe enjoy freedom and use all the dangerous saws that Americans cant handle and can only dream of , like table mitre saw combos. 🙂

​@@pete_lind Bosch chose to infringe on the patent rather than pay to license it, and after defending their patent sawstop gave them a license. Bosch were not the good guys here but it makes a good story for the poor saw maker lobbyists that want to jump into the tech for free 20 years later.

@@pete_lindbosch infringed on their patents. those patents have now expired, so why is Bosch not selling well? quality differences. the power tool institute fears sawstop because they think it could be a "monopoly" despite Ryobi having had the option to buy them. they are just mad they didn't think of it first and missed the opportunity to invest. get fucked I say

@@hughduffel There are double the amount consumers in Europe that in US and there no report 120 000 people getting injured by table saws , EU would regulate it. I bought Makita 14" cut off saw , its 1kg/2ibs heavier than US version, because the blade guard is bigger and i am considering buying makita LH1201 , 12" combo miter/table saw , banned in US for free market , also DeWalt (D27112-QS has sliding miter saw) , Bosch , Metabo a.s.o have models . Bosch system did not sell when consumers did not need it and Bosch would had licensed it . Always they use some case of person that used table saw without blade guard , yeah most injuries would have been prevented by security devise that user removed , thats what happens to SawStop , one blade and most wont replace it .

I saw your comment right when he said that lmao

Jack Wangensteen I was looking for this comment 😂

6:42

Was definitely going to write the same comment 🤣

I was about to write this too 😂

Same here. I had to go back and play it again just to be sure I really understood what just happened... even after it was explained. Just crazy.

How do we know that he first broken tooth wasn't the first to hit the brake ? Are we one hundo on that?

@@cognitive-carpenter The replay at the brake shows that the first tooth to hit it barely got past the brake. It never got back to the top.

Same. That stopped with enough force to rip the metal apart. Incredible.

@@chroniclesofbap6170 Well, it wasn't really just the force of the stop. The far disk wobbled and clipped the one next to it, breaking off the tooth.

Will you sell me a monorail?

@@TheFreedom4you People use g-force for everything nowadays

test again with a different finger as fast as you can. Post results please

i'm glad you're with all fingers.. sometimes we can spend years leading safe lives, but one careless moment, one wrong move, one unlucky day, and you can kiss your health goodbye. forever. i'm glad for you man, hope your finger will heal well

Oh god

@@tucci06 that sounds like a pretty easy way to end your life subscription

@@alexk9642 he's telling the smartass to kill him self which im in full support of if hes this much against safety

I mean if it kept his class running it must be a really good alarm

What

My woodshop teacher only let us use it if we used a thin wood tool (forgot the name of it) to slide the wood through the saw. It was pretty fun

@@prodigy2652 won't prevent deadly kickbacks

My dad's classmate got like a third of a finger and the tip of another cut off, he flicked his hand around because he thought he just nicked it but when he put his hand back on the wood his finger was across the class, he couldn't feel it because it cut it so fast

Saved you from… idk, sparks and shrapnel?

@@yuanxinwang8219 The nail conducted the 3volt signal from the blade to the ground, lowered blades capacitance, sensor detected it and exploded the charge, launched the aluminum piece and stopped the blade.

​@@UserName92149 Ah, so you'd rather severely injure yourself than lose maybe 200 US on a new blade and brake. Losing material possessions shouldn't go above personal injury.

@@adakcelina it didnt conduct the signal to ground, since the nail isnt grounded... it was embedded in wood. it absorbed part of the signal through its capacitance

@@nikkiofthevalley $60, not $200

Atleast it aint 1000$ or so, lol

@@MaZOne2023 apple be like

@@Thuan-bq5hr apple sawstop but the spring is bought separately for only 5300$

pretty friggin cheap to keep your fingers lmfao I thought it would be a few hundred i dont know whay nyone wouldnt buy one

tell me why i laughed at this

if you hadn't done that, it would never have happened 🧐

@@Agent-gj7dp if I wasn’t born I wouldn’t be alive

yea lol, they should.. But they should also stop people from starving etc... i don't see that a possibility. People give no shit about others trust me. If you have money you save your hand , otherwise, sorry not sorry. Money is humanity cancer.

@@WastedTalent83 what are you doing about it?

@@-anonymous8820 nothing, suffer in silence in the darkness ahhaha

Lets hold off on the nobel prize considering they patented it and made it an exclusive tech and then gouged up the prices. Now that their patent is coming to an end, the prices are plumetting as they prepare to compete which shows they chose fat, fat margins over helping people and still making a lot of money. They were prohibitively expensive and inaccessible since they didn’t have to compete with anyone.

@@Rspsand07 hopefully the tech will now become cheaper and more available! I didn't know it was so expensive.

Just the licensing itself would have added $600 - $1100 to the price of each cabinet saw. Plus the millions of dollars that would be needed to redesign and reengineer the saws themselves. @@SpotTiger

@@Rspsand07 Yeah probably nobel prizes are awarded for patented discoveries.

Why would they debunk the big bang? Its the most supported model for the "beginning" of the universe

Azter Morales no it’s not. It’s just a theory and among many other theory. Much like evolution

@@Mikey-ym6ok do you even understand what a scientific theory is?

@@Mikey-ym6ok Do not confuse " theory" with "hypothesis"

@@Mikey-ym6ok gravity is just a theory but I don't see any religious people jumping off of balconies to prove it wrong. Although I wish they all would.

ah yes the duality of man

So then you dont trust it 100%

@@hooch9266 trusting my parachute dosent mean I'd jump off a building

@@hooch9266 trust it 100% but it's still gonna hurt

@@erase6138 Then why would you have a parachute on then? Terrible analogy lol

What's the apostrophe for?

More like hand incompletes (Sorry, i just couldn’t resist)

Yeah and it's fuckin dope I've never even used a saw before but damn that was pretty cool.

Yeah me

PooTube

Same, sci-fi and history buff and boom table saw.

Yes

Same lol

Its past midnight now and I'm bored af

Same!!

I’m a simple woman. I see a hot dog next to a blade, I click.

@@crystaladcox7266 thanks for ruining this video for me

That's very impressive he remained this calm

@@smutnejajo5149 when you have a giant cut in your thigh or leg sometimes you panic so much that you cant even panic anymore, idk how it works tbh source: been through a leg injury myself (with a saw)

@@nbhjlkjkl6155 That mind of injury seems to run in the family, huh?

@@smutnejajo5149 Might be shock

@@smutnejajo5149 I don't know about other people and I've never been like horribly injured but when I get hurt my mind instantly moves to making sure people around me don't panic. I personally know how bad my injury is but other people don't. If I'm not careful about my reaction everyone around me might freak out and that can make things much worse. My reaction to pain is different when I'm all alone as opposed to when I'm around people. That's just how my brain works and it seems like maybe there father is similar, he didn't want his wife to freak out.

Yesh, but if you (or someone else) were to trip and fall into it... Accidents don't always happen to the person using the tool.

@@adamthethird4753 That's what I was thinking. What could happen if you were to trip and fall into a spinning blade? The fast push through the blade answered this to my satisfaction. You would endure some damage but most likely not an amputation.

@@mktsmith62 I think Jimmy DiResta cut his finger off once. Said the bill was $15,000. And a new SawStop saw is around $3-4,000. I'd say it justifies it if you use the table saw daily

The speed is excessive but it proves how even in an unrealistically worst-case scenario, your finger will still stay attached. It's not too often where you go way beyond what a product was meant to handle and it still does what it intends to do.

You can't push material thru the saw that fast but during a kickback scenario your hand could certainly be thrown into the blade that fast.

*finger saving tech

Actually it’s pretty simple.

@@braamschmidmountainbiking632 that's what makes it so amazing, a big part of engineering is finding the most simple and effective design, simple doesn't exactly mean obvious

Not really but ok

i agree 1000% doesn't make up for general public not paying a bit of attention to what they are doing, or how dangerous the equipment actually is

My high school has one of these in the wood shop. It's been set off a couple of times since I've been there.

Lmao thats what im sayin

Yeah ight

Lol 5:56 same situation

Same 2am though 😂

Lmao same, 5:00 am here 😬

Not very effective huh

@@ericksanchez7787 well, 7 fingers is still better than 0 fingers...

Now the question is, 7 fingers on one hand or both?

@@ireallydontknow3299 3 on both hands and one in the lower region /s

@@Sharpless2 Hm... Surely you mean to say he lost 9 toes, right...? S-surely...

Not just about cutting speed, as others have pointed out tripping scenarios and kickback, but yes very impressive how far that tech has come since my days of working at bayliner.

That'd still hurt like a bitch. But given that the alternative is losing a finger...

Seems like it would create a false sense of security and in the case it breaks or something it could be bad.

@@naverilllang actually, when something happens very quickly, it's possible to not notice it. I have a mouse and sometimes her instincts activate and she gets really spooked of literally nothing - i get nibbed and sometimes it's pretty bad. Anyway, i don't feel the pain until about a few minutes after because it happens so fast and it's hard to spot the bite until blood pours out or your finger starts throbbing. Sometimes I don't notice it at all until I see all the blood - that's when it starts to hurt. Well, maybe it's just me and people do actually immediately feel injuries but I think that if you got a brief adrenaline rush after activating the saw stop then you wouldn't feel the pain as much either until your heart stopped beating as fast.

@@naverilllang Losing a finger is the lucky cenario. I've met ppl who got the hand pulled by the saw, slicing it in half to the arm. Things get really ugly.

They succeeded by manufacturing the saws themselves. They wanted extortionist fees for licensing the technology to other companies - so they are the only maker. Now that their 20 year patents are about to run out - they are both trying to get the patents extended and get the CPSC to mandate similar technologies on all table saws sold in the USA. So, regardless of how good the Sawstop saw may be, I detest the patent owners. From the beginning it has appeared that they care more about the money than actual saw user safety.

It activates when an electrical resistance is sensed. This will happen when you feed wet wood, nails, hotdogs or body parts into it.

@@danielpaquette1597 - specifically, it measures the change in capacitance.

I think the tooth that is farthest back just colided with the tooth of the the center blade but thats just me

A kid from my high school actually helped invent this

@@samueljordan5601 yeah it was me

@@reasonjefferey4644 it's true, i was the saw

what jaws? they're teeth.

Haha good one

@J V wdym

Lmfao

Harder daddy😫

Fried rice no

It's a wonder that i've never met someone who lost a finger

I hope he has no other tools. Having cut off 2 fingers and triggered a table saw twice already makes me believe that your dad should not be in a workshop anymore.

Fcking hell old man's tryna kill himself by the sounds of it wtf 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Saw

Haha, "he saw"

*saw noises*

All your grandpa has to do is search chainsaw accidents on KZfaq

@@Sea-zu4bj lmfao

Well if everything goes accordingly nobody will have their hands or fingers chopped off, main reason the accident happens is because one's hand slipped and pushed their fingers or hands into the saw or their clothing got caught and pulled their hand or fingers into the saw... if you are chopping off your fingers or hands while it's moving at super slow speed towards the saw, you probably better off without those limbs since you obviously can't feel anything u dumb fck!

You'd be surprised what lack of natural selection in industrial environment does to people

Gangibon Gubdame natural selections isn’t a problem for dumbfucks currently in the world. Technology is saving dumbfucks’ lives

@@victorma9355 that's what I said The specific reason why machines need to be as foolproof as possible is because fools feel protected from everything, vicious cycle

me! I am into bdsm!

He said is twice in the video

6:42

I was a hotdog vendor and I use the same set up to cut hotdog in half. Now I understand why I got fired.

@@nikolatesla6776 so thats how Spacex started..

@@illusorybucket5703 so that's how,he made his son on his own

Table saw is the only tool I'm scared of- kickbacks can be real nasty, even if you're careful about touching the blade it can still shoot wood at you crazy fast. The amount of power going through those things is crazy.

Underrated comment

@@LongToad The channel Smarter Every Day has a video where they try to build a system that detects and prevents kickbacks like that. You might want to check that out! "Circular Saw Kickback Killer"

Im just here to finally get this fucking thing out of my recommendations.

Детерминизм это Свобода 🤙

lol

Damnit, I'd better cancel my pre-order for both, the saw and a jar of hot dogs.

Just use scissors

@teirdalin i wanted to like ur comment, but i think 555 is a nice number, so ill leave it like that

Certainly won't work for circumcisions..

SHØYIYØY Lol me too . I’m not carpenter or DIY-enthusiast, so why is it in my recommendation. But still a great video

The algorithm is favouring this man, I’m in the same boat as you 😂

why was he in mine as well? this guy is suspicious! and so is youtube!

Same wth never watched but still enjoyed

Though

You should look into advertising. Even small businesses pay well for advertising.

Holy shit 420k subs lol

Lol hab deine videos früher immer angeguckt

Schmutzcontent

@@trippsmclovin I am in advertisement :D

I am sorry man.

Why do you feel responsible? Did you give him the wood with the nail in it? I think even if you gave it to him, you can't be blamed for it. Your dad knew what time it was, he could have checked the wood just like you(if you gave it to him, of course).

I hope you and your dad is doing ok

@@slip8293 Emotions are Illogical. Regardless of whether it makes sense to feel guilty, the reality remains the same. It isn't easy to just stop feeling a certain emotion if you realize you shouldn't be, and that not considering the nuance of whether you think you should or shouldn't feel something.

Ehhh huh okay? Thanks???

I believe its about 60$

@Dompan Not sure what the system costs, but the replacement cartridges are quoted around 500$ each, according to my work Expensive if someone is screwing around, but cheap compared to a finger. Just don't wear gloves while running it.

It's readily available on their website. The lowest end one costs $900, these are the type of quality you would otherwise see at the home center for $99 for a black friday special. They go up steeply from there. So, yes, you will pay dearly for one of these.

​@@oldtwinsna8347sawstop is pretty well known for their quality? The 900$ job site saw seems comparable to 500$ competitor, but I could be wrong. I do know their standing saws are famously high quality, but they do tax. Wouldn't you, though? It's not hospital visit level of expense, just a markup

The saws cost several hundred dollars above equivalent competition each. No, the compact $900 saw is not the quality of a “$99 saw”; it’s comparable to $600-700 saws. Brake cartridge around $120 plus a new blade whenever it activates.

Better than losing all your fingers lol

Ummm yeah heh, totally wouldn’t want ANYONE to lose a finger

Don’t look at my username

Or at least refund the brakes and blades with extra money.

Sawstop does have some videos like this from years ago

@@GotTwins29 I don't think that camera was around when those first videos were produce by sawstop. I have never seen dato stack activation and when the tooth breaks the weld that is bad ass.

@@SQLKC refund the brakes?? I'm pretty sure they provided all those cassettes free of charge just for the video.

The technology for this was around back as far as the 60's . This is great to protect peoples fingers with . It concerns me that its only come out in recent years .

Not if he's trying to do that with one of these saws...

It is like that for some

@@JEAthePrince Fr, there are some lazy bosses with unrealistic expectations expecting their businesses to skyrocket

dude if you can cut 4 boards a second you should be the boss lol

@@andrewvargas4141 true. I worked for some as a machinist

@@waxcutter9813 Hell yeah, it would. Especially if they include a slow-motion shot of it working.

That's a genius product placement, someone who owns and sells that product can advertise their product in a movie and it'll be subtle!

@@waxcutter9813 exactly what I was thinking lol

Great idea! The only problem I see is that nobody knows that this technology exists, or how dangerous table saws are, and sadly the vast majority would rather see someone get a deep dado cut thru the head than see the safety device function correctly.

I would see that movie just for that scene

Before the sawstop, only people who've never used one could do that anyway.

Joshua Latham I’m trying so hard to understand this comment but for some reason my brain isn’t working..

@@JoshLathamTutorials don't worry dude i got it as soon as i read it

🤚🏼

can’t they were cut off

The fact that it was enough G force to break the welds on saw teeth is actually pretty crazy man

@@EnrikaGames I thought it looked impossible to me so i went back and watched the clip again. It actually seems it didn't break due to G force but rather by hitting other teeth parallel to it. The "shockwave" probably caused the blade to wobble sideways slightly, resulting in a small overlap between the teeth and thus being able to hit one another. It still does look incredible though.

@@Simon-mv4jc I doubt it

@@cjbht19minaret Check the video again and look closer. you can clearly tell one of the teeth comes in contact with the other by a spark

Exactly my thoughts.... "what's gonna happen, huh?" And then... bedjeeeezusss bits breaking off.

It's just a matter of time no matter how careful you are that something outside of your control or you simply slip up because people are not perfect performers at anything, and there WILL be an accident if you are doing something dangerous like feeding wood into a circular blade spinning 4k rpm. Just a matter of time. Hopefully people go their whole lives without ever having that accident, but remember the beginning of the video, over 60,000 table saw accidents per year. Yeah, this sawstop tech is a very good thing IMO and I won't ever have a tablesaw of my own without this tech.

As others have said, sure when using the tool you wont be moving that fast, but what if someone trips or something? Edit: Because some people cant read beyond this comment, I'm just explaining why others complain about the demonstrations going slow, this is not my own opinion.

​@@Midnight-wh2bs I love this logic. "Oh, in this VERY specific circumstance, you'd still be badly hurt by it! CHECKMATE!" Okay, first, Jonathan kind of proves that even at VERY fast speed, it DOES stop the blade. Yeah, you're not slapping a band-aid on it and calling it good, but you're not losing the fingers either. But more importantly, considering what a table saw WITHOUT this tech would do to your hand in that same circumstance, ANYTHING would be better than nothing, even IF it didn't perform as well as it does in Jonathan's demonstration. To me this is like complaining that a seat belt won't save your life if you crash into a concrete barrier at 100mph, so it's not "worth it". That is probably true (not in the Saw Stop case, but let's go with it for now), but how many times do you actually expect that to happen versus the kinds of incidents it IS designed to save you from? PS I'm not saying YOU'RE making the argument against the Saw Stop, just that the complainers who do are kinda stupid.

Just imaging a guy in a gi kiyahing and side chopping the blade

lmao thank you!! I was thinking the same thing--who actually tries to cut something that fast?

@@MisterTsumi They're complaining just to complain and trying to argue that it's not 100% safe. NO shit it's not. But it sure is a WHOLE LOT SAFER than not having it. You still practice extreme safety around a sawblade with or without a stopsaw. You're an idiot if you don't. EDIT: And if shit happens, chances are you will not lose a finger/limb.

Lol my broke arse would rather a hospital visit and stumps to replacing those blades!

@@cedrick25 yeah me too

@@cedrick25 yeah me too

@@cedrick25 Lmao

@@cedrick25 yeah me too

Thank you sir! I hope you're doing well! Still trying to check of all the ways to sharpen my pencil 😉

@@katzmosestools I'm trying to reach out to Sawstop to see if they want to co-develop a pencil sharpener using their technology, no luck yet though 😉

Dildos?

My evolution table saw takes like 25 seconds to slow down and it's only a few years old

@@fennecbesixdouze1794 You normaly dont lie on a table saw do you? 1,5 Seconds is a long time yes, but its short enough to prevent further damage.

My work has inevitably led me to be part of a cult. I'm a joiner.

Your comment is gold 😂😂

Josh Price same

When I do my woodworking, sometimes my mom comes in and helps me.

When I do that type of woodwork, my family usually gives me a hand I'm sorry, just seen another comment basically said the same thing as my comment.

There's a job site version of this saw that's just under 1k, if you do this professionally it's probably worth the investment. Hospital visits aren't cheap.

I'm like you also, I merely wanted to see how it worked.

there's an old story about him on inc. After the hot dogs he tested it with his own finger

Why were you wearing a hat?

@@Temulon rrrrrr

I wish I could own tools like this, I work in construction in steel/rebar but I remember in school woodshop all the cool projects we'd get to build T_T

well yea but, is it compatible with every table saw? i think it only work with theirs... meaning one of that is like 1500? XD Not sure about it tho..

@@WastedTalent83 better than losing a finger

@@HikerMan-px1bv yeah man. A finger is irreplaceable, a couble bucks for FINGERS

Yeah a finger is one of the most useful body parts of a human body. Imagine living without your fingers for a day or even half a day.

@@NiqIce i know right? I would rather lose my legs rather than my fingers. You cant hold anything. But without legs, you can crawl, get a wheelchair, etc

Exactly.

Hey stop being an asshole you dip shit

Yeah it's like wearing a seatbelt in a car. Is it a guarantee you wont get hurt? Nope, but it could save your life.

@Drew Smith Welcome to the internet, where no one cares about minor grammatical mistakes.

@@pkoolaid4038 🤡

Underrated comment

@@lwo7736 Agreed. The guy is clearly looking for a "Wood Stop(tm)" meat saw....

@@R.Daneel your mom also needs a woodstop ;)

Thought I was the only one.

😆

I think we saw the same vid lmao. Was it like a round disk on a wood deck? Reminded me of this vid

@@Bad_B3d yup. That one.

So cool right!

It hit the other tooth, it didn't just fall out.

I loved watching the blade metal wiggle back and forth from the incredible energy transmissions that occur.

Me: I don’t know anything about this but the key words tooth,falling,shot ruins my appetite

@@idontcareforaname5209 5:53

man i'm going to cry

True MVP. o7

Good dramatizing lol

jesus christ i just went thru an entire anime arc reading this comment.

That is so sweet. Amazing little hero.

Makes sense

Ive always wondered when is this jackass going to stop talking and show us the damn video

@@greasyfishtacos Missing the ability to check when stuffs actually happening in videos? You've only gotta hover the play bar 😂 don't be lazy

I mean your probably a boy soo yea.

well, i think you have to buy a new set of blades and charge to stop them too.

@@stevefromminecraft7345 i support this comment

@@stevefromminecraft7345 You put alot of effort into that joke, thank you

@@stevefromminecraft7345 what a legend

At 3:40 am

@@stevefromminecraft7345 You took 12 seconds of my life and I want them back...never mind, I'd only waste them anyway.

*uses cameraman's finger*

@@bladedninja8853 dope reply

Bladed Ninja lmaoo

Bladed Ninja pfft

Kane Xu lmfao

same😅

I mean it was clearly a good recommendation cuz you watched it lmao

i'm a bit disappointed. ive been watching a lot of engineering and workshop videos lately. i thought this recommendation was because of my yt habits.

Determinism is Freedom 🤙

This is one of those videos you watch at 3am after a bunch others that you had no idea what you were watch but got interested anyway, or it's one of those random videos you get recommended and it makes no sense but you watch anyway because it looked captivating because you want to see someone lose a finger/tip of a hotdog after putting it through a sawstop

Yes, you can clearly see in the video that an outer blade is spinning faster than the blade next to it, causing its teeth to contact the back side of the inner blade's teeth and break off.

Yep! Was a good watch though. I think i watched something slomo a year ago i figured thats why

I review fake lego.... wtf am i doing here? Still a great video 🤣

True From watching Canadian parliament,to an electric saw.

I watch a lot of wood art that involves carving, sawing etc.. maybe that’s why this was recommended

I legit didn't even know that those were called tablesaws

I wonder if the makers ever do demos using there actual fingers... 100% agree with your comment. Safety mechanisms of any sort...rocket ship, table saw, automobile are just an addition TO, never a substitution FOR proper safety procedures.

@@joeshmoe7967 the guy who made the saw has put his finger in the saw and he didn't even bleed

Wrong the conclusion is that it's safer to hold your lumber with hot dogs

The phrase "no sh*t Sherlock" comes to mind. People keep making this argument but I have to meet a sawstop owner that doesn't practice the same level of safety. I think the ones who keep saying this don't own one. I have one and have no desire to test the brake.

$100 to $150 to replace the blade and brake system is still a fairly significant penalty for not following regular safety rules... It's just not as significant as having multiple fingers cut off.