Hit 1,000 pounds of trim in one shift last Friday and my back still hurts

We were slammed before a holiday weekend and I ended up breaking my personal record for trim weight on the band saw. Didn't even realize I'd passed a thousand until the scale told me at cleanup. Any of you guys ever hit a number that made you stop and think, maybe I need a better setup?

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victor_robinson1mo ago

Did you try just leaning on the saw harder so the machine does the work? Pretty sure that's how OSHA says to save your back.

jade5171mo ago

Hell yeah that's a serious number! Did you have any safeties or stops set up on that saw or were you just rawdogging it with the foot pedal the whole time?

sage3081mo ago

@victor_robinson is onto something there haha. I read somewhere that good saw setup should let the tool do most of the heavy lifting, not your lower back.

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