Mark, attached is a pix of what I think Peters is talking about, sort of a mitre radial arm saw combo. Another variant of a slide saw is the saw that cut all the fingers off my grandfathers hand. That saw is like the ones at home depot where the circular saw is mounted on a tube that you pull across the lumber up to about a 4 foot panel.

My grandfather was a long time lumber yard employee and indavertently had his left hand along the line of cut on a 4 x 8 foot panel and cut off all four fingers on his left hand before his first knuckle.

He was over 65 years old at the time and had been working Lumber since he was 15, so he was sure familiar with the saw, maybe too familiar. They were able to attach his fingers back, nice clean cut I suppose, but his left hand was a bit rigid after that, and he kept working at the lumber yard until the year before his death at 83.

Dennis
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