Tom Blank
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My "shop" is part of the third bay in a three-bay garage and very space limited. When I'm doing anything requiring more than hand tools or the drill press, I move a car out and use the adjoining bay for the TS (DW744 with fold-up stand) and/or planer (DW735 on a roller base). The bench and drill press are the only stationary tools, everything else gets stowed when not in use.
The DW744 job site saw does save some space at the cost of capability. I used to break it down between projects and had problems keeping it squared up, I suspect part of that is just the nature of the beast. A couple of months ago, I figured out a way to at least leave it set up on its stand without infringing too much on usable floor space. I thought if the Dewalt could stay set up, maybe I could find a smaller cabinet saw on a roller kit that would take up a similar amount of stowed floorspace, that would still be mobile enough to move out to the next bay for use, and gain me something in accuracy and capability.
Went to the local woodworker store yesterday to see what they had, which was Delta, Shop Fox, Steel City, SawStop, but mostly full up cabinet and contractor saws. There was not anything quite like what I thought I had space for. The closest he had was a Delta 36-714 hybrid which has quite a bit larger footprint.
Anybody know of anything else out there that's sized between a job site saw and the standard sized cabinet saw?
Thanks,
Tom
The DW744 job site saw does save some space at the cost of capability. I used to break it down between projects and had problems keeping it squared up, I suspect part of that is just the nature of the beast. A couple of months ago, I figured out a way to at least leave it set up on its stand without infringing too much on usable floor space. I thought if the Dewalt could stay set up, maybe I could find a smaller cabinet saw on a roller kit that would take up a similar amount of stowed floorspace, that would still be mobile enough to move out to the next bay for use, and gain me something in accuracy and capability.
Went to the local woodworker store yesterday to see what they had, which was Delta, Shop Fox, Steel City, SawStop, but mostly full up cabinet and contractor saws. There was not anything quite like what I thought I had space for. The closest he had was a Delta 36-714 hybrid which has quite a bit larger footprint.
Anybody know of anything else out there that's sized between a job site saw and the standard sized cabinet saw?
Thanks,
Tom