Posted: 12/14/2025 8:56:14 AM EDT
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Recently retired and decided it was time to upgrade my table saw from the Jet contractor saw I've got. Surprisingly my wife has been pushing for this upgrade also. Looking on marketplace and Craigslist shows just how many people out there really need to work on their photography skills and add writing. A picture of something table saw shaped, covered with junk in the back of a dark storage unit? The corner of the bottom of the cabinet of what's supposed to be a Powermatic 66? A picture of a Grizzly 1023S from 30' away? Living rural means driving 90+ minutes to see anything. Made the drive to see the Grizzly only to discover that not only was the table heavily pitted it had taken an impact to not only crack the table but dent it, (still trying to figure out how that happened). Seller was $900 I know what I have! Walked away. Drive three hours to an auction to look at a near new Saw Stop pro with all the bells and whistles knowing it would sell for over my budget. Surprisingly it sold for very reasonable. Now I just have to offload it, rearrange my shop to fit it in, and re-home my old Jet. Semper Fi |
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| So you got the SawStop? Congrats if so. I’m still largely using contractor tools and as soon as I retire and build a shop, I will be getting high quality, stationary power tools. The first purchase will be a Saw Stop, follower by larger jointer and planner. |
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Not surprised people seem to want almost what brand new costs for a poorly cared for hunk of junk. Glad you got what you wanted at a fair price. I bought all my major fixed tools from grizzly’s yearly scratch and dent tent sale back when they had a distribution center and showroom in Muncy PA. Some needed parts or repairs but nothing like fighting through the marketplace hassle. I believe they still do them at their other distribution centers but the closest one to me is in Kansas City so I haven’t tried to go. |
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Originally Posted By BFskinner: Not surprised people seem to want almost what brand new costs for a poorly cared for hunk of junk. Glad you got what you wanted at a fair price. I bought all my major fixed tools from grizzly’s yearly scratch and dent tent sale back when they had a distribution center and showroom in Muncy PA. Some needed parts or repairs but nothing like fighting through the marketplace hassle. I believe they still do them at their other distribution centers but the closest one to me is in Kansas City so I haven’t tried to go. Even though I’m not presently in the market, I still look at FB Marketplace regularly. I see exactly what you describe, with folks asking $600-700 for a 6” Rigid jointer for example (mine cost $100). There are often good deals though, as I’ve seen quite a few industrial grade items sub 1K asking price. It might be that the really large and heavy stuff just isn’t as desirable for the average woodworker. |
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My ex-neighbor was part good ol boy, part engineering nerd. His company needed some small part made in a small quantity, it was going to cost a bunch, so he bought a nice Bridgeport to do it in house. Then he tried to unload it by himself, dumped it and broke the thing in half. That's one way stuff winds up like it does. He also bought a 3 phase jointer, got it unloaded ok, but then left it outside and it got rained on. This is outside of Houston, we live in the tropics. It rains a lot. A tarp would have saved it, or just moving it the few feet more inside, but when it's not your money stuff like that happens a lot. Just saying, this is how stuff winds up in horrible condition. There are deals though. Typically boomer dies, kids dump the tools for cheap because they really only care about selling the house. |
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| They are actually doing you a favor OP. You want nothing to do with those folks. I pass on "good deals" all the time on our local firearms site for nothing more than mags called "clips"......or if the person holds the gun for pic vs setting it down and taking pic like a normal fella would. |
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Managed to get the Saw Stop off the truck and into my shop this afternoon. Had the not so bright idea of an appliance dolly and a ramp, thought better of that and got the saw up on a pallet and picked it with the tractor. Hydraulics makes life easier. The saw came with the good mobile base, made rolling it across the drive and into the shop a breeze . Now the fun begins of rearranging everything since it's got a much bigger footprint than my old Jet. Semper Fi |
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When my workshop was built, the door was not on the same level as th ground. (That couldn't be avoided)I have a deck about 4' high to get in. My Dad and I somehow got my General 350 cabinet sawup the little temporary steps without breaking anthing or hurting ourselves That was a long time ago. I used to be able to drive my pickup to the deck and back right up to it, but some changes to the yard put an end to that. Loaded many more machines in there over the years, a delta DJ20 8" jointer with the long bed was tough Recently I got a big and heavy Laguna 18-36 revo lathe. That thing is really heavy Must be 500+ lbs all together. I had to bring it from my pickup truck around in pieces (it was unassembled in a huger cardboard box, using my SxS and heft it onto the deck. The scary part was the bed/rails, Hanging over the sides, weighing down theback end, had to go up a pretty good bank/hill and down, not level in spots, to get to the door. But it all got in unscathed, and no damage to the deck or shop floor - it does sit on some wide boards to distribute the weight. No help, Dad is gone. And the kubota wasnt running good when I moved it, so no hydraulics, just whatever is left of when I was in much better shape, younger and decently strong. So lesson to others out there, make sure you do whatever needed to get your main shop door pretty close to level with the ground, if you are building from a clean slate. |
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Sometimes people will take better pictures if you ask. A good picture of the ID plate can go a LONG ways. Congrats on the Sawstop. Be careful not to cut hot dogs with it. One of these days I need to get a decent bandsaw. That is one appliance that you don't want to cheap out on. Every time I hit up FB Marketplace or Craigslist, I get nervous. |
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Originally Posted By wlderdude: Sometimes people will take better pictures if you ask. A good picture of the ID plate can go a LONG ways. Congrats on the Sawstop. Be careful not to cut hot dogs with it. One of these days I need to get a decent bandsaw. That is one appliance that you don't want to cheap out on. Every time I hit up FB Marketplace or Craigslist, I get nervous. Hard to go wrong with a Delta 14" I've had mine over 25 years. If you want bigger consider SCM/MiniMax. I have a 20" as well and it os a beast. I think it's 27 amps at 220V. Nothing slows it down. |
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Originally Posted By Utahshooting: Hard to go wrong with a Delta 14" I've had mine over 25 years. If you want bigger consider SCM/MiniMax. I have a 20" as well and it os a beast. I think it's 27 amps at 220V. Nothing slows it down. A delta 10” with a quality fence is workhorse. A 14” table saw is a monster. 20” is hard to imagine. How many HP is that? |