"Leon" wrote in message

I do not know your arrangement but rather than modify a saw to be lower,
could you modify or build up the floor around the saw? If you have a
wooden floor could you cut a hole in it and install a lower surface to set
the saw into? Or perhaps build up the floor around equipment that is or
is
marginally too tall?

Yes, raising the floor around the saw is usually a first suggestion, but it
comes with it's own set of unique problems.

It virtually eliminates putting any tools so organized on mobile bases.
That's a big problem unless one has a large shop to play with. Many cabinet
table saws I've looked also have some type of mechanical component like a
dust port near the base of the saw. In all fairness, there could be some
advantages to a raised floor too, such as running dust collector tubing
under a raised floor. Occasionally, I have been on raised wooded floors and
truthfully, it's irritating. I feel the vibrations from rolling on such a
floor whereas I'm infinitely more comfortable rolling on a flat, solid, hard
unforgiving surface. I'm sure I'd feel much different if I was walking on
these surfaces, but I'm not and never will be.

However, these things are not my biggest concern and that is the fact that
I'd be rolling up and down little ramps depending where I was going and what
I was doing. In 1987, I rolled down an 8" ramp with an elevation of 3" and
tipped my wheelchair over. I broke both legs. To this day, I can remember
the pain and months of aggravation from being in a wheelchair with casts on
my legs. Ever since then I've always been terrified of doing the same thing
again. Obviously, it's a personal paranoia that I have to deal with, so I
intend to mitigate it by lowering a table saw rather than raising myself.

That's my explanation and I'm sticking to it.