On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 07:44:57 -0500, knuttle
wrote:

On 12/31/2019 2:03 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 12:32:36 AM UTC-5, Puckdropper wrote:
Found my local Menards has a "self-service" saw. It's a compound miter saw
with a nice long infeed and outfeed table. The sign said basically "if you
feel comfortable using this, you can. PPE is near the saw in a box."

I had brought my own circular saw, but wound up using their saw instead.
It was really nice to control the tolerance of my cuts, rather than hoping
to find the guy who actually can read the tape measure and hold better than
1/4" tolerance.

Really neat, I hope they keep this for a long time!


https://img.memecdn.com/what-could-p...o_5802169.webp
Puckdropper

I would expect this will not be around long as thier insurance company
will find the practice objectionable and their insurnance will go up

Remember that Menards is Canadian. In Canada the loser in a
litigation usually pays the winner's costs, there is a very low cap on
"pain and suffering", punitive damages are only awarded if malice can
be demonstrated, and per capita Canada has about 1/4 as many lawsuits
as the US, so the risk is much lower.