"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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Imagine a plane with a slight heel. A push block which allows you to
maintain all the pressure at the feed end that you need, and can't slip,
because the heel has hooked the trailing edge. Both hands holding means
none to be jointed....

Great idea for a table saw, as you noted. Not-so-great idea for a jointer,
though, because it necessarily places the feed pressure on the infeed side
of
the cutterhead. Feed pressure should be on the infeed side only until
enough
wood has passed the cutterhead to enable a safe grip on the outfeed side;
after that, all pressure should be on the outfeed table.

Press with the forward hand. You have two still? Works great.

On pieces much longer than the push, another will take care of the lead, the
second the trail.