Spent $180 on a power rib cutter, now I'm scared of my own saw

I bought one of those electric bone saws from a restaurant supply place near Pittsburgh to speed up my pork rib batches. First day it made perfect cuts, saved me like 2 hours, felt amazing. Then yesterday the blade guard slipped and it chucked a rib bone across the cooler, almost took out my apprentice's coffee mug. I know it's operator error but has anyone else had a close call with these things and stuck with it, or did you go back to hand saws?

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grace8913d ago

Three days after I got my band saw for lamb chops, the blade caught a knuckle and sent the whole rack spinning like a frisbee. I ducked just in time, but my shoulder hit the wall and I had a bruise for two weeks. Question is, how many ribs you cutting a day to make the speed worth that kind of jump scare? Because if it's under fifty racks, a good hand saw with a sharp blade ain't that much slower once you get your rhythm. I kept mine but I put a second clamp on the guard and I never feed meat in without my eye dead on that blade line. You gonna trust it again or is that coffee mug the last straw for you?

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