if you are cutting solid stuff for doors etc then just lift it off after the cut. On big stuff I must have walked around. Its over thirty years since i used a wood sled. I had a long fence on the cross cut saw that could do up to 90 plus inches and the sled itself could take a 4 x 8 it was made from half inch baltic birch on the base so a 4 x 8 could fit in.