Home Depot Rant

[Mike Wellner]

Why are you buying at a borg anyway? All I have ever seen in their plywood racks isn't worth using for anything anyway!

Just plywood is cheaper. I buy 2x4s and 2x6s from my local lumberyard and support them.

A Menards is being built next door. I don't think my town needs a Menards. Its the Walmart of big box hardware stores.

[Jim Koepke]

I was thinking more cynically disdainful than sardonic...

I still haven't been able to figure out what is being said. It does look like English, but I am a little rusty on my southern dialects.

jtk

[Matt Hankins]

I witnessed a big box store employee cross cutting a PT 2 x 10 in half with the panel saw. I would guess that was the only equipment available as I didn't see a RAS. Thankfully everyone made out OK, but it sure sounded and looked ugly. I should have tracked down a manager, but I didn't. I would hate to see someone, employee or customer, get hurt because the correct machines weren't available. It seems to me that it is up to us as knowledgeable users of these machines to point this out. I always wonder how it will be taken.

Matt

[Eric DeSilva]

Probably the same reason that about half the time they won't cut PT. Heard something about cutting those materials that they half remember and use as an excuse to get out of work...

That was my experience. They wouldn't halve a sheet of MDF for me, and the guy explained that it chipped and was a safety issue. After I scratched my head a bit, I realized there was probably a prohibition on cutting formica or something. I checked in with a manager and got my MDF cut no problem.

My worst experience, however, was asking an HD guy to make a 4x8 sheet of 3/4" oak veneer ply into two 4x4 pieces. He jammed the saw through the sheet so violently that the veneer was splintered up to 5" away from the cut. The sheet looked like it had been torn in half by the Hulk, not cut.

[Zach England]

I witnessed a big box store employee cross cutting a PT 2 x 10 in half with the panel saw. I would guess that was the only equipment available as I didn't see a RAS. Thankfully everyone made out OK, but it sure sounded and looked ugly. I should have tracked down a manager, but I didn't. I would hate to see someone, employee or customer, get hurt because the correct machines weren't available. It seems to me that it is up to us as knowledgeable users of these machines to point this out. I always wonder how it will be taken.

Matt

I was told by an employee at HD that they had removed the RAS from all the stores because too many employees had been injured.

EDIT: This was actually at Lowes. The two aren't very distinct in my mind.

[Rod Sheridan]

In Canada the stores have RAS's in them with a large guard on the table.

I guess if they removed the RAS's they would have problems cross cutting timbers, as a CMS wouldn't be as safe as the RAS with the guard system.

Regards, Rod.

[Mike Wellner]

I was told by an employee at HD that they had removed the RAS from all the stores because too many employees had been injured.

This HD had a Delta RAS to the back wall.

[Jeff Dorlan]

I worked for home depot part time and they justcuts close you are just getting small enough to hall they most of time have a sign that sayes I 'm sure he thought the same about you cause i had those feelings to I is suppose cash & carry

Sometimes the sum of the letters and words are FAR MORE telling than the sum of said letters and words. I'm sure glad I didn't need to frequent your store...Sheesh!

[Zach England]

This HD had a Delta RAS to the back wall.

I need to correct myself. I believe this was actually at Lowes.

[Jim Rimmer]

I worked for home depot part time and they justcuts close you are just getting small enough to hall they most of time have a sign that sayes I 'm sure he thought the same about you cause i had those feelings to I is suppose cash & carry

What A few capital letters and a little punctuation might help.

[Rick Frye]

I was at a Lowe's an asked for several sheets of osb to be split in two.. the associate about went through the complete inventory before he got 8 parts that were 24" wide each??????