So, just missed a bad accident. For at least a decade I've had and used a large melamine coated, 3/4" MDF crosscut sled. Weighed a ton, and I couldn't even remotely lift it, so in my last shop, and in my present shop I had an overhead hoist installed so that when I wasn't using the sled, I just pushed a button and it lifted and lived overhead of the outfeed table.
My bad, when I built it, I attached it to the hoist hook with a heavy duty screw eye. It was threaded into the hardwood surrounding the Lexan on the center of the board. This worked like a charm, until a week ago, when I was lowering it, and the hook pulled out of the hardwood, and gravity took over. Fortunately I avoided what could have been a very serious injury, but it did dent part of my formica outfeed table, and since it's made of MDF, it cracked in several areas. Why I didn't install it with a machine screw / insert nut instead of a wood screw - just stupid design on my part.
So now, it's time to rebuild either a large crosscut sled, and use the William Ng 5 cut method for accuracy (I want at least 27" width capacity as I've used that repeatedly), or perhaps another option.
What do people think about the Sawstop Sliding Table vs a crosscut sled? I'm not going to be replacing my ICS with a true slider, so no Felder / Hammer / ACM comments, please.
I would have to move my second workbench out to accomodate the track for the Sawstop sliding table, and it's crazy expensive vs just rebuilding a crosscut sled, but would it have any benefits?