I have a K3, and, as you've found and others have said, crosscutting wide panels that extend well right of the blade can necessitate crawling under the workpiece to access the start button. (I remember as a new owner being surprised the first time I encountered this reality, which ran counter to my newbie expectation/assumption that all such operations would be seamless on a sliding tablesaw.) ...It's interesting to read about how different people deal with this. Speaking as a hobbyist user, I don't find letting the saw run continuously is an option for me: my workspace is too tight to safely be loading or removing large panels around a powered blade. Of course, being a hobbyist, I'm not making these cuts--or any repetitive cuts--in any quantity anyway. So it's not a big issue to crawl under twice or three times to hit start, instead of just once, the few times a year this situation crops up. ...Notwithstanding what I just wrote, I personally would pay for the convenience of having a start switch on the sliding table, just to save on leaning over and down the other 99.9% of times I start the saw. It's too bad Hammer doesn't offer this as an extra-cost option.?
