I have a 14" Jet band saw mounted on a Jet stand. The stand has a wooden base, that I installed, with wheels on for easy movement. It has worked great and I have moved it around many times. My garage floor is made up of 4 large cement slabs and the band saw was close to one of the slab seams, which are about an inch deep and wide.

Now the stupid part.

The saw was shut off and I was bent over and working on the bed to adjust it for angle sawing. As I was working, I reached up for balance to the bed and the whole saw moved because of my weight pulling down. It moved about 4 inches  and 2 wheels went into one of the slab seams and started to fall over on me. If I were younger and as strong as I used to be, I would have strong armed it back in place. It came over very slowly and I managed to straighten up enough that the weight came down on me flatly. I was unhurt and squirmed my way out. The bad part was that my daughter just arrived and saw the whole thing. Of course she panicked.
After I settled her down,  we lifted it back in place.  I moved the saw where it isn't close to a crack and now I am looking for something to put in that crack to avoid any further dumb accidents.

I have done similar Ron, but my saw didn't fair too well. I am glad your not hurt. Hey, your saw had a cushion to fall on!

Sounds like those cracks might need some seem filler if they are capable of causing that, as you noted. This could have been a much different topic you posted if there was something sharp and hard to catch your fall behind you, I am so glad that was not the case, and it easily could have been the case in our small home shops we all have.

So how's your body? Did it hurt more the next day?

I was surprised, I didn't hurt much. My back was a little stiff, but that is all. Any ideas on what kind of filler I can use? I don't own, so it would have to be removable. I was thinking that I have seen a rubber molding material that fits in those cracks.

Hey Ron, I bet if you contacted the owner of the home, they would be receptive to filling it as you would like. Just my .02 cents worth. But if your not comfortable with that, there are expandable joint fillers on the market that you could pound in the joint, then when you guys move, you can pull it back out, I don't have the name of it off hand, maybe our resident contractor Mike Williams can help us out on this.

Ron Altier said:

I was surprised, I didn't hurt much. My back was a little stiff, but that is all. Any ideas on what kind of filler I can use? I don't own, so it would have to be removable. I was thinking that I have seen a rubber molding material that fits in those cracks.

Ron Altier said:

I was surprised, I didn't hurt much. My back was a little stiff, but that is all. Any ideas on what kind of filler I can use? I don't own, so it would have to be removable. I was thinking that I have seen a rubber molding material that fits in those cracks.

Ron, glad you weren't hurt. That can be a scary moment when things are going over and you know you can't lift it back up. I can only imagine how your daughter felt when see saw what was happening.

I am with John, I would contact the owner and see about filling them in. You could use that mortar mix they use to level floors. It should take much and it would bring it up to level and have a smooth finish. Most likely not even a big cost.

Anyway, glad you are okay and not hurt seriously.