I'm with you Kyle, there is a thing as too much. A buddy of mine has a circle saw mill, the blade is freaking huge, carbide tipped and it's powered by a big block V8. There are what looks like bullet holes in his tin shed roof. I asked him about it, and he said that he's hit some log trash in his day and the teeth fly off the blade like a machine gun. That mill is not for me man, no way would you catch this guy running that thing and all that separates the operator from the blade is thin piece of Plexiglas 8-O.
Personally I think my wood mizer is safer to run than my table saw. I hit a coke bottle in a cedar log and the blade exploded, but at least the shrapnel went into the dust shoot and didn't go fly up in the air like a freaking machine gun. Other times I've hit metal and it dulls the band so quickly that the motor dies out, that’s good in my mind.
Running a mill is dangerous enough, I would hate to have a small dia log be shot off the mill like an arrow. I could see how it might happen running some big horse power.
I have yet to experince all the fun of running a mill, I'm sure over time I'll see my share of mishaps.
Thanks