Force decides whether the machine can cut a piece; the box decides whether the piece can enter at all. The measurement, and the two boundaries.

The rating describes the hydraulic system; the cut happens at the blade. The distance between those two facts is where sizing mistakes live.

Six gaps between the sheet and your yard, all of them quotation conversations, all of them cheaper before the order than after.

Every row is true, and the sheet still cannot tell you what the machine does on your feed. The reading that turns rows into a conversation.

At flagship scale the spec sheet is an engineering brief. Which rows are fixed, which are your quotation’s decisions, and which questions to ask.

Every number on a shear datasheet is true and none of it tells you what the machine does on your feed. A row-by-row reading of the Q91-200 sheet.