Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by outback

The whole reason I don't like table saws.!

Yeah, they are incredibly useful and versatile tools but anything with that much rotational oomph has to be treated with a healthy dose of respect.

Tell that to my junior highschool, industrial arts teacher. He lost a testicle due to a kick back. We were all eye witnesses to the incident, during his explanation of why not to stand directly behind the saw blade.

Originally Posted by outback

Tell that to my junior highschool, industrial arts teacher. He lost a testicle due to a kick back. We were all eye witnesses to the incident, during his explanation of why not to stand directly behind the saw blade.

ALL tools need to be treated with respect. Especially Power Equipment.

Originally Posted by outback

Tell that to my junior highschool, industrial arts teacher. He lost a testicle due to a kick back. We were all eye witnesses to the incident, during his explanation of why not to stand directly behind the saw blade.

Was he nominated for a Darwin Award?

My shop teacher used to do this demonstration with the table saw about kickback. He would push about a 6-inch piece of 2x4 into the blade and send it across the room and into the wall which was dinged up and bruised from other demonstrations of the like. Then he would take a piece of dowel at a 90 to the blade with about an inch sticking past it and run it into the blade which would of course faster than you could see it make the nicest, cleanest cut lopping a piece off the end. once the saw stopped he would pick it up and say, "It will do the same thing to your finger before you know it and not shed a tear." He would also take the sleeve cut off of a flannel shirt, turn the drill press on and flip the sleeve into the bit and we would watch while it would wind up the sleeve. Then he'd say, "The same thing can happen to long hair."

Originally Posted by DZEC

Was he nominated for a Darwin Award?

No, but he did take a bow.

Knew a guy who stepped across a PTO shaft on a tractor, that didn't have a cover on it. Doesn't take much to imagine what happened to him, at 540 RPMs. I did say...I knew a guy.

Worked around machinery in a pulp and paper mill most of my life. Moving machinery is nothing to mess with especially the stuff that moves automatically with no warning and/or is unguarded. It's a wonder we had as few fatalities as we did over the years. All of them were the messy variety.

Bob

The sandpaper scratching the brass for grip seems like something i should have thought about.

Originally Posted by outback

Tell that to my junior highschool, industrial arts teacher. He lost a testicle due to a kick back. We were all eye witnesses to the incident, during his explanation of why not to stand directly behind the saw blade.

That hurts just reading about it!