Power tools that scare you

[spidey07]

Me - The table saw and the chainsaw. It's not so much "scare" as it is "be way the hell careful". I remember helping a neighbor break up some fallen trees with sandals on thinking "this is a bad idea, remedy it". And after my eye injury a while back, my ass has goggles on with anything that could throw something.

To this day, I give a chainsaw super respect and care. A table saw stays put, a chainsaw doesn't.

See vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=31khLebxCyg

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Chainsaws for sure.

 

[CrazyAznDriver]

nail guns scare me.

 

[3chordcharlie]

ladders. well, using power tools on ladders.

 

[coldmeat]

We were working this job once, a good distance away from our town, and we were working with a some builders that we haven't worked with before and I'll never forget seeing one of the guys working with a chainsaw. He was sitting on the roof with his legs dangling over the edge, cutting the roof with the chainsaw between his legs. Got a big WTF from me.

 

[TJCS]

using chainsaw on a wobbly ladder.

 

[Ronstang]

I have been using both for decades without fear or issue. Must be a personal problem.

 

[PsiStar]

This is not a thread about scary tools but about idiots with tools that can easily maim.

 

[Miramonti]

For some reason, belt saws...not a fan of those.

 

[Sluggo]

Chainsaws are probably the scariest, but I always find myself using extra caution with a table saw and a miter saw just because its so easy to become complacent around them.

 

[IronWing]

Also jointers: Even better than table saws for that combination of complacency inducing simplicity and horrible consequence.

Also fly presses though they aren't powered.

 

[rpanic]

Table saw, large lathes, and chainsaws.

 

[spidey07]

For some reason, belt saws...not a fan of those.

But it would so quick and painless...

Almost had my forearm/hand chopped off by a honey baked ham slicer when I slipped on my feet slicing a whole ham.

Imagine falling into this and your right hand instinctively attempts to balance...right hand, your weight, slipping hand, your weight...picture it.

 

[notposting]

Personally, band saws. Mostly the angled blade.

 

[Bignate603]

Sawzall and angle grinder.

 

[Howard]

But it would so quick and painless...

Almost had my forearm/hand chopped off by a honey baked ham slicer when I slipped on my feet slicing a whole ham.

Imagine falling into this and your right hand instinctively attempts to balance...right hand, your weight, slipping hand, your weight...picture it.

I'm pretty sure that current regulations require that a machine like that needs to be guarded from bodily ingress during operation.

 

[Howard]

Table saws scare me because they show that people will capitalize on anything.

http://bautistaallen.com/product-liability/verdict-upheld-table-case

If I am not mistaken, all future designs of table saws will need to incorporate SawStop...

 

[TridenT]

None scare me, but I don't enjoy using the jointer.

 

[shabby]

Table saws scare me because they show that people will capitalize on anything.

http://bautistaallen.com/product-liability/verdict-upheld-table-case

If I am not mistaken, all future designs of table saws will need to incorporate SawStop...

Lol this moron thought a $150 saw should have the technology that a $1500 saw has? Geez... too bad his face didn't slip into it.

 

[Squisher]

Being a retired die maker, I've worked with my hands and eyes in close proximity to tons of machinery. I've said this before here many times, there is nothing more dangerous than a pedestal or bench grinder. When you looked around the average die shop 35 years ago you likely wouldn't have to look too far before you'd see a half dozen people with missing fingers. Invariably, you'd ask how they lost their digits and pedestal or bench grinders would come out on top. They look so benign.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't like working near bush hogs. They'll chew up a 8" tree like it's nothing, and throw big rocks 100'+. For machines I operate, probably a chainsaw.

 

[Howard]

Being a retired die maker, I've worked with my hands and eyes in close proximity to tons of machinery. I've said this before here many times, there is nothing more dangerous than a pedestal or bench grinder. When you looked around the average die shop 35 years ago you likely wouldn't have to look too far before you'd see a half dozen people with missing fingers. Invariably, you'd ask how they lost their digits and pedestal or bench grinders would come out on top. They look so benign.

How?? Not setting the rests/guards properly?

 

[BlackTigers]

How?? Not setting the rests/guards properly?

Imagine a piece of metal sitting on a flat magnetic table. Huge two ft diameter wheel above it,spinning and grinding it flat.


All it takes is one wrong move and that wheel will toss some serious things. I watched a twenty pound block fly a solid 100 feet across the shop and into a concrete wall after it snagged on the wrong side of a grinder.


pedestal grinders are bad because they have a tendency to ripthngs out of your hands

 

[trmiv]

Table saw and chainsaw.

 

[Humpy]

Lol this moron thought a $150 saw should have the technology that a $1500 saw has? Geez... too bad his face didn't slip into it.

The injured guy was a new employee who was provided a cheap plastic table saw and taught to make free hand cuts without the fence in place. It wasn't totally his fault. Lawyers took it from there.

Anyone looking to get a decent table saw should look into the Saw Stop brand. Along with having a brake they are excellent tools in general.