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Post by modernist on Mar 18, 2008 8:43:13 GMT
I was collecting material for a safety talk on the panel saw at work yesterday when I came accross this on google. It almost looks as if he is doing it deliberately  www.break.com/index/minor-tablesaw-accident1.htmlA saluatory lesson for us all. Note no guards and starting the saw with the material next to the blade - and his hand -while he gropes for the on button. Not to mention the shades I suppose anyone can buy a table saw and if it wasn't for forums like this may have no access to safety and best practice ideas. Brian |
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Post by jfc on Mar 18, 2008 9:00:31 GMT
Ahhhhhhh thats made my stomach churn .
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Post by Scrit on Mar 18, 2008 14:07:03 GMT
Lemme see...... through rip fence, unguarded blade, no push sticks........ and a fake thumb(?) I've never amputated a digit, but I have lacerated thumbs and they do bleed a lot, so I'm skeptical. There is, however, someone over at UKWS with a lot more experience of this sort of thing  Scrit |
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Post by TonyW on Mar 18, 2008 14:17:29 GMT
I believe that this is staged. To me it looks as though he has a false thumb trapped beneath his palm. I am sure there are safety rules being broken here - although not sure of exactly what other than no guard and hand being very close to blade Regardless of being fake or not it did make my toes curl. Cheers ;D Tony Little late with my opinion - Scrit was not there when I started  |
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Post by wrongnail on Mar 18, 2008 14:21:43 GMT
I once used a cobbler who had a thumb missing. Don't know how he did it, or how he did such a fine job on folks' boots, but he didn't seem to miss it.
John
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Post by modernist on Mar 18, 2008 15:49:41 GMT
I think it may have been faked - but it did the trick at work ;D I put "table saw accident" into google and it was the first that came up. Faked or not it is salutory stuff and there is one just below on google that is definitely not faked. Don't look till you've had you tea Brian |
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Post by andy on Mar 18, 2008 20:56:16 GMT
Based on experience  I would say it was faked When I had the misfortune to cut the tip of my thumb off I just about managed to sit down before passing out (Yes I'm a wimp at the sight of blood especially my own) Two day later after a spell in the plastic surgery wing of the local hospital I ventured back into the work shop only to find the severed tip lying in the sawdust at which point I nearly passed out again |
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Post by Scrit on Mar 18, 2008 22:45:02 GMT
Two day later after a spell in the plastic surgery wing of the local hospital I ventured back into the work shop only to find the severed tip lying in the sawdust at which point I nearly passed out again Yep. Deffo a wimp! ;D The last time I did anything was when I fed my right thumb to the pin router........ Broke the bone and machined away half the thickness for about 12mm. Blood and bits of bone everywhere, and there's me hopping around trying to make sure I hadn't put blood on the work!!!! My missus almost fainted, me, I just tourniqued myself up and drove to A&E (with stops every 5 to 10 minutes to relieve the pressure and get the feeling back). There they made me wait 4 hours whilst they dealt with a procession of kids with pots stuck on their heads, minor sprains, etc. Grrrr!!!! I finally got their attention by walking over to the reception desk, taking the pressure bandage off and bleeding profusely all over their nice clean forms. Eventually Wythenshawe hospital did the reconstructive surgery, but the sensation is still only 70% of what it was and the damned thing hurt for months afterwards. The most surprising thing was the size of the pools of blood on the workshop floor. I reckon I must have lost at least half a pint in about 10 minutes...... Scrit |
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Post by pitbull on Mar 18, 2008 23:23:37 GMT
Its like The Kenny Everet sketch
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Post by jfc on Mar 18, 2008 23:35:48 GMT
I keep a four pack in the workshop just incase this happens  |
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Post by Scrit on Mar 18, 2008 23:57:56 GMT
Its like The Kenny Everet sketch Yep. You just can't make these things up |
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Post by mailee on Mar 23, 2008 21:23:04 GMT
Anyone remember the old Black and Decker cicular saw attachment for the drills from years ago? I do very well as it was with one of those that I almost cut off my thumb. Building a sewing box for the Mother in law just after I had started woodworking I didn't think the abscence of a blade guard would matter and holding the wood down with my free hand would be OK. How wrong can you be, when the saw jumped off the work and over my hand It was only then I realised the mistake I had made and what an idiot I was! I managed to walk up to the house and over to my neighbours (wife didn't drive at the time) and finally collapsed in her doorway! I hate blood if it is my own but can stand any amount of other peoples. I once watched someone sever the top of his finger in a tyre machine and wrapped up the digit for him to take to the hospital. Still hate my own blood though and go all giddy at the sight of it. |
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Post by mrspanton on Mar 23, 2008 21:29:10 GMT
The laurel and hardie carpenters sketch is the classic where they saw the car in 2 with a huge band saw and stan gets caught up in a window frame and ends up falling off the bench it is so funny ;D ;D ;D
I once pinched my thumb in a hydraulic pallet riping machine, its like a huge wide pincer that rips the blocks off old pallets to recycle and refurb. Within 10 seconds my thumb was swollen purple just like the tom and jerry cartoons THROB_THROB_THROB ;D ;D I said to the boss (dodgy nasty violent man) fuk this I'm off home (20 minute walk), I was almost throwing up dizzy etc. Any way the wife drove me to casualty when I eventualy get seen, they forcibly hold me down onto the edge of a table then use like a pistol soldering iron to burn a little hole in the thumb nail to rlieve the pressure twas like having a boil lanced aah, the relief ;D ;D
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Post by jfc on Mar 23, 2008 21:34:39 GMT
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Post by mrspanton on Mar 23, 2008 21:47:28 GMT
yep thats the one although I dont know if thats the wholefilm, there doesnt seem to be the window frame scene in ther? The machines and belt drive's look dodgy dont they stan should get some shrpening tip's off UKW |
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Post by paulchapman on Mar 23, 2008 21:54:22 GMT
Anyone remember the old Black and Decker cicular saw attachment for the drills from years ago? How did we ever manage with those attachments - I had the jig saw, circular saw and orbital sander and they were all hopeless, but promoted by Black & Decker as if they were the last word in power tools  The only one I found any good was the hammer attachment that fitted between the drill and chuck. Still got it somewhere..... Cheers Paul |
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I would say it was faked
The only one I found any good was the hammer attachment that fitted between the drill and chuck. Still got it somewhere.....