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Post by davyowen on Sept 29, 2007 0:20:32 GMT
No, I'm not talking about fecal incontinence  I'm talking about the last time you did something extremely stupid which very nearly ended in some form of serious injury/amputation. Today I was resawing some alder on the bandsaw. I switched on the machine and realised that I hadn't opened the blast gate for the extraction so after sorting that and getting distracted by a spilled bottle of glue, I make my way back to the bandsaw, still donning my ear defenders from the previous routing. Having forgotten what I was meant to be doing, I start tapping a rhythm on the bandsaw table whilst waiting for my brain to restart when I remember that the machine is still running... Cue brown pants moment. As a guitarist, the thought of losing a digit scares me silly, and when situations like this occur, it really does put the sh*ts up me. So have any of you had any close calls lately that you want to share? Perhaps in the hope that it prevents someone else making the same mistake? |
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Post by jfc on Sept 29, 2007 16:24:53 GMT
I also play the guitar and bass and the thought of losing a finger is bad enough but not being able to play would really hurt .
Last brown pants moment was having a raised panel router cutter thrown from the router table . I heard something wasnt right and took a step back just as it came flying out and across the workshop . That and switching on the spindle moulder for the first time !
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Post by dom on Sept 29, 2007 20:59:43 GMT
Got distracted once when replacing a blade on a TS,
started cutting wood and found I had wobble saw, hit the floor quicker than a, than a, well really quick.
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Post by mooretoolsplease on Sept 29, 2007 22:02:19 GMT
I think mine was when I realised a router cutter had started to creep out of its collet in the router table, I turned it off as soon as I heard something different and took a few steps back pretty quick.
I don't know how it had managed to get higher but it scared the day lights out of me!!
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Post by thatsnotafestool on Sept 30, 2007 10:59:12 GMT
Does driving count? 'cos if so then yesterday morning, hacking along a bendy A road, came out of one bend at around 50 and my brain went like this...
"cor that lorry is going fast"
"f**k me...it's on my bleedin' side of the road"
hits brakes like there's no tomorrow
"sh*t..this cars got no f**k**g ABS"
skid..slide...skid..slide..
lucky I washed it the day before otherwise I would have been a gonna
Reason? Rubbish cart stopped on blind bend on oncoming carriageway forcing drivers to overtake on my side of the road.
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Post by woody67 on Oct 27, 2007 0:20:27 GMT
You'll probably all cringe at this one..........the NVR switch,unbeknown to me on my table saw was faulty and causing the motor to falter, so one day when it stopped and wouldn't start, I foolishly flicked the blade - in a attempt to "kick-start" it with my........................thumb  The saw burst into life and to this day I still don't know how I got my digit out quick enough! It nicked the skin with a perfect blade width cut but not deep enough to even make it bleed slightly! Lucky, lucky boy, but PTSD kicked in and I kept having flashbacks of it and imagining trying to pull a mangled hand out of the motor housing! |
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Post by jaco on Oct 27, 2007 6:58:14 GMT
Sorry not workshop related .............. Last Sunday, went for a walk in the nature reserve next to where we live. Barely missed stepping on a very large snake laying sunning in the path bwetween the rocks and grass. Oo shiiiiiiitttttttttt! It was close.  Need to still try and identify it. Looked like one of the Adder family. |
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Post by Scrit on Oct 27, 2007 10:08:48 GMT
Having forgotten what I was meant to be doing, I start tapping a rhythm on the bandsaw table whilst waiting for my brain to restart when I remember that the machine is still running... Cue brown pants moment. So no DC injection or manual brake then? Tsk, tsk! Perhaps this illustrates exactly why they were mandated. One of the biggest causes of injury in wood machining used to be what are referred to as run-down accidents, especially with large rip saws, large band saws and tenoners. I've seen the heads on a single-end tenoner merrily still silently spinning away some 15 minutes after the power was killed (in the days before braking). My most recent one was this week when I had a piece of oak moulding (3 x 3in section) literally explode on the chop saw when I hit a shake (invisible on the underside and I hadn't checked for it). These days I have an automatic pull hands back reaction when there's a "bang" but it still leaves me shaken. Probably the best one is the workshop I was in years back when square cutterblocks were still allowed on spindle moulders. The cheaper ones were open prong affairs and secured to dovetail slots by means of high tensile bolts, nuts and washers. The bolts had a tendency to loose their elasticity and break over time as well as the prongs tending to open up over a period. Either could lead to a cutter ejection. The warning would sometimes be a rattling sound just prior to the cutter letting go. I vividly recall being in a shop where the warning rattling was closely followed by everyone hitting the deck, a loud bang and then a game of hunt the cutter. We found it embedded 3in into a 100 year old pitch beam some 25 feet away from the spindle moulder which had also lost a 1in square section of cast-iron fence plate. That was a real brown pants day! Scrit |
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Post by davyowen on Oct 27, 2007 13:20:38 GMT
Having forgotten what I was meant to be doing, I start tapping a rhythm on the bandsaw table whilst waiting for my brain to restart when I remember that the machine is still running... Cue brown pants moment. So no DC injection or manual brake then? Tsk, tsk! Perhaps this illustrates exactly why they were mandated. My bandsaw does have a brake, but like most it only kicks in when I switch the machine off  Yes thats right, I left the machine running whilst I went to open the blast gate and was distracted so forgot that I had turned the machine on... |
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Post by Scrit on Oct 27, 2007 18:59:32 GMT
Yes thats right, I left the machine running whilst I went to open the blast gate and was distracted so forgot that I had turned the machine on... Smacked legs for that, I'd say! Scrit |
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Post by mrgrimsdale on Oct 27, 2007 21:08:55 GMT
I had a little one the other day.
Just removed another 14' window with block and tackle, quite safely - although it's a bit alarming when the thing suddenly becomes free and just hanging there - free for the first time in 133 years!. Put up and wedged temporary 8'x44" piece of chipboard in the hole (wossitcalled with big chips). Then put up the next piece 6'x44" slightly too heavy to handle from a ladder. Tower scaffold? No, block and tackle already there so attach a hook and haul it skywards with great whirrings of chains etc. Lower it carefully and precisely into position but as it settles the block hook drops off the hook on the board, as it would, so it's left 12' above my head hanging out at 45deg about to fall on me but also on the extracted window with about £1000 worth of fancy glass therein - well priceless really.
Rapidly donned hard hat, speedily put piece of ply which happened to be there over the glass, gingerly erected ladder to gently push board into vertical position. Went off and changed underpants.
cheers
Jacob
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Post by mrspanton on Oct 28, 2007 22:49:11 GMT
Not work related (thank god I have never had any serious mishap's and dont intend to start having any) A few months ago we went to one of the indoor play area's with the kids. Suddenly one of them wasnt to be seen anywhere........cue brown pants moment We searched everywhere, I went out to the car park.....which was right next to a canal.....even bigger brown pants. What made all this worse was that my boy is autistic and cannot speak and is really quite unable to discriminate between people, very trusting. Eventually my wife (who was near hysterical) suddenly saw him....at the top of the massive slide about to go down all on his own with a huge smile on his face as if to say whats all the fuss.....what a relief  ;D |
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I'm talking about the last time you did something extremely stupid which very nearly ended in some form of serious injury/amputation.
The saw burst into life and to this day I still don't know how I got my digit out quick enough! It nicked the skin with a perfect blade width cut but not deep enough to even make it bleed slightly!
;D