Chainsaws aren't Dangerous...

**rovercare** · 31st July 2008, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

IMO spindle moulders are potentially far more dangerous. Although most wood working machinery frightens hell out of me and I was a fitter-machinist quite comfortable with metal working machine tools.

When I was a kid, our neighbours had a sawmill and joinery works behind their house. I noticed that nearly all the older wood machinists had bits missing. The corrugated iron walls behind the big spindle moulder looked as if a shotgun had been fired at the walls. This was from bits of the cutting tool chipping off and being flung through the walls. Half the bits must have gone the other way into the shop, and possibly into the machinist. One day a big flitch of a log being broken down in the sawmill got picked up by the big 48" Canadian saws and chucked through the corrugated iron fence across the road and almost reached our fence.

Sawmills are evil places, Regular injuries, lots of people missing bits and the odd killing, nasty machines that bite hard and stupidity is a prerequisite for employment as an operator, good combination

I won't miss the place now I'm gone

**isuzurover** · 31st July 2008, 01:46 PM

I forgot to say - a huge thankyou to Offender90 for driving me to hospital - and taking the pics.

mcrover · 31st July 2008, 03:26 PM

Dr Ben, great job, hope it all still works, thats a very important finger when you drive a Landy

**vnx205** · 31st July 2008, 03:55 PM

I don't have pics to prove it, but my best effort was to drill a hole in my hand.

Like so many accidents, it was the result mainly of stupidity, but also of a combination of a number of other factors.

I had just bought a new drill because just as I was close to finishing my house, the old one burned out.
I was dilling a hole in a small piece of wood sitting on the bench.
When it was almost through I stopped to put it somewhere safer, like a vice, so it wouldn't grab and spin.
Because the new drill was heavier than the old one, I had one hand on the grip and the other supporting the piece of wood still on the drill bit.
Because I was not familiar with the weight and feel of the new drill, as I lifted it, I pressed the trigger.
The drill bit went through the wood and almost through the palm of my hand.

The odd thing is that it didn't worry me looking at the hole in my hand, but what did make me feel faint was looking at the spirals of flesh curling out of the flutes in the drill bit.

**dirtdawg** · 31st July 2008, 06:29 PM

what you doing now matt?

**rovercare** · 31st July 2008, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by dirtdawg

what you doing now matt?

Nothing

Catching up on all the chores that are backlogged

**uninformed** · 31st July 2008, 06:41 PM

Ben, do you mean a hand held elctric planer or a jointer?

Serg

**rovercare** · 31st July 2008, 06:51 PM

Originally Posted by uninformed

Ben, do you mean a hand held elctric planer or a jointer?

Serg

I'm tipping something that looks like this

But mine isn't covered in blood and human flesh

**LandyAndy** · 31st July 2008, 07:37 PM

Hey Ben
you wernt feeling the sharpness of the blade whilst it was running where you

At least you still have MOST of your finger.
Andrew

**350RRC** · 31st July 2008, 07:45 PM

[QUOTE=rovercare;787789]I'm tipping something that looks like this

I like that Matt. Depth cranked to the max (as one does). You could have got a bit more depth out of the blades, but the motor might not have liked it, being Fryobi.

What were you 'dressing'?

DL

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