Thread: Near misses

I once had a crappy Taiwanese tablesaw that used to vibrate a lot and I was dumb enough to leave a 300mm x 300mm x 16mm Plywood offcut on the table while I walked to the bench to get a pencil or something. Half way back to the saw the ply made contact with the 3500 RPM 300mm sawblade and WHAM it hiy me in the guts tearing my shirt leaving a wealt 300mm x 30mm high. The Ply kept going hit a cabinet I was making Smashing a Frame and panel door and generally leaving a trail of damage.


Ross

two days left of my apprenticeship, i was running 32mm MDF thru the panelsaw with the blade at 45° and it kicked back slicing thru the top of my pointer finger deep enough to take out tendons. 6 weeks later after plaster and microsurgery all is good. after that i have a new found respect of panelsaws.

recently i was removing a cupboard in the outlaws kitchen to fit a dishwasher.the cupboard was sized to fit a 605mm dishwasher space and i was in a bit of a rush, using a chisel and a hammer and not much brain power at the time, the chisel flicked up narrowly missing my eye.

G

High school in the 70's when long hair was fashionable ( and I had some) I saw someone being scalped by a drill press, needless to say that it left a very lasting inpression about safety. They managed to sew his scalp back on though it did leave him with a very nast scar. I think since then I've been very wary of anything sharp and spinning.

Himzo.

Guess who, this morning, changed blades on the tablesaw, switched it on, near sh@t himself, then realised he hadn't put the spacer washer in the new blade!

Spent years planing doors by the hand plane method of thumb on top of the plane and fingers underneath to guide the plane. Then I got a Towa power plane, yep you guessed it, I've got the very tips of two fingers missing.

Originally Posted by Termite

Spent years planing doors by the hand plane method of thumb on top of the plane and fingers underneath to guide the plane. Then I got a Towa power plane, yep you guessed it, I've got the very tips of two fingers missing.

Thats gotta hurt.
I've nicked the top of my fingers ona hand plane before. I has the #5 upside down in the vice, runnign a really small piece of timber over the blade as if it were a jointer. Twas scary sharp and sliced a neat 1/100th of the tips of my fingers. hurt like buggery.

Got my 3 stiches out of my thumb today. 2 weeks ago was cutting a rebate for the bottom of a box. Ran a test thru the Triton, cut too deep, stopped saw,waited and dropped the depth. 2nd try too shallow, stopped saw reached in to adjust (yep forgot to wait for the saw to stop spinning fully)..............
No real damage but deep enough to warrant xrays to check on the bone!!!

Wont be doing that again EVER.

Very few WW, nicked my finger on the scrollsaw when daughter standing behind me sniffed (I didn't know she was there).
Welding in thongs, leaning across a bench and soldering iron, I didn't know it was on, picked up an amplifier chassis and placed fingers across a large electrolytic, trimming HF antenna while in transmit mode, diving with empty air bottle, clearing jammed round in rifle by putting another one up behind it.
Must admit I was in my teens when most of this happened.
Saw a Triton demonstrator ripping timber by pushing it between the narrow gap between blade and fence with his fingers, stood well back for that one as he was billed as a Triton expert.
Probably the same demonstrator Chook saw
Worst one..............married first wife :mad:

Similar to Termite, but with a Jig saw, cut into thr back of little finger of left hand.

Different too; Cutting tenons, and too lazy to move cut pieces of TS . One of them was touching the back of the blade when I switched on, and took off--- ya missed me.!

From time to time have had pieces let go on the lathe. Where I have been faceplate turning, this has not been that dangerous, as I turn in such a fashion that I seldom have a stance in line with the workpiece, and NEVER when roughing out heavy or out of round stuff. The nasty here took place between centres, in my TAFE course. Turning a long baluster, on a lathe that I was unfamiliar with, and that had a steeper angle live centre, and smaller diameter tailstock wheel. As such, the workpiece was less securely held than I thought. Had a heavy dig, and the live centre let go. That end pivoted up on the dug in skew, and since still driven by the headstock, morphed into an end-for end tumble, which came up, hit me between the eyes, and then 'rolled ' up over my forehead, across the top of my head, and ended up beaning me on the back of the head, before spinning across the workshop. Fortunately no damage that an aspirin and a bandaid couldn't fix.

Alastair

Guess who used an angle grinder at about chest height while standing on a stepladder and luckily only sliced his forearm open and cut some tendons. still dont have any feeling in the forearm but everything still works after it was all sewn back together. Didnt get much sympathy from SWMBO either .

Originally Posted by LineLefty

I've nicked the top of my fingers ona hand plane before....... (snip)..... hurt like buggery.

No Lefty,

NOTHING hurts like buggery!!!

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P (only repeating what I've been told! )

Does this count as a near miss, cause it nearly missed my Bl#@dy toe.....but NOoooooo, couldn't do that could it.

Just a warning, Do not repeat DO NOT put 1500 8x2 red mahony up on bench then place blankets over it, forget its there and pull blankets down off bench, and wood end on onto toe. My Kids learnt some new verbs today

So nobody thinks I'm a complete moron, usually as soon as I go to the shed I have steel caps on, but only went down there to move and cover my Motorcycle (hence the blankets).

Originally Posted by E. maculata

So nobody thinks I'm a complete moron, usually as soon as I go to the shed I have steel caps on, but only went down there to move and cover my Motorcycle (hence the blankets).

Steel Caps ? In summer I often wear bare feet shorts and a pair of ear muffs!
Scares the crap out of the customers if they drop in without ringing first!!!

Ross