Thread: Phew!

I guess you are lucky you didn't nip your finger and get belted by a kickback at the same time..... why were your fingers so close???

very lucky, i'd say they were so close cause i had a major brain fart and wasn't thinking about it enough.. and because i didn't have the riving knife on so that too.. thats to say the finger i cut was behind the blade.

Man your lucky, to come that close and getaway with out injury, I know what you say about "if not sure don't", been there and nearly done that.

And it's always good to have someone to tail out, .

Glad you still have all ten fingers.

jeff
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I'm puzzled. What has a riving knife got to do with the front of the blade? How could it stop you from cutting your finger?

I don't want to start a war about the rights and wrongs of having all the safety gear or not.

Did you have the blade just proud of the timber? If so why did you run you hand over the blade?

My saw has never had an overhead guard or riving knife, I'm not condoning the use of a machine without the safety equipment, but you can still use them safely with a little thought. I am not saying that I've never had a close call, I have, but usually when I analyze the event, I find that my mind has been wandering, NOT thinking about what I'm doing.

I always walk away when my mind is not on what I'm doing

I'm happy that you experience wasn't more serious.

These are my thoughts, take from them what you want

Robert

PS. I don't want to start a war here.

Of course, if you had a SawStop, that little exercise would have cost you a new blade and cartridge.....BANG

Just take the time to stop and think before beginning a cut - where are your hands going to be right through the process in relation to the blade? Its no good getting halfway through a cut before realising you can't complete it safely.

i appreciate your worries, this will in turn make things safer hopefully.. i was feeding out from behind the blade with my fingers way too close and the rear of the blade just nipped my finger, hence if the riving blade was on there then it wouldn't have come so close to the rear of the blade. i generally never do this and always think out clearly what my operation is going to be before i do it, but i just had a moment of nonthinking and as you've said i am very lucky to have the tip of my index..

as for sawstops, i think they should be absolutely mandatory! i would much prefer a bill rather than a stubb.

i hope this will never happen again and yes i've thoroughly cleaned my underware.

The absolute last place you want your hands on a table saw.... you are lucky you didn't lose entire fingers or worse.....

I was wondering the same thing. I can't imagine a "feeding out" operation that involves hands that close to the back of the blade.

If this was just to stop the cut strip dropping off the edge of the saw, then you need to get an outfeed table made. I use an old secondhand melamine office desk ($90) chocked up to just below saw height, so my outfeed table is about 2m long !

When ripping, the last portion of the cut is performed with a push stick, and just push right through until the back end of the timber is well clear of the blade. I also use a magswitch featherboard before the blade to keep the timber hard up against the fence so I don't need to use a hand for that. Definitely one of the more useful tablesaw accessories (assuming your saw has a metal top )

Feeding out from behind the blade?????????

There is no control in that. As has been stated that is what an outfeed table is for. The safest place is to be infront of the blade with your fingers away from it. Mr Brush has the right idea, follow his method and you shouldn't have any bother.

Robert

i appreciate the advice given and will look into the feather board magswitch. i am used to using a panel saw which you can generally quite safely do this operation but at home i have just a 10" table saw, i find it a little intimidating due to the lack of sliding table and not enough top space, but I will be making some extension tables asap. either that or buy a small panel saw.. again thanks for the advice