Thread: ever been scared in the shed?

I was reading one of those time life type books about shed design and the bloke (seppo actually) suggested that a light globe be hooked up to a sensor on the door and it would come on and alert you to someone's presence so exactly what you described doesn't happen.
To answer your question, Yes it has happened to me lots. Usually SWMBO or sometimes my son. that scares me.

Originally Posted by Ian007

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so anybody had that happen to them?

Cheers Ian

G'day Ian,

Yep. Had something similar happen to me a couple of months ago.

Beavering away with a hand-held router (can't remember exactly what on), when my neighbour pops over. He knows it's noisy, so he just yells "hi!".

Nearly cra**ed myself He wanted to commission a workbench for his SWMBO for her pottery & whatnot. If the router didn't have a cable attached, I would've flung it at him!

Still, I got the job
Cheers!

I scared the crap out of myself last weekend. I was using the TS to crosscut a piece of MDF and was a victim of brain fade.

Now I KNOW that when crosscutting you need to use an offset block clamped to the fence so that the offcut doesn't get trapped between the blade and the fence.
Well I went and just cut this piece without a thought to the above rule because I didn't have my brain in gear.

Of course, the offcut got trapped and was thrown backwards at a hunderd miles an hour.
Thankfully, I always stand to the side of the blade when using the TS so I was out of the line of fire.

It certainly woke me up though. :eek:

Craig ive done the exact same thing a few years back but you only do it once. :eek:

Yup know the feeling, I get it all the time at work... and I do it back to my work mates, you'd be doing something silly like skimming the dross from a liquation furnace and some bugga would sneak up behind you and hit the floor full swing hard as possible with a 10lb slugga... sure makes a loud bang that you can feel through the 40mm thick chequer plate floor, it scares the **** out of you every time no matter how many times it happens.(sometimes several times a day!)

Can't say that I've been frightened by people... I have a fundamental rule that NO ONE comes in while there's machinery running.

I just don't want the scaredy thing to happen while I'm doing something with fingers near a whirring device.

On the other sort of scared.... not that I'm prepared to admit, but every time I hurt myself I think what if.....

Cheers,

P

I reckon everyone gets bitten now and then, the wife, the neighbour, meself when something unexpected happens or i realise just how close to the wheel my thumb is.... I think the trick is that you need to concentrate grasshopper. the most important thing is the spinning thing in your hands/table...

I remember me olds used to say (Imagine gummy tootheless lips, a rocking chair, a bottle of grog, and a blanket) : "Zed me old thumb gripper, wothca 'ands doing boy? , theres more grips than the trouser snake".... the point being I remember I was driving along with a mate once and some p-r-i-c-k dropped a brick off a bridge right into me windscreen - lovely fist sized shatter star right where the rear view mirror is. the mirror flew into the back seat, me mate wet himself and I just kept driving along at 90kph around the bend, the first thought I had besides "jeez me hearts loud tonight" was that I was glad I wasnt gripping the squirrel - I'd a choked me self...

Originally Posted by craigb

I scared the crap out of myself last weekend. I was using the TS to crosscut a piece of MDF and was a victim of brain fade.

Now I KNOW that when crosscutting you need to use an offset block clamped to the fence so that the offcut doesn't get trapped between the blade and the fence.
Well I went and just cut this piece without a thought to the above rule because I didn't have my brain in gear.

Of course, the offcut got trapped and was thrown backwards at a hunderd miles an hour.
Thankfully, I always stand to the side of the blade when using the TS so I was out of the line of fire.

It certainly woke me up though. :eek:

Craig

Me too. The offcut flew past me - out the door - and travelled the length of the back yard before it hit the fence and stopped. Out of curiosity, I measured the height of the mark in the fence from ground level. In 30 metres it hadn't dropped more than a couple of mms. It also made one helluva bang when it hit the fence. Thankfully no-one was in the way.

That's a scarey lesson I've never forgotten.

Col

In the old machine room at Sturt, the wall in line with the TS had a number of holes in it from missiles like that. If you put a new one there, you had to sign it. There were a few illustrious names there, too.

I guess most woodworking machines are pretty safe, but when things go wrong they do so very quickly and noisily.

Quote Ian: "Man i must say i nearly $hit myself."


Must've been a dry $hit because we smelled it in Pert this arvo mate. Oh I forgot to say the wind was blowing towars SA.
:eek:

Yup...
Not had the problem in the wood shop, but at work my bench used to face away from the door. I'd be sitting there fault finding a computer monitor or power supply (hi voltage stuff) and someone would walk up behind me :eek:
When you're sticking probes into a circuit that can generate 14,000 volts a tap on the shoulder is NOT appreciated. It only happened once

Ian

Yeh......happens to me a lot.......I get in a sort of 'zone'.....especially when I'm wearing ear muffs......and go through the roof when my names called........but what scares me the most is the local black fella's........cheeky little guys......run around in packs, ranging in age from 5 to 10........ they know me and how I switch off to the world......they come up and pinch a tool while I'm not looking...... I'll have to think up some kind of trap one day before I loose more than a chisel or two.......

But before someone thinks I'm some cranky old racist...... Theres another 'pack' of white skate boarders that hang out the front of my house every saturday night making so much damage and noise that keeps my kids awake..........can't really go out and confront them because I'm not into digging out shattered glass from my windows every morning......the cops try, but give up (don't blame them)......

jeez I can winge, can't I......

Cleaning the old Triton saw and had my hand on the blade (unplugged), poking around with an old brush - totally absorbed. The bluddy dog - who had been lying peacefully under my feet - suddenly jumped up and BOW WOW WOWOWOWWooooo. My brain somehow thought the saw had started.

I just wish I'd been in a wetsuit, then it would have been ok and I'd have at least been warm.

I used to have this roll of old carpet that Id spread out if I needed a soft place to assemble anything..

Anyway it was pushed up against a cabinet on one wall of the shed, above which was my tool rack. Stepping onto this carpet to reach for a tool and then stepping down and walking off I noticed in the corner of my eye a movement - about 5 feet later and off shoots the biggest tiger snake I'd ever seen. Straight towards the house. Being a wooden floor in the house I couldnt let the bugger get that far.

Needless to say I needed two changes that day...