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by DarwinStrings » Thu Nov 11, 2010 10:33 am
Bugga. I know this is a old post but I must have missed it the first time around. It makes me think of the amount of times I have put myself in a similar situation after finishing a cut and thinking to myself "you idiot, the blade is still running, turn the stupid thing OFF!!" luckily I have always stopped a bit short of your situation Tim and never cut my hands on a power tool. I have however been in Allen's situation with the table saw on several occasions and have cut parts other than my hands with power tools. I was once making some MDF ceiling panelling on a very expensive reno in London. The ceiling had a checker board series of shadow lines that I was cutting with a biscuit joiner on site before installation. I was using the apprentice to help me with the cuts as it was all a bit awkward to do but all was going fine at the end off the day. Starting back at the job the next day thought the apprentice had not showed up for work so I hooked in on my own. Because I did not have a extra pair of hands but wanted to get on with it I changed the way I was making cuts from the way I should be cutting to a climb cut (D.H.). The joiner jumped up fast out of the cut and because I had both hands on the tool I stopped it from hitting me in the chest but it was ripped out of my grip and dropped to the floor, I remember it hurt a little when it landed on my boot but thought to myself "Phew that was lucky", until I looked at my boot and saw a rather knarly looking 3 inch tear in the instep of the boot. I didn't really want to take the boot off but when blood started spilling out of the opening I thought I better have a look. Damn those biscuit blades are nasty. Having no first aid kit I wrapped the thing up tight with my other sock and duct tape, then phoned the boss, he told me to phone a ambulance which I did. It arrived after 15 minutes, I climbed in the back, laid down, then while answering questions from the medics I started to faint (strange feeling). They put oxygen on me and it managed to pull me up just before I blacked out. They stitched it up and I was back to work in a few days with a bit of a limp. So that is a example of User error or just plain D.H.
Jim
Life is good when you are amongst the wood.
Jim Schofield
