hint: the tablesaw doesn't go on the ice chest

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Right. It goes on the folding card table. Everybody knows that.

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Zz Yzx

A plastic 5-gallon bucket works well too!

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RonB

Ouch! Well, let's see... A finger tip costs $16,000 to re-attach. Down to the knuckle runs $27,000. What do you think this is going to cost?

I think the problem may have stemmed from what _was_ IN the cooler before he set the saw up there.

What, no pictures?

Greg G.

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Greg G

Many years ago my father told a similar story. A guy he worked with was using a table top portable saw and it fell off the table while he was sawing... He tried to catch it and sawed his fingers off during his effort. I never forgot that story and any time I used a small saw I clamped it down.

John

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John Grossbohlin

Ouch again. The movie Sicko mentions a guy who committed an absolute cardinal sin while using a small saw and removed several fingers.

One thing I learned as a kid while using soldering irons and knives was to never grab for a falling tool that can in any way injure.

Maybe the Feds should require all saws to have a Saw Stop device installed.

Greg G.

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Greg G

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So, now the feds should tell me I can't use my non "Saw Stop" tablesaw 'cause I might hurt myself?

I wonder how they protect folks from their tablesaws in Cuba?

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Doug Winterburn

Unless you are Cuban, who cares?

Lew

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Lew Hodgett

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One... two... three... Hooked.

(Look up to the arrow) ;-)

Greg G.

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Greg G

We had that conversation a LONG time ago. Let's not have it again.

A safety story (from a 50 year old who has his share of scars but all his digits):

My son is 14. When he was about three, we were sitting out in the back yard building a robot costume for him from a few cardboard boxes. SWMBO wanted to do some work so I handed her my Swiss Army Knife with large blade extended. She did some cutting of boxen (easily, as I know the most dangerous knife is a dull one. All my knives are kept SHARP.

Nick, the 3-year-old, reached over and started to grab the blade of the knife.

I don't know how I knew she was going to try to jerk it out of his closed fist, I just did. I seized her wrist and his simultaneously and said "LOOK at what you're about to do!"

She went white and let go of the knife at he same time I sunk a thumb into his arm and made him release his grip.

It's AMAZING what a quick hit of adrenaline can do.

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Dave Balderstone

A safety story (from a 50 year old who has his share of scars but all

Bad things can happen so quickly, and with such good intentions. So you're cool under pressure. Good thing for Nick, eh?

I consider myself lucky that parents had little to do with my upbringing - I'd surely have not survived otherwise. Snakes, critters, tools, electricity, 150 foot trees w/antennas, bikes, cars, and women - all that boy stuff. Only the latter resulted in any permanent injury. Library good - average adult bad. :-o

Greg G.

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Greg G

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Women often wear skirts. When they drop something their conditioned response is to spread their legs and catch it on the skirt. Men do not wear skirts (except in Scotland and Greece) and their conditioned response is to put their legs together to catch it. Any man who has dropped a needle knows why the female strategy is superior.

There is a lesson here somewhere but damned if I know what it is.

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J. Clarke

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You laugh. This is one reason why I am against tax-funded medical treatment--it gives the government an incentive to micromanage our behavior to control expenses. We're already starting to see some of this with seat belt laws and the like.

By keeping them too poor to own one.

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J. Clarke

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:49:57 -0500, the infamous Greg G. scrawled the following:

Right.

Bite your freakin' tongue, Greg. _Never_ give the gov't an excuse to take power or decisions away from you.

Think DARWIN! Survival of the fittest. Let the stupid ones kill themselves off.

-- Seen on a bumper sticker: ARM THE HOMELESS

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Larry Jaques

You have a point. But at the same time I appreciated the mandated _installation_ of seat belts. I used them day one (SCCA exposure), suffered the ridicule of rednecks by wearing them, but it saved me the trouble of having to hunt for adequate metal on which to mount them.

Of course, this wasn't a privately patented device being shoved down my throat by government, and was a fairly inexpensive add-on.

I didn't care for the their mandated _use_, however. Except, perhaps, for children.

That was my first thought too.

Greg G.

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Greg G

tool that can in any way injure.

I suspect that is exactly what the government will do someday. But not until they have over-specified a good safety feature into a $5,000 government kludged mess.

Be careful what you pray for!

RonB

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RonB

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I don't. I spread my feet. It's easier to pick it up off the floor, when there is time to figure out the best strategy. This comes with fifty years experience with a soldering iron. ;-)

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krw

Well, the first lesson that pops to mind is to drop "something" in the lap of the next good looking woman you meet... ;-)

Greg G.

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Greg G

Another strike, not sure I can land it however...

I do... ;-)

Greg G.

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Greg G

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Doubtless, you'll see more of it as well, regardless of whether you get government control of medical treatment or not.

Rant mode ON. We live in a "Nanny State" with a bureaucracy that wants to exercise control over every minute aspect of our daily lives and fund their administration of these laws by fines, in the certain knowledge that most of us will break these laws. Increasingly draconian speed limits, workplace legislation, seatbelt laws, helmet laws, smoking laws, - the list is endless. I will never attempt to deny that all of these interferences do save or extend lives. So .........??? They have the right to define that for us because ...........??? Why not then take it to it's logical extension and ban everybody from getting out of bed in the morning. That will stop the road toll overnight. Stop workplace injuries and deaths, stop us from polluting the environment by burning fuel. No, they wouldn't do that, no revenue in it for the thieving bastards. We are legislating for mediocrity, the great Aussie tradition of ''ave a go, mate, " is now no longer acceptable. Someone might get hurt. Can't have that. Years back, when I started my earthmoving business, I would load up my

40 ton bulldozer on the float, and head off into the outback by myself, for three to four weeks at a time, often illegally transporting my machine at night between job locations. mainly digging gravel pits for road surfacing for outback shires. Sometimes 200 miles from human habitation.I slept under the stars in a swag, ate tinned food or game that I shot, and had 88 gallons of fresh water to last me for up to 4 weeks. If I injured myself and couldn't drive out, then I would almost certainly die. No phone, no contact with the outside world. Breaking lots of laws, but evryone turned a blind eye in those days, otherwise the job wouldn't get done. Them's the risks. I worked whatever hours I wanted, (Generally 18 hrs/day, on odd occasions, 36 hrs straight.) I had a ball, made a lot of money, got the job done and everyone was happy. Today, no-one is permitted to do that. I would need two escort vehicles, mobile accommodation, long distance comms, permits for everything imaginable, only move the machine in daylight, and work no longer than 14 hours in a day for a maximum of 13 days straight. - the list is endless. Those Shires would now be legally responsible to ensure that I complied with the regs.

Rant mode off.

I just poured a large Bundy Rum. Drank it. I feel better now : )

diggerop

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diggerop

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