Neighbour next door has a small portable table saw, blade cranked all the way up. He is plunging pieces of branches from a tree into the blade from above. *yikes*
I don't want to get hit with flying body parts.
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He must have heard such use was worth about a million and a half...
John
Gee so does mine, guess lack of common sense is universal and international? So far he has all his parts though.
Mark
I'd comment to them, except they barely speak english. Hell I'd even loan them my Dewalt corded reciprocating saw, seems like a safer choice. They have a Cordless B&D Firestorm POS recip, they seem to have stopped using when the table saw came out.
My windows are open, I am sitting inside cringing every time I hear the table saw fire up.
Maybe he has the meat protector installed.
I don't want to get hit with flying body parts.
How about taking some videos? They may be worth some $$ to the saw manufacturer should said idiot sue for defective design or some BS like that. At the least they would be quite interesting to watch via youtube. Art
I wonder if the sawstop folks suggested that approach.
That was my initial thought. Why don't the manufacturers put a bark detector on those things? Irresponsible bastards.
If he ultimately cuts a body part off, he will probably hire a lawyer who will sue the saw manufacturer.
Inadequate warnings in the manual regarding chopping up tree limbs, and limb guard was defective
RonB
If you take videos, then you get hauled in and sued for not showing the diligence due, by giving them sufficient verbal warnings of safety hazards you have observed. Your video would prove you were aware a hazard existed and did nothing.
When you did go over to warn them and they told you to piss off, you would be guilty of not stopping them with a baseball bat, demonstrating the diligence due to stop them with "whatever means necessary".
If no accident occurs you may be guilty of assault with a baseball bat (American style).
I think you were out of town when it happened...weren't you?
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Inadequate warnings in the manual regarding chopping up tree limbs, and limb guard was defective
RonB
------------------------------------- Think I'd at least try.
If they end up hurting themselves and you don't make the effort...............
Lew .
It has gotten worse, they are beyond hope. Ripping 1x4 PT into approx 1x1, one guy in front of the saw feeding, one guy behind who starts pulling the wood through the blade. They are attempting to pinch some wood lathe at the top sections of a fence.
Growing up in the 50's & 60's with a coal furnice .It was amazing I never lost fingers using the saw my mom & I used for cutting kindling wood., It was an arbor on two pillow block mounted under an old peice of table top. I remember one day driving my dad's Model A tractor out of the shed and into the garage and running over the saw. After that I had to use one of those one man cross cut saws that was taller than me. I was age seven. Now that I am in my 60's I've clipped both thumbs on my table saw ,And it has a gard on it. Oh to be seven again. Jerry
Not if I'm on the jury...
Nor would the McDonald's coffee idiot have been awarded. I consider that one close to a Darwin award - that level of stupid is a terminal condition...
John
------------------------------ I'd still try, but that's me.
Lew
Oh to live in the USA. I've got a burn on my arm that I got by reaching up and tipping a cup of coffee off a table. I was only a year old at the time. But, from the all the ridiculous law suits I hear about in the USA, I probably could have sued and have lived on easy street the rest of my life.
...and if you loan them the reciprocating saw and they get hurt...
Sounds like an old Red Green skit.
He threw peices of wood at that saw and they bounced off the spinning saw blade. It made me cringe. It made a metallic ringing sound each time the wood bounced too. It gave me the heebie jeebies.
This is Canada, not the USA, but I don't need to get accused of handing him a different weapon, and lord knows I ain't doing the work for them.
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