Safety issues of wearing gloves when using power tools?

[Swingman]

You bet it is ... leaving me with little patience for coddling the male of the species for any reason. If I'd had any sons, I'd bet that would have wished I'd only had daughters, which I have. ;)

That brought back memories. Raised on a small farm, digging 100' increments of septic tank field lines was one of the punishments for my getting into (frequent) trouble.

The other of Dad's "favorite" punishments, if it didn't warrant the immediate laying on of a leather strap (or perhaps, and depending upon the severity of the offense, in addition thereto), was digging post holes (there were no gas operated post hole diggers in those days!) for so many feet of fence.

This was in addition to feeding and haying twice a day (250 +/- rabbits, a feed lot calf or two, 10 or so horses, the chickens, ducks and geese, and various other critters), keeping two 1/2 acre gardens up to ideal, maintaining the grass and flower beds on the 2 1/2 acres around the house, and the never ending, daily mucking out of stalls ... all being just every day stuff that was expected to "earn your keep".

In this day and age, the kid's themselves would call CPS! ;)

[Mike Richardson]

Second that - especially when metalworking in welding gloves - not as much feel, you tend to rub up against the wheel too often, and as in kickback - when it grabs - it all happens very quickly.

No gloves for me..

8.9.10. phew.

Mike Brisbane Aus.

[Mike Richardson]

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Years ago, I was helping edit a book for a major publisher: the photo they had of someone using a circular saw (Skil saw type) was of someone wearing one of those huge, cuffed gloves that are useful handling materials on oil rigs and nowhere else. They actually argued that it was SAFER that way, until I pointed out something that doesn't apply to most of today's work gloves: the leather palms let things slip very easily. Today, the immensely strong and durable fabrics are the problem. If your glove gets snatched or grabbed, and you've got that wrist strap secured (as it should be to keep it from getting caught), then your hand is going with that glove into whatever did the catching, be it shaper, jointer, drill press, table saw or whatever.

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SHUDDER

Use gloves for handling material. Operate machinery without gloves. That includes feeding material into tools such as planers.

AGREED

[Swingman]

While I'm used to seeing it in the Sears Craftsman catalog these past few years since the advent of the dufus era, was surprised to see the picture in April 07 FWW, in the article on corner miter joinery, of a glove on the feeding hand at the table saw with the caption encouraging it.

The dufus era is rapidly reaching its pinnacle.

[Robatoy]

What do you want to bet that it is a directive from the Taunton legal department?

who's cynical now, eh?

(didn't make it to Dave Eisan's yesterday... I was bach-ing it and got downright lazy. Started to shine up the bikes so we can peddle our winter-fattened butts out to the park for some freedom fries.)

Glorious weather. 70 blue skies, no wind.

[Morris Dovey]

| (didn't make it to Dave Eisan's yesterday... I was bach-ing it and | got downright lazy. Started to shine up the bikes so we can peddle | our winter-fattened butts out to the park for some freedom fries.)

Did you shine the Handel bars, too? 8-)

-- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA

[Robatoy]

I'm stumped. Still laughing... but stumped.

I have no polish to shine with, so I'll put it on my chopin liszt.

I practically became un-Ravel-led at the thought that there weren't any bicycle related puns coming to me... the word GerSchwinn 'spoke' to me...PachaBel was too much of stretch... so I'm stumped.

r

[Mike]

Maybe. I'm about to roll to 48, and in shop at school I learned about the risks of loose clothing, jewellery, watches, neckties, gloves, etc in relation to power tools.

Teaching of shop declined seriously in the intervening years, to the point that kids are graduating high school without knowing how to do things I (and you) take for granted.

Most of them can't even make a watering can from a tomato juice can and some sheet metal using snips, a brake, and a REAL soldering iron (the kind that needs a torch).

[Charlie Self]

I'm not sure how wearing gloves with power machinery gets crossed up with anything Margaret Thatcher did in Britain, but you can rest assured, this is a trend in the U.S., too, and has absolutely nothing to do with the federal government. Local school districts have been closing down woodworking and metalworking programs at a hot pace for a couple decades now. Very little remains, and this used to be one of the biggest furniture building areas in the world.

[Morris Dovey]

| I have no polish to shine with, so I'll put it on my chopin liszt. | | I practically became un-Ravel-led at the thought that there weren't | any bicycle related puns coming to me... | the word GerSchwinn 'spoke' to me...PachaBel was too much of | stretch... so I'm stumped.

Hmm. I got to thinking about alternative-energy biking and somehow ended up pondering paisley sails, Rose-Marie, and tires (gRacing Slick's, because "the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all"). Considered punning down the road to Windslow, AZ - but got detoured onto the B5 and rOde to Joy instead - and that /really/ upset Rose-Marie...

...then I woke up and decided that too much coffee before bed wasn't a good idea.

I like "GerSchwinn" :-)

-- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA

[George]

I'm not sure how wearing gloves with power machinery gets crossed up with anything Margaret Thatcher did in Britain, but you can rest assured, this is a trend in the U.S., too, and has absolutely nothing to do with the federal government.

Are you sure? What percentage lawyers, and a current one hoping to crow atop the congressional dungheap with an interesting background.

Of course it would be easier on the poor IA teachers around all that dangerous equipment if they could throw the bums out, instead of giving them continuous attention out of fear they will hurt themselves or others, prompting a lawsuit.

[Charlie Self]

Oh, for Christ's sake. This is a thread about safety. Save the political bullshit for campaigns.

[Father Haskell]

Front end of the blade cuts. Back end pulls things in, with potentially violent force. Perform the same experiment, but with the back end of the blade.

[Chris Friesen]

I'm 31. I didn't take shop in school, so I don't know what they taught...but I assume they still cover this. I did make a bent-shaft paddle in the school shop over noon hours after showing the shop teacher that I knew what I was doing around the tools.

I've never done anything like that but I've done electronics soldering and torch pipe-sweating so I'm fairly sure I could figure it out if I had to.

Chris

[Brian]

Leave the gloves for handling firewood. Re- read the safety rules for your equipment. I'm pretty sure that somewhere in there along with no loose clothing, jewelry, watches or ties, it also states no gloves! these rules are written for one reason: To protect you! (Also, if they protect you, they also cover their own butts against lawsuits from people foolish enough to wear loose items around moving equipment. Brian

[Bill in Detroit]

Putting safety first means being able to count to ten without undressing.

When I worked in a one-man maintenance department, the 'safety inspector' would try to put a dime between the grinding wheel and the rest. If he succeeded, I got written up.

The other plants got written up so often they removed the rests. ;-))))

Bill