Originally posted by urban_legend
This is a great invention.
I have a friend who lost three fingers and almost his life in a table saw, to bad it wasn't invented about seven years ago.
This is his hand after the accident....
HOLY #$%@'N ouch!!!! He should do one of those workplace accident commercials on TV.
What I wonder is how that mechanism works if it's cuttingsome boards that may be conductive, or if your hands aren't sweaty/salty.
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Dec-31-2008 03:11
Prometheus Xex
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quote:
Originally posted by urban_legend
Well he was working at a furniture factory cutting wood as a coop student was stacking wood behind him. The stack fell over onto him as he was completing a cut, his face went in first but only his forehead, that ricco'ed out like a piece of wood with a knot in it. However, the wood was still on his back so he put his hand down to push up and put his hand right in the saw. Saw him right after the accident, not pretty, but it changed his life.
Talk about a fucking bad set of circumstances! I guess the impossible is possible under the right conditions.
Easily the invention of the decade in the manufacturing sector.
Dec-31-2008 06:38
DeleteFromUsers
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It's a slick tool for sure. As I remember the inventor wanted to produce a bolt-on solution for previously existing saws, but the mechanism changed the design of the machine so aggressively that it became completely impractical.
My complaint is that a device like the SawStop fosters complacency in the shop. Workers in manufacturing industries face potentially lethal situations hundreds of times per day. The table saw may no longer remove your finger but there are hundreds of other tools which will (or worse).
While there are a lot of guys getting their fingers chopped off by table saws, there are WAY more who enter the shop with their brains functioning and never have a major injury. Eternal vigilance.
Dec-31-2008 14:23
The Ear
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quote:
Originally posted by DeleteFromUsers
It's a slick tool for sure. As I remember the inventor wanted to produce a bolt-on solution for previously existing saws, but the mechanism changed the design of the machine so aggressively that it became completely impractical.
My complaint is that a device like the SawStop fosters complacency in the shop. Workers in manufacturing industries face potentially lethal situations hundreds of times per day. The table saw may no longer remove your finger but there are hundreds of other tools which will (or worse).
While there are a lot of guys getting their fingers chopped off by table saws, there are WAY more who enter the shop with their brains functioning and never have a major injury. Eternal vigilance.
Agreed.
Dec-31-2008 14:29
BuffaloLiz
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quote:
Originally posted by urban_legend
This is a great invention.
I have a friend who lost three fingers and almost his life in a table saw, to bad it wasn't invented about seven years ago.
This is his hand after the accident....
Same thing happened to my uncle. He ended up only having 2 fingers on his left hand in the end.
