Mower saftey switches

footfootfoot · 07-27-2005, 10:24 PM

Bruce that sounds like a great saw. I'm another one in favor of paying attention and developing safe work habits over letting some guard catch me off my guard. (was that as tortured as it seemed?)

I even hate child proof caps. I have a toddler (officially lead free now) and I make sure I don't keep dangerous chemicals where he can get at them, capped or not.

From a natural selection standpoint they only weed out the kids smart enough to figure out how to open the things.

Maybe I'll sing a different tune one day, but I'll keep my eye on him for now.

By the way, I picked up a can of charcoal lighter fluid today. On the side of the can was a very flashy picture of a race car. I could give a shit, but guess who went mental and wanted to pick up, carry around, probably try to squirt in his eye, etc? The Bedwe'er. (No, you can't have the can with the car on it, even though you are allowed to play with every other thing that has a car on it.)

WTF are those people thinking? Hey guess what? IT'S LIGHTER FLUID! WTF does that have to do with race cars? Not a whole lot. Why not have a sesame street character on the friggin can?

/rant

Elspode · 07-27-2005, 11:04 PM

Long ago in my youth, I worked in a cabinet shop. We had the occasional injury from air powered staple/nail impalement, router bites on the fingers and table saw incidents, but mostly, it was a realistically safe environment, all things considered. Then OSHA came in.

This was in the mid 70's, before such governemental things got really loopy, but even then, they made us put guards on *everything*. The biggest joke of them all was the tablesaw guard, which essentially made the saw useless, and about ten times as dangerous, since the stock you were feeding through had to push the frigging guard out of the way before it could be cut, and then it had to pass by the mounting rail that the pivoting guard bracket was mounted on. That damned thing caused more bindups of the stock going through than I would have even thought possible...bindups invariably resulting in the stock either being propelled backward into the operator at admirable velocity, or getting sideways altogether and exploding (flakeboard sheets were especially good at this) in a shower of high speed fragments.

The only way to stay safe when working with big saws, table routers, etc is to see the enemy and compare its location with that of your hands. Bruce is 100% correct.

07-27-2005, 10:24 PM	#1
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Bruce that sounds like a great saw. I'm another one in favor of paying attention and developing safe work habits over letting some guard catch me off my guard. (was that as tortured as it seemed?) I even hate child proof caps. I have a toddler (officially lead free now) and I make sure I don't keep dangerous chemicals where he can get at them, capped or not. From a natural selection standpoint they only weed out the kids smart enough to figure out how to open the things. Maybe I'll sing a different tune one day, but I'll keep my eye on him for now. By the way, I picked up a can of charcoal lighter fluid today. On the side of the can was a very flashy picture of a race car. I could give a shit, but guess who went mental and wanted to pick up, carry around, probably try to squirt in his eye, etc? The Bedwe'er. (No, you can't have the can with the car on it, even though you are allowed to play with every other thing that has a car on it.) WTF are those people thinking? Hey guess what? IT'S LIGHTER FLUID! WTF does that have to do with race cars? Not a whole lot. Why not have a sesame street character on the friggin can? /rant __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

07-27-2005, 11:04 PM	#2
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Long ago in my youth, I worked in a cabinet shop. We had the occasional injury from air powered staple/nail impalement, router bites on the fingers and table saw incidents, but mostly, it was a realistically safe environment, all things considered. Then OSHA came in. This was in the mid 70's, before such governemental things got really loopy, but even then, they made us put guards on everything. The biggest joke of them all was the tablesaw guard, which essentially made the saw useless, and about ten times as dangerous, since the stock you were feeding through had to push the frigging guard out of the way before it could be cut, and then it had to pass by the mounting rail that the pivoting guard bracket was mounted on. That damned thing caused more bindups of the stock going through than I would have even thought possible...bindups invariably resulting in the stock either being propelled backward into the operator at admirable velocity, or getting sideways altogether and exploding (flakeboard sheets were especially good at this) in a shower of high speed fragments. The only way to stay safe when working with big saws, table routers, etc is to see the enemy and compare its location with that of your hands. Bruce is 100% correct. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

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