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Well I did it again!

About 3 years ago I lost half of my first finger of my right hand to a table saw. Now that same saw got me again last week.
I had a piece of plywood jamb between the fence and the blade. It kicked back hitting the middle finger of my right hand, six stitches later all is well.

My doctors with his dry sence of humor said that if I had the other finger I would have realy gotten hurt!

This 5hp 12" Rockwell is trying to kill me!
 
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You are really lucky Bob.
Although I've never seen one, I'm sure I read about a device that makes a table saw very safe? I think they used a sausage or something and they couldn't cut through it without stopping the blade?
Be safe.
 
http://www.sawstop.com/


My best friend is a high school Ag teacher, and he just bought one of these for his school shop.
 
OMG Bob, I am so glad you OK! Thank goodness it wasn't worse. I have been working with the table saw for 2 days now and I swear, it scare me to death[:(] I had a peice of wood shoot back at me today but LOML taught me to stand to the side so I wasn't hurt. Anyway, like I said before, real glad you OK!
 
The sawstop is a great invention.
Our High School shop just got one and it works! Just don't try to cut plastic mirror, it will fire the break!

Accualy I do stand to the side of the saw. This plywood road up on the blade and pivoted against the fence and the corner flew back and got my finger. I was no where the saw blade, go figure.
 
Take care of yourself. Sorry to hear of the accidents. I grew up using saws without blade guards and riving knives, but have adjusted my thinking in the last 10 years. I take the guard off often for special cuts, but 99% of the time I leave the riving knife on and it sure stops the kickbacks.

One of the reasons for not using the safety features is the difficulty in taking them on and off. A friend of mine makes "quick on and off" guards and sells quite a bit. The blade guards can be taken off in less than 10 seconds and replaced in the same amount of time. This post is not to sell his products but to say that the reason he started making the quick on and off guards was because of the difficulty of useing (removing and replacing) factory guards is self defeating in its cumbersomeness.
 
If it makes you feel any better, I took off the tip of my finger tonight myself. Mine was such a dumb move too, I was holding my 1" skew in my left hand and with my right hand I wiped off some woodchips off my left arm. Yea, you guessed it, just like a guillotine it scalped off a big old chunk that is bleeding thru half my jump kit here at home! My luck that I just put a new handle on it so it was freshly reground, honed and I made one sweeping pass on a 14" lathe handle to clean it up after the gouge when I did this.

FYI.. the sawstop. Good idea, but the politics behind the inventor trying to make them mandatory on all saws yet hold ownership of the design is pretty sleazy. It's like trying to use the safety factor to wipe out your compitition not by having a saw that everyone wants, but by the goverment saying you can't have a saw without it. Look into how expensive it is when that dang thing goes off!! Awesome if it just saved your finger, sucks ig time when it was cuttting some wet wood![:(!]
 
speaking as someone that lost the end of their pinky in the last few months, I can sympathize. I just had the surgery last week to remove the small amount of nail that was left due to it being nothing more than a PITA.
 
Bob, I'm glad it wasn't worse! As many are finding, or have found out, our equipment can be very dangerous and deserves the utmost respect. My table saw scares me more than my Harley, and I'm nearly terrified everytime I throw my leg across it. [;)]
 
Originally posted by Firefyter-emt
<br />If it makes you feel any better, I took off the tip of my finger tonight myself. Mine was such a dumb move too, I was holding my 1" skew in my left hand and with my right hand I wiped off some woodchips off my left arm. Yea, you guessed it, just like a guillotine it scalped off a big old chunk that is bleeding thru half my jump kit here at home! My luck that I just put a new handle on it so it was freshly reground, honed and I made one sweeping pass on a 14" lathe handle to clean it up after the gouge when I did this.

WOW! I hope all is well like no stiches and you can still work. I heard a story that a man knocked a large sharp framing chisel off a work bench and it took his toe off right through his sneaker. The damdist things happen don't they. And no by the way.

You know I have worked with a table saw for literly 45 years and I do respect them. I'm scared to death of a radial arm saw though.
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