2 x 4 Rocket

63spyder · Nov 7, 2009

i had a kick back that put a 1x1 6inches into a bag of mortar mix that was sitting 10 feet behind the saw. i worked at a cabinet shop where one of the guys working on a 12inch tablesaw had a kick back that punched a hole 10 feet up through a 1/2 piece of plywood wall cladding 20 feet away we had a safety meeting on that on. nee

dless to say i always keep my hips to the side.

Transit · Nov 7, 2009

Willl said:
Did the saw come with 'anti-kickback pawls' ?

Being a wood worker too I can relate to many of the stories. Sears has, had a book on using power tools Cat # 9-2918.

Table Saw Techniques by Roger W. Cliffe
Radial Arm Saw Techniques by Roger W. Cliffe
Master Woodworking Machines by Mark Duginske
I have another book that I cant find now about making jigs for safety and special operations.

Let me say a few words about the post and photo posted by Will.

First that blade is dangerous! There are newer blades that have a tooth that limits the depth that each tooth may make so that the blade is not over feed.
Second. The blade is not all steel, the teeth are carbide and welded to the blade body, meaning that they may fly off at any time.

Now for my story;

I don't like sawdust blowing up in my face, so I bought a face shield, about $30. The first time I use it, it gets dinged by a throng tooth from the carbide blade, $#@&((^^ ruined. Dinged in front of my right eye, )*^$@#!@(? 30 bucks blown. After I cooled down, hay, that was my eye!

Redneck in training · Nov 7, 2009

Saws are dangerous. My brother is a professional cabinetmaker. Once I visited him in the small company he used to co-own and looked at the guys there. Each of them including my brother had missing part of at least of one finger.
Just recently my SIL was cutting something on a table saw and cut his hand. Bone in his thumb was cut trough and middle finger was cut about 3/4" deep parallel to the bone just missing the bone. It took the surgeon three hours to put his hand back together.

The Haymaker · Nov 8, 2009

Heh, when we were building the house I had cut a bunch of 2'x2' plywood panels on a table saw. I was zipping right along, letting the panels fall on the ground behind the saw where I would bring them around and cut the other side.

When I came to the last panel, instead of letting it drop I brought it back to me, accidentally..... no..... stupidly, dragging it across the blade. Before I could even register what was happening, a corner of the ballistic balsa hit me HARD in the hip, right at the spot I had broken my femoral neck a few years prior. My leg actually went numb below the point of impact. Because of the prior injury, I was almost wishing it had struck 2" to the right! Doh!

And then there was the time I was feeding a small piece through the radial arm saw from the wrong end, thinking "I shouldn't be doing this" the whole time. Schwing! After it glanced off the side of my thumb, it dented the furnace 5' behind me. Thumb hurt like **** for quite a while, and I now have a bump at the point it hit. I'm assuming I cracked or chipped the bone. Whoops again.

etcallhome · Nov 8, 2009

Glad to hear you will be OK .When building our house I needed a small shim for under the front door.
Since I couldn't find what I needed I decided to rip a piece of Plywood (of course no safety items on saw
To make a long story short I still have the scars both 1/2" to 3/4" long on my left hand where piece of plywood went in web part of hand between thumb and index finger and came out between index and middle finger. I couldn't pull the piece out myself , all alone but thankfully Wifes grandfather drove up the road ,I stopped him and after 5 min or so He pulled the 12" to 15" piece out
I NOW ALWAYS STAND TO SIDE OF PIECE BEING RIPPED OR CUT. and try never to remove the safety items to prevent a Kick Back

Transit · Nov 9, 2009

Table saws, radial saws, don't forget 7 inch circular saws too. Lots of people hold the blade guard open or brace a 2 x across their upper leg and cut their leg. Dull blades are dangerous, for some blinking is a dangerous thing to do.

deereboy72 · Nov 10, 2009

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Cat_Driver · Nov 10, 2009

Worst bruise I ever had came from a kickback on a 3/4 sheet of ply wood.

That whole sheet kicked back and darn near cut me in half. I had a bruise 3/4" thick and across my whole gut that turned black and blue for three weeks.

That was the last time I used that machine and it will be a cold day before I fire that saw up again.

Shirleyshusband · Nov 11, 2009

Glad you're only bruised!

We have a 16" table saw in the shop. About 20 years ago I was ripping a 16' 2 x 4. It caught on the last two feet and flew back over 30' in the air before it hit a wire fence. Yep, I was standing to the side!

About 15 years ago, I was setting up our 20" planer. I measured the thickness wrong and had the blades set too HIGH. I pushed in a 4' 1 x 8 and before I knew what happend I was on the floor looking up. The board had kicked back, hit me square in the hip and put me down. That hurt for awhile...