That's a pretty impressive vacuum pump. I would have never guessed in a million years that you were using an old B&S engine for that.
I didn't mention before but seeing all of the sawdust brought to mind a respirator, and I did see on the video, that you had one on. I'm glad to see that. And with that I'd like to stress to anyone working around sawdust to always use one. I failed to do so one time, and it resulted in me going through test after test, only to be told I had lung cancer. I was cutting some MDF without a mask, in an enclosed garage. After I was done, I opened the door and took the leaf blower to blow out what I couldn't get swept up. That resulted in me having a terrible cough a few days later, which sent me to the hospital for x-rays, which then sent me for a bronchoscopy, PET Scans, CT Scans, only to be told I had a massive tumor on my upper right lobe. Nine agonizing months of test, and thinking I had lung cancer. Luckily I talked the doc out of operating, and talked him into a needle biopsy fist, of which before they do it, they have to take another CT Scan at the time. all of this time they had been seeing a lung infection of which it was a result of me being a ******* and not wearing a respirator. So to anyone.....PLEASE wear a respirator, even if you don't generate a lot of sawdust. My dust pile was only a one dustpan pile, but the dust from the MDF kicked my ***.
Now on the other hand Brian, I went and looked at all of your pics on your website. Absolutely, truly, amazing, fantastic work. For ones that haven't looked at it, take a peek or three at it. Very nice work indeed. Especially a lot of the work that you did for what I assume was the church. Just fantastic is all I can say.
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