My garage helper
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autoclassicnut
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While I appreciate your intent on getting them started early in life...
I don't think I'd want my little one standing on the top of a step stool to drill holes....Wow! As some of the gruesome posts on this site have shown, the drill press is one of the most hurtful things in your shop as things can grab and happen quickly. (Just my 2 cents)
I don't think I'd want my little one standing on the top of a step stool to drill holes....Wow! As some of the gruesome posts on this site have shown, the drill press is one of the most hurtful things in your shop as things can grab and happen quickly. (Just my 2 cents)
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Big N8
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I don't think he just lets him role and drill holes by himself.
Kids and power tools are a good mix with full supervision. Better they learn the right way rather then from there friends.
Kids and power tools are a good mix with full supervision. Better they learn the right way rather then from there friends.
bluesman2a
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Good on you... Thumbs up for proper supervision.
Great watching for the nay-sayers...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/gever_tulley_on_5_dangerous_things_for_kids.html
Great watching for the nay-sayers...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/gever_tulley_on_5_dangerous_things_for_kids.html
babzog
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That's awesome! He'll be making parts for his own go-cart before you know it!
ddawg16
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Brings a tear to my eye.
ironheadtom
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It ain't a drill press it's a mill. Thumbs up to the Op that took this pic. I gave my kids whiskey and let them smoke cigarettes and drive the forklift when they were 5.
dipper
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lol.
Great pic. I can't seem to do anything around the house without my 3.5 year old wanting to help. I was fixing the bathroom sink drain a few weeks ago and he's up there with me with his safety glasses and plastic screwdrivers and wrenches helping out. He get's out to the garage with me at least once a week to play and help Daddy.
It is only going to get worse for my wife as our 2nd boy just turned 1 a few months ago, and soon he too will get acclimated to the "garage life".
Better to start em young and teach em right.
bimmer1980
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I think it's great that you're teaching him how to machine stuff. The goggles are great!
I do agree that perhaps a more stable "height elevator" than a stool would be better.......
Just make sure he know how to stop the machine if there is a problem and that he knows not to turn it on unless you say he can....
Othere than that, great work! keep him interested and away from the TV. talk about a valuble time with your son!!!!!!
I do agree that perhaps a more stable "height elevator" than a stool would be better.......
Just make sure he know how to stop the machine if there is a problem and that he knows not to turn it on unless you say he can....
Othere than that, great work! keep him interested and away from the TV. talk about a valuble time with your son!!!!!!
nolatoolguy
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Thats ausome, reminds me a bit of me exept i dont know if i hade saftey glasses. Hes great to have a good dad like you to teach him and supervise him with hands on prjects.
kizer
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Heres mine checking the tires.
At the time he was only 2 years old. When he was 3 he grabed a hammer and wacked my new discs I installed and made my teeth rattle because I was trying to tighten the bolt on the caliper which is right behind the disc.
Hes 4 now and he always asks if we can go out in the garage and take something apart.
As for the comments on the OP's picture. If hes anything like me he would be standing right behind the kid while drilling holes.
At the time he was only 2 years old. When he was 3 he grabed a hammer and wacked my new discs I installed and made my teeth rattle because I was trying to tighten the bolt on the caliper which is right behind the disc.
Hes 4 now and he always asks if we can go out in the garage and take something apart.
As for the comments on the OP's picture. If hes anything like me he would be standing right behind the kid while drilling holes.
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Rudyjr
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Great picture! Reminds me of years ago when a good friends little boy used to visit us at the body shop I worked at. We all thought it was really cool how he wanted to "help out". We would let him sand and tap on stuff with a hammer,use ratchets and screwdrivers, to get him used to tools. It was really neat until he took a high spot hammer to the side of an almost new car when we turned our backs. We still laugh about it.
rikmeister
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he will make a good dentist later on.
Do you guys really think he let him run it all by himself? I'm sure dad/grandpa was right behind him making it go smoothly. Something all us dads do with our little ones.
What type of mill is that? I did not know Sony made mills...haha. I know zip about mills/lathes but want to get one for the new shop I'm building. What should I look for/at. I like how it is both a lathe and a press/mill and very compact.
What type of mill is that? I did not know Sony made mills...haha. I know zip about mills/lathes but want to get one for the new shop I'm building. What should I look for/at. I like how it is both a lathe and a press/mill and very compact.
Now I feel like a bad parent. All I have let my two-year-old do is use a screwdriver.
In all seriousness, what have you guys found to work best for eye protection on little heads? I see there is a lot available on the internet but it is hard to judge quality online. I like the idea of goggles instead of safety glasses.
In all seriousness, what have you guys found to work best for eye protection on little heads? I see there is a lot available on the internet but it is hard to judge quality online. I like the idea of goggles instead of safety glasses.
Spareparts
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My twin sons have been in my shop since they could walk and always wanted to help, I tried to take the time and show them to use tools properly and safely. their work bench was on the end of mine only half as high. My father in law gave them a box of lawmower engines and they disassembled them totally, It took a hour to get the grease off. They were 5 . Them memories will last forever. We lost one of our twins when he was 19, 12 yrs ago,but his brother is knowelagable in many areas and independant and a asset to his employer. What else could you ask of your kids.
kizer
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Spareparts that is very sad to hear about your loss and I feel bad just reading it. I belive in teaching my little guy while he is young just so he has an understanding of what can hurt him and how to use a tool properly.
Last night he turned on my bench grinder and I showed him in so many words how it works and what it can do. He said "Owwwwieeeee, that will cut off my finger. I wont touch that." So just showing him how to respect something I'm not as fearful that he will hurt himself. I'm still going to leave it unplugged so he doesn't mess with it.
Last night he turned on my bench grinder and I showed him in so many words how it works and what it can do. He said "Owwwwieeeee, that will cut off my finger. I wont touch that." So just showing him how to respect something I'm not as fearful that he will hurt himself. I'm still going to leave it unplugged so he doesn't mess with it.
rsanter
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now he will be out there hopping up all his hotwheels
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ironheadtom
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I never know how to respond to posts like this because I just don't know what to say other than I'm so sorry .
Mickey O
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Damn it, I was hoping, no, praying it was a monkey. I think you might be violating the child labor laws, have him turn me a few breaker bar extensions.
RLRRLRLL
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when i was younger i helped my dad out alot on his Semi. But now, my neice has been out in the garage with me or out in the yard while i was working on somthing, she was 1 at the time this happend....i was working on my moms old car that dont run anymore..i just tinker with it now and then when im bored..i sat her inside the car while i was under the hood...and what do u know..i look back up shes jumping up and down like crazy and pretending to steer.....she must watch her mom drive alot..haha. But i strongly agree on getting your kids out there to help....come on....a grease gun dont take much to operate..once they are old enuf you can have them grease'n everything...thats what my dad did to me...i hated it hahaha, but then again, i liked it as i was working on somthing.
mooman
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Yes, safety first. Please give the kid something strudy to stand on.
mooman
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Honda doesn't make a truck. Teach the kid right.
Buford T. Justice
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e-tek
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I find that little ones don't really need eye protection. At that age they have VERY fast eye reflexes.
If he can't balance on that stool, then he shouldn't be using a mill! I'm sure he's fine. I left my 6 YO in the shop while I went to a get a beer and he had the radial arm saw running by himself by the time I got back. If you just let them be, they can do it.
babzog
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If he can't balance on that stool, then he shouldn't be using a mill! I'm sure he's fine. I left my 6 YO in the shop while I went to a get a beer and he had the radial arm saw running by himself by the time I got back. If you just let them be, they can do it.
I was looking at my miter saw yesterday and thinking of how my little lad gets into EVERYTHING! I can just see a finger being lopped off when he gets investigating... touch the blade, grab the handle and zowee! A year ago, he was content to play on the tractor... not now. Gonna have to kid-proof the shop for a couple of years.