I'm always VERY carefull when using the tablesaw, as I know a few 8 and 9 fingered carpenters, its doesn't freak me out or anything, but after seeing the end results on someone that had been a carpenter for over 30 years when it happened......
you start to respect what it CAN do.
Industrial sized lathes, as in 3 meters plus between centers, do NOT stop for anything, I don't mind working on a lathe, as long as everyone else stays away.
Had a guy on a previous job that tried squeezing his fat *** between me and the tooling cabinet, nearly pushing me in a running lathe. As in my chest was
4 inches from the workpiece.
Servicing the Shredders and Balers we build at work, doesn't really intimidate me, again it's more the idiots that walk/ride around 'm that make me cautious.
When we test the finished shredders, the guys will usually look for the biggest piece of wood they can find, and toss up into the feed end.
Ever see a foot wide by 5 inches thick piece of beam of about 4 feet long get turned into dust and small chips in under 5 seconds ??
A lot of times at customers I see al of the safety features disconnected or bridged, including emergency stops and safety guard lockouts removed.
Not really a reassuring thing when your working INSIDE something that compacts stuff with 180 tons of pressure
Several people a year die that way, usually trying to kick something that's stuck in the chute down into the baler / shredder, losing their grip/balance and going in after it. Off course they did leave the system running when doing that, cause we don,t wanna slow down production do we ?
2 Years ago I was doing some work at a plant that was building a system expansion at the same time, so there's a load of guys from another company using magnet drills (the big ones) to drill holes in the structural steel supports and roof beams of the Huge metal building, to bolt some new conveyors and catwalks to.
There where only a few points in that place where you had power, so its extension cords galore, and all of a sudden it's a mighty loud racket, and my welder stops working.
Turns out the plants safety manager
with al of his 25ish years of wisdom, thought al the extension cords coming from the central power hub, where a tripping hazard, so he just unplugged them al
Just imagine close to 25 magnet drills falling from 10 to 30 meters, and bouncing of machines and concrete below. luckily no one below was hurt.
About 5 minutes later, his feelings where though
, cause there's about 70 to 80 pissed off guys ready to....... express there feelings ...
