Kickback (non-political)
January 3rd, 2008 . by CaryIn the interest of full disclosure, and I wasn’t going to show you at first, I must admit that yesterday I pulled a pretty bone-headed stunt.
For those not familiar with the safety rules of a table saw, keep in mind that one of the most important rules is that you have control of the wood on BOTH sides of the blade at all times – meaning the tail side, away from the rip fence (if one is being used) and the stock side (the side between the blade and the fence). Failure to maintain control of both pieces could result in the stock piece either jamming between the blade and the fence, or, in my case, being grabbed by the blade and spun back towards the operator at a very high rate of speed and lethality, also known as “kickback.”
I was not in the correct position for handling the piece I was cutting; if I was the kickback would not have happened. I was using the table saw for a cut that I should have grabbed a circular saw for – and I paid:
Keep in mind this picture was taken well after the oozing and everything had stopped. The shirt I was wearing has a nice high-speed wear pattern on it, too. Oh, and this was a glancing impact, since I wasn’t directly behind the blade.
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Woah, for a second I thought you were low for a homemade cholecystectomy.
Yikes!
Of course, it’s easy to tease you about it now that you’ve fully recovered with your gallbladder intact.
Thought I would have to grab my dictionary for a second.
Nothing lost except my pride and the “days without an accident” record.
Nuts.
This reminds me of what the butcher said concerning his job.
“Liver and loin!”
Glad you came through without a trip to the hospital.
“Liver and loin”? Ooo, that was bad.
Kind of like my last experience with film negatives at the drugstore – say it with me – “Someday my prints will come…”