Let's hear safety reminder stories.

joe9knives

joe9knives

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:eek: I was just sanding a folder on my belt sander when I had a brief lapse in attention. The knife shot straight into the meaty part of my palm and got stuck. My kneejeck reaction was to shake my hand and when I did the knife stuck point down in the plywood floor of my shop!:( I just thought we could share some shop stories to remind ourselves about safety. Especially us new guys.
 
indian george said:
Wash your hand before going to the bathroom, especially after making HT'g Relish.:eek: ;) :D
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.... something about playing with fire and getting burnt there IG

mind slip up now and then had me a buffer gun 2 times after changing the under shorts and stopping the shaking i got back to work
 
Rigged a jigsaw upside down in a clamp (my bandsaw went out) and chewed up my middle finger. Had to go to the ER and have fingernail chips dug out of the nailbed......:eek:
 
Black steel can still be very hot :eek: Keep you steel organized so you dont burn youself.
Never leave anything pointy in a vice either........
 
Never, never,never leave a blade in a vice....dropped a file...bent over to pick it up...stabbed myself in the head. just damn!!! Felt sooooo stupid.
 
Properly store your chemicals, and in general keep your work area as clean as possible. A bottle of plumb brown solution tipped over unnoticed on one of my benches, really chewed up three blades in different stages of work, one of them cable damascus.

Todd
 
I had two fires at my shop, after, Ray Richards shop burned down.

After the fire at Raymonds, I went over my shop, looking to eliminate any possilble fire hazards.
I took a real good look, which turned out not to be good enough, because, I had two fires start after the clean up, both, as a result of flying flux. Damn that Damascus!:eek:
One started when a chunk of molten flux flew from the air hammer, across the room [14'], elevated [5'] and landed atop a well used stiched buffing wheel that was hanging on the wall.
The other, the flux left the hammer, sailed across the room and landed on a plywood surface saturated with old quenching oil.
The first fire, in the buffs, I found the next day; a two foot hole in the stud wall.
The second fire; I had forgotten something in the forge and discovered the fire burning up the side of my chemicals cabinet.
These days, when I look around the shop for possible hazzards, I don't assume anything. I guess close calls do that.


Work safe, Fred
 
Dont use a glass jar for the ferric cloride. I dropped a blade in and the bottom broke out. It took hours to clean and neutralize everything it soaked. Lost a good jacket over that one. I now a pvc pipe.
 
Always use a push stick when working with a band saw, I didn't and when the workpiece jumped and my finger slipped I sawed straight through the nail and finger, luckily it was along the bone and not through it.

That was 3+ years ago and when it rains it still hurts like hell.

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T. Erdelyi said:
Always use a push stick when working with a band saw, I didn't and when the workpiece jumped and my finger slipped I sawed straight through the nail and finger, luckily it was along the bone and not through it.

That was 3+ years ago and when it rains it still hurts like hell.

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Filet of finger anyone?
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Did you guys just hear a SNAP! Oh don't worry...that was just my BUNS PUCKERING...GEEEEESH!
 
well a fue years ago i was working on a dump truck (1960). you had to have a tetness shot just to look at it. any way the bed was full of gravel and i went to dump it in a pot hole that was filled with water. I ingaged the hrdrolic pump and the bed went up about 3-4 inches then stoped. I got out of the truck and wend to check the pump because we where having problems with the linkage to the pump. i went to the side of the truck to check the pump that was unded the bed. but i could not see anything thing because there was a big puddle under the truck. so i put my hand on the bed to support myself while i leaned forward to check the pump. i found the pump and tryed ingaging it with my hand the next thing the bed droped. My hand that i was using to support my self was under the bed and i did not even even notice till the bed droped. it was just my finger tips up to the first joint. my hand was throping with pain and flat as a pice of paper. i could not get my hand out, i had to reach back under the truck and find the pump and ingage it so the beed would lift off my hand. lets just say im very lucky to still have my hand after having 8-10 yards of gravel siting on my hand. I think back and it was the kind of pain where you think to your self " How can i live it hirts so bad, just put me out of my missury". The moral of the story is keep you hands away from hevy stuff that can fall on them
 
Never attempt to fry bacon naked! :D


Ok, howzabout a serious one? Even though I can't seem to get my dumb ass to do it, ALWAYS clamp down blades when drilling them. Twirlybirds are no fun.
 
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