wood planer shenanigans

I was running some wood in my planer and the instructions said not to plane wood less than 14 inches, well 6 inches is almost 14 right? WRONG the planer blades his the wood and shot it at me at like 573992 miles per hour and hit me right on the tip of the thumb, man the thumb must have like 5720210 nerve endings. Half of my thumbnail peeled back like can 'o' tuna lid.

See I'll attach pictures if need be to show off my stupidity, would our president do that?

Please feel sorry for the stupid, I mean me, not bushapanzee

1/2 horsepower could chunk wood that fast

I'm married to a man who shot his hand through with a nail gun, slammed his unmentionables between two pallets, on accident...I could go on. I empathize with your pain. It's what I'm good at. :) :hug:

I know that feeling, the other day in mid DU post I crossed my legs real fast and SQUISHHHHEEEEEEEE, I yelped and it wasn't a very manly yelp.

At least you admitted you did something dumb. Most people (guys especially) would have found some way to blame the machine.

Much as I like power woodworking tools (especially my favorite, the router, grunt, grunt) I still don't trust them. Just as a reminder, I have a sign hanging over my table saw that has a large arrow pointing down and the words "The Whirling Blades of Death" in bright red letters.

But do you want to see something really cool? There's a company that makes tables saws that sense when theyhit flesh instead of wood and stop the blade SO FAST that you can only get a nick at the worst.

There's an astonishing video (using a hot dog, not a finger) at http://www.sawstop.com

Redstone

they want to make that safety feature industry standard. I love my router also but when I'm using it in a router table all I can think of is a bit spinning at like a gazillion rpms ready to take meat down to the bone. Damn a router bit has no sympathy for us does it.

of the machines are the types you can crawl inside, which makes me nervous. One of the machines his company purchased had killed someone. And I guess it was law that they had to tell the purchaser and also provided pictures. I was happy it was not a machine my husband works on.

crawl in any machine with a blade in it, well unless there was like Mrs Baird's Cinnamon buns on the other end.

hi! :hi:

:hi:

mazak lathe...
and i program fanuc and g&l controls.
fanuc controls are really the industry standard.

i used to work construction, and i am SEVERELY mechanically declined. i'm glad i got out of it without too many scars :D

till all the meat died now it just sorta throbs, not in a sex way either. Funny, out of all the big targets the flying wood had it chose the tip of my thumb. All this pain to make pens:

www.classicpens.net

:7 :thumbsup:

just setting up my website for them now. I'm trying to buy some more of that snakewood, it's beautiful but a bear to work with

:evilgrin:

there is a picture of the one I did my nephew on the website under Havana rollerball. Ironwood is hell to drill but I can do it.

:yourock:

I'm one of those Renaissance men, I learn a little bit about everything, that way I actually know nothing.

:D

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