OT Safety Guards - longish

Am currently planing a hundred pieces of three inch thick oak, as I'm sure
we've
all done at some point in our lives. I'm using a bench jointer that has a
safety
guard positioned over the jolly sharp and fast spinning blade. This is to
prevent a
lump of wood being knocked up into your face. Trouble is,this means you have
to
pass the wood the guard, over the blade and then pass it back around under
the guard.

After the first 50 pieces of oak I was getting pissed off with this and
removed
the guard so i could just keep skimming the wood back and forth. Like you
do. All
went well until piece 82 which caught on the blade as I moved it back across
and
promptly launched itself upwards at a surprising pace for something so
heavy.

Fortunately, being not entirely stupid, i was wearing a respirator thing
with a
face guard but the resultant smack in face still constituted what can only
be
called a fair old whack.

Having failed in its intial attempt to kill me, the lump of wood than
adopted a different tatic and smacked into my collection of jam jars screwed
under shelves. It shattered several of them causing shards of glass and
hundreds of screws to drop into the still whirling jointer blades.

Suddenly the air was full of shrapel reminiscent of when i was pinned down
in a foxhole in 'Nam, For good measure the lump of wood somehow managed to
fall back onto the blade and this time to cannoned off the wall and into the
unprotected back of my head.

Safety guards. There for a reason.

 

No but I have just been hit on the head twice with a big fucking lump of
oak.

 

LMAO!!

You silly fucker! ;-)
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What sprung to mind reading this was Harry Enfield's "Now I don't
believe you wanted to do that" character standing in one corner of the
garage looking somewhat smug.

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flash wrote

As are recommendations regarding maximum line lengths in usenet
postings.

 

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "flash" <> saying
something like:

Snip 'nam mayhem (tot'nam?)

Filly sucker.
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No, but a Daft Injuries Above And Beyond The Call of Duty number 30 is
duly awarded.

 

Anyone with such a flagrant disregard for safety devices wouldn't give
a fig for your recommendations.

This man laughs[1] in the face of danger.



[1] For "Ow! Ouch! Ow!" values of laughter, mind.

 

Health and safety, don'tcha just love it...?