[Crw-talk] Why safety rules exist

[John & Donna Griffiths]

You are lucky you did not get hurt worse.  Band saws are hateful 
machines.  Just like all the other power and hand tools we use to work 
with wood.  Where the cutting edge has to be out in the open I guess 
anything can go wrong.  John

On 12/23/2015 2:44 PM, Dan Erickson wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Safety is always or should always be a concern when working with any 
> tools. One mantra o have always lived by is a dull tool is dangerous. 
> In my case I knew that my band saw blade was extremely dull and had to 
> be replaced. But instead I kept using it. Well last weekend I was 
> cutting a blank of walnut on my bandsaw and because of how dull the 
> blade was it was not tracking straight I was moving the wood to try 
> and keep the cut going as straight as possible. By doing that it 
> placed a large amount of pressure on the left side of the blade right 
> during the very last 1./8" of the cut the blade quickly went through 
> that last little bit and sprung back hitting my left thumb leaving 
> about a 1/2" long cut and plenty of sounding like a sailor. Thankfully 
> I only needed a bandaid for this cut and not something worse. On a 
> side note I was able to use dark humor to tell my family that I 
> literarily bled to make their gifts this year...
>
> Merry Christmas everyone!
>
> Daniel
>
> /Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID/
>
>
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