Close encounter with the table saw.

[Charlie E]

Getting close to the end of a several weeks long project and got careless. Thankfully just a bit of a wake up call.

[Peter N White]

Lucky you don't want any closer than that, glad for you it is not worse.

[Scrappile]

Glad it was not worse!  Been there, done that.  The middle finger on my left hand is about 1/16 of an inch shorter than it used to be.  Does tend to wake you up!  I have to add, my wife hitting me over the head hurt worse than the finger.  I get injured being a fool gets me no sympathy just punishment!

Edited November 16, 2024 by Scrappile

[Charlie E]

2 minutes ago, Scrappile said:

Glad it was not worse!  Been there, done that.  The middle finger on my left hand is about 1/16 of an inch shorter than it used to be.  Does tend to wake you up!

That’s your traffic finger!

[Scrappile]

2 hours ago, Charlie E said:

That’s your traffic finger!

HA! You know me that well... although nowadays I seem to get it more than I get to give it!  Old man driver.

[Scrolling Steve]

Charlie, Ouch!, Sorry that happened , but thanks for posting....I have a lot of respect for my table saw but do get careless every now and then. This is a reminder and wake up call for me to be careful!

[Jim McDonald]

Not to make a pun--

Thanks for the tip!

[barb.j.enders]

Glad it isn't worse.

I have a table saw, but haven't used it in a number of years.  Scares the daylights out of me.

[Phil Royer]

19 hours ago, Scrappile said:

 

I have a table saw, used it a lot and got very comforatable with it. That is the reason I have not used it for a year or so. If I were going to do much on a table saw, and I were about 15 years younger, I would buy a SawStop.

[Bill WIlson]

All things considered, that's probably the best case scenario.  You were fortunate.  Glad it wasn't worse and thanks for the reminder to keep safety at the top of our list in the shop.  All to often we need that reminder more than we realize.

[RabidAlien]

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[OCtoolguy]

On 11/16/2024 at 9:22 AM, Charlie E said:

Getting close to the end of a several weeks long project and got careless. Thankfully just a bit of a wake up call.

I feel your pain. I did it on my table saw to my thumb. At least it wasn't a SawStop and would cost a bunch of money to get back to working. And, I don't ever cut weiners on my saw.

[Fab4]

Hi Charlie:
On April 1, 2024, I got a bit closer than you did
11 stitches worth, because of what day it was
my wife didn't believe me when I went into
the house to get the car keys. Turns out that the
only fool that day was me. To boot it was her birthday too.
Still waiting to get some feeling back at the tip of my thumb
On April 2, 2024 they tell me I have tongue cancer which has
been taken care of. Cut a piece of my tongue out and radiation
treatments.  Still in the healing process with that.
I DON'T LIKE THE MONTH OF APRIL RIGHT NOW....lol
Oh yeah, it did wake me up
Fab4
 

[Charlie E]

1 hour ago, Fab4 said:

Hi Charlie:
On April 1, 2024, I got a bit closer than you did
11 stitches worth, because of what day it was
my wife didn't believe me when I went into
the house to get the car keys. Turns out that the
only fool that day was me. To boot it was her birthday too.
Still waiting to get some feeling back at the tip of my thumb
On April 2, 2024 they tell me I have tongue cancer which has
been taken care of. Cut a piece of my tongue out and radiation
treatments.  Still in the healing process with that.
I DON'T LIKE THE MONTH OF APRIL RIGHT NOW....lol
Oh yeah, it did wake me up
Fab4
 

Oh wow, that’s nasty! Much easier to work around a cut index finger than a thumb. Glad you didn’t lose it. Also great that your cancer is under control! 

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

My tablesaw is probably is and always was the most used tools in my shop outside of my scrollsaws back in the day. Always careful around it. These days my lathe has moved up to the most used tool and that too has its dangers. Need a clear mind when working in a shop. Being tired or not focused is recipe for disaster. Respect for any spinning blade is needed. 

[Fab4]

3 hours ago, JTTHECLOCKMAN said:

My tablesaw is probably is and always was the most used tools in my shop outside of my scrollsaws back in the day. Always careful around it. These days my lathe has moved up to the most used tool and that too has its dangers. Need a clear mind when working in a shop. Being tired or not focused is recipe for disaster. Respect for any spinning blade is needed. 

John:
Now you tell me!!!...LOL
Some things go without saying, but a good reminder once in awhile never hurts either
As they say: In life "IT" happens. The outcome could have been worse.
  

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

6 hours ago, Fab4 said:

John:
Now you tell me!!!...LOL
Some things go without saying, but a good reminder once in awhile never hurts either
As they say: In life "IT" happens. The outcome could have been worse.
  

Oh yea. I fall in the stupid class myself. I was washing the windows in the house about a month ago after I finished washing the outside of the house which needed it this year. Now I have been working on the inside of my house over the past couple years. I am down to the last room which is the living room and then the rooms need all painting. But to make a long story longer, I made a platform that I use to get me higher toward the ceiling for spackling and latter for painting. I had to move this platform to wash the big front Bow window. I thought I moved it out of the way so I would not trip on it. Well my knees are not what they use to be so I can not bend as much and sure enough I tripped over it. My reflexes are not what they use to be either as I fell and hit my head on the edge of a table and opened a huge gash. Well stop everything and trying to get blood to stop I get myself to emergency room to get stitched up. I am lucky I did not knock myself out or else who knows if I would be here writing this. But all the time I kept saying how stupid I was and still today it was stupidity. Things happen and hopefully we survive without too much trauma. All part of life and the older we get we need to be even more careful because reflexes have slowed down for sure. In my case yes it too could have been worse.   

[jerry1939]

I will be 85 in a few weeks. Never did find an intelligent way to hurt myself. It has ALWAYS been preceded by something stupid.

jerry

[Scrappile]

29 minutes ago, jerry1939 said:

I will be 85 in a few weeks. Never did find an intelligent way to hurt myself. It has ALWAYS been preceded by something stupid.

jerry

100% true

[Wichman]

I've been lucky; I've never drawn blood with a running power tool ( knocks on the side of his head ). I've had plenty of close calls. Chipped my little fingernail on a band saw in HS wood shop. I've had two pairs of lucky pants that I hit with a running chainsaw but only a scratch on the skin

My table saw is an old Craftsman 12" blades, 3 HP, and 220v. When I fire it up with a rip blade it screams ( for blood ), really keeps you on your toes. When I was cutting dados for a work project ( up to a hundred pieces at a whack, 1" x 1" dado, no recover of parts if I'd have screwed up ) I would set time or piece limits, reach the limit, stop go have a cup of coffee and then resume. If I got tired, I'd just stop and come back to it the next day. Sometimes I'd deliberately leave a few pieces to complete the next day so that I would not rush or tell myself " just one more cut ". I learned that trick from scroll sawing, after spending several hours on a piece, I would leave a half a dozen or so cuts for the next day so I wouldn't rush the final cuts a screw up all that effort.

[Mabel H.]

I try to make a point of not working on the more vulnerable jobs when alone. 

Learned as an apprentice never hurry to finish, after ruining a days work. 

[Wichman]

11 minutes ago, Mabel H. said:

I try to make a point of not working on the more vulnerable jobs when alone. 

Learned as an apprentice never hurry to finish, after ruining a days work. 

Theirs only the three of us; me, myself, and I. 

[MarieC]

Wow Charlie, so sorry you hurt yourself.  So glad you didn't do more harm.  I use my Table saw very frequently but I also have a Sawstop.  I still am afraid of it so everytime I use it I think much harder before performing a task than I do with most of my other power tools.  The only other one that makes me nervous is the Router table, which I use alot also.  Hope you heal up soon!

[Charlie E]

Thank you. It’s been a week now and it’s still just as sensitive as ever, and I seem to bump it at least a dozen times a day. It has made a big impression on me and I’m sure I’ll be safer because of it.

[wombatie]

Oh Charlie that could have been so much worse just ask my husband.  He took the end of the index finger off to the first joint and damaged the tendons in the middle finger.  There is a pattern in the library that is a reminder to us all I made it for Terry.  "RESPECT YOUR TOOLS", with part of a finger missing.
Hope the pains gone away now.  Love the boxes by the way.

Marg