There was blood - safety

[Joel A. Jones]

David

Your comment about learning power tool safety by the seat of our pants 
resonated with me.
While I still have all my fingers etc. I ponder each time I pull the 
trigger if I really know where
I can steer the tool or where IT may lead me.

Since I don't use power saws, routers, etc on a regular basis I wonder 
if you, or the list,
would have some sources that would emphasize safety in a effective 
format?   There
must be somewhere that a hobby type tool user can see proper use with 
some
mentoring on warning that 'you are not in trouble, STOP'  !!!!

Being an avid viewer of HGTV I get the message of safety glasses, ear 
protection, dust
masks, and other safety protection.   However, it doesn't help seeing 
the screaming blade
of the table saw with no guard cutting a 4x8 sheet of plywood.

What I may be asking is not only the safe operation, but maybe more 
importantly the
safe set-up for using these common power tools.

Joel Jones, RPT
Madison, WI

On Aug 6, 2008, at 10:13 AM, David Love wrote:

> I'm not sure that the Bolduc blade is any more dangerous than many of 
> the
> other tools we use: power planers, hand held routers and grinders, band
> saws, chop saws, table saws.  All of them are capable of doing serious
> damage.  Safety procedures are easy to ignore, especially since most 
> of us
> learned by the seat of our pants and weren't trained with formal safety
> protocols.  Heavy leather gloves, a leather apron, safety goggles, dust
> mask, where not to stand, what to push things through the saw with are 
> easy
> to ignore when we start thinking production over safety.  Ed's accident
> should serve as a wakeup call to how we go about our work but it 
> shouldn't
> scare us away from using tools that carry some inherent danger if 
> mishandled
> but help us do a better job.
>
> David Love
> davidlovepianos at comcast.net
> www.davidlovepianos.com
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