Table Saw Cutting Strips Kick Back

[John Morris]

NOBODY HARMED, NO BLOOD.

Could of been worse, this guy was standing in the correct position, and using a push block. The only thing is, he may not have been holding

down the strip as well with his block. Hmmm. But kudos for staying safe.

Nother lesson, never walk behind a table saw while in operation!

 

 

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[Larry Buskirk]

Push block wrong side of blade. Should be between blade and fence.

Edited September 5, 2024 by Larry Buskirk

[John Morris]

17 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Push block wrong side of blade. Should be between blade and fence.

I was wondering if he has a double side push block, that rests on the main material and straddles the blade to rest on the strip. But I think you are right. DOH! Hey, I've done worse.

[lew]

I always let the strips fall to the "free" side of the blade. In my case it is to the left of the blade.

[John Morris]

Perhaps he did it on purpose, seems pretty intentional, maybe he's making a video to prove a point.

[John Morris]

The users comment on his own video:

 

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englandmadeit

This is why you never stand directly behind your work piece while using a table saw. I was even using @jessemtoolcompany ClearCut stock guides! A second of blade pinch and instant missle ! #shopsafety

 

[John Morris]

I remember when I worked in the Sea World carpenter maintenance shop in the early 90's, we had a big ol beast 14" 3 ph Delta Table Saw, loved that saw!

I was ripping a 2x6 on it one day, and the front of the board rode up on the blade in slow motion, I knew I was the only in the shop and I knew there was no way in heck I'd be able to hold onto it, so I let go and ran off to the side and that 2x6 by 6' long board danced on top of the blade for about two seconds then finally grabbed and took off behind the saw, and lodged itself in the wall about 16 feet away. What was even more interesting, is we had part of a panel saw sitting behind the table saw, and the board made it right between the horizontal members of the panel saw.

I looked around to see if anyone saw, gathered my pride and went back to work. Showed the boss later the hole int the wall and he laughed, we repaired it.

[Larry Buskirk]

12 hours ago, John Morris said:

I looked around to see if anyone saw

Dah, Oops!!! 

[PeteM]

I was ripping baseboard from 16' blanks, with the help of my brother in law.  I noticed he was standing in the path and I motioned him aside.  Next board, sure enough, went flying down the driveway, across the street, skidded down on the neighbor's landscape, came to rest against their house.  The greatest learning episodes are the ones you survive.

[JWD]

The main thing I would never do in that situation is have the drop between the fence and the blade.  The piece you are working on goes there, the drop goes on the outside.  There are a few exceptions to that general practice, but even those can usually be done another way.

 

I've never been a fan of overconstraining any saw operation.  It's hard to see what is making the cut difficult for him, but easy to see that he's struggling a little to push the work through at the end of the cut.  Probably it's what looks like hold down rollers on the fence?  If nothing else, that struggle changes your focus when operating a saw and makes an eventual accident inevitable.  Staying focused on what you are doing and how it is best done is always the best way to avoid an accident.

[Larry Buskirk]

Took a crotch shot when working at Liberty Coach when a coworker came up and slapped me on the back while ripping a sheet of plywood. 

 

The boss's son saw what happened and fired the guy on the spot. I don't think the coworker thought it was so funny after it cost him his job. 

[Gunny]

18 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Took a crotch shot when working at Liberty Coach when a coworker came up and slapped me on the back while ripping a sheet of plywood. 

 

The boss's son saw what happened and fired the guy on the spot. I don't think the coworker thought it was so funny after it cost him his job. 

 

You are nice guy.  Myself he would have met Fred here.   

 

[JWD]

57 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Took a crotch shot when working at Liberty Coach when a coworker came up and slapped me on the back while ripping a sheet of plywood. 

 

The boss's son saw what happened and fired the guy on the spot. I don't think the coworker thought it was so funny after it cost him his job. 

Guy like that has no business in a shop.  Just common sense to not distract someone using a machine.

If that coworker was smart, he learned a bit about how to behave in the world.  If not, he's probably still polishing that grudge!

[HandyDan]

I've survived a couple kick backs during my endeavors.  I never blamed the saw.

[Gunny]

1 hour ago, HandyDan said:

I've survived a couple kick backs during my endeavors.  I never blamed the saw.

 

Ah a fellow recipient of this award.

 

[John Morris]

4 minutes ago, Gunny said:

Ah a fellow recipient of this award.

I get those daily.

[DAB]

many years ago i bought Rockler's thin rip jig.  you would cut thin strips on the off side of the blade, the jig would allow you to maintain a consistent dimension on that side as you adjusted the fence.  neat idea, worked well.....until i changed my fence to an Incra fence which locks in place every 1/32".  no continuous adjustment like the old fence.  makes for accurate repeated cuts.  but i couldn't use it with the thin rip jig, as the total of the thin rip piece and the kerf did not alway come out to a multiple of 1/32".  so now i'm back to cutting thin strips against the fence.  sigh.....

 

edit:  actually, on reflection, the problem was not the size of the thin rip piece and the kerf, the problem was that the piece being cut from was not always a multiple of 1/32", depending on how wide it was when you started and how much you cut off each time....sorry for any confusion.

Edited September 6, 2024 by DAB
clarification.

[Larry Buskirk]

3 hours ago, Gunny said:

 

You are nice guy.  Myself he would have met Fred here.   

 

 

He was gone by the time I could have done anything about it.

Kind of hard to kick a$$ when you're doubled over and making sounds a few octaves higher than normal. 

[HARO50]

My dad lost part of a finger when some idiot thought it would be funny to toss a chunk of wood onto the shaper he was working at.

[Gerald]

I do thin strips sometimes in a modified against the fence mode. Clamp a block against fence in front of blade. adjust fence so the space between block and blade is width of strip and rip away.