Last night on my 35th board it finally happen!
I wasn’t paying attention like i should, then it was like someone slapped my hand. I look down and I just nicked it. That was enongh to mess it up.
here is a pic of what happens when you cut yourself with a planer.(clark planer)
yes it is my finger
That’s not your finger!!!
Did you put blood on the board? Glass over it?
Good conversation starter…
chino
noooo chinooooooo! this happened to me on my first board. still don’t remember quite what i did but it hurt worse than anything i’ve ever felt before…and the blood. no stiches though and it was fine in a few weeks. i took a picture of mine the next day…i’ll have to find it…it doesn’t look nearly as bad as yours though ;). hope it’s alright.
That happened to me on the first board I shaped with a planer except I smacked the bottom of the planer with all four fingers…25 years later and havent done that again (knock on wood)…one learn really good from those mistakes. Hope yours heals pretty quick.
That’s not your finger!!!
Did you put blood on the board? Glass over it?
Good conversation starter…
yes it is my finger, really!
The blank is ok!
The blank is ok!
well, that’s the important thing!
but, seriously, ouch!
That’s one of the few things in shaping that I haven’t done. But I’ve been close. While in a concentrated shaping mode at Hansens’, I was holding the Skil in my left hand and swept the foam dust off the tail, and felt the wind from the still rapidly turning blades across the back of my right hand! It freaked me out. I put the planer down and walked away from the shaping room for about 20 min., before getting back to work. It’s spooky. You must NEVER lose your respect for the power tools we all use. They can tear you up in an unguarded moment. Be aware, be alert, and pay attention.
I hope you heal quickly, with no lasting damage.
hey Bill
the same thing happened to me while carving with an arbotech
it was off but still spinning and as i turned the pther hand hit the blades at the back on my hand
nearly took off three fingers
it was really ugly
now i watch and wait till the machine fully stops then put it down
Oh brother. That’s why I think I’ll stick with my little sanding screens…if I ever did get a planer, I would use a rasp drum thing…I like having fingertips, and I’m absent-minded…
Superglue it?
“yes it is my finger”
looks more like a skinny resin swirled penis
Dude!!!
Be careful out there!!! My father-in-law was cutting wood on his table saw and
a carpenter bee (the black ones) flew in his shop at him and he swatted at it with
his free hand. Too bad he forgot to turn off the table saw!! He will loose most of
the mobility in the first three fingers of his left hand.
Power tools are dangerous by nature, set up a safety protocol and follow it!!!
With planers, build a wood shelf in your shop that the planer must go to before you
do anything else and that is anything else!!! Listen to the Genius!!! There
are systems that turn off the power at the tool, switch, plug that can be adapted to
shaping. I’m going to install such a system in my shop ASAP and you should too.
Lets keep all the parts safe!!!
I’m what most of you would call old, and I still have all my fingers, toes, etc. after
a life of working with power tools and 2400 degree glass, so I must be lucky or doing
something right! Lets hear what the pros do, the last time I heard, George paddled out
ok and so did Greg, how do you not get bit?
BKB
Dude!!!
Be careful out there!!! My father-in-law was cutting wood on his table saw and
a carpenter bee (the black ones) flew in his shop at him and he swatted at it with
his free hand. Too bad he forgot to turn off the table saw!! He will loose most of
the mobility in the first three fingers of his left hand.
Power tools are dangerous by nature, set up a safety protocol and follow it!!!
With planers, build a wood shelf in your shop that the planer must go to before you
do anything else and that is anything else!!! Listen to the Genius!!! There
are systems that turn off the power at the tool, switch, plug that can be adapted to
shaping. I’m going to install such a system in my shop ASAP and you should too.
Lets keep all the parts safe!!!
I’m what most of you would call old, and I still have all my fingers, toes, etc. after
a life of working with power tools and 2400 degree glass, so I must be lucky or doing
something right! Lets hear what the pros do, the last time I heard, George paddled out
ok and so did Greg, how do you not get bit?
BKB
Guy at work just lost the first two joints of his left index finger to a table saw that he had been using for 15 years. Shows that you can never get complacent. I like the idea of a knee-operated dead man switch on table saws.
-Samiam
A few years ago, I badly cut the palm of my hand doing something really stupid: I had been working with the jointer planer for one hour or so. When I stopped, I switched the machine off and, without even thinking of it, I wiped the dust out of the table with my hand. Of course, the lid had been removed and my hand slided across the whole blade length… I still can’t figure out how I could do that. Even switched off, some machines are still dangerous.
While we’re on the subject of respecting power tools, I had a friend who developed this habit of resting his circular saw on his leg between cuts, once the guard had snapped back, ( it was one of the big ones, 235mm blade, so heavy), thinking this was a well cool way of saving energy. Anyway one day ,(yes you can guess what’s coming) ,he rested it back on his leg but the guard had jammed with sawdust and did’nt snap back like usual. The resulting injury was an 8" long to the bone slash. Everyone whose spent any time in the construction industry has stories like this and the’re worth remembering to keep you on your toes and not becoming complacent as you become more familiar with, your tools.
The first thing I did when I got my planer is test out its voracity. Hooked it up and slapped in a spare piece of wood… instant respect… I got a bosch with an irritating shoe-rest thingy so you can rest it blades down. This is contrary to what most woodworkers learn, you don’t put it on it’s side to spare the blades. The upside is that you can just plop it down and never risk a cut. Also, it’s blades stop turning real quick when the trigger is released. Most shapers would hate these features as they require constant trigger pressure and care when “swooping” the planer down the rails (the safety catch could get stuck and screw you up…)
You can just make out the red parking support on the back of the shoe. It drops down to hold the blades clear of the resting surface.
one good thing, I do like to use a sading pad on my grinder to shape…
what do you guys think of or who uses one in their planer?
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did two fingers crosscutting the nose in 73’ the index finger down to the bone the other looked just like your photo SS,… man you were probably still in nappies back then.
Oldie… did a dark purple tint on that one!
Hicksie…how good was that AFL final …West Coast Eagles rule …blue and gold.
around the same time i did the fingers i used to rent this old derelict farmhouse for $15 a week to build boards in.
The bedroom was a shaping bay the lounge for glassing but for sanding and polishing I would go out the back to an old shed to work. There were no power points in the old shed @100 feet from the house so I needed to run 2 cords out. I only had 2 cords at the time both were 100 feet long.
So this day I was polishing a board with my heavy duty15lb skill sander and as anyone who has polished boards knows you don’t want to get the buff pad caught on the tip of the fin, it will kick the polisher back at you abruptly.
So as usual I had the trigger lock on and was polishing the fin and yep… bang… the buff pad hit the fin tip and kicked straight back at me on full revs… got caught up in my coveralls and started grinding and vibrating so much I couldn’t clench my hand to pop the trigger off.
Freaking… I took of, figuring that I would run till I pulled the cord out of the socket and shut the beast down.
Being a farm house the yard was surrounded by a fence the farmer sometimes electrifies about 40 feet behind the shed. So thinking I had to run 100feet to pull the plug and kill the beast still kicking and vibrating like a mad thing on my coveralls I decided to leap the fence and run into the paddock.
Just as I was about to go over the fence my foot went into a rabbit hole and I splattered into the fence, which was…. you guessed it, turned on….I didn’t stay there for more than a second the polisher was still shaking uncontrollably, the fence was lit up and I was still freaking……
I saw a option to escape in an old mulberry tree and took off to run the cord around it… then back toward the shed…… so I ran to the tree and ducked under a branch and as I came around the other side put my head up too quick and bang… head first into a branch… I stagger sprinted the last 50 feet… finally pulling the plug and turning the beast off.
[=1][=Black][ 2]In less than 10 seconds id had my breast polished, sprained an ankle, been electrified and smacked in the head making a surfboard.[/][/][/]
never have this problem…
keep two 2 yes two hands on the running tool
one hand driving waving at passing friends
leaves open a widening margin for error
TWO 2 2 hands on
one left and one right
slip em under your head at night
photos I dont wanna look
no matter what angle you took
the empathy overwhelms me
I just dont wanna see
the old man that helped me take
my hand from the clothes ringer
when I was a kid was missing knuckle or two.
all those fingers that survive tell the tale
to all the survivors on all hands on deck
with gestures and hand shakes
attention to the job is what it takes
anybody speaking to me while a tool is running in
my control gets and deserves my Immediate
and vociferous distain…after the tool stops.
my whole body suffers to hear of your circumstance
from my ears to my marrow
my prayers for your wholeness
and survival intact.
uncle tom Quinones lost a thumb in the arena
ropin a calf takin a turn with hi thumb on the horn
they stuck it back on at the centerville hospital
we rode him back to the city ,me and uncle pete
fingers are precious
auntie mame
a sweet bawdy gal
uncle maim
best not a close pal
…ambrose…
industrial accidents
are a big part of history
ferral man just died off
without the power to gather food
keep yer 4kin hands
onn the tool
demmit
I aint gonna pick yer nose
whaddya gonna use a spoon?
god have mercy on this
delicate and essential
appendage.
I don’t get it. If both hands are on the planner…like there supposed to be. They can’t get cut.