Table Saw Safety: My Accident and How to Avoid Your Own on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2018–2020.
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A woodworker shows how his table saw accident happened, why it happened and how to avoid a similar one. He describes severe hand lacerations from a blade contact.
HN recommends it as a candid mea culpa and a kickback demonstration that changed how people use push blocks.
“Pretty good "mea culpa" video here from a guy that cut his hand up”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
This is one of my favorite kickback demonstrations. Since watching this, I have made sure to keep my push block/stick close to the blade & applying pressure toward the fence, instead of closer to the fence & applying pressure toward the blade. ▶ this video
in “Table Saw Accidents” · View on HN
I moved around a lot as a kid, so I saw a lot of wood shop teachers. All were missing various parts of fingers. Pretty good "mea culpa" video here from a guy that cut his hand up: ▶ this video
in “Making transparent wood [video]” · View on HN
> They are not a problem if a parent teaches young kids how to use them properly. The statistics don’t bear out that training or experience eliminates risk of serious injury. It’s even trivially disprovable with anecdotes - tons of experienced woodworkers have had blade touches and/or kickback-induced blade touches. Here’s 3: [link] [link] ▶ this video If anyone is learning advanced shop safety, a few years ago I made the advanced survey that I wished existed: [link] . [link] has table saw injury stats. In an era of flesh-detecting table saws, using a table saw without it (other than weird special-purpose saws) means underestimating either the probability or the consequences.
in “Complete Guide to Buying Lumber (2015)” · View on HN