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   deang | Mar 19, 2004 01:40am | #1

   Bob,

       Was your employee in the middle of a cut when the accident happened? I`m having a hard time trying to understand what happened so that I could also avoid such an incident.

            Dean in Bolton Centre

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   AhneedHelp | Mar 20, 2004 07:59am | #2

   Bob -

   I had the pleasure of visiting Sherbrooke back in 1993 to visit a friend who worked at the university.

   (Drove up from Virginia).

   Rode our bicycles all over the city one day and ate at a nice restaurant somewhere near a large lake - the name of the lake and town escapes me.

   Came back with several cases of Boreale Noire.

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   user-17340 | Mar 22, 2004 03:01pm | #7

   It must have been North Hatley, and I agree that Boréale noire is a good beer, but in my mind, NOTHING beats a Guiness !!!!!

   Bob in Sherbrooke

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   cft353 | Mar 22, 2004 04:41am | #3

   On my first woodworking job, at Cape Dory Sailboats many years ago, my supervisor told me, "Never get in a fight with a power tool, the power tool always wins." He was right, and it bears frequent repeating. Thanks for your post, Bob.

   A year ago November I nicked my thumb on my tablesaw: thank God I had retained enough brains to have adjusted the blade height so the teeth just cleared the work or it would have been worse. And I think of myself as a veteran who knows better. And I am, and I do, but it happened anyway. Be careful!

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   datachanel | Mar 22, 2004 05:12am | #4

   We've had a few injuries in our shop this year.  I'm a theater carpenter so we do some odd construction.  Last week one of my buddies jumped down off a platform and twisted his ankle, and he was wearing steel toes with stout ankle support.  The week before someone else twisted their knee.  Last december I slipped and put the screw bit of a screw gun through my thumb.  Someone else gave themselves golfers elbow while loading in sheet goods.  There are many ways to get injured in a shop, it really does pay to be careful and wear all your PPE's.  It's also important to take the time to properly recover from injuries as much as anyone wants to get back to work quickly.

   Datachanel

   Doing things the hard way

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   robkress | Mar 22, 2004 02:26pm | #5

   What is the manufacturer of saw?  I mean, what saw in the world kicks back that much when it shuts off?  Was it when the break kicked in?  In my experience, the Dewalt saws do that some times.  Kind of evil if you ask me.  Hope is gets to feeling better.

   Rob Kress

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   user-17340 | Mar 22, 2004 02:59pm | #6

   The saw is indeed a dewalt, but my employee has his part of responsability in this. When he cuts, he let the saw come up by itself. And when the saw breaks, it kind of float about 3 inch from the table (because of rotation of blade...) for a short moment...long enough to take is piece of wood and kicking his finger in the blade (the same blade that was supposed, in his mind, to be back up where it was supposed to.)

   I hope my explanations make it better to understand

   Bob in Sherbrooke, Province of Québec

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   Buzzsaw | Mar 23, 2004 08:24pm | #9

   I always shut my DeWalt miter saw off right after the cut while it still is underneath the wood. Then I let it up after it is shut off.  This is the suggested method if you read the manual.Regards,

   Buzzsaw

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   Mackwood | Mar 25, 2004 05:19am | #10

   Buzz,

   I've got the DW 12" scms and do exactly that.  I find it gives a slightly smoother cut that way as well.  If you let the saw up while it's still running you get just a tiny bit of "recutting" as it comes up.  Takes a second or so longer but I'm in no hurry!

   Regards,

   Mack"WISH IN ONE HAND, S--T IN THE OTHER AND SEE WHICH FILLS UP FIRST"

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   MatthewSchenker | Mar 23, 2004 05:57pm | #8

   Bob,

   I used to have the Bosch SCMS, and I loved it. However, I always used the clamps to hold down wood. If the piece was so short that my hand was near the blade, I wouldn't use the saw -- it's asking for trouble.