Tool that scare the heck

We all have tool that a guy has to use but what tool scare the heck out of you for me its the table saw - cut off disc - garage door springs- power take off -
 

Can't say I am scared of either the tablesaw or the radial arm saw, but I have a LOT of respect for them. Garage door springs? I don't touch them. I call in the professionals.
 
Worked with all of those. I always envision getting hurt so that does help keep you aware of what can happen. Be aware of your hand placement at all times. Keep push sticks close by at hand for the table saw for sure.
My Dad worked a lot with all this stuff too, still does some. What took him out was a patch of ice in the parking lot when he was walking into work ! Broke his leg bone right next to the hip joint. He had just ate so they would not do surgery right away. His leg got full of blood and that made recovery very hard ! So you never know what will get you as danger is all around.
 
(expletive deleted) chain saw has sent me to the ER twice. One time I was just limbing up an apple tree in the orchard and I over did it and twisted my gut...good for three days with a tube in my stomach. Other time an ash took a funny path and half tore my right ear off. That was good for four hours with a plastic surgeon. A couple days ago a large branch broke off the tree that fell on the driveway. Missed me but took out my Stihl pole saw. Bent it so bad now it's only good for cutting around corners.
 
Shaper for me too! I've got a table saw, radial saw, chop saw, chain saw: Just about ever cutting tool known to man. But the shaper with a big panel raising bit has my attention!
 
"all of them". :lol: I think a tool that "scares the heck out of you" should command your attention and respect. So, being scared of them is legitimate and good advice. That being said, I'm not afraid to use them but even something as simple as a cordless drill can bite you.

A few months ago at work, I had a drill bit break because I was pushing too hard and at an angle and not focusing on what I was doing. Before I could blink, the piece still in the drill stabbed my finger that was on the piece of steel I was drilling. Bled pretty good, blood all over the shop. Didn't realize until I changed the bandage the next day that there was an exit hole. :shock: Went right through.

A chain saw is a tool that is the scariest (to me) because it's usually used in the woods and near an artery that can be severed and kill you before you can get help. Cutting off a finger on a tablesaw is not likely to kill you, gruesome as it may be.
 
The old buzz saw on the front of our old Case SC, We always cut limb wood with it for the sugaring operation. There wasn't any safety shielding on them back then.I have seen 3'sticks fly in all directions from that thing, if they built up under it.
Loren
 
I'll no use a table saw but back when I was 16 I was dating this gal and I watch her dad running a table SAW AND HE CUT 3 FINGER OFF OF HIS HAND. He did tons of wood working so he knew what he was doing but did it any how.

I can also not go up in a man lift any more. Back when I was in the Navy I could climb up to the crows nest on the JFK but get me 25 or more feet and I cannot handle it
 
Wood chipper. I have one and use it but, good lord does it worry me. Bought one with hydraulic feed so you don't need to force feed in and I can control, stop, and reverse the feed immediately. If some one is helping I have an pretty extensive safety talk before we start.
 
I have lots of respect for all the dangerous tools mentioned, and then some. Yet, the tools that gives me shivers are the new, razor sharp kitchen knives. They are almost too sharp.
 
Air over hydraulic press. They have no
"feel" for how much tension you're giving.
Had a guy bring a JD D cast wheel center in
to the ship I used to work for. The axle
had rusted in place and the guy had cut the
axle off to press out of the hub. It was a
parts tractor, but he wanted these odd hubs
for his running JD D. I think it was a 100
ton Dake press. I remember heating the hub
a little and running the pressure up to
about 20 tons. Nothing. More heat and 30
tons. Not even a click out of it. More heat
and just over 35 tons and that hub exploded
in some pretty good sized pieces of
shrapnel. The axle shaft fell right out and
on the floor after that. This was the same
press I used to compress the track adjuster
springs down on a lot of excavator idler
assemblies. Take a spring off a PC400
excavator that was about shoulder high to
me, was 10 or 12 inches across and had 2"
thick coils and set the yoke on it and
press it down with 30 or 40 tons then
thread the retainer nut on it to keep it
contained. After it was all pressed down,
it was only waist high.
 
What's the worst damage a tool can do to you vs. an angry wife?

Or an angry GF.

Or an angry wife AND an angry GF?

A guy can survive cuts and bruises and burns and even amputations, but a bad deal/broken heart brought on by a female can do a guy in quicker than anything, IMHO! Even if he didn't ask for it/deserve it.

I've lost several good friends that way. As in DEAD.
 
Maybe scare is too strong. Running a raised panel blade on a wood shaper gets me. The noise is deafening, the roar and wind is about like working on an aircraft propeller while it's running. I've done it for more than 30 years and never get used to it. All that holds the blades in is friction. When I turn it on I put a piece of 2x12 between it and myself to be sure the blades stay.
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If you have ever been "trapped" between a hyper power souce and a dic plow or hay rake..

Then you will know why this tool scares me..

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My wood pusher for my table saw got away from me several weeks ago.
I have used this pusher for the past twenty years with no incident.
Somehow I had the angle a little off and it shot out of my hand and hit me in the belly.
A little higher and it would have hit me in the breastbone. It left a mark that cleared up a week or so ago.
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I can generally deal with table saws but dadoing with a wobble blade set to maximum width freaks me out. I think it's the weird sound and the incredible side-to-side vibration
added to an already spooky tool. Oh, and extension ladders over about 28 feet, no matter how heavy-duty they are they have just enough flex to cause serious doubts about
one's future. And one more, that's when I have to use a buffer with a big wire wheel, they tend to yank the workpiece out of one's hand, and throw needle-sharp little pieces of
wire everywhere.
 
Table saw sent me to the ER once for stitches. But as usual it was my own stupidity. I didn't wait for the blade to stop spinning. Don't know if you really blame the tool on this next one, but I HATED changing split rim tires and airing them up. We didn't have a cage. At the time I didn't know such a thing existed.
 
Chain saws plain and simple. A spinning razor sharp chain being used in weird positions and with less than ideal footing. Combine a chain saw and a ladder and you have a quick ticket to the ER or the morgue.

OTJ
 
This has been in my family for 70+ years and used a lot including by me, and so far as I know no one has ever gotten hurt by it with the exception of the time a belt splice grabbed my glove and it and my hand went under the idler pulley, and that scared me more than hurt. I have spent quite a bit of time with it, and it still scares me. Maybe it's looking scary is the reason no one ever got hurt by it. My Dad farmed with this tractor for 45+ years, and now it resides in my shed.
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Big hydraulic presses, things can explode!

Automotive suspension spring compressors. Had one break once, about one second after I got the strut nut back on!

Bumper jacks. No explanation needed!

Wood working equipment in general.
 

Times two on the sawJohn , mine's not quite as scary as yours , but enough to give me the Willies on occasion . :shock:

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Does malfunctioning tools count? Back in the late 1970's I ran a radial arm saw the carriage bearings would break and the saw would come off the arm while it was running. It did it twice on me and when it did it to the boss the saw was out of the building that day.
 
My wife's rotary cutter she uses quilting. She has left blood in the sewing room. She brings the things to me to change the blades and one has to be very careful.
Leather gloves won't stop a mistake!
 
It's not the tool so much as what's in it, especially split rims. You can clean the edges as much as you want, get all of the rust off of them, repaint them, AND run a chain around and through them as you're inflating a tire, but when one goes off... I don't care if the cage has three, five, eight bars, KABOOM and pieces are bouncing around where your fingers and the air chuck are. True, won't take your head off or cut you in half, but still pieces of shattered tire rim are still bouncing around where your fingers or hand(s) are, and then your ears are ringing...unless you're wearing earmuffs or plugs.

KABOOOOOOOM!!!

Mark
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Lots of tools worry me but high end hydraulics plum scare me. I've had Deere water pumps explode at 30,000 and a frame machine clamp explode at 50,000. Takes a while to
stop shaking after that happens.
 
I have used this buzz saw since the mid 50s and respect the saw and have guards on saw. The belt is off this saw at time of top picture and there are guards for the belt. Second picture is the guard.
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I am completely baffled by your post. It makes me think that I am woefully ignorant. How in the world does a Deere water pump put up 30,000 psig???maybe a hydraulic pump but water pump????
 
No need for me to even be around something bigger, faster, stronger than me, with a mind of it's own, and no brake, clutch or kill switch! LOL
 

I can't say any one tool scares me anymore than another, and that includes chainsaws, buzzsaws, shapers, grinders, etc. What really scares me, if "scare" is the right word, is someone who is either totally ignorant, stupid or both, using a tool that can hurt him or me. I have a neighbor like that. He shouldn't have anything sharp, pointy, powered or heavy because he's going to do something really dumb with it.

The other than that scares me is someone using a tool, tractor, car, etc while drunk or having been drinking. Got no use for drunks or those who think they can drink and still do things you need to be sober for. That includes me!

Someone mentioned extension ladders. When I was about 18 I worked at a camp with the caretaker. The caretakers house was an ancient building on a hill. To clean the chimney required a 3 section ladder that IIRC was about 45-50 feet long when extended all the way out. Oh, and it was a wooden ladder at that and probably 40 years old. The one time I got to clean the chimney I got about 6 foot from the top when base of the ladder started to slip. My pucker factor when through the roof! I was never crazy about heights in the first place, but that killed any thoughts I ever had about working more than 10 foot or so off the ground! I did get the chimney cleaned, but I looked for safer work after that and joined the Marine Corps.
 
Don't forget your 4 1/2 in angle grinder with a sanding disk of the
wrong size on it. Got hold of 5 inch disks and thought they would be
fine. Ohhhhh nooo they aren't. The disk hanging over the edge of the
backer disk caught the project and split the top of my finger right to
the bone. After my finger heeled a bit, take a pair of sheers and cut
down that whole stack of disks to the correct diameter. Big no no.
Also be very careful with those .o45 cutting disks. They cut
fantastic. They are NOT grinding disks. They do not take kindly to
side pressure.
 
You bet when it comes to power tools. I have a stable of Mc Culloch
600 series chainsaws. Four hp. Bars from 16 to 28 inch. Also have
several bow bars. When you ask someone " do you know how to run a
chainsaw". They take it, pull the trigger, put it on the wood, and
then instead of jamming the dog teeth/ bucking spikes into the tree
they start pushing the saw back and forth like they are using an old
fashion hand saw. I yell STOP and take the saw back. Even worse?
People who break the anti-kick back handle and keep on using the saw.
 
One tool often overlooked is a quiet drill
press. Drilling into a unsecured piece or
holding it with just your hand can bite you
in a fraction of a second.
My desk at work was next to a drill press,
at the end of the day I came back to my
desk, blood every where and half of a finger
laying on the floor.
 
My neighbor is a great guy. But he scares me with a chain saw. Last year, he was using his chain saw, for hours, in a t shirt, shorts,and sandals. I?ve tried to talk to him about it, but he seems to think he is good enough to not get hurt. I am thinking of buying him the proper safety gear, he is a good friend.
 
Sorry but I should have said the hydraulic press had reached 30,000 lbs while pressing the pump apart to rebuild it. I have went to 40,000 on one but was shaking like a leaf the whole time. In my experience anything over 25,000 can explode a cast part and I do mean explode just like a bomb.
 
How about those 60,ooo water cutters they use to cut steel? Another 5hing is commercial power plants ship board. They use brooms to find 700 psi. steam leaks. Cuts the broom in half. Oh there is the leak !
 
The chainsaw always bugged me. I didn't really like using the 6ft. woods mower. I don't know how many hats that thing ate from riding under low limbs.
 
"Hell hath no fury like Linda's wrath!", I always say.

Thankfully, she rarely gets wrathful.
 
We had a cartoon on the shop wall at work. The tire guy was INSIDE the cage and reaching out to air up the tire on the outside. In the background you could see all of the other mechanics peeping out from behind trucks and other equipment. Kaputi Shop was the name on the cartoon.
 
Thanks guys i guess I’m not the only one that has fears. When I hit the switch it just makes me cringe. Stll got all my fingers and I’m 67 - you always have to think about stuff. And when you think your ok you still have kinetic energy .
 
Daughter of my sheep shearer took an elastrator to school. Explained upon the boys that had been picking on her that she knew what it was and how to use it.... Gained a little more respect that day!
 
We sing a song at church, "Don't call me lucky, Call me Blessed" and I am just that. I still have all 20 digits.
I have worked from off-shore drilling rigs to construction in the refineries to being a process operator. I have been and seen men get hurt in a multitude of
ways. Some were accidents but all could have been avoided! I have seen a 3/8" rope cause a man to get serious facial injuries. I have had a grinding disc explode
while being used and impale it's parts in my leg and arm. As most have noted almost anything can turn into something that will inflict serious injury.

Amusing story: While working as a roughneck off-shore I was installing a safety valve on the top of the drill pipe sticking out of the drill floor. The block had
been lowered and the elevators latched onto the drill pipe. I put my hand where it got trapped between the elevators and the safety valve. Suddenly I heard a
scream and wondered who it was??? It was ME because little and ring finger on left hand were mashed flat. Dr. at emergency room was amazed that the bones weren't
shattered and only a small flesh wound. It took six months for feeling to return to little finger, function returned in less than a week. I AM BLESSED!
 
Probly never been smart enough to have tool actually scare me. Cautious? Yes, most of the time. Scars show not all the times though. Never lost any fingers or toes. Almost lost a hand in a combine.
 
Any tool with a chain blade, reciprocating blade or cutting wheel scares the h**l out of me.
 
While the aforementioned tools earn respect, what I fear more is the hidden risk- the cold chisel that fires sliver-sized shards when struck by a hammer, the caustic solution that looks like water but peels skin off layers deep, or silo gas. You know to give a chainsaw or shaper respect, but often let your guard down on the "little things".
 
(quoted from post at 12:08:49 03/06/18) When you drop the hammer on a 30-30 it develops around 40000 next to your face! A 30-06 is around 60000.

For a tiny fraction of a second with a max load.
 
I bought a 3/4" Milwaukee drill at an auction a couple years ago. I haven't used it yet. Looks like it could cause a lot of pain.
Like someone else said, using a dado blade with the wedge shaped adjustment washers is unnerving. Those can be pretty violent.
 

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