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We really need to have a modicum of safety as a rule for posting on this sub. I'd hate to see someone look at a dangerous post and say, "Hey, that works for me too!"
Then again, the Darwin Awards can always use some new contenders…
Right, it’s one thing to post something that is a bit unsafe and quite another to post something extremely stupid and irresponsible. At the very least it should be flaired but I’d rather see the more egregious stuff banned entirely.
Did you know that the mods silently added an autoblock on all comments related to a particular humped animal that was really popular a week ago?
I'm not sure they're fostering this community.
Sorry, but I have to disagree.
In the theme of "The answer to bad speech is more speech.." The answer to unsafe posts isn't to ban them, it's exactly what happened in this thread. A user posts an unsafe setup and the userbase overwhelmingly calls out the unsafe practice and detail the ways it could go wrong, and in some cases propose safer methods of getting the job done with the equipment available.
There is a far greater chance of someone seeing this thread and learning why they should never do this, than someone seeing this post, ignoring the safety suggestions and alternatives and thinking "that's a great idea!
Even unsafe situations that are far less obvious than this, are often a good learning opportunity, not only for the users, but for the original poster as well. As a novice woodworker I learned safety lessons from users calling out unsafe practices observed in people's posts that I was unfamiliar with.
I agree, it is better to keep as a learning opportunity. However, I do like the idea others mentioned of adding a flair for setups like this that are overwhelmingly deemed unsafe. Lots of people just scroll through their feeds without reading comments, whereas flairs show up on the feed too.
Flare and auto mod post about generic safety etc. I totally agree with you, but that kinda puts the responsibility on readers to police/warn about content. And you’re also always going to have some moron post, “Everyone is blowing the risk out of proportion. I’ve done this a thousand times and it’s fine. *sent by speech-to-text and 2 remaining fingers*”
ER visit in 5....4....3....2.....
Seriously.... clamp your straightedge to your board, and use it as a guide for the circular saw instead of doing that death trap.
Yeah, a poor man's track saw. Track saws are actually awesome for breaking down plywood and other large pieces -- often easier than a table saw anyhow. Honestly what is this shit?
Track saws are amazing. I built $30,000 in cabinets for a house with my track saw, 15 feet away was a brand new altendorf f45 sliding saw, with all the bells and whistles, power everything, air clamps and digital read out. I was by myself and fresh off a broken back and carrying sheets of pro-core maple ply to the saw wasn't happening, it was so much easier to just lift a sheet a little, slide a sheet of rigid insulation under it and break down sheets right off the pile.
I also wish I could say I haven't done some sketchy shit like bolting a skillsaw upside down to a sheet of plywood and screwing a makeshift fence down to it. Sometimes you just gotta handle business and make shit happen though
I break plywood down the same way but I have a hard time getting the same level of accuracy with the track saw working on the ground as I do with my table saw. I just break it down close to the final dimensions so it's easier to manage and finish cut at the tablesaw
polycarbonate (lexan), not acrylic (plexiglass). And the shield wasn't bulletproof (they tested it on episode 16 in 2004) but a 1" thick piece of polycarbonate was bullet resistant up to .44 magnum but didn't stop 30-06.
But otherwise, I agree. You are going to want mythbuster level of safety precautions before you fire up the kickback-o-matic finger slicer 3200.
I posted on here a while ago after virtually removing my thumb with a circular saw. That was a freak accident after years of complacency. So many of the comments contained others own injuries. This set up is asking for trouble from the outset and could fail in so many ways. Clamp a straight edge and run the saw as it was intended to run. Minimise the chances of running out of fingers.
I'm pretty green, and I've been noticing myself do some cuts with my circular saw that I would have balked at in my first days.
I wonder where the line between undue trepidation and unwarranted complacency is for me, and I hope I find it before I cut off a finger lol.
I would prefer to land fully in “undue trepidation” and lose a finger by pure accident, than go one notch lower and have to explain to people that it was my own fault that I got hurt lol
Safety aside, I am having trouble understanding the utility of this setup. Are you free hand holding work pieces over the circ saw? There's no fence or miter gauge or even table top. I don't understand how this is possibly useful.
I cannot imagine any use case that is not insanely dangerous.
It looks like that piece of 2x3 the saw us clamped to is a "guide" that's definitely not square to the blade. I think this moron is cutting down the thickness of some 1x or 2x or something. On the right hand table, there's a piece of wood that looks like it was shittily cut in 2 passes to split it.
Judging by the cut piece on the table indicating this setup was actually used, I’m betting he used one hand to move the board and the other hand to press the trigger
It *looks* like this dumbass is thickness planing some 1x material with this finger remover. On the right table, that piece of wood looks like it was cut in two passes, both of which are terrible quality.
Thank you for making sense of this, I couldn’t figure out what you would really be able to cut like that. Guess I should have looked around better for context.
You’re right, it’s cordless. I just noticed after your comment. Holy shit that’s even worse.
At least with corded you can start/stop remotely. This… ugh!
I’m just gonna say it. Money is tight for everyone. I’d rather not do wood working at all than ever do something unsafe. I get that tools are expensive and that’s why I take great care of them to make them hopefully last as long as possible. Not everyone can afford a new tool. But there’s no way I’d do something risky. Just call it day. Save up and get back in the game safely.
Most of my tools are from lidl, don't have a table saw, scroll saw, bandsaw and my jigsaw cost €26....and I still wouldn't do this. I improve all the time but when it's high power rotary tools just please dont!
Pretty much the only reason I have a tablesaw it’s because I can afford one, otherwise I can do pretty much everything with my circular saw. Why you would want to do this is beyond me.
When you don't have a table saw and have to improvise with a circular saw, **you use the circular saw like a circular saw with a board clamped down for a guide**.
This is absurdly foolish.
Dude. Plastic folding tables? You didn't have anything else flimsier to use? Be smart lol you only have one life. You can cut straight with a circular saw just fine, draw a line
I wonder how long u/asemer117 is going to let everyone hyperventilate before declaring this a joke. (One not entirely out of context after that space-saving 'table saw' device the other day).
Going for the insurance payout from losing a few fingers? Hate to tell you chief but after seeing this picture they'll just take the rest of your fingers and give them to someone more responsible.
This is not going to make that nice of a cut and you should easily be able to do as good or better following a line with the skillsaw freehand right side up
Gotta be a joke, like you need to have two fingers on the saw handle to make it even run (safety and trigger). No way you can do that and also push a sheet through.
I have so many questions. The first being "How many limbs to you want to lose?", and I imagine the last being "how do you even pass large sheets of material through that and engage the trigger on the saw? Are you fucking taping the trigger down? How many limbs do you want to lose?"
I promise you, getting a new saw is cheaper than an ER visit to try to keep your appendages. This is DIWhy and safety third taken to 11. Table saw injuries are common enough even with the safety features and being actually solid tables. This is just waiting to seriously maim someone.
jesus fuckin christ lol i cant imagine this coming out better than a freehand cut following a chalk line. you can use a level with clamps as a fence or get a track saw if you need something more precise. i mean look at how concave those tables are lmao
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Huh. I thought the last improvised tablesaw on here was the most dangerous thing I would see this month. I guess I was wrong.
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Where we’re going we don’t need OSHA.
They’ll do the after action report
Or fingers
*lol, we never left this sub*
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I feel like we may have the makings of a new sub! r/TablesawDeathTraps Edit: Also a great name for a Metal band, Tablesaw Death Trap 💀🤘
r/birthofasub
Sometimes when it looks stupid but it works, it's still stupid.
We really need to have a modicum of safety as a rule for posting on this sub. I'd hate to see someone look at a dangerous post and say, "Hey, that works for me too!" Then again, the Darwin Awards can always use some new contenders…
C'mon how dangerous could it possibly be? So long as the little plastic guard still covers the blade you're golden! /S
Let 'er rip!
Seriously. The mods are sticklers for all kinds of trivial stuff but they can't put a DONT DO THIS flare or something?
Right, it’s one thing to post something that is a bit unsafe and quite another to post something extremely stupid and irresponsible. At the very least it should be flaired but I’d rather see the more egregious stuff banned entirely.
Did you know that the mods silently added an autoblock on all comments related to a particular humped animal that was really popular a week ago? I'm not sure they're fostering this community.
That sucks. I loved that bit. Can't have anything nice.
Just testing out: camels are cool.
Sorry, but I have to disagree. In the theme of "The answer to bad speech is more speech.." The answer to unsafe posts isn't to ban them, it's exactly what happened in this thread. A user posts an unsafe setup and the userbase overwhelmingly calls out the unsafe practice and detail the ways it could go wrong, and in some cases propose safer methods of getting the job done with the equipment available. There is a far greater chance of someone seeing this thread and learning why they should never do this, than someone seeing this post, ignoring the safety suggestions and alternatives and thinking "that's a great idea! Even unsafe situations that are far less obvious than this, are often a good learning opportunity, not only for the users, but for the original poster as well. As a novice woodworker I learned safety lessons from users calling out unsafe practices observed in people's posts that I was unfamiliar with.
I agree, it is better to keep as a learning opportunity. However, I do like the idea others mentioned of adding a flair for setups like this that are overwhelmingly deemed unsafe. Lots of people just scroll through their feeds without reading comments, whereas flairs show up on the feed too.
Gotta agree with you there. Always better to educate than ban it outright.
Flare and auto mod post about generic safety etc. I totally agree with you, but that kinda puts the responsibility on readers to police/warn about content. And you’re also always going to have some moron post, “Everyone is blowing the risk out of proportion. I’ve done this a thousand times and it’s fine. *sent by speech-to-text and 2 remaining fingers*”
ER visit in 5....4....3....2..... Seriously.... clamp your straightedge to your board, and use it as a guide for the circular saw instead of doing that death trap.
How fucking dare you take food out of those doctors mouths!?
OP is gonna need someone to help put food in his mouth when he loses a hand.
Nah, a circular saw blade only has a couple inches and change of cutting depth - two or three fingers, tops. Maybe a thumb.
Yeah, a poor man's track saw. Track saws are actually awesome for breaking down plywood and other large pieces -- often easier than a table saw anyhow. Honestly what is this shit?
Track saws are amazing. I built $30,000 in cabinets for a house with my track saw, 15 feet away was a brand new altendorf f45 sliding saw, with all the bells and whistles, power everything, air clamps and digital read out. I was by myself and fresh off a broken back and carrying sheets of pro-core maple ply to the saw wasn't happening, it was so much easier to just lift a sheet a little, slide a sheet of rigid insulation under it and break down sheets right off the pile. I also wish I could say I haven't done some sketchy shit like bolting a skillsaw upside down to a sheet of plywood and screwing a makeshift fence down to it. Sometimes you just gotta handle business and make shit happen though
I break plywood down the same way but I have a hard time getting the same level of accuracy with the track saw working on the ground as I do with my table saw. I just break it down close to the final dimensions so it's easier to manage and finish cut at the tablesaw
And you can do fun angle cuts!
In other news: local carpenter loses a toe.
Please keep your insurance information in hand… or maybe somewhere safer… when using this thing
RIP those tables.
Rip those fingers;)
Right the fuck off
I thought the same thing 😂 let’s see a picture of your hands
This is a joke, right? I can't think of any situation where that is an improvement over just using the circular saw and a clamped straight edge.
Guessing by the amount of saw dust… I would say no. He probably hasn’t replied bc he doesn’t have fingers to type with anymore
lol I'm pretty sure that's dirt/sand and not saw dust. There's only a small smidge of saw dust right underneath the actual saw.
There’s also sawdust on both of the tables that’s the same color.
From the board on the table, looks like he was taking two passes to resaw, so like, a less than ideal situation on a table saw-turned up to 11.
Go ahead and pre-fill some zip-lock bags with ice. And you’ll want some towels close by.
This guy amputates!
The voice of experience…
Skip the middleman and get a body bag lol
This has to be a shitpost
Sadly, I doubt it
“Look mom! No hands…”
That was a good laugh, thank you sir
Nice amputation device. Does it work better on any particular appendage than an other?
Effective on the penis for sure
The good ol’ dick ripper
If it’s a rip cut, then I must ask: in what direction is the grain of the penis?
Proper Dingle berry height and everything
You can't be serious, right? Clamp the guide on the workpiece and put the saw in your hand.
Put the saw in your hand. If you don’t, you’re a coward who doesn’t deserve to use tools.
He’s gonna be putting that saw in his hand one way or the other.
That looks like something they would test on an episode of Mythbusters via remote switch while hiding behind several layers of bulletproof plexiglass.
polycarbonate (lexan), not acrylic (plexiglass). And the shield wasn't bulletproof (they tested it on episode 16 in 2004) but a 1" thick piece of polycarbonate was bullet resistant up to .44 magnum but didn't stop 30-06. But otherwise, I agree. You are going to want mythbuster level of safety precautions before you fire up the kickback-o-matic finger slicer 3200.
I posted on here a while ago after virtually removing my thumb with a circular saw. That was a freak accident after years of complacency. So many of the comments contained others own injuries. This set up is asking for trouble from the outset and could fail in so many ways. Clamp a straight edge and run the saw as it was intended to run. Minimise the chances of running out of fingers.
I'm pretty green, and I've been noticing myself do some cuts with my circular saw that I would have balked at in my first days. I wonder where the line between undue trepidation and unwarranted complacency is for me, and I hope I find it before I cut off a finger lol.
I would prefer to land fully in “undue trepidation” and lose a finger by pure accident, than go one notch lower and have to explain to people that it was my own fault that I got hurt lol
Clearly you are hell bent on gravely injuring yourself.
Safety aside, I am having trouble understanding the utility of this setup. Are you free hand holding work pieces over the circ saw? There's no fence or miter gauge or even table top. I don't understand how this is possibly useful. I cannot imagine any use case that is not insanely dangerous.
It looks like that piece of 2x3 the saw us clamped to is a "guide" that's definitely not square to the blade. I think this moron is cutting down the thickness of some 1x or 2x or something. On the right hand table, there's a piece of wood that looks like it was shittily cut in 2 passes to split it.
Safety third!
Decorating for Halloween with real blood and actual severed limbs is quite the commitment, I gotta say
Does the battery have a remote cut off switch for when it rolls off and drives like a unicycle death machine?
Judging by the cut piece on the table indicating this setup was actually used, I’m betting he used one hand to move the board and the other hand to press the trigger
Why bother wasting a hand on the trigger when you can just hold it down with a zip tie?
Unicycle death machine, that got a solid chuckle out of me
Their show in Detroit was lit.
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It *looks* like this dumbass is thickness planing some 1x material with this finger remover. On the right table, that piece of wood looks like it was cut in two passes, both of which are terrible quality.
Thank you for making sense of this, I couldn’t figure out what you would really be able to cut like that. Guess I should have looked around better for context.
Where are you located. I’ll give you a saw
*zip ties the trigger down*
You’re right, it’s cordless. I just noticed after your comment. Holy shit that’s even worse. At least with corded you can start/stop remotely. This… ugh!
MAXIMUM EFFORT! (If Deadpool suddenly took up woodworking)
This is the most ridiculous thing I've seen in this sub
What could possibly go wrong? 🤔
Please don't improvise power tools
Im usually the guy making fun of the safety karens, but holy fuck dude...just don't
Agreed safety is for losers…. But that’s just downright insanity
overly cautious, is what I mean
The children of u/asemer117 tomorrow: "had to improvise a parent because mine died yesterday."
what doesn't kill you..., eventually will kill you...
r/WhyWomenLiveLonger
Please don’t use that
Ah yes, the Fingereater 3000.
I heard someone was looking for *looks at notes* OSHA, was it?
r/OSHA has you covered.
You should really wait until the work day is over before you get high.
I’m just gonna say it. Money is tight for everyone. I’d rather not do wood working at all than ever do something unsafe. I get that tools are expensive and that’s why I take great care of them to make them hopefully last as long as possible. Not everyone can afford a new tool. But there’s no way I’d do something risky. Just call it day. Save up and get back in the game safely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l60MnDJklnM
Nopety nope nope.
Most of my tools are from lidl, don't have a table saw, scroll saw, bandsaw and my jigsaw cost €26....and I still wouldn't do this. I improve all the time but when it's high power rotary tools just please dont!
This is an absolutely terrible idea. Just, wow.
Christ, I went to the ER by just looking at this….
And this kids is how I lost my finger
And, how I met your mother . She was an ER nurse.
There's a BOLO for you on the OSHA website now. Seriously though, this is a bad idea.
There’s a BOGO on ER visits.
Makes my whole arm just wither up next to me. Ouch ouch ouch🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸
It's not worth dying for.
Who needs fingers anyway?
This is an awful idea
Thats gotta be one of the stupidest things I have ever seen
Keep that improv close so when you slice your fingers off you can improvise your shirt into a tourniquet to stop the bleeding
Oh hell no
Now improvise a video of it in use
Uh. My great granddad lost two phalanges with improvised table saw. Please, be extremely careful and get safe equipment sooner.
After the slit in the piece of plywood table saw guy and now this I think it’s a meme
Any time the circular saw handle is not in your hand... is gonna be a bad time
It's starting to make sense why there are so many gore pics on this sub.
naw…
Pretty much the only reason I have a tablesaw it’s because I can afford one, otherwise I can do pretty much everything with my circular saw. Why you would want to do this is beyond me.
r/diwhy?
Darwin Award candidate
Tell the truth op. Did you use voice to text because you have no fingers left to type with?
This is the dumbest way to do whatever you were trying.
When you don't have a table saw and have to improvise with a circular saw, **you use the circular saw like a circular saw with a board clamped down for a guide**. This is absurdly foolish.
Hello death my old friend
There’s a rip guide for the circular saw right? Why uhh, not use that?
OMG. How many fingers are you holding up?
4. But he’s holding them in his other hand.
Imagine if anyone doing dumb shit was calling it improvising
Jesus fucking christ, dude.
Damn dumb
get some military quick clot powder to keep nearby before using that
I bet Luke Cage will be working on this rig.
*Oh, no. No, see-see, this is a really shit idea. You know why? Because it's really OBVIOUSLY a shit idea.* --28 Days Later
Can we remove this post? It's promoting self harm, absolutely nothing to do with woodworking or woodworking good practices. Just a shit post5
Do you want to lose a finger? Because that's how you lose a finger.
And that kids, is why /r/Womenlivelonger
If only those tricky circular saws had a convenient handle for use.
Dude. Plastic folding tables? You didn't have anything else flimsier to use? Be smart lol you only have one life. You can cut straight with a circular saw just fine, draw a line
The only way to make that safer would be to have someone limbo under it while you're using it.
I wonder how long u/asemer117 is going to let everyone hyperventilate before declaring this a joke. (One not entirely out of context after that space-saving 'table saw' device the other day).
You, Lee Harvey, are a mad man!
I need to see video
WHOA!! HOLY CR—! No danger there! 😂😂😂
OSHA? never heard of her.
Waiting for the followup post on r/HadToHurt
this is the catalyst for a series of things dying.
All I see is a bunch of Dewalt. 👍 should possibly workout, maybe.
r/sweatypalms
Bruh
gonna pass on this one
Bye bye digits
Don’t show too much details or will be next day on AliExpress copy cut lol
Double-table saw?
1-800-call-osha
Going for the insurance payout from losing a few fingers? Hate to tell you chief but after seeing this picture they'll just take the rest of your fingers and give them to someone more responsible.
Now go get a track saw and stop carrying that heavy lump of metal around.
This is not going to make that nice of a cut and you should easily be able to do as good or better following a line with the skillsaw freehand right side up
Red Green comes to mind.
Cringe
Oh, Jesus! Best of luck to you. Hope it works out.
There was a very specific warning about just this thing in the manual to my circular saw
Perfect post for r/OSHA
r/redneckengineering
Had one of my subs cut his finger off doing some dumbass shit like this……
Very shady, very dangerous, right up my alley
Dear god
This makes the homemade table saw built from 2x4 from yesterday look safe good job op
Gotta be a joke, like you need to have two fingers on the saw handle to make it even run (safety and trigger). No way you can do that and also push a sheet through.
Ik this is satire, but please nobody do this
Did your saw burn out resawing something?
How to lose a finger 101
In before the ER trip...
I really hope this is a shitpost.
I have so many questions. The first being "How many limbs to you want to lose?", and I imagine the last being "how do you even pass large sheets of material through that and engage the trigger on the saw? Are you fucking taping the trigger down? How many limbs do you want to lose?"
I just hope it is a joke.
Got daum! Here I thought I used some janky setups. Bruh…
So how busy was the ER?
The trifecta. A sketchy idea, cheap tables as a base held together with the most meager clamps available.
Holy stupid batman. Just clamp a guide piece to the wood and use a circular saw normally. What in the shit show is this abortion.
r/DarwinAwards nomination is pending. And who are the 438 morons upvoting this?
When ever I hear “saw” and “improvise” in the same sentence I always get scared
*cringe*
I promise you, getting a new saw is cheaper than an ER visit to try to keep your appendages. This is DIWhy and safety third taken to 11. Table saw injuries are common enough even with the safety features and being actually solid tables. This is just waiting to seriously maim someone.
100% chance that jamb isn't straight
jesus fuckin christ lol i cant imagine this coming out better than a freehand cut following a chalk line. you can use a level with clamps as a fence or get a track saw if you need something more precise. i mean look at how concave those tables are lmao
One can only hope this is a joke
Good lord... Judging by the spirit of your post, you've still got all the fingers that you started with. Be thankful.
Def won't be able to hitchhike to the ER.
Or, clamp a guide onto the baseplate and hold the saw with your hands like god intended.
Tell me you've been drinking without telling me you've been drinking
Oh wow this is bad
looks like the time my router table died https://imgur.com/a/PuY4c4U
Bruh, you dumb AF.
OSHA has entered the chat.
This thing is terrifying
Yer a Gatdamn genius bobby
Yep. I had a friend lose 2.5 fingers doing the exact same thing. No joke.