Greetings and Salutations...

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:44:03 -0500, "Lee Michaels"
wrote:


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:43:16 GMT, "Mike W."
wrote:


3. A clean shop is a lot easier to work in than a messy shop... not sure
I
learned this one or just observed it and let it pass.


What is this clean shop you speak of??

Hey, I have heard of this sort of thing myself...and even
recall a time (for about 20 minutes) when MY shop was neat...so it
can happen.


6. One stupid, and never to be forgotten, mistake later... A 12" x 1/2" x
1/2" piece of wood being shot out of a blade guard at ??? MPH and drilling
you in the gut hurts like a sonofagun. I credit this lesson to ripping
20+
pieces of pine for the shelf cleats and getting a little lazy towards the
end and letting one of the trimmed edge pieces remain on the table,
seemingly behind the blade. Somehow that little sucker made its way back
and shot outta there like a bullet. It left a temporary nasty welt on my
belly and a permanent mark in my brain. Thank the Lord I had the blade
guard on... can't imagine that thing hittin me in the face like that.


The "good" news, I suppose, is that a kickback like this is
unlikely to gain much altitude..so will tend to hit somewhere between
just below the belly button, up to mid-chest. Now a lathe...that
WILL throw chunks DIRECTLY at that little ridge between your eyes...
and with amazing accuracy.

I did that once, just once.

I learned my lesson. It hit me just under the rib cage a couple inches right
of center. The bruise took almost a month to go away. It hurts just to
remember it.

It was a particularly cold day and I had on several layers of thick
clothing. And still, the pain and resulting bruise were extensive. I can
only imagine what would have happened if I was working in a t shirt.

Yea...my last bad one is detailed in the archive, but, in
short, I was cutting 3/8" plywood squares for bird-house floors. I
was on the last floor, which was the last piece of ALL the wood
needed to build about a dozen of the things...and as I pushed it off
the back of the saw, the square rotated slightly, caught the blade,
and was propelled at about 100 MPH into my abdomen, about 2" below
my belly-button (I was VERY appreciative that I am only 6' tall...
any more and it would have recut the family jewels!).
I was left with a VERY impressive, oval bruise about 2" tall
and more than 3" wide, that persisted for weeks.

9. A 3 year old with 9 Care Bear Stuffed animals has a hard time
understanding that this cabinet is for mommy's stuff and not her Care
Bears.


Try this.

The family cats taking up residence in anything that you build. And getting
very offended if you evict them from their new digs.

Yea...cats will do that. I had one cat a while ago that
kept pulling enough books off the bookshelf to make a "kitty cave" for
her to sit in. She was VERY persistent.
Good thing they are cute, social creatures!
Regards
Dave Mundt