What Safety Equipment Do You Have in …
What Safety Equipment Do You Have in Your Shop?
- Eye Protection
- Dust Collector
- Hearing Protection
- Tablesaw with Riving Knife
- All of the Above
- None of the Above
- Other (post in Knots)
You will not be able to change your vote.
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Another strangely constructed poll. So, if I have everything except the riving knife, I'm an "Other"??
ForestGirl,
I'm with you on that one, I cheated and said yes when sometimes I take my riving knife off.
Plus I have about 40 safety items not listed..
Me to, Nice to see I am not alone. I do have a very good splitter from Biesemeyer. That is a close as I could get to adding a knife.
So I have hearing, and eye protection, dust collection (and a Jet air filter system) as well as I think everything else on the list, minus the knief, and I have a splitter for that
Doug
As your survey is set up you can't tick more than one box. What are you supposed to do if you have 3 out of 4 features?
Jim
Jim,
I recommend Advantix, if you have more than 3 or 4 ticks.
Ain't no bugs on me,
Ray
Me neither. Collar and a wire brush.
Jim
In addition I have a crown guard permanently mounted on the table saw, run-off table on the saw, run-down brake motors on most machines, Euro-safety cutterblocks on the spindle moulder, riggers gloves (for handling rough timbers), yellow rubberised knitted gloves (for sheet stock), fire extinguishers (water, CO2 and dy powder), push sticks on many machines, carbon-filter respirator (for spraying), particulate filter (for some sanding), First Aid kit (with manual), eye wash station, etc, etc, etc. The list, sadly for my bank account, seems endless
Scrit
Congrats, these polls are exceeding our expectations that they will be useless or unanswerable. The scary thing is what will you perpetrate with such grossly inaccurate information.
My answers to this very serious topic are all of the above except for the TS, The contractor's saw has plug in splitters in the inserts for both thin and full kerfs. the Unisaw has a pop up splitter with pawls. You also fail to consider the other safety gear such as push sticks/blocks, featherboards, crosscut sleds etc!
I don't think the editors take these polls too seriously paddy. I think they're put up mostly for a bit of fun, and also possibly to see who's gullible enough to get all irate about their uselessness, ha, ha.
Incidentally, I don't think I've ever voted in one of these polls-- I might have done once for a lark, but I do particularly enjoy the contributions from those that either make jokes about the poll, or show their irritation at the structure and the lack of suitable boxes to tick. Slainte.Richard Jones Furniture
"or show their irritation at the structure and the lack of suitable boxes to tick. " It's a hard habit to break, judging such things. I have about 15 years of research training and work firmly installed in my brain (stuff that gets installed in the early years tends to stick), so the mental red pencil is always at the ready and difficult to restrain.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Paddy,
What about the shavehorse? Whatcha got for safety devices for it? These damn polls never sak 'bout horses, chickens and geese. It is refreshing to see that ticks are included though.
I'm makin a roll cage for mine so if ya get a bit rambunctious ya won't geet hurt when it falls over.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Bob, now ya did it, let the cat out of the bag. Not only will I have to wait till all the patent judges get re-blessed but I will also have to fight a whole crop of opportunist pretenders that you stirred up.
While most would never partake of adult recreational beverages when usin power tools they may be refreshing when laboring with simple hand tools.I recognizes right off the danger in fallin off a man sized horse and designed a sensor button that pins onto yer shop hat and signals the deployment of the modified side curtain air bags mounted to the bottom edges of the main structure, left or right dependin on which cheek has left the seat and the sensor button has quickly moved from vertical to more than 50 degrees towards horizontal. The lifting of a right cheek will execute the trigger on the left bags. This prevents the useless deployment of the wrong side and my modest charges to re-pack and re-arm both sides. In a further attempt to be user friendly, the lifting of a cheek alone to allow for a gaseous relief will not trigger this unit.( a common need if mama served a big feed of cabbage an hog maws or beans an smoked neck or shank bones for yesterdays supper).
We are workin on a bench model but it needs more research as the old bodgers who are hoggin down a 6x12 stick of hickory with an old scrub plane never fall the same way twice, we are thinkin that it's due to variations in beverage quality.
Once productiun starts the first 25 will be offered to our friends on Knots at a special price with a certificate in color and a personalized bronze plaque with the serial number and my signature. All the best, Paddy
Paddy,
Now that's just too funny. I want ya to know that you just made it into The Best Of Knots, again. Maybe good fodder for a blog entry someday, eh?
Now about them there fancy buttons and switches for tha hoss. Would ya be thinkin of offerin em as a kit or add on?
With all this talk lately 'bout buildin Green I been hankerin to let loose with some of me own inventions. Sounds like a good aftermarket comin my way with all them folks liftin cheeks on ya hosses. Made me a new device ta capture methane and recycle it into electricy. Just hafta make sure they don have ene kitchen matches in their back pockets!
Don't worry 'bout lettin that feline outa the paper, cept for that David character from Taunton. He's the only fella I know that can stretch a quarter into a dolla.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Bob,
I feel that Paddy is over-engineering a bit with the horse safety thang he describes. There is a better procedure that involves no extras gubbins festooning the hoss and interfering with the proper elbow-glides or backthrusts as one draws the knife this way and that..........
First, spend a few seasons racing a bicycle with the local cycle club. This develops both a very strong thigh gripping strength and a finely honed sense of when survival may be threatened by over eager application of the body parts in pursuit of one's intents and a consequent separation of man from machine. (Getting past the road sign first or rapidly hogging off large oak chips - it's all one).
Secondly, ensure that your posterior is a weighty one, as this gives a low centre of gravity when one is squatting on the horse. That cycling also develops the glutes; but it is permissible to grow the region by means of ingesting beer and tasty morsels in large quantities. The latter procedure does reduce the heart-lung capacity for the more vigorous forms of drawknife work of course. Also, a fat-ersed fellow will always attract sniggers, muffled guffaws and even a cruel jibe or two.
Lastly, as a failsafe always work under a tree from which a rope may be suspended and tied around the armpits. This may also attract unkind remarks and snorts of amusement from the bystanders. But if you should feel an inexplicable dizzy spell, through over-excited knifing or possibly an extended lunchtime thirst-quenching rote, the rope will save you from an ungainly and embarassing tumble from the horse, not to mention a feathering in shavings, which can make one appear sartorially challenged, a modern sin.
Of course, you may still slice your thumb off as you jerk on the rope end and struggle not to drop the drawknife, which might harm it's edge. No safety procedure can see off the gremlins that hang about awaiting their opportunities.
Lataxe, strong of thigh and large of arse.
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Dang it Azmo, now I have ta modify the users enstructuns and the warrantee restrictshuns as I can't control their poor choice of beverages, Paddy
All but the riving knife.
Work Safe, Count to 10 when your done for the day !!
Bruce S.
Perhaps the one safety equipment devices that is least mentioned. Sharp cutting tools.
And a couple others; a brain with a healthy dose of common sense (If it feels unsafe it probably is).
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
a brain with a healthy dose of common sense .......
That's why I never touch woodworking tools.
I have eye and hearing protection. And, the table saw has a Biesemeyer splitter, and overhead guard installed.
Thus far I haven't bought any dust collection equipment, but I'm just starting to work inside, and not on a covered patio, so hopefully I will be able to afford a dust collector this year.
I'm working mostly in the shop at work right now, building shop furniture, (machine bases, and wall cabinets), for the home shop. The shop at work has all the original guards installed on the tools, good dust collection, and hearing protection and face shields are mandatory.
OK, so I have eye protection, dust masks, ear plugs, and an old 8" table saw with a riving knife. No individual selection for that combination. (Not yet a dust collector, unless you count the two shop vacs).
Bob
Yeah, like I use safety equipment....................
Dust collector
Ear protection
Eye protection
I even have DC ports at my guillotine.
Best,
John (Evil)
Does having two screws holding my right ring finger together as a "common sense reminder" count as safety equipment.
At least you have your fingers. I earned my DA badge from my jointer episode (Dumb A.. badge)
Regards
Carpenetr5
I chose all of the above, but my dust collection is really jusst a shop vac that I hook up to a machine. Well it's better than nothing
there's no need to reinvent the wrench
All but the riving knife. This poll needs to have checkable boxes, where more than one answer can be selected.
Chris @ www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com
- Success is not the key to happines. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
I have all except the riving knife, but I have a splitter and overarm gaurd. I think your poll should have allowed multiple choices. They are not mutulally exclusive.
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Another inflexible opinion poll where a slice of the real world is reflected. I use a tablesaw with an overarm blade guard; an aftermarket addition. My unisaw wont accept a proper riving knife. However the splitter has kickback pawls, most riving knives do not. Kickback is a real hazard also. I guess that never happens in Europe though.
I also use dust collection, hearing and eye protection, heavy gloves when handling rough lumber, side support and an outfeed table with my saw, and a driveway motion sensor to warn when someone is coming. Was unable to check more then one box on the survey.
I have most- the rive comes and goes. I didn't see fire extinguisher or tourniquet in the list or ...
So does this mean we are going to have an upcoming article on safety or one on saws with riving knives ;-)
BB
Eye Protection
Hearing Protection
Breathing Protection
Table saw with splitter and blade guard
Dust Collector for stationary tools
Dust Collector for hand power tools
Ambient Air Dust Collector
I wish my Bosch router had better dust collection. Their add on adapters don't work all that well.
-Toby
Edited 5/6/2008 10:02 am ET by tkb
I have some of the items but not all so I had to go to the other answer.
maybe people don't know what a riving knife is. How else to explain the results?
The question should read-"Have and Use regularly
I had actually clicked on the first three items. The riving knife on my Delta saw is so awkward, to be useless. Unfortunately, your questionar accepted only one answer.
Helmut
Safety glasses
Face shield (extra protection for the eyes)
breathing apparatus (so the face shield doesn't fog up)
Kevlar gloves (gotta keep all ten)
Body armor (protection against kickback)
Chain mail (redundancy for the body armor, plus I feel all medieval when its on!)
Steel toed boots
Knee and elbow pads (for when I trip over the steel toed boots)
2 condoms (you just can't be too careful).
Course I mostly use hand tools, if I get into power tools someday I'll have to get serious about safety.
David C
David,
What? No cup?Chris @ http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com
- Success is not the key to happines. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
D'Oh!!
Knew I left something off the list!
DC
David,
I wish to be as safe as possible too. Send photos of where you place the condoms on your person when working the wood. Shurely they cannot go in the ushual shpot?
Lataxe, who uses a rubber to remove pencil marks from paper.
I don't doubt it's awkward, since I don't think Delta makes any saw with a riving knive. Theirs still have splitters.
Best safety equipment I have is NOT going into the shop!
All of it, with the addition of a photo of Duane Allman on the ceiling above my tablesaw, staring down in a particularly intense manner, reminding me that I will never learn to play the solos from "Whipping Post," "Statesboro Blues," and "Elizabeth Reed" correctly if I'm missing some of my fingers.
I am new to this FWW forum but after reading this thread you would think a little more forthought would have gone into this poll.
I have 3 out of the four but what about other saftey devices in the shop???
I lied, I have all but the knife, but couldn't click but one thing...a better question is Do you USE what you have :-)
David,
I get the biggest kick out of the Knots Polls so please keep 'em coming!
Now I wanna see you come up with the perfect poll!
Is my tongue sticking outa my cheek yet?
:-)
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
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