Mateas
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Without a doubt angle grinder is my go-to horror movie, hell with Jason and a machete, give me a floating angle grinder any day for my horror story.
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What tool are you most afraid of?
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Having taken a grinder to the nose, I'll mostly agree. But my skill saw scares me more than that.
You beat me to it!
+1 for skillsaws 
A runner up would be a shop press - loaded up under pressure with nothing happening and then BANG! the release. 
A runner up would be a shop press - loaded up under pressure with nothing happening and then BANG! the release.
Floor jack. For those ten seconds it takes to get a jack stand in place, it makes me nervous and I try desperately to not put myself in a position of being mangled if it fails in spectacular fashion.
The two post lift.
The guy who installed the lift…
Grinder. One of my partners just operated on a guy that did a self tracheostomy when his cutting wheel disintegrated
^ this along with the shaper were the two scariest pieces of equipment in the cabinet shop. The death wheel always keeps me on my toes too.
The anchor bolts in the 2.5” concrete lol
This reminds me of a quote From my high school wood shop teacher. “You don’t need to be afraid of it, but you MUST respect it.”
Cutting torch
I hate using an angle grinder, but it’s so useful. After awhile I get really upset and even the dust flying at me pisses me off…
Table saw for me. Scares the hell out of me.
Had a kickback once that hit me in the gut with enough force to bounce off, fly 30' across the garage, and put a large dent in the steel garage door about 6' up. Bruised for weeks. And that isn't even the scary part of using one lol.
This here on a 4" grinder was by far the most scared I have ever been of a tool though.
I used it for a carving I was doing, and made it about a half hr before I took it off and have never used it again.
It hung on a wall for a bit before being scrapped so nobody else tried
Had a kickback once that hit me in the gut with enough force to bounce off, fly 30' across the garage, and put a large dent in the steel garage door about 6' up. Bruised for weeks. And that isn't even the scary part of using one lol.
This here on a 4" grinder was by far the most scared I have ever been of a tool though.
I used it for a carving I was doing, and made it about a half hr before I took it off and have never used it again.
It hung on a wall for a bit before being scrapped so nobody else tried
I've always wanted one of those metal blades for a weed eater but I'm just too scared to actually try one.
