i am not political ........... but i will say this much outside the correct thread spot
he is a TOOL ........ but NOT by our definition of a tool we all love and enjoy .
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What tool are you most afraid of?
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he is a TOOL ........ but NOT by our definition of a tool we all love and enjoy .
Almost as bad. Got mine off Amazon lol.If I was going to use this weapon of death there is no way I would be using the one from harbor freight!
Just used the HF pic because it was the first one that popped up.
Pretty much every single one are identical. Like all seem to be made the same place at a quick skim through em.
I had it grab 4-5 times and almost come out of my hand.
I have like 6 different ones of these now.
I'm sure bad things would happen if it got away like any tool. But they don't grab at all, and shaved road rash is better than 1/4" grooves any day lol.
The tool I’m most afraid of is any 1/2 drill when that sum bitch grabs.
I have sprained my wrists a couple of times and broke 2 fingers once with bits binding.
I have one, I like it.
Circular saw. The one I have sucks... And for the life of me I cant get through a piece of lumber w/o binding or kicking back on me... Table saw, kickback almost got me, but not as fearful, just a healthy respect.
You guys have already mentioned the top dangerous tools I think of, chainsaw, table saw, angle grinder, drill, etc.
I know two people who died while cutting trees with a chainsaw, it has to be one of, if not the most, dangerous things in the country.
I've seen tablesaw kickback break peoples wrist right in front of me in wood shop in high school. My father saw a classmate lose two fingers, maybe on the same saw. I cringe if anyone doesn't push the piece all the way through the entire blade.
I've ground my own thumb and tore holes in my shirts with grinders.
And I broke my hand with a drill once.
So I'll mention my old lathe from 1957. Darn thing weighs 3500 lbs and has a bunch of gears and a 10" spinning chuck that is not going to stop for my skin or bones. It works very well, but I am always trying to be careful of it. And I have the main cutoff switch 5 ft off the ground and an always lock on off switch on the lathe because I have kids.
Here it is when I bought it...(I'll post an after pic in the tool thread)
I know two people who died while cutting trees with a chainsaw, it has to be one of, if not the most, dangerous things in the country.
I've seen tablesaw kickback break peoples wrist right in front of me in wood shop in high school. My father saw a classmate lose two fingers, maybe on the same saw. I cringe if anyone doesn't push the piece all the way through the entire blade.
I've ground my own thumb and tore holes in my shirts with grinders.
And I broke my hand with a drill once.
So I'll mention my old lathe from 1957. Darn thing weighs 3500 lbs and has a bunch of gears and a 10" spinning chuck that is not going to stop for my skin or bones. It works very well, but I am always trying to be careful of it. And I have the main cutoff switch 5 ft off the ground and an always lock on off switch on the lathe because I have kids.
Here it is when I bought it...(I'll post an after pic in the tool thread)
I have the one that looks like a circular saw wood blade on the end of a weedeater. The thing is crazy useful for clearing brush, you can cut up to a 2" tree down with it in a split second, though I don't recommend that. I will only use it with my steel toe boots and my chainsaw pants on, because that also means it would cut your foot off in a split second.
I bought the little cast metal guard from Stihl that goes in the back of it, fits up tight and is not plastic, I am hoping that my chainsaw paints would stop it by jamming between the blade and the metal if it ever happened, but I don't know that, I try to avoid needing to find out.
I've found if you only cut toward the side that is pulling it away from you it feels much safer that way and puts the shaft in mostly tension. If you cut swinging the other way it does not feel very safe at all and it wants to kickback toward you and tries to buckle the shaft if it catches. With a weedwacker string you can cut both swath directions without a problem usually, but not with that, only cut the one swath direction.
The circular saw teeth make quick work of it, and keep it sharp, it's less likely to catch, just cuts cleanly, a 1/2" brush sapling it just barely makes a sound and you almost don't feel it.
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Seen a video clip compilation on FB once of people getting sucked into spinning machines(lathes and other industrial stuff). Mostly security camera footage. It was gruesome, just by how they ended up you could tell they didn't make it.
I purposely showed some videos of people getting hurt in a lathe to my kids so they don't mess with it, you want to be somewhat afraid of it, but not too afraid to use it as an adult.
Have you ever seen the video of the rope, the dummy, and the wood chipper? The rope gets caught in the chipper feeder, and then it starts slowly dragging the dummy toward the chipper for a few seconds, then all of the sudden when the rope catches the chipper wheel, the entire rope length suddenly slingshots into the chipper, carrying the entire dummy with it nearly instantly!
Have you ever seen the video of the rope, the dummy, and the wood chipper? The rope gets caught in the chipper feeder, and then it starts slowly dragging the dummy toward the chipper for a few seconds, then all of the sudden when the rope catches the chipper wheel, the entire rope length suddenly slingshots into the chipper, carrying the entire dummy with it nearly instantly!
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I found the demonstration...it shows what could happen if one of the ground guys put a branch in the chipper that has the safety rope connected to the climber tangled in it....
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I never knew it would be that fast. Wowza!
This was in a truck I picked up at an auction a while back. 7"-9" grinder with a 10" blade.
I used it once with that "handle" that was on it. Not going to do that again.
I used it once with that "handle" that was on it. Not going to do that again.
The spiny wheel of death! 
I think its pretty apparent why you were picking the truck up at auction…that death machine took care of the previous owner.
Just another warning to others, I watched that yesterday, I literally had my hands on my head in shock just like the guy who ran to shut the lathe off, that guy had to have nightmares....
Then for some reason when I was almost asleep last night, it popped into my head again, and I couldn't sleep for about 2 more hours, horrific accident.
1/2 Drill, hole saw.... tubing cutter for roll cage. got caught... and sprained my wrist!!
