Angle grinder and my finger

[jbenny1]

Just thought i'd show you what i did recently while cutting through an old soil pipe. Luckily i had a leather welding jacket on and welding gloves otherwise it could have been a lot worse. I managed to miss all the tendons and just kissed the main artery and bone!
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[foxhole]

I found my power plane removes flesh much more efficiently.

 

[WalksWithTurkeys]

I am terrified of pen knives. Because of UK laws, you can't ordinarily carry a normal knife around. I stuck my pen knife into the side of a tree, for reasons that are too long to explain, but the thing folded, with my finger trapped. Almost severed the tip. I walked home through a wildlife reserve with my right hand bright red and dripping blood, I must have looked a sight. I stuck the tip back on, and it healed up, I've almost got full sensation in it now, several years later. I now hate penknives, they are downright dangerous. A decent fixed blade, or locking blade would be safer.

 

[WalksWithTurkeys]

Here is how to take real risks like real man ...

http://www.vertikal.net/en/news/story/18474/

 

[EddieM]

Built an entire kitchen without cutting myself once... impressive, then cut myself taking the rubbish out... yep anything with a spinning blade / chain is to be treated with extreme caution. worst accident I had was falling off a ladder.

 

[festive]

A lot more energy in a disk than a chainsaw blade. Just not as much input power.

You can easily store a kJ of energy in a grind disk. About twice that of a .45 bullet, which is why they kick so hard if they catch. I'm somewhat happy they don't stop instantly as god knows what damage that could do.

Fubar

That's pants ****tingly bad.

My old Wwwwwickes (said in the fcking annoying w'nker off the tv advert) grinder seems to have lost it's slow start and takes a while to stop also.

Does anyone make a grinder that has a brake on power off? (too late for an exploding blade i know)

 

[RigidRaider]

Seconded the poster who wrote that he avoids using gloves - I was once working under the Landy and wearing latex gloves. Frustrated by yet another rusted bolt I went and got the angle grinder and wriggled it up into the space between me and the floor so that I could grind downwards. What I didn't know was that my gloved finger was pushing the ON button and the damned thing powered up. Cue a couple of seconds of me juggling with the damned thing as it headed towards my chest while trying to reach the button and avoid the blade, which contacted the palm of my hand leaving a nice deep burn mark right across it. Idiot.