This guy is crazy *LINK*

YIKES!!!!!!

Denis Ch�nard, Orl�ans, Ont.

>Good grief, that man has a death wish or what???

Fortunately, his saw blade is quite large, in effect replicating the action of a bandsaw somewhat, but man, this is scary nonetheless...

DC

So thats what.....

SanMan

>....scary sharp really means!

I'm sure theres thousands of this incident going on all over the world...with many who arent as "lucky" to have all their digits.

SM

Survial of the fittest......

Mark Goodall - ATL - tooljunkie

>What you can't see ... is the room where they put all the bodies that have bled to death.

My finger joints itched and my knees twitched just watching this.

Happy Woodworking!

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Falberg saw Co

>Nothing unusual, nor scarey. He's become "part of the machine" and does it well. I wouldn't show up for work on drink or drugs, however.

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Ernie Miller

>This one is better


This old work shop

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wilbur

>At first I thought you were freaked out about the fact that he wasn't wearing safety glasses. :@)

Maybe he's got a SawStop mechanism retrofitted to his saw.

I don't get it.

Jason Roehl in Mulberry, IN

>Looks fine to me. I'm sure he has a healthy respect for that saw blade. He looked comfortable and confident in his motions, and he never pushed a digit directly toward the blade, always had it to the side slightly. He also had his palms rested on the table and his arms relaxed to isolate motion to his fingers. Notice how high the blade is, too--the motion where the teeth hit the wood is down, into the table, not toward him. I'd do it in a heartbeat. It looks as safe as a bandsaw to me. He's probably been doing it for 60 years from the looks of him, and he still has all his digits. Driving on our public roads is more dangerous.

Oh, yeah, and like someone else said, I wouldn't do it inebriated or tired.

Jason

I saw a video of a similar set in States

Mike in Paradise

>with a group of fellows working 8 hours a day in a factory in front of blades that must have been 36 inches or larger in diameter.

Same as that guy they were free hand cutting smaller piece of wood day in day out except they were not making animals or complicate shapes. I forget exactly what they were making(Might have been cedar shingles) but I remember thinking the exact same thing about safety when I saw it.

Re: I don't get it.

Kneale Brownson in Northern MI

>He's probably in more real trouble from all the dust he's inhaling than from the spinning cutters. He has the look of a smoker too.

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Ted Wong

>Maybe so. But the real scary thing is that somebody that doesn't know about the hazards of woodworking will see this. And someday if they ever operate a saw will try some stupid stuff like this.

Not a normal blade.

Orion/.Denton, TX

>I don't think he's using a normal blade. It may be some form of abrasive blade instead of a normal saw blade we are used to using. You can't see light at the blades edge. I've used a diamond blade to cut gem stones and you have no danger of cutting yourself or having the stone thrown if you turn too sharply. I think there must be some sort of heavy abrasive on the blade edge resulting in only a good scrape if he ran his finger into it and little danger of a violent throw of the piece.

Looks perfectly ok to me.

Don Henthorn

>Unless you have a nervous tic or serious disablility what on earth gives anyone concern? I have cut more wood without a fence than with a fence and I still have all ten. I've spent days in a factory cutting parts with only a naked 10" bladed tablesaw; no fence or other things to get in the way. If you are doing piece work, you want things to be simple so you can do things quickly with no fiddling. You can see the blade, you know where you want to cut, so you just cut there. That is all he is doing. He doesn't look worried to me and I don't think anyone who can do that kind of free hand work as quickly as he does is all that dumb either.

TOO COOL Ernie

gypsydave

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Mike-in-Michigan

>Shows what people can do when it's your skill and work that feeds you not just your hobby. The saw blade in the first part is scary, but it's got a lot of teeth and no soldered on carbide tips to come off. It's not going to catch easily, it's turning toward him and down into the table so it's not going to kickback either. He never goes past the blade either so there is no chance it will catch on the back side either. -- btw -- anyone ever watch Sam Maloof use a bandsaw? The grinder/sander doesn't worry me too much.. bad cut maybe but no lost digits. He's probably been doing this since he was 5-6 years old and it seemed he's still got all his fingers so experience counts for something.

I don't espouse unsafe working conditions, but more of a concern to me was the amount of sawdust he's inhaled in his life. As to the saws, I worry cause if I lose a finger in a hobby accident, I could lose my livelyhood, he's probably got 4-5 sons who help him so he's not the only one who can do this and unlike a lot of folks in western culture, family's stay together over there. I think we really over-react to this kind of stuff in developing countries .. my dad did stuff like that, I am sure my dad's father and grandfather did things we wouldn't consider. I mean I drank out of a garden hose this summer, I sure if my neighbors (the dentists) saw, they probably would think they need to call 911 to save me!! I am sure some will get hurt doing such stuff, but the large majority won't, we just see it that a single tragedy is a crisis vs his view that he needs to put food on the table tonight and will do what needs to be done to make a living and speed counts more than risk. I am also sure that craftsman will tell he's been doing this for so long he isn't worried and doesn't see any excessive risk.

My 0.02 cents worth.