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From: ^Tems^ on 8 Jun 2010 08:28 PhilD wrote: > Similar to developing automatic braking in vehicles, someone is doing it for > circular saws. Don't worry if you're squeamish, there's no blood and gore. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=E3mzhvMgrLE&NR=1 > > I have serious misgivings about this kind of technological protection when > there�s really NO substitute for keeping your fingers away from the blade > anyway. I wonder about the companies response from their insurance provider > as to what happens if/when it fails and someone decides to sue as against > now they are probably well protected as the end user will probably always be > to blame. Another problem is when someone forgets which saw they are working > with. > > It�s interesting to note in the video that the victim slowly puts his finger > up to the blade which is an unlikely real world situation, and what happens > with a hand held saw run across a leg (I know someone who did it). Maybe it > won't make it to hand held one's as the demonstrated sudden stop might be > quite hard to control. > > I can just imagine all the idiots who would just have to try it out as a > dare. > > PhilD > > My old man walked away when when the dude stuck his finger in I laughed and called him back telling him nothing happened, it then hit me up till 5 years ago he spent 30 years working in timber yards, my punishment for laughing was him describing in detail all the saw injuries he has witnessed. He wins. I remember about 1989 when at swansea high a wood work teach ran two fingers through the band saw in front of a yr 9 class, to his credit he put the two stumps in his mouth and casually walked out the room.
From: PhilD on 8 Jun 2010 08:31 "Toby" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:zfmjchrfv2lg$.2yg11ho3a9f4.dlg(a)40tude.net... > On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:00:26 +1000, D Walford wrote: > >> US law must be well and truly fucked if they make such decisions. >> Too bad they don't have laws to make people responsible for their own >> stupidity. >> >> >> Daryl > > Darwin's job? > Stop picking on us.
From: PhilD on 8 Jun 2010 08:36 "^Tems^" <stevebrooks13(a)live.com> wrote in message news:vHqPn.1756$Ls1.48(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > PhilD wrote: >> Similar to developing automatic braking in vehicles, someone is doing it >> for >> circular saws. Don't worry if you're squeamish, there's no blood and >> gore. >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=E3mzhvMgrLE&NR=1 >> >> I have serious misgivings about this kind of technological protection >> when >> there�s really NO substitute for keeping your fingers away from the blade >> anyway. I wonder about the companies response from their insurance >> provider >> as to what happens if/when it fails and someone decides to sue as against >> now they are probably well protected as the end user will probably always >> be >> to blame. Another problem is when someone forgets which saw they are >> working >> with. >> >> It�s interesting to note in the video that the victim slowly puts his >> finger >> up to the blade which is an unlikely real world situation, and what >> happens >> with a hand held saw run across a leg (I know someone who did it). Maybe >> it >> won't make it to hand held one's as the demonstrated sudden stop might be >> quite hard to control. >> >> I can just imagine all the idiots who would just have to try it out as a >> dare. >> >> PhilD >> >> > > My old man walked away when when the dude stuck his finger in I laughed > and called him back telling him nothing happened, it then hit me up till 5 > years ago he spent 30 years working in timber yards, my punishment for > laughing was him describing in detail all the saw injuries he has > witnessed. He wins. > > I remember about 1989 when at swansea high a wood work teach ran two > fingers through the band saw in front of a yr 9 class, to his credit he > put the two stumps in his mouth and casually walked out the room. A long time ago someone sent me a picture of a suicide by bandsaw. Apparently fed himself in to it. Can be Googled but not pretty even though in B/W.
From: D Walford on 8 Jun 2010 08:37 On 8/06/2010 10:31 PM, PhilD wrote: > "Toby"<me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message > news:zfmjchrfv2lg$.2yg11ho3a9f4.dlg(a)40tude.net... >> On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:00:26 +1000, D Walford wrote: >> >>> US law must be well and truly fucked if they make such decisions. >>> Too bad they don't have laws to make people responsible for their own >>> stupidity. >>> >>> >>> Daryl >> >> Darwin's job? >> > Stop picking on us. > > LOL, if you did you job we wouldn't have to keep picking on you:-) Daryl
From: PhilD on 8 Jun 2010 08:48
"D Walford" <dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message news:4c0e39a2$0$28652$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > On 8/06/2010 10:31 PM, PhilD wrote: >> "Toby"<me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message >> news:zfmjchrfv2lg$.2yg11ho3a9f4.dlg(a)40tude.net... >>> On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:00:26 +1000, D Walford wrote: >>> >>>> US law must be well and truly fucked if they make such decisions. >>>> Too bad they don't have laws to make people responsible for their own >>>> stupidity. >>>> >>>> >>>> Daryl >>> >>> Darwin's job? >>> >> Stop picking on us. >> >> > LOL, if you did you job we wouldn't have to keep picking on you:-) > We're already trying to get rid of idiots who have no respect for the crocs, it's just that the crocs don't want them either. |