Had a close call with the bench saw!

[log dog]

wow that could have been really serious .... did you not have a demonstration of the machine ?...

[log dog]

wow that could have been really serious .... did you not have a demonstration of the machine ?...

[Rich2484]

That was very close......

 

Was connie hedge cutting and after climbing and scrabbling along the top I came down fine. Hour later jumped done from the tipper step, (about a foot off the ground) and twitched my back, I'm now in agony and drugged to the eye balls.

 

I've heard of people falling from low places and doing very bad damage to themselves.

 

I'm sure strong words will be used against the seller of the saw but is that all it could be and your wasting your breath or are you going to try and get him to do something about it?

[Pat Ferrett]

Seems to have turned into a falling thread a mate of mine fell for a woman! it cost him all he had and reduced him to a shadow of his former self, my conclusion is falling for women is fare more dangerous than falling off ladders

[Shane]

Glad you are OK after this experience.

While I can't say I am keen on the litigative society we are becoming ,I think anyone who sells something like that (knowing it is so wrong or dic@ing around with such incompetence) that it really is lethal - should be taken to the cleaners.

 

We all spend a great deal of time/effort keeping ourselves and others safe then some James Hunt sells something like this.

[njc110381]

I feel a bit daft myself for not having the blade off but having bought it from someone who supplies wood for a living I thought (wrongly) that it would be ok so just did the basic checks of everything looking ok and being tight like I would before I use it every time.

 

I don't know if the seller knew the fault or whether he bought the bench to sell it on? I hope it's the latter because if it is then it's a genuine mistake on his part and I'll not hold that against him. All I'm asking from him is to sort me out with a blade of the correct spec to fit - as the bench was sold as ready for work and in good order I think that's a fair request? I'm not one to go for the what could have happened line - I'm ok so lesson learned and I'll move on.

 

Speaking of falls I once did about twenty feet from a tree and landed on an old bike in a junk pile. I had huge bruises all over my back but was fine. On the other hand a mate of mine at school fell from a branch of a conker tree when we were about 15 - he was five feet from the ground and has been in a wheelchair ever since.