Timeline for How to make this setup to break down timber safer?
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| Sep 19, 2022 at 15:25 | comment | added | Jan Spurny | Buy your dad a bandsaw as a gift for christmass/birthday - whatever comes first! | |
| Sep 13, 2022 at 16:41 | comment | added | FreeMan | Find some internet pics of the rough sawing portion of a lumber mill and point out to dad that A) the hold downs for the tree are hydraulic, and that B) no people are in the line of fire should something go wrong. Alternatively, show him pictures of people with fingers, hands, arms missing due to table saw mishaps... | |
| Sep 13, 2022 at 14:58 | vote | accept | Martin Drozdik | ||
| Sep 13, 2022 at 13:04 | answer | added | David D | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 12, 2022 at 23:45 | comment | added | Aloysius Defenestrate | It’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks. If your father did enough of this, he would eventually get hurt, but it’s not like he’s apt to believe you or a bunch of well-meaning randos on the interwebz. The semi-reasonable thing that jumps out at me is attaching the stump firmly to a unidirectional (no kickback) captured (no flying up) sled. Setup and use takes time, so might not be popular. | |
| Sep 12, 2022 at 18:31 | comment | added | Graphus | You probably know this already but the saw for processing logs 'freehand' is the bandsaw, and it's fundamentally a much safer tool than table saws (SawStop excluded naturally). But even on a bandsaw it's still safer to use a jig for at least the first one or two establishing cuts, where the piece is still irregular and unstable. | |
| Sep 12, 2022 at 18:28 | comment | added | Graphus | You already know the answer to the first question! Just because your dad (anyone) doing something dangerous has not had an accident does not mean that what they're doing is not risky/dangerous/foolhardy. Table-saw-related injuries are some of the best examples of where the user will inevitably say "This has never happened before." Well OK, but was it a matter of when and not if? As to how to make this safer, I think most or all will agree that the thing to do is not to do it on that saw, full stop. | |
| Sep 12, 2022 at 18:18 | history | asked | Martin Drozdik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |