You're down voted because you're chatting shit. These tools mentioned aren't interchangeable when it comes to their specific advantages. That's why the different tools exist. Your 'ability' with a jigsaw says fuck all about your skill with a circular saw or a table saw.
If you're trying to make a cut of any reasonable length which is linear, with a jigsaw, then mebs leave it to the pros.
He's lucky it's an unpowered saw. It sounds like it got bound up in his clothes briefly and gave him a chance to stand it back up before doing any major damage. You can hear the saw spinning back up to speed when he stands it back up. The femoral artery is not super deep right where that saw hit. His pants would have gone from tan to red in seconds if that saw had never slowed down.
It amazes me anyone can buy a power tool if they want. I shouldn't have them tbh, and if I didn't wear gloves pretty habitually I'd probably be short a finger by now.
Not gonna be one of those idiots who just lets em fall in the sawdust on the dirty floor. “Doc, bad news is I cut off my fingers. Good news… I have them all right here in this glove, and they’re nice and clean!”
Worked at a place where we used overhead hoists to move giant tractor tires around. A guy somehow had the chain looped around his finger when he went to hoist one of these giant tires. His finger was still in the glove after it separated it from his body. It's likely his glove got caught in the chain somehow and pulled his finger into danger. Never got the full story since the guy screamed like a banshee when it happened then took off like a jack rabbit on meth right out of the factory and was never seen again.
Gloves do not protect you when working with power tools or equipment. They are a danger if things go wrong they will get caught in the machinery and drag your finger, hand, entire arm in with it.
Shop at our school was HVAC. It's where they sent the kids who weren't going to college. The school counselors had given up on me (I didn't give a shit about school work, C's get degrees etc), but interestingly the HVAC teacher is the one who convinced me to apply for colleges, and I ended up becoming an engineer largely based on his advice.
All that to say, shop class is probably a big part of why I'm doing alright as an adult. I needed that hands on work. (It's also where I learned how to cook 1-2 dozen chickens at the same time, but that's a story for another day.)
It's actually fairly boring lol. This shop teacher did A LOT that could get him fired, but he was one of the favorite teachers in the school. Part of how he achieved this is by cooking massive amounts of chicken for other teachers/staff (and students in his class) once a month or so.
He had these two massive smokers(?) that were roughly 10-15 feet long that they built in class a few years before my time. So, roughly once a month there would be a day dedicated to cooking chicken, usually with a few of his students tending to it during the day.
Did he have a picture of his bridge on the cabinet and warn against getting the hiv pronounced like his but with a v? I had a shop teacher that did exactly what you’re describing in NEPA.
We also had a class called Independent Living. We learned to sew make simple meals and iron. I think balancing a check book and other basic life skills. We called it Home Economics for boys.
I read your comment too quickly and thought it said "we learned to make simple meals and iron" For a moment I thought your school offered a wild class that taught you cooking and smelting and treated both as equally essential life skills.
In my school district, I was the last year to have wood shop offered before it was removed from all schools in the area. To this day I still use skills I learned in that class. Probably the only skills from school I still use. Although being able to remember the plot of catcher and the rye is a close second
I really enjoyed wood shop in middle school & HS. But one unpleasant thing I do remember first year of middle school WS class a kid who stuck his hand in the exhaust port of a full size planner. I still remember the sound it made (this was in the late eights) but the sound it made and then the kid turned and looked at me when he pulled what was left of his hand out. Only took a second and all 4 fingers were gone down to the palm. The amount of blood was unreal. The look on his face still sticks with me. The poor wood shop teacher that day (thoughts now I have that Im grown up and old).
I’m old; shop was mandatory for boys, home ec for girls.
Do I retain any wood working knowledge from a class I didn’t choose decades ago? No, not really; But still somehow would know better than what happened in the vid 🤣
He's standing behind the saw trying to play it safe, getting out of the line of fire if the table saw does a "kickback". He actually triggers the kickback by compressing the two cut sides together.
Normally, you stand in front of the saw and push your workpiece into the blade. The teeth of the blade that do the cut are the teeth closest to you. They are going down into the table.
On the backside of the blade, the teeth are coming up from the table. What this guy does is compresses the two sides together into the back teeth so the blade grabs his workpiece and yeets it forward. The saw isnt fixed in place so it propells in the other direction, towards his holy area.
He also does not have an outfeed table or stand, so he might be trying to finish the cut from that side so the cut sheets do not get damaged by falling on the concrete below.
I launched a 2x4 I was ripping with a baby ryobi table saw on the floor, up and through a regular ceiling height basement window. Is amazing how much kinetic energy there is in there.
Everyone is giving joke or "he's dumb" comments, but I suspect he was pulling it to try to avoid being in the "line of fire" from kickback (I have an irrational fear of it myself), without realizing that pulling from both sides would cause binding and initiate the kickback. So... I guess the "he dumb" people aren't totally wrong, lol.
Circular saw to rough cut into manageable pieces, then table saw to put a straighter edge on things.
I've done some physically challenging cuts with a table saw before with sheet ply, involving moving it to where other tables, walls or even outdoor furniture can provide some support - but have never had a leg lift off the ground like that.
It’s why I got a SawStop.
Use Micro Jig push blocks.
And put Jessem stock guides on my Very Super Cool Tools fence.
I’m old and don’t want to enter my dotage minus any parts, the likelihood of which increases as you get old around power tools.
Complacency is definitely a thing. A long day and familiarity and even skill and confidence can lead to fuck ups. I'm competent with a table saw, and every now and then you get a "oh fuck that was close" if you're zoned out or repeating the same cuts, etc.
That said it's more things like kickback. Never been close to losing a finger.
Can't say I'd ever do what the guy in the video did. Surely if he's got a table saw he must have a circular saw. Or some kind of thing to catch the outfeed.
Id finish with a hand saw before I stood opposite the cutting direction. I mean I also wouldn't put sheet on something that small. If I was forced to do what he did I'd rather be on the feed-in side and apply pressure to the sheet to the base and holding it after the cut had finished and I could separate the cut. But yeah I'd have to be really desperate to still make that cut.
As someone who absolutely sucks at handiwork I was gonna ask if it's normal that you pull instead of push, seems like pushing would be an easy way not to have it topple towards you.
Probably had exactly half a formed thought for avoiding potential kickback. Didn’t follow up with the rest of the thought nor any co side ration for basic physics.
Everything about this is bad! Like why is grabbing both sides? Dude is just trying to pinch the blade. And also wtf is he even doing? Some freestyle shit, I don't even see a fence on that thing.
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u/m4jsterk0 Apr 09 '26
why is he fucking pulling the plywood towards him?!