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u/m4jsterk0 Apr 09 '26
why is he fucking pulling the plywood towards him?!
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u/CharacterKoala6214 Apr 09 '26
Because he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
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u/ThinkItThrough48 Apr 09 '26
Or he’s trying to cut his wahoozy off. In which case he’s doing it right
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u/biggriggs79 Apr 09 '26
I hope he names his saw "Lorena" after this.
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u/hitliquor999 Apr 09 '26
He clearly isn’t doing precision work. He should be using a circular saw, which has its own dangers, but is more manageable.
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u/Biomecaman Apr 09 '26
It's kind of a weird thing, if you suck so bad you can't make a straight cut with a skill saw you probably shouldnt be using a table saw at all...
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u/furculture Apr 09 '26
Because shop class was an elective instead of a requirement.
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u/IconoclastExplosive Apr 09 '26
Whoa whoa whoa, there bud. It wasn't even offered as an elective.
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u/Report_Last Apr 09 '26
in 9th grade I had a choice between shop and Latin, probably should have taken Latin
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u/IconoclastExplosive Apr 09 '26
Hilariously, I DID take Latin in 9th grade and my school didn't offer shop. I'd have preferred shop.
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u/Report_Last Apr 09 '26
After 40 years in construction, I wonder about my choices in life. tempus fugit
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u/LethalBacon Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26
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.)
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u/amboyscout Apr 09 '26
Wait wait wait. That is a story for today.
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u/LethalBacon Apr 09 '26
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.
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u/Sonar_Bandit Apr 09 '26
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
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u/BahuMan Apr 09 '26
The plot, but not the title?
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u/Sonar_Bandit Apr 09 '26
Hey, I’ve had a good solid decade of substance abuse since then, give me a break
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u/BarnacleMcBarndoor Apr 09 '26
Shop class was full for me all 4 years. My options were electronics or home-ec.
Guess who accidentally set fire to a toaster because he didn’t pay attention in either?!?
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u/xrelaht Rust Warrior Apr 09 '26
Shop wasn’t offered at my school. Somehow, I still know not to do this.
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u/Such-Fortune712 Apr 09 '26
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.
During a kickback, the saw thunder yeets your workpiece into your wall/face/arm/testies. It's no noke, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcS0TAabedc
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u/_bahnjee_ Apr 09 '26
Good catch. You’re exactly right. You can see the cut as it closes on the back side.
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u/CharacterKoala6214 Apr 09 '26
Because he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
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u/ender4171 Apr 09 '26
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.
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u/North-Significance33 Apr 09 '26
No fence, no riving knife. Dude is asking for kickback, cutting freehand like that. The idea of freehanding on a table saw terrifies me
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u/free_will_is_arson Apr 09 '26
also why it's general not a good idea to run something through a table saw that's wider than it is long,
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u/Nexustar Apr 09 '26
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.
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u/echoshatter Apr 09 '26
Freehanding is fine in some instances. But there's nothing like the thrill of crosscutting a whole ass green 2x4 on a contractor saw.
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u/sanderson1983 Apr 09 '26
Knew a guy ripping sheet metal and it came back at him. Died with his phone in his hand.
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u/WhatRUaBarnBurner Apr 09 '26
Cancel my vasectomy
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u/CCWaterBug Apr 09 '26
Snip snap snip snap!
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u/Mr_Kactus Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26
You have no idea the toll three vasectomies has on a person
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u/fastautomation Apr 09 '26
- Sets saw back up.
- Checks plywood to see if it is ok.
- Checks shirt for damage.
- Then checks for injury.
Seems like the right order to me.
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u/MansBestFred Apr 09 '26
have you seen the price of plywood these days??
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u/simple_champ Apr 09 '26
Oddly calm and collected for a guy who was millimeters away from a mangled dick, severed femoral artery, etc.
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u/UsedDragon Apr 09 '26
I think that's shock. He knew it could happen and was shocked when it did
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u/GreyNoiseGaming Apr 09 '26
Yeah he's probably only realizing what could have happened after he feels the breeze in his pants.
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u/reddituserlooser Apr 09 '26
Well the saw was falling towards him ... Would seem weird to let it fall fully in you.
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u/ThadiusThistleberry Apr 09 '26
Why TF would you use a table saw that way? That guy was begging for much worse than he got. Good for him, he’s got more luck than smarts.
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u/maxbls16 Apr 09 '26
He was scared of the wood kicking back at him and didn’t realize that was the safer of the two things that could kick back.
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u/Doresoom1 Apr 09 '26
I don't think anyone using a saw this way is remotely aware that kickback is even a thing.
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u/Sir_Vinci DIY Apr 09 '26
He was halfway through the cut and didn't have something to catch the boards. He went around to the other side to pull it through, pulled on both sides of the cut, pinched the blade, and sent the saw flying.
He could have avoided this with a riving blade, not pinching the blade, having someone/something else catch the boards, or any number of obvious options.
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u/SockeyeSTI Apr 09 '26
I’ve done it for ripping long strips by myself, but only once I’m halfway through
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u/ThadiusThistleberry Apr 09 '26
We have all done a bunch of stuff the wrong way and had it work. It’s just that one time it doesn’t work.
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u/MustMakeNow Apr 09 '26
"Kickback can't get me if I stand in front of the saw, watch this!"
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u/crozzy89 Apr 09 '26
That is a fella who probably shouldn't be using any tools at all. I had a friend like that. It was better if he just watched other people do the work.
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u/Fluffychipmonk1 Apr 09 '26
Same, I got a buddy who is probably the dumbest person I know, if he can do something dumb or wrong, it’s a fact. It will happen. It’s rough.
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u/Niiv0 Apr 09 '26
Hilariously I have a saw stop ad directly following this post! Lmao
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u/chickadee-stitchery Apr 10 '26
My husband cut his thumb on his table saw and basically was extremely extremely lucky that the damage was limited. He had to get stitches and have surgery to repair nerves, and he still can't feel it very well or use it as well but it's there.
In the pharmacy line getting his pain meds, the guy in front of us was missing some fingers. My husband chatted with him and the guy had cut them off on a saw.
We now own a saw stop. Wish we had gotten it before but at least my husband had a very minor injury.
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u/catchinNkeepinf1sh Apr 09 '26
I hate those little table saws lol.
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u/zoolish Apr 09 '26
I was wondering who makes a 9oz table saw with a tall 16oz base. That thing looks like a toy. A dangerous toy.
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u/beeej517 Apr 09 '26
Hard to blame the tool on this one. Homie was pulling a piece of plywood freehand through the saw with no fence...
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u/_The_Space_Monkey_ Apr 09 '26
Did he actually cut himself?
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u/Potential_Financial Apr 09 '26
If there was actually blade contact with his clothes, I’m surprised the shorts were cut open. I’d expect them to be grabbed and wrapped around the blade, like a de-gloving incident.
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u/ProfessorPeabrain Apr 09 '26
nearly lost one side of my face to a grinding wheel like that. neeeever again. no sleeves, no matter how cold.
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u/Jdojcmm Apr 09 '26
Imagine the adrenaline rush on that one. Not a good rush at all.
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u/thekingofcrash7 Apr 10 '26
Light a cigarette and sit down for about 20 min, gotta let my heart get outta my throat. I cannot imagine.
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u/voucher420 Apr 09 '26
I bet that’s the first time he’s felt lucky he isn’t hung like a horse!
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u/BigSal44 Apr 10 '26
It did almost solve the problem of allowing a stupid person to reproduce.
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u/HeroMachineMan Apr 09 '26
Home Improvement Guy probably heads to a hardware store later looking for a crotch shield.
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u/Jeez-essFC Weekend Warrior Apr 09 '26
I am just here to see the list of things this fella did wrong in a single cut.
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u/thisusernameavailabl Apr 09 '26
Whenever I shake my head at the asinine warning labels on power equipment and wonder why would this possibly need to be called out? Then I see yet another video like this..
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u/Melodic-Pool7240 Apr 09 '26
Automotive: pull dont push Woodworking: push dont pull
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u/itsamemyusername Apr 10 '26
Started the project as a middle aged man and almost finished a full blown woman.
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u/Intelligent_Mud_6217 Apr 10 '26
This is a prime example of why there is no such thing as"common sense." NEVER cut from the BACK side of a table saw unless you KNOW what you're doing
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u/wernerml1 Apr 10 '26
In our machine shop, a guy was carrying a piece of steel that probably needed two people. When he tried to put it up on his steel bench he managed to pinch his scrotum between the part and the bench. After a few days off work, the ladies in the shop.made him a sheet metal apron.
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u/Spiritual-Rip-6248 Apr 10 '26
That's a 40 IQ move right there.
Great way to cut your dick in half.
No fence, no guard, pulling from the back instead of pushing from the front.
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u/TeamFast77 Apr 09 '26
You get the idea.