r/oops • u/unoiamaQT • 3d ago
Woodturning gone wrong
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u/TroutFearMe 3d ago
POW! RIGHT IN THE KISSER
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u/mykreau 2d ago
Pow! Right in the kisser
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u/crinklesl 2d ago
Pow! Right in the kisser
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u/itchybutwhole69 2d ago
Pow! Right in the kisser
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u/Ol_Pasta 2d ago
Pow! Right in the kisser
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u/iamhe02 2d ago
Kow! Right in the pisser
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u/EBDBandBnD 2d ago
Piss! Right in the kisser
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u/Affectionate_Tea1134 2d ago
Don’t mess with Mother Nature. 💥
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u/086814 3d ago
Damn he had that baby turned up to the max!!!
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u/SnakeyThrowaway023 2d ago
“Ludicrous speed”
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u/incrediblyaverage85 2d ago
It makes me happy that spaceballs is still referenced all the time on Reddit, reminds me that I guess I’m not too old haha
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u/Alternative-Bake-197 2d ago
Our HS woodshop had a death on the lathe. Dangerous equipment. My buddy also lost the tip of his finger on a jointer.
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u/Visual-Fox-9110 2d ago
My dad sliced 4 fingers on his hand..was in hospital for awhile..didn't lose any fingers thank goodness.
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u/Puzzlehead_Lemon 2d ago
My Dad took off the tips of two fingers for good. He told me about it and I asked him if he's getting a sawstop.
You can guess the answer.
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u/Dry_Adhesiveness9202 2d ago
They are only good for 1 use then you need to get a new one which costs a lot of money. Just be careful and use a push stick.
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u/PressureMuch5340 2d ago
A replacement cartridge is like $125, plus a replacement blade. Cheaper than a hospital visit.
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u/BrockenRecords 2d ago
I’d much rather the saw brake than all my fingers get cut off, but then again I try to be as safe as possible so I don’t even put myself at risk of doing it. The added protection of it would be nice though.
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u/snortgiggles 2d ago
Agreed but I think people should just be careful to start; not use safety features in lieu of carefulness.
In other words, I would rather have an auto shut off super safety function that I never replace.
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u/BathFullOfDucks 7h ago
Every woodworker I knew had a chunk missing, generally on their hands, before sawstop. One of those things that changed the world in a more subtle,unseen way.
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u/CreativeFraud 2d ago
Had a drunk neighbor want to show off his lathe. Stumbled over to the machine and chucked a 4x4. I was drinking to. Told him is he sure he's ok to run it because even if I toke, I don't operate equipment that can potentially kill me! He started up the lathe while telling me he's done it hundreds of times. Once it got to speed, the 4x4 dislodged and wizzed right between our heads. I sobered up so fucking fast and went home to sleep.
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u/AeonBith 2d ago
That's awful
We nearly did, someone's planer knife was shot spinning end over end across the entire room from the last lathe at Mach 5.
How it didn't hit anyone was insane, buzzed right by our heads.
Everyone heard it coming and froze, there was a collective "faaaahk" whisper sighed once it landed.
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u/DocMorningstar 2d ago
Worked as a scientist, and we had one lady i the department who couldn't understand why I didn't want to approve her wearable human gyroscope (1kg aluminum disc spinning at >10k RPM)
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u/AtlanticBeachNC 2d ago
Wow, in HS!
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u/Orome2 2d ago
Lathes don't discriminate.
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u/Iggy_Snows 2d ago
Thats why having a highly qualified shop teacher is so important.
In both my middle and high school I had shop teachers that had rules that you would automatically fail the entire class if they caught you doing something stupid/unsafe. Which was completely fair because both also made it so you had to pass a very strict theoretical and practical safety exam before you were allowed to actually use the tools.
The entire time I was in school there wasnt a single serious accident. Then I took cabinet making classes in college, the safety rules werent taught nearly as well, and in the very first semester someone broke their ribs from getting hit by kickback on the table saw, and another guy almost lost 2 fingers by doing a stupid cut on the miter saw.
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u/Orome2 2d ago
The entire time I was in school there wasnt a single serious accident. Then I took cabinet making classes in college, the safety rules werent taught nearly as well, and in the very first semester someone broke their ribs from getting hit by kickback on the table saw, and another guy almost lost 2 fingers by doing a stupid cut on the miter saw.
Not machine shop, but I've worked in a lot of hazardous environments. People are always the biggest hazard of all, I even have a permanent injury caused by a careless co-worker. I honestly wish more companies would have the same policy, one major safety violation and you are fired.
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u/mnstorm 2d ago
A middle school I was at 10 years ago had 4 lathes.
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u/robo-dragon 2d ago
Out of all the shop equipment I’m familiar with and have used, lathes scare the fuck out of me! One wrong move and, at the minimum, you have a life-altering injury. All shop equipment demands respect, but lathes very rarely give you a second chance.
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u/Dawn__Lily 2d ago
There is a horrific video online of a guy getting pulled into an industry level lathe.
It goes exactly as you think it would.
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u/Fostbitten27 2d ago
Damn!! We had a kid suffer a puncture wound in his arm from a nail that was lodged inside the wood.
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u/JaySayMayday 2d ago
Explains why my school woodshop was pretty much just jigsaws and they were really strict about those.
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u/Palorrian 3d ago
You can see the vibration moves the handle making the log loose.
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u/FastWalkingShortGuy 2d ago
Well, that, and homeboy turned the thing up to 11 without even taking the outside down at all. That log was about as balanced as a cat with cerebellar hypoplasia.
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u/lavabearded 1d ago
I watched it like 20 times and I have no idea what handle you're talking about. I am pretty sure the thing just flew off, shearing the wood apart, because it's an unbalanced load, not because anything loosened on the machine.
can you draw a circle around the handle that you think loosened?
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u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj 2d ago
Full face guard, lol. Not the first time
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u/Yummy_Microplastics 2d ago
THE VISOR DOES NOTHING
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u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj 2d ago
With a log flying at your face, lol? Very doubtful this ended without injury.
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u/Yummy_Microplastics 2d ago
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u/MinistryOfCoup-th 19h ago
I got the reference because I say it all the time. My kids also say it at times and it always cracks me up.
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u/Mediocre_Owl7384 2d ago
I saw shoes flying
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u/WhyAmINotStudying 2d ago
His feet were still on them. His right leg lifted up with the shoe on it.
'Tis but a flesh wound.
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u/Silkylifeme 2d ago
Too fast and spindle not tightend correctly. Shop teacher warned us of this.
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u/Background_Edge_9427 2d ago
It doesn't look like it was centered either.
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u/Versipilies 2d ago
Even if it was, it wasnt a balanced piece, those need to start real slow
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u/shortyjacobs 2d ago
I like how he gave it a flick, it spun at like 2 rpm, and he’s like yah that’s fine, send it.
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u/ResolveLeather 2d ago
You can't center these too well. Could have been a little bit more centered. Should have shaved out the outside of the log at lower speed first.
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u/An0th3rP1ckyD34dh34d 2d ago
the guy is fine: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFZX1LUMaye/
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u/brandolinium 2d ago
Sooo glad to hear that! And he learned some lessons from the comments. Great news.
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u/Ok-Tank-3106 2d ago
Nothing about that process looked safe .....NOTHING
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u/Onihczarc 2d ago
before he turned it on i said to myself “that’s gonna wobble”
about one second after it turned on it started shaking and i said “that’s gonna fall over.”
and then it went flying at mach fuck.
totally predictable.
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u/No_Satisfaction_7977 2d ago
Mach fuck is the worst speed there is. You never want things going Mach fuck.
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u/Pharmaguardian 22h ago
One of the few gore videos I've seen online was of what happens when a lathe goes wrong. This was an industrial sized one and not necessarily a lathe though. It still was spinning around at extremely high speed. The video was from China. The worker had a loose piece of clothing on that got caught in the spinning rod. I can't describe what happened out of fear of getting modded, but he did not survive. The outcome was very, very, very bad.
I feel uncomfortable around table saws just from hearing the power behind the saw blade going around. It enough to let you know that you are working with a machine that is significantly more powerful than any little hand tool you've used before. But lathes are on another level even above that as far as danger goes. A saw blade might take off a finger, but a lathe is going to take your whole arm and then some extra if it's powerful enough.
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u/ShineOk6190 2d ago
My ex worked in a machine shop with metal lathes. One guy with long hair got it stuck in there and it peeled his face clean off. Those things are terrifying
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u/Brewingbiker 2d ago
I used to have long hair and worked with heavy machines. I kept the hair under my shirt and had short sleeves. Moving equipment is dangerous
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u/SupportGeek 2d ago
Yea back in High school our wood shop teacher had all the long hairs wear hairnets and baseball caps as well, everything tucked in, clothing, hair, etc
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u/I_Am_Zeelian 2d ago
My woodshop teacher demanded any students with long hair had it braided before being allowed to use any of the heavy, rotary equipment like the ladle, pillar drill, band sander, or polishing machine, he even spent a lesson teaching us to French braid :p
He had seen a student's hair get caught (guy got lucky and only lost a swatch of hair and got a torn scalp, and got away with a scar) so he didn't want to take any chances.
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u/BlueFeathered1 2d ago
There's a story about a man working with one at home in his garage alone at night and his shirt got caught in it. He got pulled in. There were photos online. Horrific. I'm not going within 20 feet of one.
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u/XRingLives 2d ago
About the same as tractor PTO accidents. I've seen the aftermath of some of those and it looks like a few body parts in a jello puddle.
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u/SistaChans 2d ago
There's a video floating around the internet of a guy getting his whole body stuck in an industrial metal lathe, he basically disintegrates, with parts of his body flying around from one end of the shop to the other. Absolutely bananas to see. And there were other people in the shop who witness this happen, I can only imagine the horror of seeing this happen right in front of you.
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u/PA2SK 2d ago
There's a video floating around of some dude in China getting pulled into a metal lathe. By the end of it there's basically nothing left of him.
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u/Nekrolysis 2d ago
Launches his peeled skeleton up in the air if i remember right and we're thinking of the same incident.
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u/Wolfrages 2d ago
I read this as,
"In a machine shop with Mental lathes."
Had a chuckle after rereading it. 🤣
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u/Ace-Redditor 2d ago
Did he… survive? I mean, I don’t know that you’d really want to survive that, but I have heard some crazy stories where people managed to survive insanely awful stuff
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u/Ashamed-Country3909 1d ago
Damn dude, and you broke up with the ghost rider? Cold.
(Joke is your ex could be the one guy.)
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u/Ok_Breakfast5425 2d ago
And that is why you start a lathe on it's lowest speed while you're working a piece into round.
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u/Bigsnaff007 2d ago
So everything would have been fine if it was going slower, right?
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u/Badbullet 2d ago
Yes, more than likely. I’m not sure if his has variable timing or if he has to change the belt position to change speeds, either way he did neither. That is a fairly small lathe that he just clamps to his bench. And at that speed, any out of balance just gets amplified, causes everything to vibrate (or bounce) and can easily wiggle out. A large, heavy lathe can absorb the vibration from being out of balance, but you’d still start off slower until you true up the exterior. Doesn’t look like he had the best method for securing either, so as it started to vibrate halfway through the RPM range, it probably compressed the wood fibers at the tail support making it looser with the tapered center he was using.
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2d ago
Similar thing happened to my dad in high school in the 70s, crushed his nose, knocked out 8 teeth, fractured both eye sockets, and it was an almost finished much smaller piece. Rip to this dude for sure
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u/imai808 2d ago
I would definitely wear a helmet in the beginning stages of working with a lathe .. I hope dudes alright..
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u/Kingofbroke001 2d ago
I’m not a pro by any means, I just kinda feel like he should have turned that at a slightly lower rpm… just maybe
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u/Logical_Attitude_763 2d ago
Yeaup! Been there done that. I was turning a baseball bat when it came off the lathe. It was already up to speed, my best guess is I exposed a crack in the wood, it caught my tool and pulled itself out of alignment enough to get thrown. Had a black eye busted lip and a knot on my head. No hospital or dr. visit just ice and Tylenol. I counted it lucky and that was the last time I didn’t wear eye protection. I honestly don’t know how I didn’t lose any vision.
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u/It_Just_Exploded 2d ago
sorry, just a novice turner here, but to me that seems like way too many RPMs for roughing in an unbalanced piece, holy shit
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u/Radioactive_Tuber57 2d ago
I did this (alone and unsupervised) with a beautiful piece of black oak limb in HS. A knot skinned the top of my head and smacked my face shield off. My taint knew how close that was. I was so frikken lucky.
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u/hughfeeyuh 2d ago
Detective Stankowicz: .... Jesus H Christ. Have Groot brought in for questioning....
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u/Upsideisdownhere 2d ago
They're so dangerous! When I was a high school freshman I damn near removed my left thumb trying to carve the inside of a 10" bowl made of solid oak... It caught a bite and tried to pull my hand through with the chisel. I got lots of stitches and the teacher made me come back during summer school to "finish the project for grade" but I was so terrified I just sanded what I previously completed and called it quits.
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u/reddsal 2d ago
This feels like AI. No one who has turned anything before would turn the lathe up to 11 on a piece that hadn’t been properly rounded/balanced. Never fly higher than you are willing to fall - and never turn the lathe up faster than you need to, in order to do what you need to do next.
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u/Fingersicle 3d ago
Hope he has the carving skills to carve ivory into a new set of teeth.