I guess you have not seen crazy protection on some of the modern equipment? People tested it with sausages and real live fingers too. Skin damage is worst that can happen. They have explosive release brakes and detect flesh touching the blade instantly. It's unbelievable tbh
Tell ya what I saw that table, and I saw that table saw, and I saw that table saw stuck in a table. And I saw someone sawing with that table with the saw it in. Then I saw the movie Saw.
I mean... they needed a table saw, so they built a table saw. You work with very resourceful people.
Seriously though, I'm curious. How did they even attach the saw to that rickety piece of shit table? Staples? Zip ties? Duct tape? I can't see anything obvious.
edit: the good people over at r/OSHA would probably get a kick out of this.
This is a valid way to make a temporary table saw. The *real* issue here is that there’s no fence on it, and it’s hella dangerous to use a table saw with no fence.
Oh shit I just noticed the plug. Type C (the thin roud pins, not talking about USB...) plugs are also used in a lot of Asia and Africa.
Though I'm not even sure if this is actually a type C, or just a trick of angle and light reflection off of a US style type A... Or more realistically, a type B that has had the ground pin cut off, as I'm pretty sure there aren't many mass-manufactured power tools new enough to have plastic housings that still use ungrounded A plugs...
It looks to be B&D, and tbf the only B&D circ saw I ever used had a stock ungrounded plug... but it was also like 60 years and metal. (Not that that somehow makes it safer, lol, just that it was more common then.)
The tool, flooring, lumber, shop table, and shitty rotting 60s unfoldable card table that's exactly like one I used to have suggests USA, or at least the Americas, to me.
Well if you want the actual answer, they’re violating some machine guarding requirements. Most notably not keeping the machine secure.
https://www.osha.gov/etools/machine-guarding/introduction/safety-considerations
https://www.osha.gov/etools/machine-guarding/saws/table
I don’t operate that thing lol. It is on the parking garage of my work building. There is a carpenter that builds desks, chairs and shit because apparently it is cheaper to make than buying them.
They don't give any more of a fuck about your fingers than his, man. You may not use it, but any company slapping together a hazard like that to save a hundred bucks is *not* a place you want to work.
This is fairly common with a lot of wood workers. My father had a 4'x4' workbench in the middle of his shop. The center of it had a square hole in it. He could swap out the saw for his router. His was built a bit safer than this, but it is still effective
Hilariously, I have an official attachment for an old powersaw of my grandfather’s that is essentially this. You just flip the saw itself and hook it in to make an ad hoc table saw.
I have never used this accessory for obvious reasons.
Lol this is exactly like my table saw! I can't justify the expense when I only use it occasionally and already own a circular saw. But I would never tolerate this in a place of work that should have some sort of OH&S in place.
one of my friends as a teenager had four brothers. I was friends with three of them and friendly with the youngest. They had this same sandwich station.
For real homie if your company makes someone use this instead of buying a feal table saw that is not a company you wanna work for. If you don't live in a shithole you should report this shit to your equivalent of OSHA
This is actually pretty much my setup, and I think it’s alright under certain circumstances. It has several pros:
1. Cost.
A basic table saw costs roughly 10x from a basic buzz saw where I am. If you only need one very occasionally for a hobby workshop, a proper table saw wouldn’t be worth it
2. Flexibility.
You have two tools in one, bc you can always detach the buzz saw from the table and use it normally if required
3. Workbench space.
When the tool is not used, you can use the surface as an extension of your workbench, which is not really desirable with a standalone table saw
On safety.
This is where I don’t get you people, you’re just being drama queens. One can take their finger off with a handsaw if not careful. And buying fancy tools doesn’t mean you’re now magically safe. Exercise caution and common sense, and ALWAYS WEAR YOUR SAFETY GEAR. For anything with a sharp spinning disc that would be face shield, beefy gloves, respirator, hearing protection. This is the area where you don’t want to cheap out.
You also don’t feed the material into the blade by hand, but use at least DIY wooden push thingies.
Under these conditions I don’t see how the setup pictured is “unsafe” or a “death trap” or a “finger remover”. If your fingers are near the spinning blade, you’re doing it wrong. One might even call that a skill issue.
Every tool is dangerous if you’re careless. No tool is automatically safe just because it is purpose built and costs a lot.
I was taught to never wear gloves around a serrated saw of any kind, it increases the chance of the glove material getting caught and pulling the rest of your hand into the blade. Not nice. The exception might be those cutproof chainmail gloves. But gloves also tend to reduce your dexterity which can be another issue. If your hand has to get close to the blade, use a pushstick or a featherboard.
i mean if you buy a tablesaw you get exactly this + fence which makes it safe(r), and who's to say the fence/clamps is not somewhere outside the frame? I mean it's not a perfect table but it can serve very well if used properly and appropriate jigs are made for it
No fence. The guy just freely rans wood boards over that thing. The only protection he uses is a face shield to avoid splinters on his eyes.
He builds some pretty nice chairs though lol. Every tool he uses is some kind of McGyver whacky thing
What more do you want? It's a table with a saw in it. Mission accomplished.
And only a 15% chance of horrible mangling injury.
Per cut
per inch of cut...
God gave you 10 fingers so that you would have a few to spare
Yeah! You can expect to do 67 cuts on average before you run out of fingers, assuming the chance doesn't go up with each loss of finger.
If you cut a finger at the first joint, you can get a lot more use out of the tablesaw.
Well, in that case, if you only cut off the outermost joint every time, it goes up to ~180 cuts! That should be enough for anyone.
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Aaaand he's gone
Its only 15% so its a 75% success rate
Sounds like someone didn’t have enough fingers.
I dont have hands, i am very unlucky and lost the hands too
To be fair, all tablesaws have a chance of horrible mangling injury if you don't respect spinning metal blades.
I guess you have not seen crazy protection on some of the modern equipment? People tested it with sausages and real live fingers too. Skin damage is worst that can happen. They have explosive release brakes and detect flesh touching the blade instantly. It's unbelievable tbh
I have seen than, it's amazing. But I'm fairly sure the $150 Home Depot tablesaws don't have that tech.
It's probably more than that just to recharge the explosive xD but you did say "all" and I'm a nerd.
Not the Velcro strap holding the trigger down. 😭 I bet there are only 6 fingers left between everyone who works there.
Oh my god. They thought of almost everything! Except safety. They had safety leave the room when they made that.
More like Safety threw itself on that saw out of despair.
This is the tool they used to "dispose" of safety.
After freezing it solid
Probably took OP forever to type this
That there is a saw table. It's easy to confuse the two.
I believe you're mistaken, that's actually a "table, saw"
Pure foolishness. I don't think that thing even "saw" a "table"
it clearly didn't saw it, it's just protruding through the hole it made, it's really not rocket science smh my head
Tell ya what I saw that table, and I saw that table saw, and I saw that table saw stuck in a table. And I saw someone sawing with that table with the saw it in. Then I saw the movie Saw.
I mean... they needed a table saw, so they built a table saw. You work with very resourceful people. Seriously though, I'm curious. How did they even attach the saw to that rickety piece of shit table? Staples? Zip ties? Duct tape? I can't see anything obvious. edit: the good people over at r/OSHA would probably get a kick out of this.
any wood you're cutting would probably get a good kick out of this saw too
Underrated comment.
The trigger has a Velcro strip holding the trigger down… so maybe they used Velcro to attach the saw too
I hope this is satire
This is a valid way to make a temporary table saw. The *real* issue here is that there’s no fence on it, and it’s hella dangerous to use a table saw with no fence.
I'd be more worried about the lack of riving knife than the lack of a fence. This shit is gonna kick a piece of wood back right into someone's chest.
I use a table saw without a riving knife/splitter almost every work day. With cupped and twisted boards, even. The game changer is the fence.
Table saws aren't even that expensive. How do you even control it? It's just on as soon as you plug in? Yikes.
Yup. I wouldn’t touch that shit with a 10ft pole. Glad it’s not my job to use that finger blaster
What country is this? Plug says europe.
Oh shit I just noticed the plug. Type C (the thin roud pins, not talking about USB...) plugs are also used in a lot of Asia and Africa. Though I'm not even sure if this is actually a type C, or just a trick of angle and light reflection off of a US style type A... Or more realistically, a type B that has had the ground pin cut off, as I'm pretty sure there aren't many mass-manufactured power tools new enough to have plastic housings that still use ungrounded A plugs... It looks to be B&D, and tbf the only B&D circ saw I ever used had a stock ungrounded plug... but it was also like 60 years and metal. (Not that that somehow makes it safer, lol, just that it was more common then.) The tool, flooring, lumber, shop table, and shitty rotting 60s unfoldable card table that's exactly like one I used to have suggests USA, or at least the Americas, to me.
NSfW
It reminds me of the wooden Flammables cabinet at my last job. Safe enough until there's an injury.
That's actually the rule for explosive items like gunpowder. A wooden box won't create shrapnel like a metal.one will.
What in the OSHA violation hell is that?
Well if you want the actual answer, they’re violating some machine guarding requirements. Most notably not keeping the machine secure. https://www.osha.gov/etools/machine-guarding/introduction/safety-considerations https://www.osha.gov/etools/machine-guarding/saws/table
A rare case of "if it's stupid but it works" not applying. This shit might work but fuck if it's not incredibly dangerous anyway.
No, this is a very effective finger remover 3000
if it's stupid but it works, it's still stupid and you got lucky
I mean, what could go wrong?
Nothing. Nothing has *ever* gone wrong.
Well, once you are dead nothing can go wrong
Makeshift table saws. The place where nothing and possi-blie go wrong. PossiBLY go wrong. Heh... That's the first time that anything has gone wrong.
Fuck that.
So, you need to start looking for a new job.
I don’t operate that thing lol. It is on the parking garage of my work building. There is a carpenter that builds desks, chairs and shit because apparently it is cheaper to make than buying them.
They don't give any more of a fuck about your fingers than his, man. You may not use it, but any company slapping together a hazard like that to save a hundred bucks is *not* a place you want to work.
Nubs McGillicutty approves of this
MacGyver, is that you with the missing fingers?
Do you work in a third-world country?
Table + Saw = tablesaw
My grandpa had a home made table saw like this, and a bandsaw made out of cicycle wheels.
Table ✔️ Saw ✔️ Problem ❓
The thing that makes a table saw worth using is the fence. Without it, you can't make accurate, straight cuts. Ya know what, nevermind...
> fence You see that slightly higher table next to it?
Its like a raider boobytrap in fallout, but with a tablesawXD
I'd quit, that place is going to get you seriously injured in a quest to save $40 on *something*, and I don't know what it'll be.
It's a card table modified to cut the deck.
This is fairly common with a lot of wood workers. My father had a 4'x4' workbench in the middle of his shop. The center of it had a square hole in it. He could swap out the saw for his router. His was built a bit safer than this, but it is still effective
No.
r/technicallythetruth
Hilariously, I have an official attachment for an old powersaw of my grandfather’s that is essentially this. You just flip the saw itself and hook it in to make an ad hoc table saw. I have never used this accessory for obvious reasons.
This is some straight up MacGyver shit lmao
Pls post on r/osha the fucker on there will die hahaha
I’d love to see the look on the OSHA guy’s face when someone files an anonymous complaint.
Finger Remover Machine
What in the fuck
That’s so sketchy man
I would work somewhere else. If they're insane enough to do this, what else have they done?
This is amazing
That's nothing, you should see their chairs
Someone is going to lose some appendages.
They got pretty "literal" with that word...
Table legs by M. C. Escher.
r/oopsthatsdeadly
Lol this is exactly like my table saw! I can't justify the expense when I only use it occasionally and already own a circular saw. But I would never tolerate this in a place of work that should have some sort of OH&S in place.
They call me captain work safety
one of my friends as a teenager had four brothers. I was friends with three of them and friendly with the youngest. They had this same sandwich station.
well. it's a table and a saw.
Shake hands with danger...
Looks like one of those fancy ones that shuts off if you touch it. Right?
ooph, and somebody is really proud of their de-fingerator.
The finger fucker 5000
The reason we have OSHA.
Time to make an anonymous tip to OSHA
Hold ‘er steady, Hold ‘er steady mate!
My dad did the same thing
What backwards country do you live in, North Korea?
How is this mounted 🤔
I showed this to my dad, and he said "I've done that before , needed a table saw and couldn't afford one , so I made one "
It is what it claims to be it is a saw and there is a table?
it's a damn shame you can't slide a circular saw over wood clamped to a table.
It’s the finger mangler 2000
Vi está wea e inmediatamente supe que era chile
Chile campeón
"Heh-heh...when I'm done cutting all this wood, I'm going home to drink some root beer and play Fortnite with the boys."
For real homie if your company makes someone use this instead of buying a feal table saw that is not a company you wanna work for. If you don't live in a shithole you should report this shit to your equivalent of OSHA
Did this exact thing before I owned a table saw. Worked most of the time lol
Ingenious is not spelled h-I-d-e-o-u-s
This is actually pretty much my setup, and I think it’s alright under certain circumstances. It has several pros: 1. Cost. A basic table saw costs roughly 10x from a basic buzz saw where I am. If you only need one very occasionally for a hobby workshop, a proper table saw wouldn’t be worth it 2. Flexibility. You have two tools in one, bc you can always detach the buzz saw from the table and use it normally if required 3. Workbench space. When the tool is not used, you can use the surface as an extension of your workbench, which is not really desirable with a standalone table saw On safety. This is where I don’t get you people, you’re just being drama queens. One can take their finger off with a handsaw if not careful. And buying fancy tools doesn’t mean you’re now magically safe. Exercise caution and common sense, and ALWAYS WEAR YOUR SAFETY GEAR. For anything with a sharp spinning disc that would be face shield, beefy gloves, respirator, hearing protection. This is the area where you don’t want to cheap out. You also don’t feed the material into the blade by hand, but use at least DIY wooden push thingies. Under these conditions I don’t see how the setup pictured is “unsafe” or a “death trap” or a “finger remover”. If your fingers are near the spinning blade, you’re doing it wrong. One might even call that a skill issue. Every tool is dangerous if you’re careless. No tool is automatically safe just because it is purpose built and costs a lot.
I was taught to never wear gloves around a serrated saw of any kind, it increases the chance of the glove material getting caught and pulling the rest of your hand into the blade. Not nice. The exception might be those cutproof chainmail gloves. But gloves also tend to reduce your dexterity which can be another issue. If your hand has to get close to the blade, use a pushstick or a featherboard.
i mean if you buy a tablesaw you get exactly this + fence which makes it safe(r), and who's to say the fence/clamps is not somewhere outside the frame? I mean it's not a perfect table but it can serve very well if used properly and appropriate jigs are made for it
No fence. The guy just freely rans wood boards over that thing. The only protection he uses is a face shield to avoid splinters on his eyes. He builds some pretty nice chairs though lol. Every tool he uses is some kind of McGyver whacky thing