Bad Ideas in Slow Motion

Just cut my hand in half on DEWALT table saw three weeks ago. Cut through every bone, tendon and nerve in my hand after a 5 hour surgery which will be the first of three I lucked out and will get most of the use in my hand back in about a year. Be careful guys life sucks with one hand.

My dad was a builder his whole life. His mentor / the guy he worked for before going on his own lost 3 fingers on an old craftsman table saw. When sawstop came out my dad got one immediately. When I started getting into woodworking as a hobby, a sawstop showed up in my garage one day. My dad had sent it when I told him I was in the market. Amazing tool.

I'm retired 37 years concrete carpenter. I built the giant forms for the things we love. Dams bridges gigantic hotels resorts ect ect. When asked what I feel is my greatest achievement I hold up my hands and wiggle my fingers. "Still got all 10 "". Cam I've seen up close it's down right crazy. Careless and complacent that's the two biggest ❤😂. Good video

I loved the "think about it" callback, haha

In 1991 my grandfather took the safety guard off his saw to saw a bigger piece of wood. It kicked back and he put his hand on the blade. Chopped right through from his thumb to his wrist. 10 months of surgeon's hospitals and pain. They saved his thumb but he was never able to use his hand properly again. Until the day he died he would bollocking us all if he saw us misusing tools! Miss him so much. Stay safe guys

Been getting a little too comfortable on the table saw lately. Glad this video popped up

I use an unripened plantain for a push stick these days. It really does help bring awareness to my situation. Can’t be too safe.

This makes me remember my neighbour. He has an old 400v saw build out of the electrical motor from an electrical stair. No on or off just plug it in and there we go. I came home from work and heard him cutting old pallets for fire wood. The saw blade was screaming and burning more through the wood than cutting it. I told him, I will just change my clothes, you will change the saw blade and than we will get this job done. When I’ve changed clothes, I went back to his garage but he ran out with his right hand up and the thumb 2cm shorter. I’ve called an ambulance, turned off the saw, collected the meat and gave it to the medic who has arrived. He looked at me and asked if I want it for my dog or if he should throw it away. My neighbour looked scared and asked if there is any chance to ad this ground meat to his thumb. The medic looked up to him and started laughing 😂 I was cutting out windows in a brick wall with the big 230mm angle grinder and the diamond blade. One kickback later I’ve nearly lost my left arm right under the elbow. But thankfully the angle grinder had a motor stop so it just gave me a little kiss and burnt me a nice scar inside my underarm. Long story short, I’m scared of big table saws and big angle grinders. Edit: I was in the army and we were at the shooting range. I’ve pointed my G36 on the floor next to my foot and was playing with the trigger when the rifle was unsecured. Yep I nearly shot my foot. The bullet just went 1cm next to my shoe in the ground. Man I’ve done stupid things in my life…

It’s nice to see that at least you were being safe by using your SawStop

I worked in a wood shop in my twenties and was extremely lucky using the cross saw, I have a 3 inch scar on my little finger and a nice groove in the bones of the knuckle, when I stupidly went to pull a small piece of wood out from the saw before it had finished rotating, made me so much more safety conscious after that.

The "Think about it" logic is back !!!

Random dude: Neesh, not nitch. Cam: you sound like a beesh. Greatest comeback ever.

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Fastest click in the west

When I was an apprentice doing hardwood floors the first time I was going to use the table saw my mentor said let me show you first what not to do . He said watch what happens when you twist the board going through the blade . He did that and he sent a piece of hardwood flooring through the drywall in back of us. He looked at me and said you got that and then he proceeded to show me the correct way to use a table saw . I'm retired now and I never had a kickback ever

Love the O.J. to Aaron Hernandez scale…hilarious 😂😂😂

I was dumb enough to cause massive kickback on a jointer, turning it into something more akin to a blade-throwing claymore. Full story: I inherited a cheap 16cm/~6in electrical jointer from a relative who had lost the original blades. Found some standardized replacements but didn't know what screws to use so I just resorted to some random M6 screws my dad had lying around. Thread fit but seemed a bit short. I had cut an old oak beam into slices to make candle holders and wanted to push one through the jointer to try it out. As my dad was walking past I put it on the machine, turned it on, pushed it into the blade with a push stick and just heard a loud bang. I got clocked in the jaw with a piece of wood and heard a few metal pieces hitting the ground as the machine was angrily and unhealthily whirring. Pulled the plug because I didn't want to go anywhere near that switch. Turns out the block got jammed in the blade, broke in two and both pieces went flying, one of them hitting me in the face. The impact ripped out the screws holding the 3mm thick, 16cm long blade in place, causing it to get dragged through the bottom of the machine before shooting out the top, blasting through the edge of the push-table, sending aluminum shrapnel flying everywhere. The hardened steel blade was bent at a ~20° angle. Luckly it didn't hit anyone. I threw that thing out. I'll be sanding from now on. Edit: Jointer, not planer. Specific model was a GÜDE GAH 1300 if anyone wants a visualization.

Just watching you force a kickback made my stomach drop, cant imagine your shorts were clean after some of these shots. Thanks for the entertainment.

For anyone new to tools, Cam SERIOUSLY risked his life to do this. best safety video ever

Slo Mo guys just got their next video idea.