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Scared the hell out of me!

big tee

big tee

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Working in the shop just before dinner and I screwed up. Needed a couple of thick bushing stock with a 1 in. hole but did not have any-had 7/8th so I put my 1 in. drill bit in my drill press to make my own. Used my big jaw vise grips to hold it on a piece of 2x4--Oiled it up and was working good but quicker the you could say oh shi-the vise grip was jerked out on my hand and came around and caught my ol coat and pulled me against the drill press real hard. There I stood with the belts squealing and me trying to find the toggle switch to shut it off--I have a old Carhart look-alike jacket I wear in the shop and my Wife said she is done patching it but I said "One more year". So the second bushing I made I used my drill press vise--worked good--the end of it rests against the post of the press-should have done the first one that way. The moral of the story is--Don't wear lose fitting clothes around rotating shafts! DUH--I can feel it now and I bet my chest will be sore tomorrow. I guess it could have been worse! The Wife is worried about the stainless steel wires that hold my chest together after my bypass-they fixed them once already-that's all---Tee

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Should have done the first one this way--It is hard to fight a 1 and 1/2 hp. drill press press
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My favorite coat
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Got tore up pretty good--The Wife says she is not going to fix it this time
 
You could be looking like your jacket, Tee. I'm glad things worked out in your favor! BEEE careful!!!
 
The amazing/annoying thing is that even having done these things for many years, 48 for me, and knowing the risks but we still do it and in most cases it goes smoothly. But there’s always that one occasion where it’ s oh-sh and jump bac quick or kill the machine quick. What a lot of people might not realise when they start crowing about safety is that it is not possible to clamp that odd-shaped bracket or whatever in a vice and we have to be ‘hands-on’ for some jobs. Experience will generally keep us safe but it does take an hour off occasionally. Machine safe everyone!
DavidP, South Wales
 
Good too here your ok. My oldest brother put a longer bolt in the pto of a feeder wagon and then my other brother didn't see it and when unloading the chopper box with the ac d14 at idle the bolt grab his belt loop when he look to see how much was left in and started to pull him in to the pto. He said he never was so scard and it tore his pants right off. The only thing he had left was the waste ban.
 
Most of us have had something yanked out of out hands using a drill press. Another real killer is a 3/4 inch hand drill motor. There are so many ways to hurt ourselves. I have probably done a lot of them. Stan
 
I have had to extricate two people from PTO shafts in my 30+ years as a volunteer fire fighter, because the shaft guards were removed. The worst part; both were on the same dairy farm, about ten years apart, plus a loader tractor rolling off a sileage stack and pinning the driver.
 
Be careful be careful! . I broke my thumb drilling holes to install a hitch in an old chevy that drill grabbed and dang near through me out of the bed of the truck.
 
Glad you didn't get ruffled up too bad. I had a foot peddle on my craftsman drill press that was probably similar to yours. It wasn't the easiest thing to fasten the vise down on and I'll admit I did a lot of freehand drilling on it. It would grab occasionally but usually the belts would slip before it could do much damage.

I bought this guy a couple years back. I dont drill anything on it unless its clamped down. There's no question about who's going to win that tug o war. Its all gear drive so there's no belts to slip. I had a piece pull up out of the vise on one side when running the quill back up and it snapped a 5/8 bit like nothing.

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I sold the rest of my beans when they hit $10.98 so I was feeling kinda bad the last month. I'm starting to feel better again.
 
I worked with an older machinist several years ago.

I noticed his right arm was scared all the way to his shoulder and he had little control of it.

I didn't know him well enough to ask him, but I asked another man there what happened.

He explained he was operating a Bridgeport with a slitting saw, reached in with a sweater on, it caught and wound his arm around the spindle, basically ripping it off!

It was surgically reattached, but never worked the same.

That memory has stuck with me ever since, I always get rid of the long sleeves when running the machines.

Some of the people there wear mechanics gloves running the lathes. One got his fingers bent backward when the glove caught, but luckily the glove tore away. No way would I take that chance! Nor would I allow the gloves!
 

While going to college I worked afternoons in a manufacturing plant and worked my way through all the departments as part of a scholarship/internship program. While working in the drilling and milling department I had a job one day using a jig and running thru a number of operations on a multi-spindle drill press. The bit was grabbing pretty good on one operation, so I got the foreman and informed him of the problem. He ( a big German) grabbed the jig as if I was making a big deal out of nothing, brought the bit down a bit faster than I would have. It jerked the jig out of his hand, spun it around and the blood started flowing from his hand....needless to say, the problem was corrected!
 
(quoted from post at 18:49:15 01/22/21) I worked with an older machinist several years ago.

I noticed his right arm was scared all the way to his shoulder and he had little control of it.

I didn't know him well enough to ask him, but I asked another man there what happened.

He explained he was operating a Bridgeport with a slitting saw, reached in with a sweater on, it caught and wound his arm around the spindle, basically ripping it off!

It was surgically reattached, but never worked the same.

That memory has stuck with me ever since, I always get rid of the long sleeves when running the machines.

Some of the people there wear mechanics gloves running the lathes. One got his fingers bent backward when the glove caught, but luckily the glove tore away. No way would I take that chance! Nor would I allow the gloves!
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I noticed a number of people with injuries while working in a manufacturing plant in the 70's, missing fingers and scarred arms. One poor fellow had only the thumb and pinky on one hand and not much use out of his arm. I was too polite to ask questions....
 
You are probably right about missing fingers. I worked in maintenance for years. around the time you mentioned, when things were slow, I would look through the Mc Master catalog. Back then they actually sold gloves for workers with missing fingers. Stan
 
Sign on the wall in a machine shop:

Young ladies wearing loose fitting clothes; beware of the machines.

Young ladies wearing tight fitting clothes; beware of the machinist!
 
(quoted from post at 14:53:31 01/22/21) To buy list:

Foot switch
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You talking about an on/off switch or a deadman's switch if they make such a thing?
 
I fellow know some years back was drilling a hole with a post hole digger when his sweatshirt got caught and he got wrapped up in it. He nearly died but survived except now he’s missing an arm.
 
(quoted from post at 01:37:34 01/23/21)
(quoted from post at 14:53:31 01/22/21) To buy list:

Foot switch
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You talking about an on/off switch or a deadman's switch if they make such a thing?
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A normally open foot switch so if you foot ain't pushing on it good enough machine won't run.
And if you let off or remove foot machine won't run.
 
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