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This is an absolutely unreal level of professional grade ignorance.

no safety shield on his face

no gloves

baggy sweat pants

not even a shop apron

its just ONE GUY in a...garage? no safety spotter or anything. Its sheer luck that this guy didnt end up live streaming a suicide.

What thintz12 is also not considering is the blade itself is likely carbide tipped. the tips are hard, so if you crash the tool into the steel frame of the workbench, those bits can fly off like a bullet. a kickback that crashes a tool or jams the machine will also trip the breaker youre plugged into. If that breaker controls your garage door, and you're badly injured, you will not be able to make a simple and quick exit for help.

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> no gloves

Wearing gloves when you are working with spinning things (table saw, lathe, etc) is a huge no-no. The glove may initially protect your hand, but as the blade shreds it, it will get tangled up, and will pull your hand into the blade.

This is a pretty controversial sentiment, and ive heard plenty of woodworkers tell me this. at 3450RPM, no glove is going to draw a persons hand into a rotating blade. The glove would need an almost cartoonish amount of strength to resist the physics involved. conversely, specially designed chainsaw pants are intended to do this to stop the blade as a safety feature, but the risk of entanglement is much greater in a metal shop where speeds of 600-1000 RPM definitely will grab loose clothing, gloves and jewelry.

I'm really confused... You criticized him for not wearing gloves, then when someone suggested that gloves could be sucked in, you countered by saying that gloves would simply fall apart against a machine going "3450 RPM."

So either the gloves are pointless, and your original critique was wrong, or gloves are worthwhile and could get pulled into the machine. Pick one position or the other.

I've had my glove pulled into a regular rotating drill, breaking 2 of my fingers in the process. (recovery was extremely annoying)

It was a cut-resistant glove, made from kevlar with a rubberized palm. Lesson learned that day.

But obviously, do whatever you want, YMMV.

No sane woodworker wears gloves. They are completely unnecessary and there is plenty of stuff slower than a table saw blade that will suck them in. Go over to the /r/woodworking subreddit and I doubt you'd find a single person who would say they wear gloves with their power tools.

If you want to see what happens when a glove catches a table saw and other spinning tools, do image search for "degloving" (NSFW).

There's no good reason to wear gloves when woodworking with machines.

To quote the guy in the video: "This shows just how stupid this was..."

After the fact he realized the magnitude of how dumb this demo was.

I'm grateful he shared it. It's valuable for others to learn from his foolishness, and brave of him to recognize this and tolerate the embarrassment for the benefit of strangers.

Second this. It’s super hard to imagine in what ways things can go wrong before you have seen or experienced them.

Kick-backs would never even have been on my radar, even though I’m seeing myself as a careful person, if it wasn’t for YouTube and people like him taking their time to educate the rest of us.

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