In reply to "beware the chopsaw", posted by sandy on July 22, 2001:
>I have enjoyed
agging (about anything, really) about
>having all my fingers still...after working with power tools
>ever since starting as an apprentice in 1969,
>at carpenter's local 1066 in Palo Alto Calif.
>
>But I got a sharp-edged board caught in a chop saw blade
>yesterday....which propelled the board at 300 miles per
>hour, squashing two fingers against the metal fence of
>the saw. Exploded the finger tips like a ripe cherries under a hammer face.
>Got away with about 20 stitches at the tips of
>two fingers. Lucky it was only 1/4" plywood.
>If it had been a fatter board there would have been
>some flattened bones.
gosh durn it, sandy, BE CAREFUL AND WATCH ( LOOK !!!!!! ) WHAT YER DOIN ! and stop dreamin about them monster fish you all catch and be satisfied with the 6 to 8 inch minnows the rest of us ordinary mortals land.
take care ( lots of it ), chuck