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dustyhat

Sawmill Accident - YouTube This is what happens when you dont pay attention, a few years ago i tryed to argue right here on forestry forum to a guy that this could happen and he argued with me ,saying he knew what he was doing ,but any way, keep your splitters in place and build guards. 

Dan_Shade

Yikes.  I hope he didn't get hurt too bad... 
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This is for all the guys that build there own contraptions that think they dont need hold downs, kick back fingers and guards on there home made projects.

RichTired

That's going to leave a mark!
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Too many irons in the fire

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That definitely left a mark. 

Poquo

That hurt just watching it!
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Crusarius

ouch. I did that with a 2" wide 3/8" and about 20" long piece of walnut and it hurt like words I cannot say here. I can only imagine how that felt.

Southside

Almost watched that happen live last weekend.  Stopped into one of those old time events and they had a circle saw running.  Either the carriage alignment was wrong, the lead was wrong, or the hammer on the saw was wrong because each time the carriage came back you could hear the blade hit in one specific spot.  Well they decided to show off and cut four 2x4's at the same time, that didn't work so well as the dogs could not hold it all down and the outer ones stated to jump and dance.  I started to back away when the sawyer kept feeding it trough and stopping, so he knew it was dicy.  He made it, but got lucky.  
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YellowHammer

OUCH!
I can't believe that was the first time that had happened to him, but I do believe that was the hardest he had been hit.  I don't think that will happen again.  
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That really had to hurt in the morning.
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So pick one .... run the camera or pull lumber, not both!

Just wow! He may have lucked out?? By having a little metal in front of him?

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You can't even get up and hit it back. That will make you mad twice. Once you catch your breath and your ribs heal.
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Jeff

I've witnessed those occurrences from a sawbooth more than once, and ended up in the hospital once when a shear harvested log exploded when starting into the saw. Turns out the reported bullet proof glass in my sawbooth was just plexi. They found me in the corner of the cab unconsious when the tailers realized I had not just stepped out for a pee break when they saw the football sized hole blown in the front glass.

Circle mills can be deadly and anything, anytime, can go wrong.
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moodnacreek

A bandsaw goes down or sideways where a circle goes at the sawyer so if something gets caught on a tooth you can't duck fast enough.

SawyerTed

Ouch!  That makes me hurt!

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Jeff

It was quite common for me, at the first mill I worked at, to have to quit sawing, go outside and explain to the face peering in the big gaping hole in the sheet metal of the polebarn watching me saw, just how that hole got there.  The second mill had a 8/4 cotton wood wall that was obviously exposed to some sort of abuse by a knarly beast
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Have you ever seen one of those blades shatter, Jeff? I've heard about it happening around ehre once years ago... Thankfully nobody died that time, but one lucky guy got away with stitches only...
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Where I had problems was with slabs that were tapered on the end.  Sometimes, they would go behind the splitter, and if you didn't catch what was going on, it would shoot back at you when you finished the cut.  That happened to me when I first started sawing.  Luckily, there was a reinforced glass safety shield that took the brunt of the slab.  Turning the logs around and sawing the large end first mostly took care of the problem.  I always watched closely after that.  Splitters have always been my main source of kickback problems.

Another time, I had a piece of bark fall off a hickory log on the gig back.  It hit the saw, and was flown back towards me.  I was younger and more agile and was able to step aside.

When I went to a vertical edger, the back of the mill got peppered with edging strips and anything else that would land on the saws.  We had big metal plates to catch the bulk of it.  I also used the edger to reduce the size of the slabs so that feeding the chipper was easier.  Sometimes chunks would stay on the edger blades and get shot out the front edger.  I never liked people watching from either the side or at the back end of the mill. 

As for the video, I never sawed on a hand mill without a tailer.  He was standing there and ready when I finished the cut. 

I only know of one time that a saw shattered.  It was on an automatic mill that had mechanical limits.  To unload a carriage, you simply let the headblocks come front and the piece falls onto the tailer belt.  The sawyer had a habit of bringing the carriage back without retracting the headblocks.  The mechanical limits came apart, and that allowed the dogs to extend beyond the saw line.  He gigged back and hit the saw with his extended dogs.  The saw shattered.  Lots of holes in the roof, but it sent pieces of the saw a couple of hundred feet.
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moodnacreek

My slabwood saw has a 30" blade and the one that worked the best had a high pitched wine. This was vibration caused by a crack. I drilled the crack but it was almost impossible as the steel was hard from the saw being ground so many times.  That saw cracked 2 more times so I ordered a new one made just like it and hung the bad saw on the wall. I don't know if it could shatter but on a real cold morning? 

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