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| Important safety tip... |
| 2002-08-15 |
| If you decide to install your own hardwood floors, be very careful when trying to cut small pieces on a table saw. If the blade catches one of those small pieces and shoots it out the back of the saw it could catch you right on the end of the thumb while travelling at approximately 700 miles an hour. Should this happen, your thumb will swell up to twice its normal size, turn 11 separate colors at once, and begin blinking on and off like a defective light bulb. Your pain meter will immediately peg. Your wife or husband will ask where the hell you learned those words, or maybe warn you that you have to eat with that mouth. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 I can still move it, so it's not busted. It just hurts when I do... The floor looks a lot better than my thumb. |
| Posted by: Fred 2002-08-16 07:08:18 |
| #2 One word: Pusher wood block. And safety goggles. Our carpenter (a family friend) lost 3/4" of his handed thumb cutting on a table saw in our basement. He was a lousy carpenter in other ways, too, it turned out, but that was the worst. (My dad was also a lousy judge of contractors; our landscape architect dropped a foot-thick tree branch through our neighbor's porch.) |
| Posted by: Dan Hartung 2002-08-16 01:12:48 |
| #1 Fred, the injured party wouldn't be anyone we know, would it? Hope your thumb gets better soon. (Typing must be a b*tch. I'm sorry!) |
| Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro 2002-08-15 23:44:56 |