As with any machinery, always check for safety every time you operate it. So easy to overlook or take for granted that all is good. My great grandfather worked in the woods for years with his sons. While operating a sawmill, one piece did a kickback and ended his life.
sorry to hear of that. Kick backs, Grinding wheels with a flaw or cracked, improperly clamped material for machining or cutting off, lawn mowers or snowblowers flinging items. it a dangerous world out there. Course them inside sit down jobs have their own hazards.
I worked for a man who was almost killed with a kickback. Nobody expected him to live and I don't remember how long he was in a coma but it was a long time. He hired me and was always around the mill but could not work. He taught me a lot though and I even boarded with his family for a while.
Can't take credit for that. Quick trace of an image on the internet. Added the logo and saw. Fun stuff! Might make kind of a cool weathervane though.
I grew up working in professional woodshops. 12 & 14" tablesaws, industrial shapers, planers etc. Experienced kickbacks from heavy machinery too many times. Early on I took one in the gut from a 5hp 10" tablesaw that hurt like hell. Another shop, shortly after warning some Jack Assparagus that what he was doing on a shaper was highly dangerous, and relocating my own backside to the other side of the shop, he embedded a large piece of walnut in a concrete block wall 20 feet away. I can't imagine what a kickback from a sawmill must be like. Probably be so shellshocked just from the experience, I'd never be able to work near a saw again. That Supersplit is AWESOME. I must have one, but I don't think I'd be able to let my son use it. The nerves couldn't take it.
A whole long list of folks come to mind who could be a super FHA member. Lots of wonderful guys and gals in this forum. They get my vote for being "super"
