Wood lathe turning piece hits man in face. 0:19 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiLNIM3JUlg
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...4907#post80809
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Wood lathe turning piece hits man in face. 0:19 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiLNIM3JUlg
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...4907#post80809
Ouch! That hurts just watching it. Totally preventable, too. Lathes deserve tons of respect.
It would be great if there was some way to "chuck" your material securely to the headstock, appropriate to the mass and the turning speed. Also, if there were only some sort of shield you could wear on your head to protect your face from this sort of thing.
Guy who invents those two things'll have the world beating a path to his door.
Noob, faceshields have been around for yonks...and pretty commonly used here, by any serious turner. Cheers
Jim in a cloudy South Coast day...
https://www.timbecon.com.au/extracti...ld-high-impact
This gentleman that had the piece of wood bonk him in the head was ignoring several basic rules of wood turning:
1) Wasn't wearing PPE
2) Whenever you start up a wood lathe in which you've just chucked a piece of wood, stand off to the side when you turn the unit on and look, listen and FEEL the lathe with your hand to see how "wobbly" it is, and take proper steps to either remount the piece or turn it as slowly as practical.
3) He turned up the RPM on an unbalance piece of wood while in the path of destruction... you need to start at slower speeds, and once you've achieved a relatively balanced cylinder, THEN you might get away with more RPM.
I'm sure there's other basic rules I've missed, but these are what were obvious to me. Spinning gyros, especially when out of round and heavy, are a force to be reckoned with.
Jim, I went to your link on the face shield. As good a quality piece of PPE that shield is, I sure wouldn't want to get hit in the head with the force that this fellow was struck with... I wouldn't want to get that kind of impact even wearing a motorcycle helmet!
IAM, too true, but it would help deflect the work-piece. On any machine, if the force of a kickback can be mitigated by ANYTHING, even an apron, it's a good thing...your points of watching initial speed/balance relationship carefully should be paramount in lathe work. We were taught in HS woodshop to balance our blank physically, usually by sawing it octagonal. If not (and I don't always...), at least start a square blank slowly and cautiously until it gets roundish. Your point #2 is probably the single most important stopgap to a horrific accident like this. Cheers,
Jim
Thank you for that wisdom.
Been there and done that
Jim,
I completely agree with you. What I said about face shields, helmets, etc. could be said another way: I think bullet-proof vests are wonderful protection, but it still hurts like *!@?% when you get shot in the vest.
I'm a fast learner when pain is a motivating factor... I prefer to avoid pain. :)
Best Regards,
Bryan
Just like getting hit in the face with a 10lb blank while wearing a face shield hurts like the dickens. I’d still rather be wearing the shield though.Quote:
Originally Posted by IAMSatisfied
Safety is a big serious thing especially for the noggin. My fav piece of kit used to the one on the left.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
I used to use it with gauze while whippersnipping/brushcutting in parks: that was until a very large sloppy doggy doo sprayed through the gauze and covered my face as well as my body.I was spitting more than chips and not one tap in the park: had to find a neighbour at home & then phone for clothes replacement. I'd laugh but it still isn't funny, many years on. Who would have thought that a 33cc brush cutter loaded with 3mm string could spray so much from under low branches where it couldn't even be seen.
I changed to the right one (with no tell tale unused accumulation of dust)after a chunk of relatively soft Toona sp. let loose from a lathe while I was standing aside to check out its behaviour before starting.(I waited years for prices of similar items to fall due to the demand of safety gear but it never happened but tech did improve weight, use time etc: these also remove harmful dust associated with similar such species). The red cedar chunk missed me but was flung across the shed.
An experienced lady at our club continually turns unbalanced large dia sections scareing the beejees out of me. I think she wants to go back to Massachusetts or where ever. I hear the chunk a de chunk, chunk a chunka de chunk as she turns & i leave that area. Apparently she has had several let loose but I have seen only one: 1 too many for my liking. Then again I'm a learner................. at most everything.
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You can be safe with $30 or a grand.
Cheers
Clearly better protection would help. Looks like the blank was starting to get "roundish" but I don't know how secure it was mounted, and he may have tried to rush things and take too much wood off that caused the release.
Allow me to thank you – on behalf of the satirically challenged.Quote:
Originally Posted by N00b Machinist
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:rofl:
I'd be willing to bet he'll be more careful with his set-up, and safety gear next time.
