[AT] off topic some Angle Grinders

[charlie hill]

The problem you usually hear with those discs (I call them cut off discs)
is that they snag and shatter throwing pieces into flesh and eyes.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Cecil Bearden
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2016 5:47 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] off topic some Angle Grinders

It cold have been worse, I bo ught some of those 7in discs to cut with
(0.045thickness),  from sportsman's guide on clearance.  I was going to
try one of them, bu I would have had to find the wrench to take the big
blade off.  In 55 years of working with these things, it is the first
time one got me.
cecil in okla

On 8/7/2016 3:40 PM, Dennis Johnson wrote:
> Cecil,
>
> Sorry about that. I got my left little finger when trying to sharpen mower 
> blades with the mower on trailer ramps. Was not using gloves. Just thank 
> God it was not worse.
>
> Dennis
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Aug 7, 2016, at 1:54 AM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
>>
>> I am relating this to maybe save some of  you the pain and trouble I am
>> in right now.   I was cutting bolts out of the rusted floorboard of my
>> 93 IHC 4700  old OK dot truck..   Salt has eaten through the
>> floorboard.   The bolts had to be cut out.  I was using a 4-1/2 in angle
>> grinder, on my knees and holding myself u p with the right hand and
>> using the grinder in my left.  My work gloves were in my other
>> truck.....  When I switched off the grinder, I set it on the floorboard
>> and the spinning blade hit the back side of the cab and jumped up about
>> 3 inches and cut across the big joint of my thumb on my right hand.
>> the blade was one of those 0.045in cutting blades. I can see the tendon
>> that moves the thumb moving in the cut.  It will be a few days before I
>> can get back to work, and I am right handed.
>>
>> I had safety glasses, but no gloves...    I was too busy to go get
>> them..   Now with the bandage, i cannot really type, the way I make a
>> living now, I write reports.   I have a bandage on the right hand like a
>> boxing glove.   Don't make the same mistake I did, wear those gloves and
>> safety glasses and shields.   The grinder had a shield, and was turned
>> off.  If it had still been running, it would have been a lot worse.  It
>> was just winding down...
>>
>> End of rant!!
>>
>> Cecil in OKla
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> AT mailing list
>>> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> AT mailing list
>>> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> AT mailing list
>> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
> _______________________________________________
> AT mailing list
> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at


_______________________________________________
AT mailing list
http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at