Most dangerous tool in your shop and why!!!!!!
 

My 50 ton press scares the sheeit outta me!!!!!!!

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Me and the lift

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I believe I am the most dangerous tool in my yard (wish I had a shop).

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my wife..

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What krue said...
I'm not sure if its dangerous, but I'm always afraid that the cutoff wheel in the big electric die grinder is going to grenade and embed parts of itself in my forehead. It sure cuts better than the girlie air powered ones, though.

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What is she doing in the shop???????

Thas craps not allowed over here.......she calls me if you need me!!!!!!

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she comes out and `helps` me sometimes, but usally trips of something or cuts herself, then you know the rest... i got to hear about it for a month...:rolleyes:

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my wife is pretty helpful around the shop.She even wanted me to teach her to weld which I did and she was a natural
I vote for grinders as most dangerous.

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mine is helpful.. and she wanted me to teach her to weld also... but she always wanted to wear sandles....

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I couldnt' agree with you more!

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My german shepherd. Hey he is a tool he keeps bad people away from my stuff.

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My hi speed buffing wheel, snatches the s/s trim out of my hands and shoots it at the driveway squirrels.

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Radial Arm Saw

One slip and you'll lose whatever got into the sawblade.

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I dont know if you guys would consider a razor blade a tool, but I have had to get stiches twice because of those things.

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Id have to say that im the most dangerous tool in my shop. Any tool i have, whether its a socket or a gas torch, i can make it dangerous.

I still have my fingers though.... My cut off wheel tried to take one the other day, but i got it back.

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The cab of my truck,,,,,not sure if its a tool or not.

2 trips to the ER
14 stitches the first time and 13 the second

Guess I would be the most dangerous.


Frank

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Well, I would have to say, the electric cut off grinder. I have had my fair share of nicks with that thing. And i use gloves while using that thing, before you know it slices right threw and into the fingers.

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The hammer, because I know it can fix anything, but you only get one try.

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anyone that has a 2-ton japan made jack should put it at the top of their list. the japanese send them over to kill us to get us back for WWII.

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angle grinder with wire wheel and a switch other than a paddle switch. mine cought in the shackel bracket jumped out of my hands, waked me in the nads then pealed out on my belly winding up my shirt comming to a stop just before tearing into my beard. thank god for short cords on cheap tools

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mini sledge or grinder with a wire wheel.

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If'n I get a mad on then it's anything that I get my hands on to launch acroos the shop/yard

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American Express Platinum card....it never says "No"

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Myself...........especially if torches are involved :)

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grinders zip cut,flap,wire or what have you. keek them in good repair keep the guard on it & ware eye and face protection. don't drop it. :thumbs:

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The jack + the mud + me under the 5000lbs truck with 2 cinder blocks to hold it if it falls...

Other than that, maybe the 6" grinder?

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Neighbors.

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mmmmmm Breaker bar :)
I recall a time when a 4' pipe was used as an extension on a 30something MM socket to remove an axle nut on one of my cars.

Abreviated version of the story includes my friend doing chinups on the breaker bar/pipe.

you can guess what happened next

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Radiac wheel on large die grinder - under truck bed - grinding spare tire hanger rod off, coming apart in dozens of pieces - splitting end of operator’s nose.

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id have to say the most dangerous tool we have is a 7 in wheel with chunks of carbide imbeded in it, we use it to grind the tires on our racecar. A few guys that bought one of these ended up in the hospital with their intestines hangin out. Its a pretty gnarly lookin thing.

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so far it's been by 4 1/2" grinder with a coarse wire wheel... Gotta love 10,000 RPM's coming to a stop on your chest!

FYI, buy the angle grinders with the paddle switch so it turns off when it's ripped out of your hands!

Mine locks on and goes to town:devil:

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The one that really scares me is the press we use to remove pins. 100 tons on a threaded rod not pretty when a rod breaks. It shoots across the shop and makes lots of noise.

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I will have to say grinders/cutoff tools. Air or electric.
And a way to make them a little safer would be spend the extra buck for the name brand cutting/grinding wheels. Harbor freight is not the place to buy them. I bought a stack of 4 1/2 grinder wheels last year and every other one exploded with just a little use on mind steel.

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Circular saw took my thumb off about about 5 years ago.Got lucky,they were able to sew it back on.Every and any thing gets clamped down now!!

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I'll have to go with the plain old 4 1/2 inch electric grinder. I don't use the guard cause it's in the way no matter what. I use it more with cut off wheels than for grinding. I HAVE had 2 wheels blow apart in the vicinity of my face, and both times they rendered my safety glasses inoperable.

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Yeah.:smoke: No s*%t.

Garage door goes up - instant circus. Why is that an invitation to come over and sponge your time? And they never want to help, or pay for their ideas on "how to make your truck better."

:lol:

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WHat i do to combat that is my air chisel on the frame removing the rivets in my garage. that keeps EVERYONE away.

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My most dangerous in the garage... Is the contents itself.... I have 3 shelves full of glass and plastic jars full of chemicals that i don't know. No labels... I've found some to be highly corrosive. Very flammable. Below these shelves lays a dozen gross worth of bottle rockets and black cats. Sitting next to the fireworks, is an ashtray.
I don't know why i haven't separated these three from each other, it's just kinda there. I need to call haz-mat and get these jars removed.

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We had a press back in auto shop waaaaaay back when I was in HS. I have no idea what the max load was "supposed" to be. All I know was it had this very long handle and a pretty big pressure gauge we used to try to max. It had a movable table held in with four very thick pins. It took a couple guys to move the table to a new height. One day me and a buddy decided to see how far we could move the needle if we both hung and bounced on the press handle. Someone stuck a large chunk of solid steel on the table and away we went. We had a bunch of guys standing around laughing and calling out our pressure readings when there was this super loud bang...All four pins sheared off, the table fell to the floor and the gauge face blew off....The scary part was...for a couple of seconds you could hear one of the sheared off pin ends ricocheting off stuff in the shop. We were incredibly lucky no one was hurt.

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The spring compressor, Nothing's ever happened to me with it, but I've seen what a long ford truck front coil spring does when freed too quickly. I don't like messin with coil springs. Otherwise just me, Dad always told me I could tear up a steelball in a sandbox with a rubber hammer.:lol: