Wheel horse front mount saw mill

[12 hp Kohler 1,014]

I saw the wheel horse with the saw when I was at the show, thought it was very cool. Anyone know how owners it ? 

[Mill Rat 14]

As a safety professional at a federal facility, that open blade makes me cringe. Understand, safety is not instinctive for me. (When I took this job, my cousin's reaction was "Really? What are you, the 'before' exhibit?") Incidents like helplessly watching coworkers die and collecting a few scars and an irregular heartbeat from incidents that could have easily had more severe outcomes changed my perspective a bit.

 

Incidents most often happen when not just one, but multiple safety and protective barriers are breached. If you're curious, read up on the BP Texas City explosion or the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Putting a guard on that saw blade won't by itself prevent injuries, nor will keeping the kids inside until the stove wood is cut. but those two together help improve the odds. Safety has to be a "defense in depth" effort, so the failure of one line of defense doesn't immediately put someone in harm's way.

[123GO 78]

Holy  thats an amazing old Saw Horse..lol

 

 

 

[Digger91 2]

On 6/19/2017 at 9:13 PM, 12 hp Kohler said:

Yes I think it is hydro, it is very cool and a total death machine, but not as bad as the saw that hooks to my grandfathers 1948 John Deere A 

 

[123GO 78]

If ever there were that one attatchment every WH owner actually needed for a real emergency this is it.

 Say' if the o'lady files divorce, one can simply fire this puppy up and cut the house right in half. Then just for funzy's, quickly take the half with the furnace & the chitter too.

 

Whoops' did I just type that out loud?

 

[Mickwhitt 4,143]

Looks like something Penne and Teller would use on stage! 

I once dealt with a guy who punched through an 8mm plate glass window. We couldn't understand how he didnt break his hand.

I locked him up and got ready to interview him. When I went to shake his hand it was a bit awkward as he had a prosthetic hand. That's what he had punched painlessly through the window.

How did you lose your hand was an obvious question. He told me he had been cutting up 10mm ply for trailer bodies on a 10inch table saw. To clean saw dust off the table he just swept it with his gloved hand, something he'd done hundereds of times. But this time he brushed the blade, it got a hold of glove and sleeve and pulled his arm off at the elbow with nothing left to sew back on. 

Said he didnt feel a thing and he got a decent pay out as his employer had removed the guards to speed things up.

I use circular saws but boy am I ever careful with em.

Mick 

 

 

[123GO 78]

     Back when I was young I worked for the city tree crew and we ran big wood chippers with the old tried and true slant 6 engines. Seen in horror & mob flicks but' we all know the old loud roaring wood chippers that turn big trees into tiny chips, hitched on back of box trucks roaring from several blocks away over all the city noises especially after storms. The old design devours any length of tree limb under 4" diameter instantly, not the more safer slow munchers they have today. Old ones just ripped the limb right from your hand if you fail to let go soon enough. But' a few yrs before I started there a worker in another city stuck a branch into one of those old chippers and his glove hung on it, that chipper just pulled him right through. Now' I have no idea if thats happened more than once, but' I'd have to say "Yes" after running them "yes" I bet it did..  

"No" not to the same person before a yo yo comments on it here. Only one trip through it per person, nobody is cleaning up your mess twice..lol

 

  About that Safety post?-- All for it ~~

   I went into a safer job line of manufacturing. You know' working with/on injection molding machines, some large enough for a man to walk in. In this line of work most all the plants I worked at had people with mangled hands and missing digits, just all part of the job ya know?  Luckily I still had all mine and they all work upon my retirement btw.  

  One morning like any other morning a foreman opened the back door of a medium sized molding machine to clean the mold off while in operation. Understand' it's "normally" fine to do this at anytime "Normally" the machine stops with the mold in the open position if any door is opened, restarts (mold closes) when "both" doors are closed again. 

  While cleaning it the machine operator asked forman if she should close the front door while he was cleaning it and like usual the foreman said it's fine to close it, as his was open.  So' she closed her door, the machine/mold instantly closed up and actually smashed the foreman's arm clean off just below the shoulder on down. Horrible horrible accident!!

   

  Now' that mold machine should have stayed open. Both the front & rear doors have safety switches on these machines to allow operators to run it from either or both sides of the machine (2 ops), it also allows one to clean/inspect etc..without issues, again' "Normally".

 We learned too late here that one of the mold setters tied two of the machines safety switches to the off position while setting a mold (big no no there) seems he forgot about them and since it appeared to have been like that a long time we never learned who actually did it. Very bad day for everyone, another sign there's Ignorance all around us.. Another sign the supervisors weren't testing the machines safety switches often like they should have been doing too, had they done so they'd discovered it.

  

   One night an ignorant temp employee was sent to us, too stoned to even work they just sent him home, or so they thought?

   Hour later we found him stoned off his arse, inside the chem room sitting up against one of our 1000 gallon tanks of Acetone right next to several large tanks of MEK and Naptha etc. smoking his cigarettes.  Oh Ya' luckily we all lived. Red explosive signs everywhere, room full of fumes, the man was brilliant.. Proof the good Lord does watch over idiots. Why I'm still alive too I guess?..lol

Most places I worked were never a place for high times, legal or not makes no difference when limbs and lives are at stake just leave it at home before it's too late "Please", if you get my drift?

 

You know' the way our new laws are today one just may need a sticker on this SawHorse saying "Stoners stand back 50 feet", is that far enough?..lol

   Peace! 

[c-series don 7,794]

I remember those old chippers, we called them chuck and duck!! 

[123GO 78]

14 hours ago, c-series don said:

I remember those old chippers, we called them chuck and duck!! 

  I can see why, they do send a big chunk back your way quite often..lol

[squonk 38,911]

On 6/29/2017 at 11:13 PM, elcamino/wheelhorse said:

I saw the sawmill  tractor at the Big Show even with the protective cover on the blade it looked too dangerous. My grandparents had some similar that ran off a power take off from an old farm tractor. My dad would not let us any where near the blade when it was not running. We were sent inside when he and my uncles were cutting slabs into stove wood.

Wouldn't want your suspenders caught in that!