![]() But then one summer he worked in a mill where they had a bandsaw. Up, and if you pushed the material through too fast it would threaten to When the blade contacted the material, it would vibrate, it would heat He was imposing some kind of stress on the machine. But even with theīiggest power saw in the shop, Bobby Shaftoe always got the sense that Materials would cause the smaller power saws to overheat or seize upĪltogether and therefore called for larger power saws. Saw would be accomplished with a power saw. Sawing job that would be just ridiculously hard and lengthy using a hand Numerous saws wereĪvailable in the shop for that purpose, some better than others. Large pieces of wood or metal into smaller pieces. AĬertain amount of his time was therefore, naturally, devoted to sawing Into a vocational track and ended up taking a lot of shop classes. ![]() Now when Bobby Shaftoe had gone through high school, he’d been slotted There are fifty different ways to die horribly at a steel mill compared to this Maybe having a more accessible estop button or bump rail so you can't lean over it if you try but that would be more important if you were automating infeed to improve cycle times and reduce manpower. I'd be more worried about dust in the air than having someone cut themselves on this. I might make the infeed/outfeed sections a foot longer so that an average man can't reach far enough to touch the blade during normal operation and use a push stickto get the last section through or rely on the person on the other side to pull it through. There isn't a self-feeding or clamping system that can pull you in or any tight spaces to get caught on. Coming from a machine design, safety integration and hazard assessment viewpoint this is a pretty safe machine for a manual operator.Īssuming the motor/gearbox/pulleys for the bandsaw are guarded you couldn't get your hand stuck inside there. ![]()
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