STUPIDITY and HORROR!

OK, I once went to a shop, and a guy wanted to talk to ME about safety. His hands were almost gone. CRAZY. I have ALWAYS been careful, Power saws are big enough that a minor slip can cause a SEVERE injury. With the right blade, in less than a second, they could cut an arm off. They go through fingers like BUTTER!

With me, I always kept the blade away from my body, and the hand controlling the saw, using the handle. I always mad sure the blade cover retracted properly, etc... On table saws, a piece of scrap wood guiding the front, and my hand on back until I wasn't able to, or a foot and a half or so from the blade, and then scrap THERE!

I had a cast taken off once. The blade was SMALL, and would take a while to get to the bone. The device was MADE for control. It TIOCKLED, and didn't even SCRATCH ME! Still, it may have been a vibrating saw. They are often used, and won't cut through soft tissue, but DO go through plaster.

OK, what does an anxious careless idiot do to remove a cast?

Man uses circular saw to remove son's cast - Florida Wires - MiamiHerald.com

And it was a TEN inch saw!?!?!? MINE was only like 7"! Of course, I would NEVER have used it on a cast!

Steve