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The best advice I ever got (after my Kindergarten teacher telling me, "Now young man, you should _never_ pass up the chance to go to the bathroom.") was my shop
by WillAdams 2y ago
The best advice I ever got (after my Kindergarten teacher telling me, "Now young man, you should _never_ pass up the chance to go to the bathroom.") was my shop teacher advising:
>Before hitting the switch on a power tool, slowly count to 10 under your breath to yourself on your fingers, visualizing all the forces involved and planning out the entirety of your movement and how you will be moving the stock/tool, and considering what might go wrong and the results thereof and what will protect you (all guards should be in place and all suitable PPE worn) or where you should be positioned so as to avoid any potential projectile, reminding yourself that you want to be able to repeat that count in the same way when the tool is switched off.
Sawstop wouldn't have a business model if all tablesaw accidents were tried by a jury of shop teachers.
- Xfx7028 2y agoI don't get that advice from the kindergarten teacher. Can you explain please?
- spirotot 2y agoThink before you act.
- tmn 2y agoTake your by own advice ;) Don’t pass up a chance to pee is the advice in question. Which I’d equate to; Better safe than sorry
- mystified5016 2y agoIf something unexpected happens and your saw kicks a board back at you, you don't want to piss yourself as well as screaming
- dghlsakjg 2y agoIts simpler than you think: No one really regrets going to the bathroom when it isn't urgent. Plenty of people regret waiting until it gets urgent.
- Enginerrrd 2y agoReminds me of when I interned as a medic. My instructor gave me a list of rules: Walk, don't run. Never trust the public in a vehicle. Always check the rigging yourself before rapelling down the embankment. Sleep when you're tired. Eat when you're hungry. And never, I repeat, NEVER wait to pee. When you live in a world where you may have to scramble at any moment, and you work 72 hour shifts, you can't take simple things for granted. We might go from chilling on base to not being back for 15+ hours.
- ljf 2y agoI remember my biology teacher telling me of the dangers of being a car crash with a full bladder - yet another reason to go.
- II2II 2y agoA lot of young children will have accidents because they forget, or don't want, to go to the washroom. That's true even if it is urgent. (They either don't know what their body is telling them, or they are fearful of washrooms, or they are simply having too much fun to be bothered by what their body is telling them.)
- analog31 2y agoI have a similar habit: Before applying power, I manually turn the blade (or workpiece on the lathe) through one full rotation. I also think my way through the entire cut, including where my body and hands will be, and what I'll do if something goes wrong. I've also mentored younger colleagues. I think there's a problem with shop safety, which is related to computer programming: Some people are able to learn it, and others just aren't. There's a certain situational awareness that you have to develop -- a sixth sense for when something is unsafe, that goes beyond just remembering all of the rules. There's also an intuition that you develop, like in programming, of being able to "think like the machine." Like it or not, there are people who shouldn't be in the shop.
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- theshrike79 2y agoPattern recognition. Some people have and some don't. It's also situational for some people. I had a friend who could immediately see patterns in fighting games, after a few plays they'd immediately know how the CPU would react in certain situations. I could never. I can see patterns in code, how it relates to other code and in the processes surrounding it, especially when I'm not taking my ADD meds. It's a superpower when shit's on fire and needs to be handled fast. Similarly some people form this "sixth sense" situational awareness for physical tools and safety. They'll just look at a worksite and "feel" something is off. Or they pick up a tool and immediately know something is off - something in the balance or how it feels in the hand, or maybe it made a noise it's not supposed to.
- simonbarker87 2y agoI ran a small light plastic assembly factory years ago and within 20 minutes of a new person starting I could tell if they could, what I call, “think in 3D” if they couldn’t they would never meet the standard we needed and I’d sadly have to fail their trial at the end of the first day - about 30% of people fell in to this category.
- ggm 2y agoI touched what I thought was a stationary wheel on a lathe as a child. it was of course under flouro tube lighting: it was synced to the tube, the strobe effect made it look stationary. I've never forgotten it. The guy owning the lathe made some short, sharp observations. But I also suspect he sweated blood later on. Explaining his role in this had I lost a finger or worse would have been nasty
- Aardwolf 2y ago> it was synced to the tube, the strobe effect made it look stationary. Why is it synced like that? Seems dangerous, and I don't know much about lathes but lighting synchronization doesn't seem something that would affect the mechanical parts being processed :)
- sevensor 2y agoSounds accidental, but might be interesting to be able to see the workpiece as if stationary, while it’s turning at 1800rpm. Everything looks smooth under ordinary lighting.
- moring 2y agoLayman's guess: Both were synced to the mains frequency.
- ggm 2y agoThis
- lelanthran 2y ago> Why is it synced like that? Synced to the AC mains or a multiple thereof.
- WalterBright 2y agoMy high school woodshop teacher simply showed us his short finger. Lost in a table saw. We got the message.
- conk 2y agoThere are enough shop teachers out there with missing digits to prove this statement is not true.
- WillAdams 2y agoHow many of them sued someone else with the assistance of a personal injury lawyer?