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    Started reading the article and saw "gardening accident" and "trimming tree branches", thought you had gotten your power tools mixed up.

    Now I would really like to see a picture of the angle grinder involved, wonder if it was set up with a blade like above in post 100.

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    Try the following then,

    Angle grinder blade wood.jpg

    Effectively a circular chainsaw.


    Use carelessly ,do not read instructions and with no guard and hold with one hand only.

    That ought to do it! Can take off branches or body parts with little trouble.

    Grahame

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    Wow !

    Lost for words, bet it likes meat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grahame Collins View Post
    Try the following then,

    Angle grinder blade wood.jpg

    Effectively a circular chainsaw.

    They have been around at least since the late 1980's.
    Gold, the colour of choice for the discerning person.

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    Was little on so was watching some UK ambulance show last week.

    They went to the scene of a "chainsaw" accident. The patient has cut himself across the belly and his intestines starting coming out. Only required poking back in and stitches.

    They took the cameras outside to see the "chainsaw". Yes a small angle grinder with a circular saw blade on it. No guard, not that that would make it any more appreciably safer.
    Gold, the colour of choice for the discerning person.

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    The number of videos on youtube of people putting saw blades on angle grinders is scary. Instructional videos and all.
    Gold, the colour of choice for the discerning person.

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    Common sense is not so common.Too many wannabees are receiving their "training" from U Tube.
    Yes there are many good You tubes but hell there are many bad ones,too.

    You don't have to watch a lot of Utubes depicting so called experts using the standard blades to see those who use angle grinders with one hand,no guard and side handle missing.

    Surprise! surprise! People get maimed and killed .

    Grahame

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    A friend of mine cut 3 fingers off his left hand with a 4" grinder that had the guard removed and a small circular saw attached.
    Funniest part is that he was doing his neighbour a favour by cutting back a bush. You can imagine trying to trim back 5mm thick flexible branches in half with a circular saw going 12000 rpm? Circular saw grabs the branches, flips off his hand and lands on the other ... chop.
    Believe it or not, his fingers are all back in place, thanks to the skills of the surgeons at hand.
    And "free" to top it off. Should have charged him $50,000 so he thinks twice next time.
    Grinders don't kill or maim, people do.

    I am waiting for the politician who wants to grab headlines and proposes to BAN grinders.
    Or perhaps force the manufacturer to engrave on the tool ... "This tool was found to promote cancer in the state of California"
    Civilized man is the only animal clever enough to manufacture its own food,
    and the only animal stupid enough to eat it.
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    As Forrest Gump would say, "You can't fix STUPID!!!!"
    To grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.

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    I had developed a fear of using my angle grinder for years after reading such stories and just took it out a couple of weeks ago (after probably a good 2 or 3 years) in anger to chop off some cast iron part that had cracked because i had no better way to cut the irregular part in my horizontal bandsaw. It all worked out fine but I had all these thoughts in my mind when I started and it took me a first few cuts to develop the confidence again.

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    Angle Grinders can be dangerous in the hands of a dickhead. Pick a random U tube where the expert is wielding an angle grinder with no guard and is only wearing safety glasses. Some times the operator is bare handed and only holding the tool in one hand.

    Its not a matter of if they will get hurt, it is when.

    I blew up a 7"x 1/8" cutter disc on a grinder which shattered the disc over my face and upper body.

    I suffered no injuries at all because I was wearing suitable PPE.
    I was wearing SAA standard safety glasses, a full face visor, a denim balaclava and welding jacket.
    Only damage was a scar on the face visor and a skidmark .

    No face visor and that piece would have fit me in the throat.

    Wear appropriate eye and impact protection.
    Use both hands on the tool.
    Calculate where a broken piece might go and cover up.

    I have 2 x 4" grinders,2x 5 1/4" and a 9" Makita with soft start.

    Grahame

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grahame Collins View Post
    Angle Grinders can be dangerous in the hands of a dickhead. Pick a random U tube where the expert is wielding an angle grinder with no guard and is only wearing safety glasses. Some times the operator is bare handed and only holding the tool in one hand.

    Its not a matter of if they will get hurt, it is when.
    Grahame
    I do wonder why grinders in America are even sold with guards and side handles as the yanks never use them and become really defensive if you should be so bold as to suggest that they are playing Russian Roulette with 5 loaded chambers.
    Builders are another group that love to chance their luck. On two separate occasions, I have seen builders using a 4" grinder with a 9" wheel mounted. Think about that for a moment and consider not only how many potential failure points there are in that setup, but also how close that 9" wheel has to be to soft squishy flesh and bone - there ain't much real estate to hold onto on a 4" grinder at the best of times, let alone allowing for a 9" disc running at over twice the designed surface speed. On the subject of builders, they also love to use grinders upside down firing sparks and debris skywards. I suppose it comes from being familiar with circular saws that operate in that manner.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grahame Collins View Post
    Angle Grinders can be dangerous in the hands of a dickhead. Pick a random U tube where the expert is wielding an angle grinder with no guard and is only wearing safety glasses. Some times the operator is bare handed and only holding the tool in one hand.

    Its not a matter of if they will get hurt, it is when.

    I blew up a 7"x 1/8" cutter disc on a grinder which shattered the disc over my face and upper body.

    I suffered no injuries at all because I was wearing suitable PPE.
    I was wearing SAA standard safety glasses, a full face visor, a denim balaclava and welding jacket.
    Only damage was a scar on the face visor and a skidmark .

    No face visor and that piece would have fit me in the throat.

    Wear appropriate eye and impact protection.
    Use both hands on the tool.
    Calculate where a broken piece might go and cover up.

    I have 2 x 4" grinders,2x 5 1/4" and a 9" Makita with soft start.

    Grahame
    I can still picture another good friend of mine, who was sanding a small front porch with a 4" grinder. The porch was an old fashioned one with solid parapet on the side and front and with only one side exit. His corded grinder slipped off his hand and kept on going. It was running and bouncing on the floor and side walls and he was jumping all over trying to avoid it. Eventually hi jumped over the parapet and the grinder kept on going for a while till it cut its own cord. it was a scene fit for the three stooges, and I could barely contain myself from bursting into laughter.

    Things we do.
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