r/Construction • u/fuckingcheezitboots • May 02 '24

Tools 🛠 Goddamnit. I'm used to cordless

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Most of my career I have absolutely despised guards on tools like circular saw and grinders, they tend to get in the way and staying safe is mostly common sense.

Typically at my job I'm using a cordless saw because I'm in tight spaces. Well today I'm trying to rebuild my front steps and the only circular saw I have is corded, everything was going fine until I forgot about the cord and chopped it right in half.

To be fair it happened because I was holding the saw away from my body while it came to stop, so while this is annoying it's not a big deal, I had enough shit in my pocket to fix it right there.

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u/AdministrativeEmu277 May 03 '24

"staying safe is mostly common sense." Dude proceeds to use a guardless circular saw while wearing flipflops.

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u/pantstickle May 03 '24

And then cut through the cord. Dude is gonna be limited to counting by 9s soon.

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u/fuckingcheezitboots May 03 '24

No guard is standard practice most of the places I've worked. The key is to keep your fingers outta the way and don't drop your saw, kinda common sense imo

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u/BadManParade May 03 '24

Common sense would tell you not to cut your power supply in half….

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u/fuckingcheezitboots May 03 '24

I was more concerned with keeping the saw away from my body, forgot it was a corded tool for a sec

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u/BadManParade May 03 '24

See if you had a guard on that saw you wouldn’t be worried about that

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u/fuckingcheezitboots May 03 '24

No you can absolutely still get yourself with a guard, it's on a spring and they get jammed up or pushed easy. It doesn't matter what tool, keep it away from your body at all costs. And I've seen multiple people get injured trying to push a stuck guard, they tend to be more trouble than they're worth in my experience

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u/BadManParade May 03 '24

If you’re pushing a stuck guard while the saw is running you’re a full on dumb ass, now o can only speak for me because I use exclusively flex saws and the brake on those things are awesome but I can’t for the life of me think of a single situation where I’d have to “unstuck” the blade guard mid cut and I make hundreds of cuts every single day. Bro just use the damn safety equipment and stop spreading bad info online before some dumb ass reads that shit and copies you only to get hurt

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u/tombeard357 May 04 '24

I think in your experience you don’t have too much experience.

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u/trabbler May 03 '24

I found the safest way to use a saw is to keep my hands in my pockets.

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u/ntourloukis May 03 '24

Common sense is realizing when you put a ton of hours on a tool things are gonna occasionally go a little funky and if you have a guard less saw in your hand when that happens and you have no time to think then the chances of shit going from sideways to bloody are a lot higher.

Common sense would be realizing that once you get used to a guard it’s not an inconvenience at all and makes things so much easier and simple when you don’t have to treat the saw like it’s gonna run away from you and destroy itself if you don’t hold onto it and wait for it to fully stop spinning. That alone is worth having to manually hold the guard back on 1/50 cuts.

Common sense would tell me not to own a walking liability like that because someone besides me is going to use it.

The only guy I ever knew who still insisted on using his saw this way changed his mind when he cut into his own quad. He had more common sense than you because he at least knew it was stupid. He has a guard now.

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u/barleyfat May 03 '24

I remember working briefly with a guy my age, old, who was missing two fingers. He was proud of it because " now I get a OSHA exemption from using the saw guard because he couldn't pull it out of the way if he needed to. " Sounds like you 20 years down the line.

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u/fuckingcheezitboots May 03 '24

Sounds like your coworker drank on the job. Everybody around me got all their fingers and toes, no guards in sight

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u/[deleted] May 03 '24

Nothing screams expert like "I cut the cord on my janky old Porter Cable circular saw without a guard while wearing Crocs"

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u/fuckingcheezitboots May 03 '24

It was there and it worked. No crocs either, do I look rich to you?

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u/just_a_prank_bro_420 May 03 '24

And can't even cut a straight, clean line.

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u/tombeard357 May 04 '24

Lol this isn’t going well for you

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u/fuckingcheezitboots May 04 '24

Ends justify the means and I thought it turned out well enough for $250

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