Just SAW this on youtube.....
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sometimewoodworker
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Not only that but for £4 he could get the even more dangerous flesh eating chainsaw wheel or for £25 he can get the work done for him
that doesn’t cover the fact that anyone can easily find a chainsaw adapter for the angle grinder and that it’s neither brilliant nor safe and many people know about it.
Stigmorgan
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The real scary thing is the number of these stupid videos that are out there
what could possibly go wrong!
Thats natural selection waiting to happen. No brake, If he gets kick back god knows how far that thing would be thrown. Theres always some silly person that thinks Hey I can make one of those. A cheap electric chainsaw costs about as much as the grinder. Complete cretin
artie
Sawdust manufacturer.
Almost 8,000,000 views maybe not so daft.
Chainsaws are dangerous enough without trying to make a homemade bodge with no brake. To me it shows that youtube and such are really just promoting the daft and dangerous because these idiots are chasing views. I wonder if they have a colleague who is videoing them during the act of stupidity so if it goes wrong and a limb is detached they can get another video to post!
and top of my wife's list of dangerous tools
Hope human beings are at the top of your wife's list. It would be fascinating to know for all the power tool related injuries your wife has treated, how many of them were caused / exacerbated by unsafe working practices. I guess people don't volunteer this information though
It’s hardly a function if you have to get the welder out. I am sure there are easier ways to hurt yourself.
Yup, keeps the hospitals in business.
Perhaps thats a conspiracy Artie. The makers of these 'death star' and other add on chainsaw attachments are in cahoots with big pharma.
Sporky McGuffin
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I wonder if there's already someone who's done a video of welding some chains and/or steel cable onto the angle grinder boss, then mounting it on a broom handle and using it as a strimmer.
artie
Sawdust manufacturer.
RobinBHM
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"Few people know about this...". No idea why....
And from the comments:
nocturnal1970
3 months ago
As someone who nearly sawed his toes clean off with an angle grinder with a rip saw blade I highly recommend not replicating any of these self amputation modifications to 115mm angle grinders.
And from the comments:
nocturnal1970
3 months ago
As someone who nearly sawed his toes clean off with an angle grinder with a rip saw blade I highly recommend not replicating any of these self amputation modifications to 115mm angle grinders.
They are indeed - whenever she mentions (suitably anonymised) a patient's activities it is remarkable how often it is bad human decision making - such as un-jamming machines without turning them off and then once they are unjammed, surprise surprise, they start running again but now with the hand in there!Hope human beings are at the top of your wife's list. It would be fascinating to know for all the power tool related injuries your wife has treated, how many of them were caused / exacerbated by unsafe working practices. I guess people don't volunteer this information though
You would be surprised by exactly how honest most of them are - and a book could be filled with examples of attempted darwinism!
Oh man, thats a good one!!! I could do that, save a fiver and get my youtube career under way! Thanks sporky!!!
Sporky McGuffin
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I'd say "cut me in", but please don't come anywhere near me with it.
