Re:Neo-Amish Drop Outs (2008)
by vbezhenar on Monday October 25, 2021 @02:50PM
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Many powered devices are much more dangerous, especially for amateurs. It's hard to receive serious injury from hand saw. One slightly wrong move with circular saw and you're crippled. So it's definitely makes sense to spend more time with hand tools if that's not your profession and you can allow for some inefficiency.
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I disagree. I lost vision to my eye due to chip flying when cutting wood with an axe (carelessly...)
If you are looking strictly at accidents in unit of time, than maybe powered tools are more dangerous.
But what you should do is look at accidents per amount of work done. Like how many accidents it took to process 1000 tonnes of wood. I am sure the statistics would be different then.
But I agree with "especially amateurs". Being amateurs around powered tools is like being amateurs around guns. Every person should be trained at least a little before being given access to powered tools.
Strongly agree. In fact, I suspect the accident rate, even unadjusted for work done, is higher with manual tools. All modern power tools have very well thought-out safety features included. This is particularly true for some of the more dangerous tools, such as chainsaws and table saws( see SawStop ).
To add to the anecdata: I've never hurt myself with a power tool. Meanwhile, I have a permanently damaged big toe from a sledgehammer and a huge scar in my calf from a pickaxe.