EUGENE, Ore. - An Oregon man narrowly missed either serious injury or death after a saw blade got loose from a construction site and rolled speedily towards him.
Security footage captured the heart-stopping moment from a convenience store in Eugene on March 28.
Spin, spin, spin Let 'em see you spin, spin, spin
ReplyDeleteMore like a dei hire trying to use a concrete saw.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was thinking. -sammy
DeleteI was trying to figure out the size of the diamond blade, and the rotating speed to get an idea of how fast that blade was moving.
ReplyDeleteBut the math was a bit beyond my skills.
It looking to be moving mighty fast, and there's a fair amount of mass in one of those blades.
I'm guessing that a tire from a car or truck has more energy, but once you are dead it just doesn't matter past that point.
Note to self. The need for clean skivvies is more often than I expected.
As terrifying as the phrase "runaway saw blade" is, this wasn't even close.
ReplyDeleteI was doing computer repairs to the bandmill saw in Priest River, Id. I could not figure out why the computer was glitching and breaking blades, because you actually had to see it happen to time the event. I walked in the door the second day there and sure enough the machine hiccuped and blew the six inch double-sided blade. a good sized chunk blew across the way at 33,000MPH* and took my briefcase off right at the handle. Turned around and took a couple of hours to calm down and change my shorts, and finally traced it to a missing resistor.
ReplyDelete*Or so it seemed at the time...
Someone needs to get a talking to. That's a giant masonry blade and they shouldn't escape unless you're a real dope.
ReplyDeleteHe never saw the saw.
ReplyDeleteSawing for relief in 12" pavement for the breaker on a relocation project it popped with a "Spang" and killed my 25 hp saw dead in a millisecond. It was the end of the day and we said screw it, and unbolted the saw, we'll get it in the morning. Overnight one side of the pavement crawled up around 3" and bent the blade at a 30* angle. No saving that one.
ReplyDeleteOver the life of a couple different projects on that piece of roadway I saw it grab 3 other blades, all in vastly different places. The only thing holding it together was the massive amount of tension it was under.
Neck