Normally I am extremely careful in the shop,but today I made a huge mistake and did
some real damage to my arm. I never take my guards of anything,always wear a
respirator, wear tight shirts and always tuck them in, and always use push blocks.
Today I was milling some a load of wood for a bar top for my son when my grizz
combo jointer planer quit feeding. I took it apart to find the chain came off. I put in
back on and it immediately fell off again. I took it all apart and found the problem.
Luck has it I had the parts from when I first bought the unit 10 years ago and had
some trouble with the same thing brand new. Grizzly sent a bunch of parts I didn’t
use. Just so happens these were exactly what I needed. After putting it together i
turned it on WITHOUT the guards on to make sure it was running o/k. All good I’m
happy. One more quick check with it on again. I lean in a little and in a nano second
the spiral cutter head grabs my shirt sleeve and ripped my forearm into it. I new instantly
what happen and ripped my arm as the machine kept trying to pull me back in. No way
that was happening. I pulled so hard I ripped my shirts to threads. Needless to say my arm
looks like hamburger. Moral of the story.. let’s be carful out there.