here is a stellar guy showing good jointer technique. My hope that no one ever sees this that didnt learn or have logic to get how wrong this in a number of ways
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Here left hand fingers pointed down is why I would never do this, ive done this enough times left hand is turned sideways and the outside ball of my hand is holding the material down on the outfeed. His fingers are just presented for removal if anything goes wrong. Id have to see what I do on the machines likely hand dampened and I push more with heal of my hand just know id never point my fingers down like this
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Likely Sam from SCM to me this shows how futile guards are at times. It sticks out it in the way. The board passed over the knives is safe, the board is the guard same as a pork chop guard in a way. Pushing with the right hand that way is set up to fail, as soon as he slips one time and it ends up in the cutter head. The chance I would work like this is less than zero.
Get the guard out of the way. run your material through and the push stick set it on the heal of the board, either pushing with it from the start or added at the end in the case of a longer board. Push stick sitting on top in the case of this length of board.
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