Took me years to get the wife trained to NOT sneak up on me, NOT to poke her head in the door and yell my name, when I was running machinery.
I lost a piece of ply off the tablesaw last time she snuck up on me.
Trimming a piece of ply, and out of the corner of my eye I spotted something, and jumped, letting loose of the ply.
She had came in the back door and was right beside me.
Her seeing that strip of plywood zinging backwards at 100mph into my radial arm saw finally woke her up.
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TowMater 2/9/09
Shop is in my basement. If someone comes to the door and rings the bell sometimes I hear it, sometimes I don't. If the wife or kids are home they've learned that if they hear a machine running it's a massive no-no to enter.
This is always an interesting topic. Safety is absolutely critical, focus is very important to safety. Yet, I can recall operating machinery in an industrial environment where there are so many other things going on around you that you can't let them distract you. It takes a lot to get me to break focus when I'm working on something.
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It takes a lot to get me to break focus when I'm working on something.
Same here, I'm extremely focused when working. Even so, if my wife can hear something running through the door, she won't come in. If she does come in and I'm doing something, she stays right at the door until I finish. Apparently, that sometimes is quite a while.
What she understands is that to interrupt me, it has to be more immediately important than the trip to the emergency room that could be caused by the interruption would be. That list of things, well, we've never figured out anything on it. "Dave, you're on fire", maybe?
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- Boxman
Well, I for one am glad to see that you're finally on the road to recognizing you're (a) in the closet, and (b) need to come out. Been wondering when this day would come.
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Does it trouble anyone else that there's only one 'Monopolies Commission'?
This is always an interesting topic. Safety is absolutely critical, focus is very important to safety. Yet, I can recall operating machinery in an industrial environment where there are so many other things going on around you that you can't let them distract you. It takes a lot to get me to break focus when I'm working on something.
I should note an interesting point that failed yesterday to make:
In any shop (including my present one) when I work with others it is/was not unusual for someone to interrupt me (many times quite frequently) and it did not seem to bother me as much; maybe because I knew I was around people that understood the situations when it was important to leave the person alone, and when it mattered less.
singularly I can be very immersed in what I am doing, but if the phone rings I don't go goofy just because the phone rings.
The ridgid planer is my quick touch up planer that I rarely use. Its hard to see but just behind it is my 20", 4-poster, with Byrd head, that is....... Well you guessed it... A Griz.
Hey Roland, I had my TS and jointer aligned such that the infeed/outfeed was along the "hypotenuse" of my basement. The problem in my case was that to USE the extra length, I ended up bashing stuff into the furnace behind me on infeed; and on outfeed, wide stuff would butt into adjacent corners before the cut was complete anyway.
It also formed some funky traffic patterns and limited how the rest of the shop could be arranged, so I gave up and went with a "north-south" direction. I've made a few beds since then and to rip the long rails I have to do most of the cut, stop the saw, pull the saw back a few inches (it's on wheels) and re-start the cut. Not perfect, but ....
AFA the wife startling me while working with power tools: she once walked up behind me and tapped me on the shoulder while I was using a hand-held router.
...ONCE. My crazy screaming made quite an impression on her.
and jumped, letting loose of the ply.
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