Vent: When my miter saw kicked back and I almost lost a finger

I was building a deck out in Austin last month, cutting some pressure-treated 2x6s on a humid Tuesday afternoon. My miter saw grabbed the board wrong and threw it back at me, nearly catching my hand... I was lucky I had on a good pair of gloves. After that, I stopped and checked my saw's fence alignment, which turned out to be off by about 1/8 of an inch. I spent the next hour fixing that and adding a zero-clearance insert instead of just pushing through the rest of the cuts. Has anyone else dealt with a saw suddenly going rogue like that? What did you check first?

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julia_carter6117d ago

Gloves near spinning blades is a bad idea.

nina_taylor17d ago

Wait, you mean people actually do that?

the_jake17d ago

Guilty as charged, I learned that one the hard way with my dad's table saw.