If there ain't a part 2 of this, I might be a little disappointed. I mean Roscoe is about cropdust safety man and Ricky on his way out the door! Those levels of methane indoors have got to trigger another meeting.
@@edstevens6839 That's cause Ricky is smart enough to know when Roscoe's bowels are brewing up a storm. He knows an immediate evacuation is inevitable.
Last October, I had a corporate compliance review. my reviewer was gonna write me up for the guard not being on the grinder. I said “Ma’am have you ever tried to use this thing with a guard on it.”. She said “I’m from Alabama and my husband says the same thing you don’t have to put the guard back on it just hang it on the shelf near where you’re using it so you could put it on if you needed to.” . Thanks Terri wherever you are that was awesome.
That is funny, I have never needed to remove the guard, but I do rotate it sometimes. Other times, there is a better tool for the job. So far, no one has been able to give a good example of how, why, or where the guard gets in the way.
@@CGT80 some cutoff blades are larger diameter than the stone grinding wheels and factory guards, [so to put a 4" or 5" saw blade onto a 3" angle grinder, you MUST remove the guard.] I saved a guys life once with some bungee cords and a call to 911. He was cutting trim in the corner of a closet and his t-shirt got caught in the 'Guardless' cutoff blade... ended up slicing up his right forearm and left wrist, cutting through his arteries and tendons. He later told me he tried calling his wife first and then 911 on his cell phone but the blood on the touchscreen prevented his calls for help. That's when i saw him walk out of the house across the street looking like a zombie, sat him down, stopped the bleeding, called 911; ambulance was there in 5min. and dude was passing out...🙏thank God he was able to pull through! I would bet he'll never try that shortCUT again though🤔
Ya well...if ya don't know now how to operate a tool with all the safety equipment removed...then you just need to let it alone...and go do something safe! I have made a living off such equipment. Was also raised on a farm and not the city...so I guess I got blessed with common sense and a set of balls. Also a very strong work ethic. Always 30 mins early for work...never on time.
Fucked myself up too many times with a grinder. I use guards and other safety shit now. All fun and ballsy until you need 32 stitches and 18 staples lol
#1 the guard will not fit around a skill saw blade and #2 putting a handle back on that with a skill saw blade would be the worse idea since when Roscoe knocked up Ricky's momma. (Probably Roscoe has been around might have knocked up a few women when he was drunk)
When I was in Iraq, I was the only one who knew how to cut, weld, grind and basically do any metal work. When I started working a grinder I had my captain come to me and ask me why we had to buy so many tools. He thought we had one for grinding, one for cutting, one with a wire brush. When I started changing heads and implement he was blown away.
That’s how your suppose to do it I keep 5 grinders all with different discs for ease of grab and go . Cut off . Grinding . Flap disc 36g . Flap disc 80g wire wheel
My buddy who does tile used to use that exact set up for under cuts until he got a kickback and almost lost his leg from the knee down. First er doctor to see it looked, said nothing, and ran out of the room. They brought in a plastic surgeon who described the fix as "meatball surgery"
I literally just referred to a grinder as a Metabo in conversation with my brother about installing a doggie door in his house. Band aids. Kleenex. Frigidaire. All the same.
Three days ago I was at home using an angle grinder to cut a piece of metal. Without warning the blade exploded. I am one if the most safety conscious people out there. I was wearing chainsaw pants, safety visor over top of my safety glasses and because I was in and out of the house and being lazy I was also wearing my slippers. BIG MISTAKE. The disk shattered into a hundred pieces except for a 1 by 3 inch piece which lodge into the big toe metatarsal bone. Now I am in a cast with 9 stitches an it hurts like hell. Compliancy is the greatest contributor to accidents. This could have been much much worse. To all my construction brothers and sister, be alert to your surroundings and say safe on the job and at home.
Ah the classic “it just exploded..” I’ve burned thru 100’s of discs, the only time they explode is when they have been flexed and are cracked, or poor technique. if you had spent half as long looking over the disc as ya did getting dressed up, you could have cut in your crocs.
Years ago, I was working a shutdown at an oil recycling plant here in North Carolina and had a grinder kick back and hit me in the face. Yes, I had safety glasses on… my neck 🙄. It was early January and about 14 degrees outside. I had just come off a weld and the helpers hadn’t cut tacks on the next pipe so I could get the wall thickness of high/low out and I grabbed up the grinder, that had no guard on it and evidently a small Nick in the blade. When I threw it up to cut the first tack , it grabbed and kicked back. Hit me right about eyebrow level on my left eye. It barely scratched my eyeball and tried to give me a nose job. The Good Lord was looking out that day. Stupid and lazy can kill or maim. I still have my eye and nose intact, although my budding career as a nose model was down the tubes🤣😂. Old hand advice, wear y’all’s damn face shield and safety glasses when you are cutting. 😉. Much love to you Boss, and all your other alter-egos 😂🤣. And much love to all the hands that took the time to read my ramblings. Be careful out there guys 🤙🏻🤙🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Yup! Was wearing shorts as I watched the die grinder slip from my grip and race down my leg to stop at my ankle and free spin. That was a month ago, and am still recovering from my racing experience. Always wear pants and something other than flip flops! I was wearing safety glasses though.
I decided to clean up a hole in aluminum that was cut with a hole saw. I was just piddling around in the garage so I had on sandals and didn't grab my leather gloves. My die grinder had a new 3/4" diameter cylindrical bur in it. It spun around that 2.5" hole out and the corner of the end cutting carbide bur ran diagonal across my left thumb. I put it away and washed my hands and applied a paper towel to stop the bleeding. Luckily it wasn't too bad, but I have a scar now to remind me what happens when it doesn't go too bad and to think about what might happen if it goes really bad. I also don't use angle grinders without guards. They have never gotten in the way and are adjustable for using a cut off wheel at different angles. I just don't understand how people claim they can't get to the work with the guard.
Everything is a hammer if you use it wrong enough. I've seen someone use their car as a hammer before. Power tools are really just oddly shaped hammers
Here's my opinion so I'm just going to throw it out there. Use the handle whenever possible, most grinders in my experience have a two or three position handle specifically for the purpose of letting you use the handle regardless of what situation you are in. Use the guard whenever possible as well, and if not, keep as much of your body out of the plane of rotation as possible. Discs can and will shatter, even if you did nothing to them. I once had a disk fresh out of the middle of the pack shatter the first time it spun up, and it was a Norton wheel too, so not a shit quality wheel. For the most part, if possible, only go without the guard when you are doing grinding on the face of the wheel, for example with a flap disc or a 1/4 inch wheel rated for side grinding. Obviously there are some situations in which those guards and such can get in the way, but outside of those situations it's not worth the risk. And wear your damn safety glasses, and if you do need to use a cutting wheel without the guard, use a goddamn face shield. It's not worth losing an eye or worse just to save yourself a hassle in situ
roscoe reminds me of my dad. lol I might have been ricky more times then i should been. these skits remind me of many many fond memory's and to many of them have definitely happened almost word for word. great stuff.
Outfitted one like that years ago before osilating type tools were around. Used it as a jamb cutter for tile installation. We called it the wheel of death
Hey, I think you guys are Awesome!!!! Having watched this vid I would like to recommend that you Guys do a series with workplace safety! Think you guys would add GREAT informative value to the Energy, Chemical and Construction Industry!
*Clears throat from last job* Yeah uh I dont think we had a single one that still had the guard or handle LOL Or safety glasses...or shields....or gloves....hmmm Then again there likely were a LOT worse things than that goin on at that job site LOL
I used to work at a factory where a mechanic was cutting with an angle ginder with no handle or guard. The disk bound up and kicked and cut all the tendons across the back of his hand. He spent the next few months with these metal wires on his cast holding his fingers stationary so the severed tendons would reattach where they were stitched together. So, I'm gonna have to agree with the safety man on this one. 12 weeks well spent.
I had a grinder jump out of my hand with a cut off disc bind up and jump right out of my hand! It cut the cord 3 times before it hit the concrete and the disc shattered. Boss was glad I didn't hurt myself and wasn't doing it inside on the brand new floor!
21 stitches. 1/4 of an inch to the left would have been a fast total loss of blood. I use a guard now. That is the second most dangerous tool you can use in the field.
We had a special dude on the job put a 9" disc on 4.5" grinder& take it to the chest&face. He lived. Not sure how he didn't win the Darwin that day but he didn't.
I've learned at least 2things over the last 20 years of running, or being around those trying to run any angle grinders in many ways, across many states.... And that's #1...Actual Factual Metabos are awesome, smooth and will save the bones&nerves in your hands from many days of pain. And #2... I'd easily bet a years salary that less than 1% of the work force can use an angle grinder without destroying the grinder, the cord, the disc/wheel/flap or whatever medium is nutted down to it harder than a road dog to his woman when he gets back to the house. #3 I'm glad I'm in that top 10% of the 1%, for its provided many of youthful ladies plenty of educational learning while dancing around poles on stages. Lol #thefinalgrind
i once was on a job where a guy bought washers because his cutting disc was loose in the grinder, i took the nut and flipped it upside down and blew his mind
I used to be one of the guys that took the guards off right out of the box.... we called them "bitch blocks".... then I had a kickback and fileted one of my fingers. Rookie ER doc puked in his mouth when he unwrapped. I'm lucky to still have that finger. Another incident when I dropped one with a cutoff wheel on it, the sumbitch landed on the switch and took off running like Dale Earnhardt and I required 27 stitches in my knee..... that one still had the guard on.
One of the safety chicks I dealt with almost kicked us off the job site for pulling out a grinder without a guard. At first we thought it was no big deal, until she showed us pictures of what happened after a cutting disc snapped while her husband was using it. Never took a guard off since.
Ah, one of the greatest lessons of showmanship. Show, don't tell. If you tell someone what to do, they'll probably tell you to fuck off. If you show them what might happen if they don't take your sage advice, that tends to encourage listening skills.
See, like, I know a lot of people that throw the guards and handles away, but I’m too familiar with what those fuckers can do to you, if something goes wrong. And, shit’ll go wrong no matter how good you are with them. Angle grinders are inherently dangerous. And, if I can’t fit it in a certain space to cut a certain thing with the guard and handle on, it’s the wrong tool, and I’ll fight someone before I’m made to use it that way. No matter who it is, or what happens, I will get less hurt, I promise. I like being intact too much for that bullshit.
That second angle grinder hit home so hard. Literally every single one I've seen in the past year and a half had no shield or handle. And no one been hurt to spite using them though. XD
I have not laughed that hard at a RU-vid video in a while. I've been thru my own run ins with the safety man a time or two, and I gotta say when.. ooohh... you know what, forget that, I gotta go.
Got me an old harbor freight grinder that I retired a while ago (and cut the power cord off of) that has an old 10 inch blade from a chop saw on it. Always fun to hand it to somebody 'hey can you cut that for me'
This happens at my shop all the time, removing the guard and handle. It is crazy that people don't realize how fast things can happen and willingly put themselves in needless danger.
is that an Ashley wood stove in the back at the end of the video, may need a safety video on that as well. grew up with one 40 years ago, you can get those to crank out some heat and make the stove pipe glow orange.
Me with safety man here an active grinder fell on my head with a bad cut. That's a circular saw blade! Ricky about gunna loose more than a few fingers with that
Now I’m not claiming to be the messiah of safety when it comes to grinders, but I’ll never forget the time my company changed owners and the new one couldn’t figure out how to turn off a corded grinder, so he just unplugged it. Didn’t find it important to let anyone know. I swiftly found something in common with Rosco that day
I have done that ngl But it was on a robot in a secured cell.... We needed the prototypes 2 weeks ago and the grinder we'd bought had the wrong interface while we had a gripper in the shop.
LOL. I have seen this same conversation with safety officer at construction site. Removing the safety guard so they could cut without the guard being in the way.
The moment he pulled out that second grinder i freakin lost it, I've seen some sketchy shit and done some sketchy shit in my day but that was just hilariously stupid😂
Lol green or blue love shack on job site bout to get blown up!! Yes a love shack cause you love to see it when you gotta go that bad!! Burrito break is the cause but damn that job site noble food is da-bomb!!!!!!
Well everyone knows you can't fit a 7 1/4 blade on a 5 inch grinder won't fit with the guard on there! That is one way to flush cut and take your fingers off at the same time! 🤣
I've seen that setup more than once. Normally when carpteners are working fiberglass grating. But im.in suspense. Ricky is ready to dive out the roll up, rosco about to release bio hazardous material or at least set off a Sniffer alam.for methane. And safety man still has the daily waste your time to do...
Always wanted to try it, never had the balls. FYI I found a wood blade online that has only 3 teeth. From what I seen works great. Haven't tried one myself yet.
I honestly agree with safety man on this one. One slip of hand or loss of footing and that tool is already deadly. Accidents happen and when they do I prefer to be safer with the tools that with one slip and it can permanently mane you or even end you.
Guards and handles are fine for non detail work. If your forced to cut tile with em, removing the handle andguard can give you more control of your detail cuts. Its an old school way of doing things and when you have access to a wet saw there is really no point to do it that way
