Most stoopid use of power tools?

[dependencies]

Having a discussion on most ambitious use of power tools
elec/petrol

so far we have baked beans (tinned goods) being opened with angle grinder....

[legion]

Watching the Chinese family behind me attempt to trim their trees with an electric circular saw. They don't speak much English and seem to get irritated when I try to talk to them, so I just leave them alone.

[UconnTim97]

Belt sander racing.

Saw it a few times on TV.

[Oh Haha]

Whenever I try to make a straight figgin' cut!!!!!


Seriously, I usually fark up the easiest of cuts with my circular saw.

[sammyg2]

Using a 4 1/2" angle grinder to frost the inside of a windshield

[HardDrive]

Years ago I called a guy I worked with. He was out of breath. He explained that he had a piece of chain that had gotten wrapped up around the blade of his miter saw. He explained further that he had a rough cut blade for cutting wood on the saw, and that he was trying to cut the chain when the 'accident' happened. He thought nothing of it. 'Just one of those things'.

Moron.

[fastfredracing]

I have cut firewood with a circular saw.

[red911sc]

I know of a guy that tried to trim his bushes by holding his lawnmower over them.... he cut nearly every finger tip and had to get stitches in several of them.

[dipso]

I use a sawzall to trim my trees. Too lazy to get a chainsaw.

[jhc]

[Hugh R]

I had a pre-med college roommate who wanted to cut holes speakers in the back of his 1978 (new) Mustang II. I wasn't there when it happened but he took a chain saw into the backseat of the car and fired up the chain saw. According to another roommate, the chainsaw in about one second went across the back seat, up the back of the front seat and across the headliner. He's now a surgeon in the Indianapolis area. His first name is Olaf, btw.

[cgarr]

Mixing paint on my South Bend lathe because I didn't have any stir sticks, It started as a joke but when you chuck it up offset in the 4 jaw, turn it on and 5 min later you have pudding paint!!

[vash]

cgarr, that is awesome.

i have used my framing hammer as a black widow smasher. i built a hen coop out of lumber using nothing but my chainsaw. my cuts were ROUGH! better than running out that damn electric cord.

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by cgarr

Mixing paint on my South Bend lathe because I didn't have any stir sticks, It started as a joke but when you chuck it up offset in the 4 jaw, turn it on and 5 min later you have pudding paint!!

Just hope it doesnt let go... We had an electric paint shaker let go of a can of british racing green. Looked like we had grass on the shop floor for the longest time.

[Laneco]

My little brother went way, way up in the woods one year to get the family Christmas tree. When he found the perfect specimen, he realized that he had forgotten the saw.

Luckily for him, we all subscribe to the need-more-ammo theory of preparedness...

He used a 9mm pistol to shoot the base of the 7 foot three. When it was fully and I might add, quite brutally, severed - he tossed it in the truck and came home.

angela

[Schumi]

I've used an oxy-acetylene torch to heat up bean dip.

A chop saw off it's hinged base as a circular saw.

A paint hopper chucked up in a Cincinnati lathe to clean out hardened primer.

Crashed an MSC lathe intentionally into a part to split a composite part off it's stuck-on mold.

.. and countless others. Many contraptions have been built with ratchet straps and complex systems of ropes and pulleys.

[idontknow]

I made a firing pin for my CZ-52 using a 4 1/2" nail chucked in the drill press. Used a file to shave it down and sandpaper to finish it up.

It's still in use and much harder than the original soft steel pins.

[masraum]

I can't wait until Johnco checks in.

[dependencies]

Originally Posted by Laneco

He used a 9mm pistol to shoot the base of the 7 foot three. When it was fully and I might add, quite brutally, severed - he tossed it in the truck and came home.

angela

I absolutely love that sort of thing BUT thank goodness for gun laws here in the UK,
not for fear of getting 'a cap, bust in my ass'
but the very real fear of some improvised use of firearms in the woods.

[dependencies]

Us lot are amateurs compared with this


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