neat. thank you.

Where do you buy jars with handles on them, never seen glass handle jars in stores

where do you put power tools?

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Really, really good video Herrick. I'm 72 and have been fortunate to be as lucky as you. A handful of very scary mishaps, some with stitches, that could have been oh so worse. The scariest was cutting a PVC dust collection connector on the radial arm saw and it grabbed it and pieces went flying around the shop. My fingers that were holding it went completely numb. I assumed that was because they were part of what went flying around the shop. I was afraid to look. I expected to see blood everywhere. But you have to look so I did and everything was still intact. They were just numb from the shock of getting hit, and that numbness lasted at least another half hour. Nothing like that has ever happened since and never will. You learn from your mistakes and thank the powers that be for sparing you. On another note, thank goodness you were wearing glasses when you had your fiery mishap. Keep posting, man. You deserve many more followers than you have.

Most of the times that I have injured myself I thought "this is not the best idea" just beforehand.

Good to know even though im only a teen the idea of woodworking seems nice, food to know how to stay safe.

Thank you Herrick, that's a great trick. So simple but not something I would think of on my own 🙂

I checked under my shed three times and the garden troll has not put any lumber under there yet.

Loved it!

Not rocket science but very clever. We need more ideas like this. Respect

I found you comments about not having a guard or reving knife interesting. As a retired wood patternmaker we never had either on our table saws. When OCHA came through they said we did not have to use them. The types of cuts we made were difficult with a guard in the way and they agreed the guard added danger. I enjoyed your video. Gary

Where's the riving knife..... etc. And don`t say its for the purpose of demonstration. . Without a riving knife, its INSTANT dismissal if employed...

Outstanding tip! Thanks

Nice job

Neat, I'm already an Old Timer, but they say "your never too old to learn" guess i just learnt, Thanks

Thanks for the useful tip and for anticipating my concerns about safety. One objection to the top guard is that it can foul the fence when ripping narrow strips; your tip would get round this and allow the use of the guard.

I've definitely had my share of safety accidents over the years. Or rather negligence. I have learned from them all and like you, became hyper vigilant at avoiding them after that. And I whole heartily endorse your method of learning from others mistakes. I would absolutely rather pay attention to learning from others than to suffer through making that mistake myself. I have learned a lot from the stupidity of others.

Here are my answers to frequent comments about this video... Where's Your Push Stick?- Lots of viewers are concerned about me not using a push stick. I have push sticks and push pads that I use frequently. But there are times when I don't, and the reason I don't is because I am perfectly safe NOT using the push stick. Safety is often (not always, but often) a subjective determination. I've pushed miles of wood through table saws over the years and there are times when I don't need a push stick, BUT you might need one (and if you are questioning my technique, you definitely DO need a push stick). You can't go wrong using a push stick. With safety in mind, you might appreciate the video I made right after this one, "Accidents We Have Known," ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKerkGaKpLmkocUsi=7SuGyb6b1gRYOsEn Where is your guard and riving knife?- I've never had a guard or riving knife on my saw, BUT I totally agree that I should have the riving knife (not so much the guard). No one but me uses my table saw. In the video linked above I explain that if my plans to build a "real" workshop materialize, I will outfit it with a new saw outfitted with the riving knife. 👍 Why don't you simply just set and reset the fence?- If I had a high-quality fence with micro adjustment capability, setting and resetting the fence might be just as easy as using the trick I show here. BUT I don't have that luxury. The original fence on my old saw is not one that can be easily adjusted and readjusted to exact settings. If you have an old saw with a poor quality fence, you know what I mean. I've learned to work with the fence I have, but it would be unnecessarily time consuming to reset to previous dimensions. Also, I appreciated the comment below from the man who mentioned that he learned this trick from a pattern maker. The idea is entirely dependable for getting very precise measurements. I appreciate everyone's comments!

Wow...too many to list, but the worst ones were Becoming the ground for a stick welder when holding a peice of metal in my bare feet on wet grass while my dad welded it to a mower deck. 6" long bead couldn't let go speak or nothing while the 800 lb gorilla sqeezed down on me! - helping a neighbor run a board through his jointer. Broken gaurd allowed my thumb to get sucked in taking the corner of my thumb off -Motor start capacitor across the chest wowsers! -100 amp cartridge fuse blowing up in my face....free trip to the quiet white room... Thought I was dead. - so many knife cuts cant remember - using spray oil on a chainsaw chain concentrating on the nozzle and not my finger. Got a nice stripe down the top of my knuckle - over strike on the edge of 1/8' metal with a sledge hammer and was gripping it under the head. Almost took my finger off and cut the nerve. -Getting blown across the room with a gas hot water heater. The wind blew out the flame but the thermocouple was still hot pumping out gas so by the time I reached back to get another match and stick it in there there was quite a build up. Lost my eyebrows with that one - Lit a brush pile with kerosene used to clean engine parts. Had been stored for awhile and had forgotten that gasoline had also been used on some stubborn parts. The gasoline fumes leaked out across the ground while I calmly stood at the pile to put a match to the kerosene. I was immediately engulfed in a fireball. Luckily i wasn't burned. That's just the tip of the iceberg on things I've learned the hard way lol. I often quip that my guardian angel is going to have some words with me in the hereafter. Many many times I should have been dead or seriously injured and came out with only minor/healable injuries. I thank the Lord for his protection. 😉👍

1985: disassembling a barn, stepped on a nail sticking out of a 1x8 1/2 hour before quitting time. Left early to go get a tetanus shot. Also 1985: near miss, I had unhooked a chain from an oil tank my boss had just moved with his backhoe. As I walked away my boss extended the hoe to its limit, chain was still partly under the tank, without thinking he swung the boom in my direction. My friend Dave yelled duck, I did and the hook glanced off my shoulder blade. 1987: helping my brother in law re shingle the back of their house. I had safety glasses on all day had taken them off momentarily while walking behind Pete just as he mishit a nail that ricocheted into my eye. Trip to the ER where they said I should go to my home town’s ER where an eye doctor was on call that day. Result was several days of eye drops and sitting around with my eyes closed. 1994: moving a lumber delivery inside a partially gutted store. The other guy moving the lumber grabbed a piece of ceiling grid because he kept having to suck under it. A 2’ by 4’ florescent light fixture that was not installed per code swung down on its cable and hit the top of my head as I was starting to stand back up, trip to the ER and 7 stitches. I could probably go on but those are the big ones. I could probably fill a Fine Homebuilding article with cautionary stories I was told by older tradesmen that I’ve met over the years.

I've been in the trades for about 30 years and I just learned something new.

Soon after I started learning woodworking, my wife had a craft project in mind and needed some stars cut that were 1/4" thick. I told her I could cut those on the table saw. At the time, I had never heard of zero clearance inserts. The board I was cutting was 3/4" thick. I was using a pushstick but I for some reason I was holding the top of the board with my fingers. When the end of the board passed the edge of the saw's insert, the blade pulled it down into the opening of the insert, the board shot out from underneath my fingers, and my fingers fell onto the spinning blade. By God's grace, I only mangled the ends of two of my fingers. I didn't lose any part of my fingers and after about a month, they had pretty much healed. I had to find the board and step back through what I did (with the saw off and unplugged) several times before I figured out what happened.

Great tip. Can't beat the old school. By the way I'm 65...lol

Hey man…..standing the line of fire for a kickback and pushing the wood through the saw with both hands and no push stick is a great way to loose your fingers. Plus when you do that all the beginner you tube woodworkers learn your trick too!

I get a kick out of how the most simple, most obvious tricks, I never would have thought of. thanks. now I hope i remember this next time I need to save my set ups and cut another piece.

Great tip.

Bravo, very clever thanks

I bought a 1957 Craftsman 100 that looks a lot like yours and I use it almost every day. I just got done ripping lots of strips for cutting boards for Christmas gifts and could have used this trick! Thank you!

I carpentered about 50 years ........somehow I missed that one lol. Nice Job ! For some reason there was no thumbs up to hit for this video. Good stuff keep them coming

Brilliant

Thumbs down for all the woodworkers on YT, who, like this guy DON'T use a safety hood on his saw. Not only can it save fingers, it helps with dust extraction. Amateurish jerks!!!!

Very nice trick, indeed! But what do you do when you have NO sample?

Great trick but a better tip would be to use a push stick for safety to protect your hands

Like you now …he was a “old pro’ “ ….great tip to

Why no pushstick?

Beautiful

That is real knowledge!!! Men vs. boys knowledge!

Back in my "FNG" (...new guy) days, I learned to frame with a bunch of old guys who knew all the tricks, but didn't like talking or teaching. So (listen up youngsters who already know everything) I shut up, did what I was told, and never stopped watching and learning from the real pro's. I kept trying to guess how I would do it (before they did it), and I was always wrong. But I tried. I was constantly amazed at their tricks - how much faster they did it, how much better they did it, and how much smarter and more efficiently they did it. By keeping my mouth shut, observing intensely, and learning from those wiser and more experienced than I, I learned a TON that I would never have learned had I not had that opportunity. Never miss an opportunity to learn from others. Thank you Herrick! Brilliant! Short and to the point.

Your fingers are frighteningly close to the saw blade! If something unexpected happens to the wood, your fingers can easily be pulled towards the saw blade! Thanks for the tip anyway.

old Craftsman saw. I use that exact one. Sloppy fence, but I figured out how to make it work. Zero clearance insert was a bitch to match the thin sheet metal insert, but I did it using VERY sketchy techniques. Loads of fun, and surprisingly I still have all my fingers.

Spud gun injuries... the threads failed on the cap when I was a kid. The potato remained in place, the cap flew back into my thigh, and I had a square bruise on my leg for 3 weeks or so. Had a few utility knife cuts, too. Thank God, nothing more serious.

Yes sir I was a carpenter for 52 years. I used that trick often. Thanks for the video.

Hopefully nobody chopped off their peter! That would be a bad day 😢

Oh man, that's cool! Thanks!

Oh this is so terribly embarrassing... Back in the 80's I was building (putting together) a mini computer from the chassis up. We started wiring the motor, then the boards, etc. For some strange reason, (probably my pre-frontal cortex was malfunctioning that day), I picked up a motor with the wires loosely tangled, and decided to plug the cord to the wall... I cannot remember why I wanted to or needed to do that. But I immediately got an extra jump to my heart when it sort of 'exploded' with a bang. I didn't get hurt. Just crazy. I was relieved nobody was around to see how embarrassed I was.

Back in the day when I was traveling for work, I once took a buddy to the emergency room after he jumped off a conveyor we were working on and he hooked the inner part of his upper arm on a hook that held setup templates for some rails on the conveyor. It was in a big city and the hospital was nearby. We were sitting in the emergency room with all the drug users coming down from their highs and I finally said, "John, I'm going to go back to work. You call me after you get stitched up and I'll come get you. Also, I offered to show my oldest daughter who was struggling to see the practicality of math and how it is used in the shop. She said, "No Thanks, "Shop Math" is 10 fingers take away... Not interested!"

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First time cutting drywall with a utility knife, it was leaned up against the truck bumper and I was cutting along the horizontal chalk line and I followed through when I got to the end and cut through my pant leg into my inner thigh. Not deep, but hopefully someone reads this and avoids it.

LOL. Loved wood work shop in late 60s/early 70s. Never once had an instructor with all his fingers (index led missing list). Caught my attention and gave me me confidence in experience. Sill have all fingers.