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I just stick my foot out to break the tool's fall. Works especially well with chisels and when I am wearing sandals.

Ed

I have experience with 3/4" plywood, sanded one side, on top of 5/4 X 4" salt treated sleepers and it works well.

That is a very good point, I have experienced the saw dust slide too. I neglected to mention that I added grit to my oil base paint on my floor. I don't remember what I added though.

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

Take care of your feet, and your feet will take care of you.

Ha! It is funny how we have the natural reaction to slow the fall of dropped objects with our feet but are somehow instantly able to decide that is a bad idea with something sharp. Any time a knife or chisel or something sharp rolls, is knocked off a counter or dropped my natural reaction to try to stop it is thwarted and I let it fall. I also bend one knee to lift the closest foot off the floor (reducing the odds of one of my feet getting stabbed). I don't know where I learned this but I do it every time. The strange thing is that it is specific to sharp objects. I'll still try to catch a falling object even if it is something like a bowl of yogurt that will make a mess all over my clothes rather than just the floor.

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

Take care of your feet, and your feet will take care of you.

Don't you mean "sweep" under them, Hesh.

Bob

Unfortunately we don't all have a CPU that works that fast Bryan.


At a job-site I tugged an extension cord with my foot that started a biscuit joiner toppling off a bench. I reached out but missed the catch with my hand, but not before bumping the paddle trigger starting the blade spinning. I reflexively stuck my foot out like an idiot to keep it from getting damaged on the concrete. Even though the blade was fully enclosed in the housing, I watched it fall perfectly nose first onto my foot. Inertia slid the plunge mechanism and the blade went through my leather shoe and into my toe.

Mercifully, just a few stitches were required, not a #0 biscuit plug.

I use a thick soft layer of sawdust and wood chips. It took me years of work, but I'm satisfied with the results.


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David--

I offer this story to help you feel less embarrassed, compared to my buddy. He was recently using a serious, gas powered pressure washer. He had the nozzle in his left hand. He went to move the base unit with his right hand and accidentally grabbed the muffler. Since that burned his right hand, he instinctively wanted to cool the burn. He thought: squirt it with water. He pointed the nozzle at his burned right hand and pulled the trigger. The pressure was so strong he cut a 3/4" gash on one of his fingers; almost severed the nerves, according to the doc. Turns out he just needed stitches, but it could have been a lot worse.

My new nickname for him is lefty.

I haven't put flooring down in my basement yet, but I have got the subfloor in.
1" rigidfoam (lapped) covered with 5/8 T&G plywood. The floor is very rigid and warm and was a cheap alternative to the premade stuff. There were a fair amount of Tapcons used (1300sq/ft) and my slab and walls were sound. Very happy with it.

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Wake up and smell the rosewood!

Yikes David! I hope you're back up and running (literally) now!

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

Take care of your feet, and your feet will take care of you.

Tile in the area I use my hand tools, my power tools currently have just concert. We are looking at buying a new place, and more thought will be put into the new place's flooring. Actually, it wasn't so much lack of thought as lack of funds in this house.

I dropped a brand new brad point 11mm last week, right on the tip. That sucked.

Speaking of reflexes, I once dropped a trim router and decided to catch that. Right before I caught it I remember thinking that it was a bad idea. Just lost a chunk of skin on one finger, and a little bit of nail. It's all grown back. I'm much better at letting tools fall now.