The most dangerous hand tool.

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

I bought a "Lancelot Tool". It's a mini chain saw blade on a wheel that fits on a 4" hand grinder. Never stand with the rotation toward you, always drag the blade, never gouge with it. If that little sumbich ever gets away from you, RUN!

I started off with it on a grinder that has an on/off switch. Tomorrow I am putting it on one of my grinders with a trigger control. If it jerks out of my hand, I want it to turn off. I can just see the little bassturd taking off like a tasmanian devil until it runs out of cord. It is not meant for one handed operation but it very well could end up like that if you are not careful as Hell.

Alan

[Bill Gunn]

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.................:afraid: If you dropped that thing with your switch on, you would have an
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...................................."Instant Airborne Meat Grinder"


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......HOLY FREEKIN' MOLEY :vroam:


It's really nice that they thought enough to put Blood Groves in the center main blade though :dong:

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

Bill, it works like a charm for it's intended purpose but it is a Killer. I'm really surprised that it's even for sale in this day and age. I will also add that before you try one of these things you shoudl at least watch an instructional video on YouTube or something! When you do try it for the first time be ready for it to jerk out of the wood you are cutting, and I mean jerk out really fast. Make sure it's going to go away from you. I think the two discs are supposed to act like a clutch........ they don't.

Alan

[Bill Gunn]

Can you imagine the damage that "Tim The Tool Man Taylor" could have done with one of those ?
He could fill an entire hospital in one episode !! :nurse:

I bet it would be a good tool for those "Chainsaw Artists"

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[Greywolf]

I have a visual: :ahhhhh:

...jus try en bite me you little sumbich


:viking:

[Bill Gunn]

I watched the demo on U-Tube where the guy makes the chair seat.
I have come to the conclusion that there are 2 types of people that should NEVER use those blades, and that would be 4 year olds, and 63 year olds (Me)...

I can't believe he's not wearing thick welding gloves, or Chain Mail Armor.

[Altjaeger]

I have visuals...and they ain't pretty!!! I cannot imagine many real uses.

[Bushman]

Alt, I'm trying to think of what I'd use one for myself. The kerf would be really wide and rough compared to a regular circular saw blade. My grinder is used for metal and that blade wouldn't work for that. As a router, the cut would look too rough. I can't see cutting firewood with it where a conventional chainsaw wouldn't be better. Bill's suggestion as an over-sized Dremel tool for wood or ice carvers seems to make the most sense. There are chainsaw blades and then there are good chainsaw blades. The ones with the warnings all over them about kickback actually cut. Just from a liability standpoint, I bet that they put a pretty benign little chipper chain on that thing.

[Herne]

With one of those cordless thingys for power, maybe it could be the ultimate dressing knife.

I reckon you could split a breastbone or pelvis in milli - seconds. Not perhaps as neat as doing it with a chainsaw, but possibly more exciting than the hunt itself.

I've never seen one over here. Maybe that's a good thing.

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

I made a small platter yesterday from a piece of Cherry I had. It gives a really rough finish (as you would imagine) and a lot of sanding was required but it shaped it out pretty fast. Eventually I want to make bowls out of Mesquite. I made one with a chainsaw and that is not a whole lot safer than the L tool. I put it on a trigger grinder though so it will at least start shutting down if I lose it.

Alan

[ncboman]

I had a blade similar to that on a brushcutter. It worked good.

[Bill Gunn]

With one of those cordless thingys for power, maybe it could be the ultimate dressing knife.


L O L....

I have a vision of someone looking like Hannibal Lecter, right after he ate off someones face...

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

GW, I don't know how fast you are but this little baby is lightening fast! At least with a chainsaw you have the weight of the saw to dampen the kick and the rotation and torque is mostly in a vertical direction. With this thing it goes in whatever direction it happens to be turned when it hits the wood. You have to have your stock clamped down or it will sling the stock across the shop. I have resolved to using it only if there is someone else at home.

I've always had a thing for wooden bowls but they are a tremendous amount of work (hence the apparent lack of wooden bowls at my house). With this thing I can work the major portion of the wood out of a bowl in a fraction of the time I could even with a chainsaw. I'm just going to have to be real careful.

Alan

[Greywolf]

I don't know how fast you are but this little baby is lightening fast!

kind of like racing skill saws or belt sanders accross the floor LOL

I've always had a thing for wooden bowls but they are a tremendous amount of work

think outboard lathe.
Once you are deep into the bowl with a tool like that rascal, and it gets away then, you are pretty well in for the fight of your life.

They should have a sign on the machine that reads:
Caution--Do Not Use Your One Remaining Hand To Operate This Tool.