Thanks Ole for posting this.

In the summer of 1980 I was working in an industrial shop that made moulding by the truckload, we had a big, old jointer, about 16”.

It had a wood swing away guard, I presume the original metal one had died, sometimes it was slow closing.

One of the guys dropped his trailing hand in, and it took all his fingers.

Paramedics wanted his fingers and they didn’t believe they were gone so we went to the jointer, red spray inside the ducting was the best way to describe it.


After sticking my arm up the hose as far as I could all I came back with was mush, I’m not embarrassed to admit I vomited.

I’m really glad to own a jointer with a bridge guard, even better would be a motorized one like a Suva.

Jamie seems to be doing well, a tribute to his fortitude and hard work.

Regards, Rod