Pants Battle Concrete Saw, Lose - 5/17/2005
I've always thought it was a little inaccurate to call
these machines a "saw"; after all, it's really more
like a very narrow grinding wheel. For example, today I was removing
a piece of patterned limestone from a walkway we had installed
last year, because we had mistakenly put the piece straddling
a seam in the concrete slab below. The result was a cracked piece
of stone. So I was using our Partner K650 concrete saw to cut
through the mortar around this piece, then hit it with a hammer
drill to break the stone out. While I was moving from one spot
to another and changing my grip on the running saw, it grazed
my leg. Thankfully I had my keys in my pocket, and they stopped
the blade from cutting into my leg. But they didn't prevent the
saw from ripping a hole in my pants (see below). The good part
of all this and the reason I question calling it a saw, is because
had this been a 7 1/4" circular saw, I'd probably be in the
hospital, the blade having ripped through my pants and keys and
into my leg. But because it's just a gas-powered, brick-cutting
grinding wheel, it cut my pants, nicked up my leatherman micra,
and spilled a few coins onto the stone walk.
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