My Planer Ate my Cellphone

Wow That’s incredible it still works. As far as trying to catch it,it sounds like something I might have done.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

I had a planer eat my homework once. I doubt your insurance will believe you, my teacher didn’t believe me.

So how are you going to take a picture of the phone? You know that we all want to see the carnage.

-- Chunk

Quite the story, this seems like a good one to tell to the guys while sharing a few drinks, you had two one in a million shots there, the shot in the planer and the phone actually working after that. Thanks for the post.

-- A hammer dangling from a wall will bang and sound like work when the wind blows the right way.

Don’t you hate it when that happens? At least your hand wasn’t dragged in as you tried to catch the ‘phone.

-- Stanley generally struggling

I’d liketo say great carch, but, alas no good.

I hopoe that you had insurance on the phone or at least you can go for an upgrade.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

DANG!

I hope that never happens to me, I have an iPhone! The iPhone is $5-600, unsubsidized, and insurance isn’t available.

Now, if my WORK PHONE got too close to the planer… <g>

-- - Please help keep Lumberjocks an enjoyable escape by refusing to participate in political discussions. Simply spit out the bait and ignore the thread...

that is why I don’t bring a phone into the shop. besides the startle factor

-- There is no such thing as a mistake. Its called a design modification Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI

I am sorry to hear that, a planer will eat anything.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Better your phone than flesh and bone.

-- Trying to follow the example of the master.

Tough luck on the phone.

I’ve been taught to just let the stuff fall. Don’t try to catch things, don’t lunge for them, etc. Just let it hit the ground. No thinking involved, like “can I catch that chisel by the handle?” or “whoops, I’ve lost my balance and fallen face first into a spinning blade!”.

You can replace a cell phone, re-sharpen a chisel or deal with a dinged up tool. Causing a serious injury to yourself because you tried to catch something just isn’t worth it.

-- Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Mine got caught under a 27 horse zero turn mower. Couldn’t find diddley

-- Gary, DeKalb Texas

Sounds like something that I would try. Been there, done that, no more….......LOL

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

That would have been a good video for Americas Funniest Home Videos. :-)

-- Wayne - Plymouth MN

I think you could be on a commercial for the company who makes or sells that phone! Sounds like $$$ to me!

Q: What did the buzzing planer say to the cell phone?

A: Buuuuuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz-urp-burp!

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Naturally. You couldn’t have hit that little 4×8cm area in a million years if you were trying to, but…

-- Measure twice, then try to figure out which one was right.

Just read 15 replies and still laughing. You’ve got to post us some pictures of your phone and a video of the clerk when you take your phone back and try to explain what happened to it. LOL

-- John @ Myrtle Beach