Re: Damn, that's gonna leave a mark!

dpb wrote:
Leon wrote:
"dpb" <none@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fgnldq$va0$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
Brian Henderson wrote:
On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:52:47 -0600, dpb <none@xxxxxxx> wrote:

'Pends on where it hit/caught -- push a small offcut into the rear of the blade w/ rising teeth and it can easily be thrown quite nicely...
True, but that would tend to be thrown up face-ward, not horizontally
belly-ward, wouldn't it?
Oh...or is _that_ what Leon was going on so about--that it isn't necessarily gutting time? I had no thought whatsoever about anything other than it's possible for an offcut to get hurled--I figured "how high" was sorta' immaterial if it's heading your direction and you're a fair target.


LOL, no, I still stand behind the fact that circumstances have to be just right for a loose piece of scrap to be thrown with any force regardless of blade positioning. ...

All it takes is once -- and I can attest that it can...

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yes.

Harvey
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