Making Fun on Netflix: where did these guys learn to use tools?

There is a semi-popular new show on Netflix called Making Fun where a group of guys make kids' silly contraption ideas into reality through a combination of DIY skills and methods.

The show is a decent idea (though similar things have been around a while on YouTube with less overly-produced "reality" scripting and what not) and not the worst thing to watch. But where on Earth did these dudes learn (or not learn) to use tools? It's all bad, but the way the main guy Jimmy holds angle grinders by the guard is absolutely bonkers.

I hope Netflix has good insurance!

Crikey, that's not good! I thought it was bad when I saw someone on "Maine Cabin Masters" pushing a board all the way through a table saw with a bare hand.

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These dudes are getting paid to use those tools or "in the course of their work day"...

Hello, OSHA?

hybridmomentspass said:

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I tried to fix the hotlinks, they should be working for you now if they weren't before.

Wow! those are all bad, but that last one?? Is he giving himself a manicure or something??

As someone who has embedded a cutoff wheel in a metal skinned insulated garage door from 15' away I loose my mind when I watch popular YouTubers use angle grinders without shields.   The big issue is for literally millions of people their first exposure to the angle grinder is through watching someone disrespect one and misuse it on the Tube or The Flix.  When they see Leet Skeet Influencers using it with no guards they just assume the guards are there for similar reasons to warning stickers on pool floaties. 

In reply to nocones :

Yep, I nearly lost two fingers making a stuuuuupid angle grinder maneuver 12 years ago. Invincible 21 year old with no PPE whatsoever. Laying on my stomach, cutting in a confined space....cutoff wheel shattered and next thing I knew, was staring at bone on my middle and ring fingers.

That was my "tool safety moment" and it could have been so much worse (I lost sleep thinking about how it could have been an eye, killed me, etc).

Really sucks to see people with a big platform act so recklessly, but honestly more surprised Netflix allows it!

Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) said:

Crikey, that's not good! I thought it was bad when I saw someone on "Maine Cabin Masters" pushing a board all the way through a table saw with a bare hand.

The old man did that for 45 years+ and never got so much as nicked. It can be done.

 I don't always agree with his methods either, but for what it's worth Jimmy Diresta is probably the most popular maker on the planet so it works for him.

That's one of the reasons I don't watch Colin Furze on the tubes of you. The stuff he builds is neat I guess but it's only a matter of time before his tie drags him face first into a piece of machinery.

AClockworkGarage said:

That's one of the reasons I don't watch Colin Furze on the tubes of you. The stuff he builds is neat I guess but it's only a matter of time before his tie drags him face first into a piece of machinery.

Recently he's been digging a tunnel from his house to his workshop to a bunker in his back yard.  Somehow he's done it without burying himself alive or making his house collapse, but his technique is really sketchy looking.

I took the guard off the angle grinder once.  I forget what I was grinding, but that guard was just getting in the way and, hey, it's just there because it takes a Real Man to work a tool and that guard was there for the morons and the wimps that didn't know how to Get Stuff Done.

After about 45 seconds, things moved and I came ---><---- THIS close to losing at least one, maybe two digits.  At that point, I realized who the moron was (spoiler alert:  It was me) and after I bandaged myself and found a new pair of gloves, that guard went back on and it doesn't come off.  Ever.  After that event, I've had those wheels come apart on me and the thought of having my fingers that close to the action makes me shudder.

AClockworkGarage said:

That's one of the reasons I don't watch Colin Furze on the tubes of you. The stuff he builds is neat I guess but it's only a matter of time before his tie drags him face first into a piece of machinery.

I still watch him, but I know the "in memoriam" episode is going to be sad...

Dude, you can't knock Jimmy Diresta! He's like a humble Jesse James, but with talent in everything from wood, to metal. 
I had no idea Jimmy was on Netflix. That's my new go-to show now. 

I am pretty careful about my hands around grinders having had a few brushes with them, but was less so about my face. I wore eye protection of course, but that was it. Then I saw what happens when a disk breaks and goes flying, and now I wear a face shield. 

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WOW!

I haven't used grinder guards in years. But I always grind with a face shield and cut-resistant gloves, I let the tool do the work (no forcing it), and I only buy name-brand consumables. Can't even remember my last disc failure.

I think it's also like learning to ride a motorcycle. It takes skills to avoid a wreck, which you only learn with experience. Once you're past a year or two, your chances of a wreck drop off significantly because you're just better at it

hybridmomentspass said:

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I can't UNsee any of the pictures. Yikes.

pointofdeparture said:

It's all bad, but the way the main guy Jimmy holds angle grinders by the guard is absolutely bonkers.

I hope Netflix has good insurance!

Wow. This show looks like it's one poorly timed sneeze away from making an inadvertent sequel to Klaus the Forklift Driver.

I literally cringed when I saw him holding the guard like that. Wouldn't attaching the side handle give the same amount of fine control?

thatsnowinnebago said:

I literally cringed when I saw him holding the guard like that. Wouldn't attaching the side handle give the same amount of fine control?

Or using a bandsaw? It's a rusty piece of stock to start with, I assume we're not building to fine tolerances here.

I'm going to stay away from this show. 

Keith Tanner said:

thatsnowinnebago said:

I literally cringed when I saw him holding the guard like that. Wouldn't attaching the side handle give the same amount of fine control?

Or using a bandsaw? It's a rusty piece of stock to start with, I assume we're not building to fine tolerances here.

I'm going to stay away from this show. 

Same

I wish I couldn't see the pictures.

AClockworkGarage said:

That's one of the reasons I don't watch Colin Furze on the tubes of you. The stuff he builds is neat I guess but it's only a matter of time before his tie drags him face first into a piece of machinery.

Never heard of Colin until this thread. I watched his video about an electric riding mower, something I've wanted to do for some time. I found him unwatchable.