/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>978254
Metalwork lathes are probably the 'safer' out of the two as a lot of it is hands-off working the milling guides, but they'll still shit out chunks of hot metal though sometimes and suck the odd careless arm into spinny bits.
Wood lathes can be downright fucking scary as people ram fuckhuge chisels into them, wood delaminates and spits out splinters that are enough to send Dracula running for cover... or the chisel goes 'boink' and gets thrown off in a random direction.
>High speed flying chisels- not fucking good!

PTO's are just all bad. I've heard firsthand of someone's aunty who had long hair that got tangled up in the PTO and it broke her neck in a split second, then basically de-gloved her entire face and scalp