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Post by rocklicker on Aug 30, 2016 18:02:39 GMT -5
I am thinking of getting back into tumbling. I have a home built 50 pound tumbler that is basically a metal table with 2 sets of shafts bolted on and a motor. It is very dangerous and has no pulley guards or anything. Now that I have a toddler running around I don't want to turn on the tumbler. The thing nearly took the end of thumb off (it grew back). Any suggestions for making it kid safe? I don't thing a simple pulley shroud is enough. The only thing I came up with is securing it to the rafters so it sits 5 feet off the garage floor. Even though my kiddo rarely goes into the garage, the worry wort parent in me wants to make it safe. Thanks.
Steve
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Mark K
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Post by Mark K on Aug 30, 2016 19:02:36 GMT -5
Build a cage?
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Post by pauls on Aug 30, 2016 19:31:26 GMT -5
As a bloke that enjoys a bit of an engineering challenge I can tell you that making a toddler proof tumbler is impossible, belt shrouds are not easy to build and attach and whatever you do you are still going to have that barrel rolling around on the shafts. I think you would probably be best to do what Mark suggested and build a cage, weld a big box up out of 1" square tube and attach fine mesh or perforated metal, a gate on one side with a lock that only you have the key to and you will be in business again.
Good luck and enjoy your youngster, they grow up to be cranky teenagers too quickly.
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ubermenehune
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Post by ubermenehune on Aug 31, 2016 7:40:59 GMT -5
You build a wall to keep 'em out. Then make the kids pay for the wall.
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Post by huskeric on Aug 31, 2016 15:56:31 GMT -5
If you put your toddler in a cage, they're going to lock you up and throw away the key. I would maybe put the tumbler in the cage. ;-)
Perhaps have your little one witness you having a "major ouchie" out in the garage by touching the things you don't them to touch and being REALLY hurt. Nothing is toddler-proof, and if you suspend it from the ceiling, you'll just find them stacking up bricks on the hood of your car to get a better look. You have to make an attractive nuisance very unattractive.
Good luck!
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Post by greig on Aug 31, 2016 16:11:58 GMT -5
Send the kid to boarding school, electric fence, bee nest in the garage, a moat? LOL
I feel for your dilemma. Nothing is kid proof because they are so ingenious. If you can, just keep the child out of the garage or use a locked shed. I like the cage idea for the tumbler. I wish I had a better answer. Good luck and let us know what you did.
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Post by Mark K on Aug 31, 2016 18:07:19 GMT -5
By the way, I was dead serious about the cage. It is up to you which one goes in the cage. I was thinking the tumbler though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 18:37:58 GMT -5
By the way, I was dead serious about the cage. It is up to you which one goes in the cage. I was thinking the tumbler though. Lol Do you have kids?
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Mark K
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Post by Mark K on Aug 31, 2016 19:03:25 GMT -5
Not any more.
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Aug 31, 2016 19:31:53 GMT -5
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Post by rocklicker on Sept 2, 2016 16:45:53 GMT -5
I like the cage idea. I may take it a step further and make a little booth (for the tumbler).
Steve
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Post by SirRoxalot on Sept 7, 2016 9:14:20 GMT -5
Well, of toddlers I know naught, but it can't be too hard to look at a very simple piece of machinery and conclude what the possible dangers are.
Covering the belt is first. Then hinge a piece of plywood just in front, so hands can't get in but it's easy to get at your barrel.
Then secure it to the wall so no tipping hazard.
Motor gets hot, shield it.
What else?
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Post by Mark K on Sept 7, 2016 9:50:05 GMT -5
Toddlers are the greatest magicians in the world. You can put them in the middle of a cut hay field with nothing for 500 yards in any direction and turn your back for 2 seconds and they will be gone. You will find them in the top of a tree at the edge of the field.
You can lock the cupboards and think the area under the kitchen sink is safe from them, but no, they will pull out a drawer in the bathroom and crawl inside and somehow crawl into the space under the kitchen sink and you will find them spraying oven cleaner on your plants in the living room.
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Post by scottyh on Sept 8, 2016 1:31:41 GMT -5
Yep that's kids for you. I was so good at that sort of thing that a 8 foot fence couldn't keep me in. At 3 years of age I went over the top so to speak with my trike and was about 3 miles down the road before I was spotted by one of my mother's friends. When I was in real form my father had difficulty coping and would stand there tearing his hair out muttering your nothing but a limb of Satan. Hey I only partially burnt the house down that time:) .
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Post by snuffy on Sept 8, 2016 8:33:53 GMT -5
My grandson was about 4 and he ran screaming out of my utility room holding his finger.His daddy asked him what happened,and he answered in a whimpering voice,"Papa's toy"
snuffy
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