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I never where gloves unless I absolutely have to. I figure that I would rather be nursing wire brush scratches on my flesh vs. a wire brush canyon completely through my flesh should the glove somehow get caught in the wheel.

mickyd wrote:I never where gloves unless I absolutely have to. I figure that I would rather be nursing wire brush scratches on my flesh vs. a wire brush canyon completely through my flesh should the glove somehow get caught in the wheel.

The back of the glove could easily get wrapped on the stub shaft at the center of the wheel. On the farm one of the biggest killers is "wrapping"...
Long hair can also be a big risk. I used to herd my wife away from my old finishing machine in the boot and shoe shop. It was 10' of sanding wheels, buffing wheels, burnishing wheels. large brushes and line shafting. Today she wears her hair much shorter but then it hung to the middle of her back. In a factory I once was at hand when a fellow employee got her hair into the gear drive of an industrial eyelet machine. It was only moderately bloody but it was very very noisy and it was not the machine making the noise...

If I weren't completely bald the exposed pulley on my 10ER that's a dedicated drill press would scare the crap out of me.

When I was buffing and polishing the handles on my Mark V, I used my other 10ER as the buffing machine. More than once did the buffing wheel yank the part out of my hand and throw it with great force. Each time it happened, I said a little prayer of thanks that it didn't hit me. Although they were being thrown down, away from me, I just knew that at some point one of them was going to bounce off the way tubes or the bench and ricochet back at me. Thankfully, that never happened.