Came into the woodshop this afternoon – the Felder bags were overflowing with sawdust, and sawdust had backed up into the filter area. In fact so much sawdust came out of the filter area that it ended up filling a garbage can. It doesn’t look like that much in the photo - but it was!!
And I emptied the Felder 18 hours earlier!!!
It was almost all cedar sawdust. Apparently, someone jointed, planed and trimmed about 100 board feet of cedar and failed to check/clean out the felder bags. Who processes 100 board feet of wood and doesn’t check/empty the felder?
Of course there many explanation as to how this could happen:
- A death in the family or a medical emergency that required this person to leave suddenly (but a quick post on talk to explain the situation and ask for help would have been nice, I’m always willing to help a person in need).
- Insufficient training – the wood shop class may not have covered “The Felder needs to be checked and emptied after processing a lot of wood”
- Forgot their training or
- Just forgot to do it
- Is not an excellent member
In any event it’s not cool to burden other members to clean up this kind of mess – I’m tired of cleaning up after others.