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The day a broken band saw in Spokane taught me to slow down
I was working a busy Saturday shift at the old shop on Division Street about five years back. We had a line out the door for custom cuts and the band saw blade snapped right in the middle of a pork loin order. My first boss, a guy named Frank, would have just cussed and slapped a new blade on in a rush. But the owner that day, a younger guy named Mike, made us stop everything. He gathered the three of us around the machine and spent twenty minutes showing us how to check the blade tension, the guide bearings, and the tracking wheel for wear. He said, 'A blade doesn't just break. It tells you something's wrong first.' We lost some time that morning, but I haven't had a blade snap on me since. Has anyone else had a simple machine failure change their whole routine?
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olivia4781mo ago
See this everywhere now. People just want to replace the broken part instead of fixing the real problem. Your boss was smart to make you stop and learn.
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