“And please…Stay Safe.”, final words of the girl in the Stihl video.
That is a universal but almost worthless statement used in every Industry and Sport. It is meaningless.
BUT…. I would like to have someone take a pic Please…. of your working-position in which your thigh or leg is at hazard while using a chainsaw … I was taugtht in Boy Scouts how to handle an axe and a saw safely. We were taught to keep another log or limb as a “blocker” between the cutting-tool and the body. There’s simply no way that I can imagine my leg or thigh or foot being at-risk while sawing wood with any type chainsaw.
I also don’t understand Stihl’s warning about “electric or battery” powered chain saws having more “torque”. I can only imagine they are thinking of the centrifugal clutch of the gas-powered saws…which allow the chain to not move during idling. That is the only situation in which an electric saw still has the ability to cut….at extremely-slow chain speed during “run-down” as the trigger is released…. but at that speed there is little hazard to kickback or danger, and the electric saw chains are stationary UNLESS the trigger is pulled.
This post is a genuine request for someone to illustrate how the chainsaw was held when a leg, thigh, or arm was at-risk.
Finally, the Most Dangerous moment of chainsaw useage is if/when the TIP of the blade is allowed to contact the work…which can result in “kick-back” and rotate the saw toward the operator.
If using an electric saw…THAT might be a situation more-hazardous than with a gas-saw because most electric saws do not have a “kill-bar” to stop the chain….they usually have only a heavy-duty “guard” to catch the wrist and stop the saw/body from rotating far-enough to strike the operator. (This would be a gas saw advantage -point, IMO.)
That is a universal but almost worthless statement used in every Industry and Sport. It is meaningless.
BUT…. I would like to have someone take a pic Please…. of your working-position in which your thigh or leg is at hazard while using a chainsaw … I was taugtht in Boy Scouts how to handle an axe and a saw safely. We were taught to keep another log or limb as a “blocker” between the cutting-tool and the body. There’s simply no way that I can imagine my leg or thigh or foot being at-risk while sawing wood with any type chainsaw.
I also don’t understand Stihl’s warning about “electric or battery” powered chain saws having more “torque”. I can only imagine they are thinking of the centrifugal clutch of the gas-powered saws…which allow the chain to not move during idling. That is the only situation in which an electric saw still has the ability to cut….at extremely-slow chain speed during “run-down” as the trigger is released…. but at that speed there is little hazard to kickback or danger, and the electric saw chains are stationary UNLESS the trigger is pulled.
This post is a genuine request for someone to illustrate how the chainsaw was held when a leg, thigh, or arm was at-risk.
Finally, the Most Dangerous moment of chainsaw useage is if/when the TIP of the blade is allowed to contact the work…which can result in “kick-back” and rotate the saw toward the operator.
If using an electric saw…THAT might be a situation more-hazardous than with a gas-saw because most electric saws do not have a “kill-bar” to stop the chain….they usually have only a heavy-duty “guard” to catch the wrist and stop the saw/body from rotating far-enough to strike the operator. (This would be a gas saw advantage -point, IMO.)
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. I have a very similar safety kit plus a GSD….all in good fun…I have labonville chaps and boots. I did not care for their boots and now am using HAIX. They are pretty solid and a lot better ankle support.
