Safety Manual

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ENGLISH
KICKBACK/ OPTIONAL KICK GUARD
TM
WARNING! Keep your body out of the path of a potential kickback as
follows:
• When making any vertical
(bucking) cut, keep your body to
the left of the guide bar, out of
the plane of chain rotation.
• When making felling cuts,
alongside the tree so that the
direction and path of a kickback
would be away from and not
toward your body. If necessary,
angle the cut to keep your body
out of the kickback path, and
be extra careful to keep the bar
nose in the clear.
• During all cutting, do not bend
towards or otherwise “crowd” the
guide bar. Cut only one piece of
wood at a time.
WARNING! Do not thrust the nose of the saw into a pile of branches or
dense brush where you cannot see whether the nose is in the clear. A high
risk of kickback exists under such conditions. INSTALL THE OPTIONAL KICK
GUARD
TM
DEVICE before attempting such applications.
When starting a cut, be ready to control any tendency of the saw to skate as
it attempts to penetrate the wood. Kickback will be a secondary reaction if the
nose bar skates into something.
When completing an bucking cut, be ready to hold up the saw as it breaks into
the clear, so it will not follow through and cut your legs, feet or body, or contact
an obstruction and kick back.
WARNING!! Limit your cutting to the range within which you can fully
control the saw. Don’t reach out when cutting. Forces of gravity, falling
branches or wood can cause you to lose your balance and increase the risk
of injury. Don’t make any cut above chest height, because a saw is difcult to
control under such conditions. It can kick back or fall on you.
WARNING! There is always an element of danger in boring, even when
done by experts. Until you have become an experienced operator do not
attempt to plunge cut or bore with the nose of the saw.
Make limbing and pruning cuts one at a time. Whenever possible, stand on the
opposite side of the tree from limbs being cut, so the tree is a barrier between
you, the saw, and the falling material.
PLANE
OF CHAIN
ROTATION
THUMB
ON UNDER
SIDE OF
HANDLE
BAR
BODY ENTIRELY TO
ONE SIDE OF PLANE
OF CHAIN ROTATION
STRONG
LEFT
ARM AND
ELBOW
POSITION
FOR
GOOD
CONTROL
GOOD CONTROL