Owner's Manual

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S A good, fir m grip on the saw wit h both
hands will help you maintain control .
Don’t let go. Grip the rear handle with
your right hand whether you are right or
left handed. Wrap the finger s of your left
hand over and around the front handle-
bar, and your left thumb under the front
handlebar. Keep your left arm strai ght
with the elbow locked.
S Position your left hand on the front
handlebar so it is in a straight line with
your right hand on the rear handle
when making bucking cuts. Stand
slightly to the left side of the saw to
keep your body from being in a direct
line with the cutting c hain.
S Stand with your weight evenly bal-
anced on both feet.
S Do not overr each . You could be drawn
or thrown off balance and lose control .
S Do not cut abov e s houlder height. It is
difficult to maintain control of saw
above shoulder height.
KICKBACK SAFETY FEATUR ES
WARNING: The following features
are included on your saw to help reduce
hazard of kickback; however, such fea-
tures will not totally eliminate this dan-
ger. Do not rely only on safety devices.
S Hand Guard: designed to reduce the
chance of your left hand contacting
the c hain if your hand slips off the front
handlebar.
S Position of front and rear handlebars:
designed with distance between han-
dles and “in-line” with each other. The
spread and “in-line” position of the
hands provided by this design work to-
gether to give balance and resistance
in controlling the pivot of the saw back
toward the operator if kickback oc -
curs.
S Reduced-Kickback Guide Bar: de-
signed with a s mall radius tip which re-
duces the s ize of the kickback danger
zone on the bar tip. This type bar has
been demonstrated to s ignificantly re-
duce the number a nd seriousness of
kickbacks when tested in accordance
with ANSI B175.1.
Large Radius
Tip Guide Bar
Small Radius
Tip Guide Bar
S Low Kickback Chain has met kickback
performance requirements when
tested on the representative sample of
these chain saws specified in ANSI
B175.1.
Low
K
ickback Chain
Contoured Depth Gauge
Elongated Guard Link
Deflects Kickback Force
And Allows Wood To
Gradually Ride Into Cutter
WARNING: Comput ed Kickback
Angle(CKA)listedonyoursawandlisted
in the following CKA Table represents the
angle of kickback your bar and chain
combinations will have when tested in ac-
cordance with CSA and ANSI standards.
Compu ted angles repr e sen ted in the CKA
column indicate total energy and angle
associ ated with out a chai n br ake. When
purchasing replacements, considerations
should be given to the lower CKA values.
In al l cases, l ower CKA values represent a
safer operating environment for the user.
S Tip contact in some cases may c ause
a lightning fast
REACTION,kickingthe
guide bar up and back toward the op-
erator.
S Pinching the saw chain along the tip of
the guide bar may push the guide bar
rapidly back towards the operator.
S Either of these reactions may c ause
you to lose c ontrol of the saw which
could result in serious injury. Do not
rely exclusively upon safety devices
built into your saw.
The foll ow ing guide bar and chain com-
binati ons meet kickback requir ement s of
CSA Z62.1 & Z62.3 and ANSI B175.1
when used on saws list ed in this manual.
Use of bar and chain combinations other
than those l i sted is not recommended and
may not meet the CKA requirements per
standard.
Computed kickback angle (CKA) Table
BAR
P/N
Length
CHAIN P/N
14″
MODEL
1420
37_
CKA
952044368
952051209
1630
952044370 16″ 952051211 37_