Kickback Safety Features

Right Hand	Left Hand	Small Radius
Right Hand		Small Radius
		Tip Guide Bar
		Tip Guide Bar

Large Radius

Tip Guide Bar

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 chain.

S Stand with your weight evenly bal- anced on both feet.

SDo not overreach. You could be drawn

or thrown off balance and lose control.

SDo not cut above shoulder height. It is difficult to maintain control of saw above shoulder height.

WARNING: The following features

SLow Kickback Chain has met kickback performance requirements when tested on the representative sample of these chain saws specified in ANSI B175.1.

Low Kickback Chain

Contoured Depth Gauge

Elongated Guard Link

Deflects Kickback Force

And Allows Wood To

Gradually Ride Into Cutter

WARNING: Computed Kickback Angle (CKA) listed on your saw and listed 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. Computed angles represented in the CKA

are included on your saw to help reduce	column indicate total energy and angle
hazard of kickback; however, such fea-	associated without a chain brake. When
tures will not totally eliminate this dan-	purchasing replacements, considerations

ger. Do not rely only on safety devices. Follow all safety rules to help avoid kick- back and other forces which can result in serious injury.

S Hand Guard: designed to reduce the chance of your left hand contacting the chain 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 to- ward the operator if kickback occurs.

S Reduced-Kickback Guide Bar: de- signed with a small radius tip which re- duces the size of the kickback danger

should be given to the lower CKA values. In all cases, lower CKA values represent a safer operating environment for the user.

STip contact in some cases may cause a lightning fast REACTION, kicking the guide bar up and back toward the op-

erator.

SPinching 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 cause you to lose control of the saw which could result in serious injury. Do not rely exclusively upon safety devices built into your saw.

The following guide bar and chain com- binations meet kickback requirements of CSA Z62.1 & Z62.3 and ANSI B175.1 when used on saws listed in this manual.

zone. This type bar has been demon-	Use of bar and chain combinations other
strated to significantly reduce the num-	than those listed is not recommended and
ber and seriousness of kickbacks when	may not meet the CKA requirements per
tested in accordance with ANSI B175.1.	standard.

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