On 18 Sep 2003 15:37:02 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:


In article ,
Ron Clark writes:
| On 18 Sep 2003 15:28:17 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
|
| From flat out to a dead stop in a quarter of a second? Oh, come
| off it! All modern power tools have a dead man's switch safety
| feature (most definitely including chainsaws), but people still
| get injured when the tool slips out of their hands.
|
| As I posted earlier, a hedge trimmer is unlikely to more than make
| a mess of your leg, and one of the reasons is that it will stop
| faster than a chainsaw (and in comparable time to a reciprocating
| saw). But almost all of them still run for long enough to be going
| when they impact your leg.
|
| RTFM

That's what it says, and I can confirm from experience that it is
right. OK?

Then I shall wear a box in future when hedge-trimming.
My legs can take their chance.


Cheers


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