In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades writes:
| The message
| from (WaltA) contains these words:
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| The serious 'getting the angles just-so' part of maintaining the chain
| can be left till the next evening in the workshop.
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| Thoroughly agree, but the OP wanted to do the job 'now, if not sooner',
| so to speak. I've been using the things since the mid to late 'fifties,
| and without problems, but I've heard of plenty of people who haven't
| been so lucky/careful.

He was also talking about clearing scrub, which is extremely
likely to have something unexpected in it, and trimming hedges,
which usually means holding the implement fairly high. It is
also fairly common to find unexpected metal posts in hedges.
Using a chainsaw on logs on a sawhorse is one thing; such abuses
are very much another.

If someone of normal strength (i.e. weakness) is trimming a
hedge with a chainsaw at head height and hits an unexpected
metal post, it may well kick out of his hands. If that happens,
then taking his face off is indeed quite likely. Or indeed
taking his head off. Even at a low height, a chainsaw in the
inner thigh is quite likely to cut the femoral artery, whereupon
there isn't much point in calling an ambulance.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.