20-10-2005, 09:09 PM
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chain saw v. trimmer - urgent!
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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:
Not with a modern saw - it wiyld have stopped by the time it hit you -
but it might leave a nasty gash.
My observations of people using modern chainsaws is that is not true.
When a tool like that kicks back in that position, it will hit you
in a fraction of a second (perhaps a tenth), and the saws just don't
stop that fast. Also, that is so fast that it is possible that
their "control finger" is still in place even if they are not
holding it, by the time it hits.
Only if you still have your finger on the 'trigger' and your hand
gripping the safety-bar.
That experience is confirmed by using certain (non-saw) drill
attachments, where both effects also occur, but the likely damage
is VASTLY less (e.g. abrasion of clothes and skin).
They wouldn't have a brake like modern chainsaws. (I've never been
allowed to use one of them because I've always been in the company of my
fiend the gamekeeper, and he has to observe all the regulations - I'm
not covered, even though I was using chaisaws before he was a gleam in
his father's eye.)
What stopping time do they claim?
I don't know what they claim, but a demonstration showed almost instant
stopping - less than half a second, I'd say.
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