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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
... The message from "H Ryder" contains these words: How easy are these to use? Someone has lent us one but we are afraid to touch it. Very sensible. Chainsaw maintenance requires sensible precautions by their owners (having the right chain fitted correctly and kept sharp). For our OWN safety, let alone anyone else's, we would never lend ours to an unsupervised novice. An owner who would lend it to you with no instruction, strongly suggests to me that his attitude to chainsaw safety and maintenance is very casual, so it may not be safe to use. My employer has just told us all we now have to do a 'refresher' course every 2 years, even though we are all experienced and frequent users of many years standing and who have held NPTC certificates since they became obligatory for people who use chainsaws at work. This is following a case where a county council was fined £200,000 when one of their countryside wardens was killed when he dropped a not particularly big tree on himself. You really do need to know what you're doing - many of us elder brethren taught ourselves to use chainsaws, but only after years of doing what Janet suggests - that is learning pruning and felling slowly by hand first. -- Rod My real address is rodtheweedygardeneratmyweedyisp Just remove the weedy bits and transplant the appropriate symbol at. |
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