I want:
- Faster cutting performance in normal cuts
- Better ability to keep going down in the cut if the nose is buried because the bar is not long enough to go all the way through
- To not kill or maim myself
Glad to see your #3 made the list. Not quite as high on the list as I would have liked to see. Haha #1 & #2 are 'all of the same.
Pretty typical around here though.
People will go through obsessive measures to educate themselves on protecting their pistons with no second rate consideration but when it comes to their very own lives some will address their concerns to the people they are most at home with funny enough. So really they don't take it as serious but more of a conversation piece it would appear.
Inertia brake saws: (kick backs)
It's very rare to get a kickback that doesn't engage the inertia brake in relation to kickbacks numbers.
Even then, possibly 9 out of 10 come from objects that move on contact.
Now that's my experience. Kickbacks that don't involve inertia brake activation may be somewhat more frequent with less aggressive cutters and cutter types, lack of hand control ECT.
I couldn't get the same reaction as what Buckin' Billy is doing with my saws. No way! The brake will activate against solid objects unless it barely touches the tip at the furthest point of the tip will this happen, and some! all the stars have to line up
Ifvyou are anticipating the possibly of just that then,
1)
The brake may activate
2) reacting with it (good grip and turn with it) will make a big difference. Sounds like this was the case with
@Jonny Quest, page 1. except he didn't see what was about to happen (the possibility)
I don't **** with those 'hand brake only saws'. I started with a 2101 in '89, Creek cleaning then to dry sort bucking with a 42" and a couple of minute crash course on bucking from the log scaler. Those kick backs are scary and you can't forget them when you have 42" of bar coming at you hard right between the eyes.
One of the old retired Fallers on Vancouver Island that I was neighbors to growing up in the '70 & '80's, would tell me the stories and show me all the scares as he started with the first chainsaws.
6 MAJOR cuts in his time. This was walking out with his arm hanging by a thread. Another time with his leg almost off. Another across his guts.
All the fallers still through the eighties would take the brake of because it would get in the way when cuttin' on the push. Very different times!
One of my falling partners last summer missed brushing out a 1" sapling that was growing up against a 4' Cedar. He's in front of it cutting the last bit of the bottom of his Humboldt. Tip catches the sapling and his ported 660, 36" shoots down and cuts right through his falling pants and gives him 3 cuts that totaled 18 stitches just above the knee the inner quad muscle.
He put his compression bandage on and worked out the day.
He would run full house square.
That chain would bite into anything.
The crew boat driver, him and I head to the hospital after work about 40 min away and just as we were getting close we nailed a log and destroyed the bottom leg as I was sleeping across the seats. We get towed in and later brought back by the helicopter. What a day. I go off to another job with the company with a small crew conventional falling and a faller gets killed after just coming back from his Daughter grad.
This year he gets killed too.
Be careful out there.