john inglis
ArboristSite Operative
hi , one of my neighbours bought a brand new stihl 210 for general light farm use and was using it to trim the top of some split fence posts , not a big cut or that much use , only 10 posts when it stopped and would not cut . he brought it down to me and i had a quick look but he had melted the plastic casing arround the chainbrake and destroyed the clutch bearing ,
i told him to take it back to the dealer as he had only used it for 15 minutes at the absolute max surely they would fix it for him , i stupidly thought that the chainbrake should work and stop the chain and told him so , the stihl rep disagrees and says it is his fault for running the saw with the brake on (bumped it on probably when lifting it for the cut) .
i have quite a few stihls and the brake stops the chain on all of them except for the 090 ( no brake ) . even my old mccullochs have brakes that work very well .
it seems that stihl thinks that homeowner saws do not require safety features that actually work despite them advertising them as safe saws , i find it very hard to believe that the rep actually believes that brake on a saw which is regularly sold to new users is not required to lock the chain when on.
any views on this would be welcome as i intend to speak to the stihl rep about this .
ps , who is liable if someone is injured if you give them a saw to use that does not have an effective chainbrake , i would not like to be employing people using saws without an effective safety chainbrake , the stihl rep would not put it on paper so maybe it is not official stihl policy .
i told him to take it back to the dealer as he had only used it for 15 minutes at the absolute max surely they would fix it for him , i stupidly thought that the chainbrake should work and stop the chain and told him so , the stihl rep disagrees and says it is his fault for running the saw with the brake on (bumped it on probably when lifting it for the cut) .
i have quite a few stihls and the brake stops the chain on all of them except for the 090 ( no brake ) . even my old mccullochs have brakes that work very well .
it seems that stihl thinks that homeowner saws do not require safety features that actually work despite them advertising them as safe saws , i find it very hard to believe that the rep actually believes that brake on a saw which is regularly sold to new users is not required to lock the chain when on.
any views on this would be welcome as i intend to speak to the stihl rep about this .
ps , who is liable if someone is injured if you give them a saw to use that does not have an effective chainbrake , i would not like to be employing people using saws without an effective safety chainbrake , the stihl rep would not put it on paper so maybe it is not official stihl policy .
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