• Before proceeding to your job, read “For Safe
Operation” section. It is recommended to first
practice sawing easy logs. This also helps you
get accustomed to your unit.
• It is not necessary to force the saw into the cut.
Apply only light pressure while running the
engine at full throttle.
• Racing the engine with the chain seized in a
cutaway can damage the clutch system. When
the saw chain is caught in the cut, do not
attempt to pull it out by force, but use a wedge or
a lever to open the cut.
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GUARD AGAINST KICKBACK
• This saw is equipped with a special “low
kickback” chain that greatly reduces the severty
of kickback should it occur.
• The saw chain has been tested in accordance
with American National Standard Safety
Specifications for gasoline powered chain saw
(ANSI B175.1 1985) as having an acceptable
low kickback level. On this saw never use any
chain other than those recommended on page
18 of this manual, or which is not designated as
meeting the ANSI B175.1 kickback levels on this
saw.
• Low kickback saw chains are chains which have
met the kickback requirements of ANSI B175.1
when tested on the representative samples of
chain saws below 3.8 C.I.D. specified in ANSI
B175.1.
• The guide bar supplied with this saw has an
under 1.2 inch radius sprocket nose which
produces a specific kickback energy. Never use
a bar with a larger nose radius. Use only those
recommended on page 18.
• The length of bars has a great effect on
kickback. Use only those length as specified on
page 18.
• This saw is also equipped with a chain brake
that will stop the chain in the event of kickback if
operating properly. You must check the chain
brake operation before each usage by running
the saw at full throttle for 1 or 2 seconds and
pushing the front hand guard forward. The chain
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