13. Clear your work area and your escape path of brush, vines, and other hazards that can trip you or catch your saw.
14. Escape from the bullseye when the tree tips. 90% of accidents happen within 12 feet of the stump. Go more than 15 feet, and stay out of the bullseye until things stop falling.
15. Keep spectators away more than twice the height of the tree in the direction it will fall.
16. Don't cut alone.
17. Keep your body and the swamper's out of the line of the bar in case of a kickback.
18. Set the brake when taking over two steps or when moving through tripping hazards. Keep your trigger finger off of the throttle when you are moving.
19. DO NOT operate a chainsaw from a ladder! Operating with your feet off the ground requires special training.
20. Do not cut above your shoulders.
21. Springpoles must be shaved on the inside of the apex between the ascending and descending sides. If the apex is higher than you shoulders, stand under the springpole and cut it low on the descending side. It will release upward, away from you.Leaning and heavily loaded poles that are too small to bore cut for a hinge should be shaved on the compressed side until they fold.
22. Do not cut a tree that is holding up a lodged tree. Do not work under a lodged tree. Think about a mouse trying to steal the cheese out of a trap.
23. Instruct your swampers and helpers to NEVER approach you from behind or the sides to within the reach of your saw when you are cutting. If you pull out of a cut with the chain running, or have a severe kickback, the swamper can be killed if he is coming up behind you!
24!! Quit When You Are Tired!
3 comments:
Now that's incredible!!!
Kudos to a company that see's the big picture. As in, "Clearly we are at no fault, it was damaged via an "act of God", we are committed to making the customer whole."
And double Kudos for letting him know upfront, "it's clearly not repairable. So the replacement will have to go via FFL."
Which reminds me... I still need to send mine in :-(
Hi-Points have an interesting, if unintended safety feature. The factory gets firearms regularly with multiple bullets stuck in the barrel because of squib ammunition. The actions do not lock, but are strictly blowback operated, so when rounds are fired into an obstructed barrel there is no explosion. The bolt pops back and pressure is relieved. Hi-Point recently had a Carbine returned with 25 slugs stuck in the barrel. There was room for one more, so the owner must have run out of ammo or suddenly and belatedly recognized that nothing was coming out of the barrel.
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