Stihl Glove vs Chipper

[czhey]

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:confused1:Do you not have stop bars on your chippers???????????

 

My thought exactly... and if your glove gets pulled off and through the machine before you have a chance to press the stop bar surely your hands are far to close to the rollers?

[openboater]

My friend who lost the glove would have had to leap at the chipper to try and prevent his glove going through. As I said, he hardly felt it go, so stopping it was never an option.

I don't have an exact time but I reckon it takes under 2 seconds for brash to travel the length of the chipper mouth, that's not a lot of reaction + action time when something goes wrong.

I'm not sure how I'd practice an emergency stop with a gnarly limb going through at the same time. I've had chipper training, but I don't recall any sort of 'stop when I slap the dashboard' type scenario. Just something to think about.

[Ty Korrigan]

Well, being a bit of a ladies man...

I always wear gloves.

I like to keep my hands as free from callouses, cuts and rough skin in order to as few complaints as possible when I get 'busy hands' with my madamoiselle...

I buy lots of cheap cotton n rubber garden/diy gloves at €2.50 a pair and wear them till they either fall apart ( rare ) or begin to make my hands smell like a frenchmans feet which defeats the object of wearing them in the begining.

A wee joke of mine is to put my hands near my groundies face which always makes him gag!

[john dawson]

talking to one of my guys who recently did his cs31/32

you don't have to wear chainsaw gloves to pass the test anymore

But

you must wear gloves when sharpening the chain

everything changes:001_tt2:

 

Is it april the 1st already?????????:lol:

[john dawson]

here we go

they're not even teaching the same techniques.

I give up:confused1:

 

 

Hence why i said in a chipper thread - the system is f'ed!