Ant-h83
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QUOTE=Spruce Pirate;872191] In the context of a professional ground saw user I find the habit of clicking on the brake after every single cut excesive and this is what I seem to notice about the way saw use is taught these days. I think it's the whole nanny state of health & safety once again, it's a lot easier to assess the chain brake going on constantly than to assess common sence of when it should go on. hitting the brake with either left or right palm is to be done with extreme caution imo, I was in a rather awkward position up a tree once and went to left palm the brake, long story short is I slipped, my thumb got caught in the 200t brake handle and my hand curled around it! Resulting in opening my finger up length ways down to the bone and 7 stitches and one to hold my tendon together, it's something I won't be doing again!
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I'm a single child and I have a 7 year old girl and twin boys that are nearly one
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To be honest it's more common sense than anything, If im carving up a felled trunk in someone's perfectly flat back garden I tend to use it less compared to being on rough uneven ground surrounded by brash. Now up the tree is a different story, if I'm not cutting the brake is on or the saw is off. And if we're reducing statistics by putting brakes on more often I fail to see The problem with a few annoying clicks, its a dangerous enough occupation without taking un-nessesary risks
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Chainbrake handle is different too. After quite a long day it had me baffled as to why it wouldn't go back on my 200t haha
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If it came to it you could write up some kind of disclaimer saying its not certified training and you hold no responsibilities, if its signed and dated by both parties you should be covered but there could be a whole load of paperwork to cover your ass, would it be worth it is the question? :-)
