Check yourself before you wreck yourself

bluedogz said:

Oh, yeah! Runs great! I bet I can even put the old (stabilized) gas back in.

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Oh Yeah, I'm sure it runs great, after that carb overhaul!

Well, I`m glad I`m not the only one! I had been using the chainsaw to cut a beam in the barn. The darn thing jammed on me halfway through the cut. The chainsaw coughed and stopped. I was able to pry it out, and tried starting it, but it wouldn`t start. The chain was just jammed in place and wouldn`t turn. This was a few years ago, and I didn`t have much experience with saws or small motors. After wrenching my shoulder apart from trying to start the damn thing, I decided to bring it to the local shop. The kind of shop that has a bunch of old guys sitting by the window, drinking coffee and watching the day go by. Well, I walked in, put the saw on the counter, and told my story to the lady clerk about how the saw wouldn`t start, and the saw blade was jammed.

She pushed on the saw brake arm and disengaged the saw brake.....

I drove away from the place and 1 mile away I could still hear the old geezers laughing....

Laurent Cyr said:

Well, I`m glad I`m not the only one! I had been using the chainsaw to cut a beam in the barn. The darn thing jammed on me halfway through the cut. The chainsaw coughed and stopped. I was able to pry it out, and tried starting it, but it wouldn`t start. The chain was just jammed in place and wouldn`t turn. This was a few years ago, and I didn`t have much experience with saws or small motors. After wrenching my shoulder apart from trying to start the damn thing, I decided to bring it to the local shop. The kind of shop that has a bunch of old guys sitting by the window, drinking coffee and watching the day go by. Well, I walked in, put the saw on the counter, and told my story to the lady clerk about how the saw wouldn`t start, and the saw blade was jammed.

She pushed on the saw brake arm and disengaged the saw brake.....

I drove away from the place and 1 mile away I could still hear the old geezers laughing....

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And you have sinced moved to another state. LOL

Laurent Cyr said:

Well, I`m glad I`m not the only one! I had been using the chainsaw to cut a beam in the barn. The darn thing jammed on me halfway through the cut. The chainsaw coughed and stopped. I was able to pry it out, and tried starting it, but it wouldn`t start. The chain was just jammed in place and wouldn`t turn. This was a few years ago, and I didn`t have much experience with saws or small motors. After wrenching my shoulder apart from trying to start the damn thing, I decided to bring it to the local shop. The kind of shop that has a bunch of old guys sitting by the window, drinking coffee and watching the day go by. Well, I walked in, put the saw on the counter, and told my story to the lady clerk about how the saw wouldn`t start, and the saw blade was jammed.

She pushed on the saw brake arm and disengaged the saw brake.....

I drove away from the place and 1 mile away I could still hear the old geezers laughing....

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I watched a very similar thing occur, I was waiting in line to return an item at Walmart and the fella in front of me had a wild thing saw in a buggy and was in a foul mood in addition to smelling like a brewery. He was loudly complaining about what a piece of junk it was, locked up and had never been cranked........after they called an elderly gentleman that worked in the garden center to the desk and he received a cussing for trying to talk with the customer, the customer assured him that he very well knew how to run a saw. I reached over into the buggy and reset the chain brake , there were a couple of people who saw me do it. The gentleman from the garden center said,we'll take it outside and fuel it and see if it will crank, he received another cussing and was told it wouldn't crank he wouldn't even be able to pull it. I watched through the window, it cranked on the second pull. I told the fella from garden center what I had done later and we got a chuckle out of it, the customer left madder than when he got there, but his saw was running like a top.

Now that its working well there is a good chance you wont need it at all.

Man o man did the same thing. There's no mark on the gas line on or off. I wrote down a few instructions.
You know if it were a nice sunny day about 70 degrees it would be a lot easier to start too.
Still need to turn the on switch ON though.

Somewhat related----A few years ago, I had a strong storm come in that took a large oak tree down. I was living on the river and this tree was on the bank with about 1/3 of the roots washed away. The tree fell uphill and across my chain link fence.
Hard to explain the situation, but I had to make my first cut about ten feet up from the root system, and although I was careful--the saw was pinched and stuck!
No great problem, I just got another saw and made a cut above the pinched saw. When I completed the cut, the top of the tree fell to ground--about a foot and the rest of the tree, with pinched saw, stood back up!
Unbelievable that the pinched saw stayed in the cut and lucky that it didn't fall in the river!!
I got my extension ladder and retrieved the saw.
In a situation like this, I ALWAYS look the situation over and try to do the job with safety in mind, but sometimes a tree does what it wants to!! Today, I look back and laugh, but the outcome could have been a lot worse!

infinitymike said:

And you have sinced moved to another state. LOL

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Laurent Cyr said:

Well, I`m glad I`m not the only one! I had been using the chainsaw to cut a beam in the barn. The darn thing jammed on me halfway through the cut. The chainsaw coughed and stopped. I was able to pry it out, and tried starting it, but it wouldn`t start. The chain was just jammed in place and wouldn`t turn. This was a few years ago, and I didn`t have much experience with saws or small motors. After wrenching my shoulder apart from trying to start the damn thing, I decided to bring it to the local shop. The kind of shop that has a bunch of old guys sitting by the window, drinking coffee and watching the day go by. Well, I walked in, put the saw on the counter, and told my story to the lady clerk about how the saw wouldn`t start, and the saw blade was jammed.

She pushed on the saw brake arm and disengaged the saw brake.....

I drove away from the place and 1 mile away I could still hear the old geezers laughing....

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I did the same thing only dropped the saw off went back 2 days later and picked up the saw they repaired at no charge.They tried not to laugh as well .

I remember once trying to start my dirt bike, kicked and kicked and nothing, took off the air filter to
check it out, turns out I left a rag in the air boot .

we've all done things like that ( more than once in my case) and then tried to forget them( sometimes successfully)

We appreciate your candor.

I remove chain brakes and on off switches for some o these reasons , my motorcycles have the red stop or on /off switch disabled (what keys for) safety equip goes on the human operator not the equipment yep I know tis old thread but there are some 2013 replies .