How to start a chainsaw

lew61 · Feb 18, 2013

arrow said:
Ya know, I better not take this for granted and state that I was kidding with this. This is one of the dumbest things I've seen anyone do with a chainsaw

Arrow, I've watched a fellow drop a tree across a car, but you're right; this one takes the cake. :shocked:

jimmyj · Feb 18, 2013

Very funny picture! LOL. Wish I thought of it!

dodge man · Feb 25, 2013

With my chainsaw, if you put it on the ground and put your foot on the handle, that would work great if you are wearing tennis shoes and wear a size 6. With me, I broke the flat part of the handle, and use the drop and pull method now.

jimmysisson · Feb 28, 2013

I only use drop and pull. If you take the slack out of the cord before the drop it's pretty safe. +2 my size 12s won't fit in a saw handle either. +3 the saw on the ground jerks around when you're bent double and have little control. +4 I don't like bending that far. +5 I don't have the pulling power bent double as I do with drop and pull.
I mostly shut the saw off between cuts, so there's lots of starting; see 4 above. YMMV, be safe.
Jim

arrow · Feb 28, 2013

I have seen countless times where people pull out the starter cord almost to its end. Short quick strokes will start a chainsaw in no time. I rarely pull the cord more than 12"-18" with quick , staccato like yanks.

Thomas · Feb 28, 2013

As Ron White would say...you can't fix stupid.

brandoro · Feb 28, 2013

To start the saw cold I put it on the ground, right hand on the front handle, left hand on the pull handle and knee on the top of the saw housing with some weight on it. First pull is nice and slow to get it limbered up then three or four fast pulls usually starts it. Warm saw is usually drop and pull.
154 Husqvarna. Think it was mid 80's when I bought it, has been an excellent saw.

zzvyb6 · Feb 28, 2013

Just plug 'er in and squeeze the trigger... A saw for the un-Skil-ed

cqaigy2 · Feb 28, 2013

zzvyb6 said:
Just plug 'er in and squeeze the trigger... A saw for the un-Skil-ed

Ok Ok this isn't safe!! Just look at the electrical tape, geeze. :laughing:

Don87 · Mar 1, 2013

cqaigy2 said:
Ok Ok this isn't safe!! Just look at the electrical tape, geeze. :laughing:

Maybe from holding the cord and the blade between the legs?

Renze · Mar 5, 2013

They often refer to this type of pictures as " nominated for the Darwin award"

Well, this would wipe out the bad genes from the population first hand, not by survial of the fittest !

pat32rf · Mar 15, 2013

When I try to start my Stihl on the ground it always flips up. I can do it on a stump or log but these old bones just don't fold the way they usta...

Tony S · Mar 29, 2013

Chainsaw or any two stroke motors will start better if you just pull the starter rope very slowly three or four times first. You are just trying to prime the motor first. If you try this you will be surprised how often the motor will start with out a hard pull on the rope. Please try this you will be surprised. By slow I mean just chugging the motor over.

GBOUTDOORS · Mar 30, 2013

Looks to me like he gut the saw stuck trying to cut that little limb sticking out of his real tree camo and is now trying to restart it to finish the cut. The instructions with my new Husky 455 said you could engage the safety break start the saw and then reset the break? Wouldn't this wear out the break?

whistlepig · Mar 30, 2013

Years ago a friend and I rented a cabin at a lake that rented boats. There was a young fellow there tending to the rental boats. We were sitting on a bench watching this fellow as he pulled a 5 HP Mercury motor off the back of one of the these boats. He carried the motor a few feet then for some reason he rested the prop on the wooden dock and while holding the motor with one arm he tried to start the motor. It started on the second pull. The prop dug into the wood dock and he was one busy puppy for about ten seconds until that motor ran out of gas. He came within inches of going into the lake. Motor and all.

Coyote machine · Mar 30, 2013

GBOUTDOORS said:
Looks to me like he gut the saw stuck trying to cut that little limb sticking out of his real tree camo and is now trying to restart it to finish the cut. The instructions with my new Husky 455 said you could engage the safety break start the saw and then reset the break? Wouldn't this wear out the break?

Eventually. Better the brake then your leg.

Gator6x4 · Apr 1, 2013

I don't think this is being looked at with a proper perspective. I don't see any warning labels on the saw saying don't start this way. So if he actually started the saw, the civil suit against the manufacture who be enormous. He would retire on disability and live a life of leisure for every more on the huge jury awarded judgment while lamenting how a sorry saw manufacture caused him severe physical, emotional and all other pains.

Kubotafan · Apr 3, 2013

Gator6x4 said:
I don't think this is being looked at with a proper perspective. I don't see any warning labels on the saw saying don't start this way. So if he actually started the saw, the civil suit against the manufacture who be enormous. He would retire on disability and live a life of leisure for every more on the huge jury awarded judgment while lamenting how a sorry saw manufacture caused him severe physical, emotional and all other pains.

He might get a huge settlement, but he won't be able to leave an inheritance to his children!

lakeside · Apr 9, 2013

I'm not the Safety Police so please don't dump on me but there are a lot of things wrong with that picture. No safety glasses, no chaps, no helmet, no hearing protection, no gloves.

I almost did myself some real harm a couple of years ago. I'd been using a chainsaw without chaps for years, wearing just jeans. One day I woke up and bought a pair of chaps. Not six months later I was cutting brush at the end of a long day and was bagged. Without thinking I rested the still moving chain on my leg. The Kevlar did what it's supposed to and stopped the chain dead in it's tracks. Someone later said chainsaws don't cut, they rip! Looking at the damage to the chaps I would have likely bled out befiore I got help. Apart from a good pair of chaps ruined I walked away without a scratch.

I now look like RoboCop. I wear an approved helmet with face shield, chaps, steel toed boots, hearing protection and I just bought a Kevlar vest and Kevlar gloves. I get ribbed every so often but I still have the old chaps as a reminder!