Think twice if once isn't working

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• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t the buttons on the handle need to be pressed for the chain to move?

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  • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To start the motor from cold, you’d have to lock the throttle open. The button sticking up on the top of the handle says this isn’t locked open, otherwise it would be down.

    So, either the motor is cold and won’t start in this situation, or it’s hot and it will

    If it’s hot, it depends on the carb settings if the motor revs up slightly on starting

    Usually on older chainsaws, the chain will move jerkily on starting due to age, so worse case scenario this guy will get his trousers stuck in the chain and crushed/torn bollocks

    That said, obscured by his trousers is the chain brake. If it’s forward, the chain definitely wouldn’t move anyway

    Just someone that’s been using chainsaws for 30 years

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  • gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A determined idiot could definitely do this to themselves.

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Only if the clutch etc. is working correctly. But damaging amounts of power are not going to happen unless that Stihl is really about to fall apart.

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  • Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not if it’s half choked.

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• DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Remember? I don’t remember

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• qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh, nice! The all home, do it yourself, auto castration kit!

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He just can’t see what he’s doing.

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• Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No; I died.

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