Maintenance And Cleaning - Grizzly Tools EKS 2440 QT Traduction De La Notice D'utilisation Originale

behind the planned felling direc-
tion (2).
3. Cutting notch (A):
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Make a felling notch in the direc-
tion in which you wish the tree
to fall. Start with the bottom,
horizontal cut. The cut depth
should be around 1/3 of the
trunk diameter. This will prevent
the saw chain or the guard rails
from jamming when placing the
second chamfer. Now make a
slanted saw cut from above at
an angle of roughly 45° to meet
exactly with the bottom saw cut.
Never step in front of a tree
which is notched.
4. Felling back cut (B):
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Make the back cut from the other
side of the log, where you stand
to the left of the log and saw with
the chainsaw pulling. The back
cut must run horizontally 5 cm
above the horizontal notched
cut.
The back cut should be so deep
that the separation distance be-
tween the back cut and the notch
cutting line is at least 1/10 of the
trunk diameter. The part of the
stem not sawn through is called
a stay (felling gib). The stay pre-
vents the tree from turning and
falling in the wrong direction. Do
not saw through the stay.
5. As you approach the felling cut
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on the stay the tree should start
falling. If it becomes apparent
that the tree may not fall in the
required direction or is lean-
ing back, and the saw chain is
jamming, stop felling and use
wedges made of wood, plastic or
aluminium to open the cut and to
tilt the tree in the required felling
line.
6. If the trunk diameter is larger
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than the length of the chain bar,
make two cuts.
For safety reasons, we advise
inexperienced users not to fell
any logs with a rail length which
is smaller than the trunk diam-
eter.
7. After carrying out of the back
cut, the tree falls by itself or with
the aid of the felling wedge or
crowbar.
As soon as the tree begins to
fall, pull out the saw from the
section, stop the motor, place
the electric chainsaw down and
leave the workplace using the
withdrawal path.
Maintenance and
cleaning
Basically, carry out mainte-
nance and cleaning works with
switched-off motor and power
plug removed. Danger of injury!
Leave any maintenance and ser-
vicing work not covered by this
manual to our Service-Center.
Use only original spare parts.
If replacement of the connecting
cable becomes necessary, this
is to be carried out by the manu-
facturer or its agent in order to
avoid safety risks. Replacement
GB
135