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Stihl MS 461 Rescue Saw Instruction Manual

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STIHL MS 461 Rescue Saw
Read Instruction Manual thoroughly before
use and follow all safety precautions –
improper use can cause serious or fatal injury.
Antes de usar la máquina lea y siga todas las precauciones
de seguridad dadas en el manual de instrucciones – el uso
incorrecto puede causar lesiones graves o mortales.
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Instruction Manual
Manual de instrucciones
WARNING
This saw is capable of
severe kickback which may cause serious or
fatal injury. Only for users with extraordinary
cutting needs and experience and training
dealing with kickback. Chain saws with
significantly reduced kickback potential are
available. STIHL recommends the use of STIHL
reduced kickback bar and low kickback chain.
ADVERTENCIA
Esta sierra es capaz
de causar contragolpes severos, los cuales
pueden causar lesiones graves o mortales. Sólo
es apta para usuarios con necesidades
extraordinarias de corte y mucha experiencia y
capacitación en el manejo de los contragolpes.
Existen sierras con un potencial mucho menor
de causar contragolpes. STIHL recomienda
usar una barra y cadena de contragolpe
reducido de STIHL.

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  • Page 1 Only for users with extraordinary cutting needs and experience and training dealing with kickback. Chain saws with significantly reduced kickback potential are available. STIHL recommends the use of STIHL reduced kickback bar and low kickback chain. ADVERTENCIA Esta sierra es capaz de causar contragolpes severos, los cuales pueden causar lesiones graves o mortales.
  • Page 2 Instruction Manual 1 - 64 Manual de instrucciones 65 - 135...
  • Page 3 Checking Chain Lubrication www.stihlusa.com. Chain Brake Winter Operation Contact your STIHL dealer or the STIHL distributor for your area if you do not Starting / Stopping the Engine understand any of the instructions in this Operating Instructions manual.
  • Page 4 DANGER operation Indicates an imminent risk of severe or fatal injury. This Instruction Manual refers to a Handle heating STIHL chain saw, also called a machine in this Instruction Manual. WARNING Indicates a hazardous situation which, if Pictograms Operate decompression...
  • Page 5 Reactive forces, including kickback, can ual for future reference. Most of these safety precautions and be dangerous. Pay special attention to warnings apply to the use of all STIHL the section on reactive forces. chain saws. Different models may have WARNING Have your STIHL dealer show you how different parts and controls.
  • Page 6 AV elements will tend to have STIHL recommends the use of genuine sensations and may cause nerve and higher vibration levels. STIHL replacement parts. They are circulation damage and tissue necrosis.
  • Page 7 WARNING the type of overalls, long tive glasses with The ignition system of the STIHL unit pants or chaps that con- adequate top and side produces an electromagnetic field of a tain pads of cut-retardant protection complying with very low intensity.
  • Page 8 STIHL model are authorized. Although certain WARNING unauthorized attachments are useable with STIHL chain saws, their use may, in Gasoline is an extremely fact, be extremely dangerous. For flammable fuel. If spilled rescue operations, when cutting...
  • Page 9 To do this with this STIHL cap, raise the grip on the top of the cap until it is upright at a 90° angle. Insert the cap in the fuel tank with the positioning mark on the grip of the cap and the "open"...
  • Page 10 – risk of fire! Have into the tank opening. Next, twist the the saw is shut off). If the saw chain the chain saw repaired by a STIHL cap counterclockwise as far as it will becomes loose while cutting, shut off the servicing dealer before using it.
  • Page 11 The depth limiter is intended for the use slowly until you feel a definite resistance rotate at high speed when the throttle only on the STIHL "Rescue Saw" for fire and then give it a brisk, strong pull. trigger lockout is depressed (releasing...
  • Page 12 If you cannot set the correct idle speed, operator or bystanders kerf. have your STIHL dealer check your from loss of control, chain saw and make proper adjustments Once the engine has started, never use the chain saw and repairs.
  • Page 13 STIHL recommends that first-time users stumbling. There is increased danger of should cut logs on a sawhorse – see slipping on freshly debarked logs. For "Cutting small logs."...
  • Page 14 English EPA/OSHA/NIOSH and occupational WARNING WARNING and trade associations with respect to dust ("particulate matter"). When the Use of this chain saw (including As soon as the engine is inhalation of dust cannot be sharpening the saw chain) can also running, this product gen- substantially controlled, i.e., kept at or generate dust, mist and fumes...
  • Page 15 In case of doubt, have it on the other side of the wall you intend can then increase the risk of injury, e. g., checked by your STIHL servicing dealer. to cut. Follow all applicable rules and from the saw chain moving while the guidelines in this regard.
  • Page 16 You may also muffler maintained by a STIHL servicing WARNING permanently damage the engine. Have dealer. Some state or federal laws or...
  • Page 17 English REACTIVE FORCES INCLUDING Kickback may occur DANGER KICKBACK when the moving saw chain near the upper Do not rely on the chain quadrant of the bar nose saw ’s insulation against contacts a solid object or electric shock. To reduce WARNING is pinched.
  • Page 18 Chain and Reduced Kickback Bars." and force of the kickback reaction. Some a kickback test machine. STIHL bar and saw chain types are designed to reduce kickback forces. Devices for Reducing the Risk of WARNING...
  • Page 19 Kickback Bars kickback situations. In order for the STIHL offers a variety of bars and saw Quickstop to reduce the risk of kickback chains. STIHL reduced kickback bars injury, it must be properly maintained...
  • Page 20 STIHL green labeled reduced kickback kickback. precautions to avoid kickback situations. bars are designed to reduce the risk of STIHL recommends the use of its green Low Kickback Saw Chain kickback injury when used with STIHL labeled reduced kickback bars, green green labeled low kickback saw chains.