Skil PWRCORE 20 PR0600B-00 Owner's Manual page 8

Additional Safety Warnings
Pull (Fig . 6) – The reaction force is always opposite to the direction the chain is moving where
wood contact is made. Thus, the operator must be ready to control the PULL when cutting on
the bottom edge of the bar.
Fig. 6
Low Kickback Saw Chain
The rakers (depth gauges) ahead of each cutter can minimize the force of a kickback
reaction by preventing the cutters from digging in too deeply at the kickback zone. Only use
a replacement chain that is equivalent to the original chain or has been certified as a low
kickback chain per ANSI B175.1. A low kickback tooth saw chain is a chain that has met
the kickback performance requirements of ANSI B175.1 (American National Standard for
Power Tools - Gasoline-Powered Chain Saws - Safety Requirements) when tested on the
representative sample of pruning saws below 3.8 c.i.d. specified in ANSI B175.1.
As saw chains are sharpened during their useful life, they lose some of the
CAUTION
low kickback qualities and extra caution should be used.
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