Chainsaw Explodes, Kills PA. Man

[RI Chevy]

Makes more sense now. Too bad.

 

[Duane(Pa)]

Be careful guys. I know I started to wear my chaps religiously once my chains took on some killer characteristics. Now my saws get the TLC warm up, while I strap on the chaps. I don't want to cut my leg(s) off, but I could in about half a second...Prayers up for this guy's family.

 

[jacob j.]

Stihl has had a number of issues over the years due to fuel spray- I haven't heard much on the other brands. It would be interesting to find out what brand/model of saw it was.

 

[Dub11]

Stihl has had a number of issues over the years due to fuel spray- I haven't heard much on the other brands. It would be interesting to find out what brand/model of saw it was.

Fuel spray from opening the cap right?


And it reminds me of when I was a kids building model cars. It was cold one day so I decided spray painting one in the basement wouldn't be a problem. A few love taps from pops and a lesson on vapors set me straight.

 

[jacob j.]

Fuel spray from opening the cap right?


And it reminds me of when I was a kids building model cars. It was cold one day so I decided spray painting one in the basement wouldn't be a problem. A few love taps from pops and a lesson on vapors set me straight.

Yeah, supposedly the switch to flippy caps was in part to solve the issue of fuel spray with the screw-in caps but it didn't solve anything. A wild land fire fighter with the Bureau of Land Management was badly burned a couple years ago while re-fueling a 460 due to fuel spray. I think the main issue isn't with the design of the caps but rather the designs of Stihl's tank vent systems, which in a lot of their equipment the vent system is designed to build a little pressure in the tank.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Cant help but wonder if he was smoking a cig?

 

[Lone Wolf]

No source of ignition was talked about correct?

 

[Hinerman]

Cant help but wonder if he was smoking a cig?

Beat me to it

 

[Chainsaw Jim]

I've had a couple saws turn into fireballs on me and I was very lucky to get them out fast enough to avoid injury or damage. They all had cracked, leaky fuel lines, and arcing shorts on either spark plug or ground wires. One pull each and WHOOOOOF!!!!

 

[RI Chevy]

Jeeesh. Glad that you weren't hurt Jim.

 

[94BULLITT]

My Dad listens to a PA radio station. He heard that a women(I forget her age), a 16 year old and 3 year all died from carbon monoxide poisoning. They were running a generator in their house.

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[RI Chevy]

WTF.

 

[Chainsaw Jim]

They need to build all homeowner sized generators with carbon monoxide cut-off sensors. If it was a gun that did this they'd all be screaming "gun control"! These things have shown to be just as dangerous..if not more.

 

[RI Chevy]

True Dat Jim! Very sad, but common sense seems to be a forgotten life skill.

 

[Chainsaw Jim]

True Dat Jim! Very sad, but common sense seems to be a forgotten life skill.

Common sense can't help if the lesson was never learned to begin with. They build these things to look like an appliance anymore.

 

[RI Chevy]

I hear you Jim.

 

[GCJenks204]

My Dad listens to a PA radio station. He heard that a women(I forget her age), a 16 year old and 3 year all died from carbon monoxide poisoning. They were running a generator in their house.

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Similar incident here last week. Thankfully not fatal but three conveyed to hospital suffering from CO poisoning. Running a generator indoors...

 

[retro]

Those are all very sad stories. Unfortunately, we can't prevent or fix stupid. :-(

 

[SteveinUT]

They need to build all homeowner sized generators with carbon monoxide cut-off sensors. If it was a gun that did this they'd all be screaming "gun control"! These things have shown to be just as dangerous..if not more.

Yep. We live in an effing nanny state now. Inanimate objects are blamed rather than the operator. These morons think if they ban any and everything that could potentially cause harm or death, the world will be a better place. Personally, I choose dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

 

[Chainsaw Jim]

Yep. We live in an effing nanny state now. Inanimate objects are blamed rather than the operator. These morons think if they ban any and everything that could potentially cause harm or death, the world will be a better place. Personally, I chose dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

So they make guns without safeties? Lol.
Anyways, I guess each has their own perspective. Every year entire families are dying just trying to keep warm dude. There's really nothing political about it.