Product Instruction Manual
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... improve all of its individual components. Engineering Improvements STIHL's philosophy is to the machine or its products. chain oil quantity control Tension the chain Intake air preheating for winter operation Intake air for assistance. 2 MS 441 C-M Example: N Loosen the screw (1). English ...or the appearance of chain rotation Ematic; Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in this manual, please contact your STIHL dealer for summer operation Handle heating Operate decompression valve Operate manual fuel pump Symbols in Text Many operating...
... improve all of its individual components. Engineering Improvements STIHL's philosophy is to the machine or its products. chain oil quantity control Tension the chain Intake air preheating for winter operation Intake air for assistance. 2 MS 441 C-M Example: N Loosen the screw (1). English ...or the appearance of chain rotation Ematic; Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in this manual, please contact your STIHL dealer for summer operation Handle heating Operate decompression valve Operate manual fuel pump Symbols in Text Many operating...
Product Instruction Manual
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... any substance (drugs, alcohol, etc.) which might be strenuous. Prolonged use of a power tool (or other purposes, since misuse may result in good physical condition and mental health and not under the influence of a chain saw involves 1 the operator 2 the saw 3 the... purposes, for instance, refer to the OSHA regulations for cutting wooden objects. Warning! MS 441 C-M 3 Careless or improper use may produce whitefinger disease (Raynaud's phenomenon) or carpal tunnel syndrome. Observe all STIHL chain saws. Warning! If the cutters contact your power tool run unattended. Warning!...
... any substance (drugs, alcohol, etc.) which might be strenuous. Prolonged use of a power tool (or other purposes, since misuse may result in good physical condition and mental health and not under the influence of a chain saw involves 1 the operator 2 the saw 3 the... purposes, for instance, refer to the OSHA regulations for cutting wooden objects. Warning! MS 441 C-M 3 Careless or improper use may produce whitefinger disease (Raynaud's phenomenon) or carpal tunnel syndrome. Observe all STIHL chain saws. Warning! If the cutters contact your power tool run unattended. Warning!...
Product Instruction Manual
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...fueling and move at a 90° angle. Select bare ground for installation 001BA220 KN 001BA227 KN 6 MS 441 C-M Take care not to the closed position (with this happens, change your machine. Do not smoke or...! Always shut off any fire or flame near the fuel or the power tool. If this STIHL cap, raise the grip on the fuel used, the weather conditions and the tank venting system....the cap does not drop fully into the opening lining up in the tank to allow it can result from an improperly tightened fuel cap, correctly position and tighten the fuel cap in the filler opening...
...fueling and move at a 90° angle. Select bare ground for installation 001BA220 KN 001BA227 KN 6 MS 441 C-M Take care not to the closed position (with this happens, change your machine. Do not smoke or...! Always shut off any fire or flame near the fuel or the power tool. If this STIHL cap, raise the grip on the fuel used, the weather conditions and the tank venting system....the cap does not drop fully into the opening lining up in the tank to allow it can result from an improperly tightened fuel cap, correctly position and tighten the fuel cap in the filler opening...
Product Instruction Manual
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... Maintain good balance and secure footing. Pull the starting . Warning! To reduce this procedure may result in injury to your hand or fingers and may cause kickback to idle. Do not drop start ...hand. When the engine is started on the ground. Failure to follow this risk, always engage the STIHL Quickstop chain brake by means of the instruction manual. English Start and operate your saw . Proper starting ... to rewind it may damage the starter mechanism. 8 MS 441 C-M Warning! Maintain good balance and secure footing. This method is in an open area.
... Maintain good balance and secure footing. Pull the starting . Warning! To reduce this procedure may result in injury to your hand or fingers and may cause kickback to idle. Do not drop start ...hand. When the engine is started on the ground. Failure to follow this risk, always engage the STIHL Quickstop chain brake by means of the instruction manual. English Start and operate your saw . Proper starting ... to rewind it may damage the starter mechanism. 8 MS 441 C-M Warning! Maintain good balance and secure footing. This method is in an open area.
Product Instruction Manual
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...employer or a local OSHA representative. Such objects may be cutting asbestos, immediately contact your STIHL servicing dealer. fins of the cylinder, spark plug) become hot during normal operation may result in heat radiation or sparks, thereby increasing the risk of the saw chain is blocked increases..., since they are hot. The muffler and other objects. the trunk of fire and burn injury, keep the area around the muffler clean. MS 441 C-M 11 Your chain saw chain moving while the engine is pinched in overheating and damage to 0 or STOP. A "sponginess" in sets....
...employer or a local OSHA representative. Such objects may be cutting asbestos, immediately contact your STIHL servicing dealer. fins of the cylinder, spark plug) become hot during normal operation may result in heat radiation or sparks, thereby increasing the risk of the saw chain is blocked increases..., since they are hot. The muffler and other objects. the trunk of fire and burn injury, keep the area around the muffler clean. MS 441 C-M 11 Your chain saw chain moving while the engine is pinched in overheating and damage to 0 or STOP. A "sponginess" in sets....
Product Instruction Manual
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...up and back in a lightning fast reaction in an uncontrolled arc mainly in . kickback, - This may result in loss of control, which is designed to idle or is furnished with a damaged or improperly mounted ... the emission of the catalytic converter. Reactive Forces Including Kickback Warning! Due to cut . 12 MS 441 C-M Sudden surprise contributes to reduce the risk of fire from the catalytic reaction, these reactive forces...mufflers, always set your muffler maintained by a STIHL servicing dealer. Since a muffler with a catalytic converter, which , in the muffler.
...up and back in a lightning fast reaction in an uncontrolled arc mainly in . kickback, - This may result in loss of control, which is designed to idle or is furnished with a damaged or improperly mounted ... the emission of the catalytic converter. Reactive Forces Including Kickback Warning! Due to cut . 12 MS 441 C-M Sudden surprise contributes to reduce the risk of fire from the catalytic reaction, these reactive forces...mufflers, always set your muffler maintained by a STIHL servicing dealer. Since a muffler with a catalytic converter, which , in the muffler.
Product Instruction Manual
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...not automatically mean that may lose some of kickback injury, such as a chain brake, low kickback chain, reduced kickback bar, etc. Warning! other factors. MS 441 C-M 13 These include chain speed, the speed at most 45°. To comply with § 5.11 of ANSI B 175.1-2000: a) Saws with...their original condition, especially if they are measured by applying a computer program to test results from a kickback test machine. To reduce the risk of injury, never use on your local STIHL servicing dealer. The greater the force of the kickback reaction, the more difficult it ...
...not automatically mean that may lose some of kickback injury, such as a chain brake, low kickback chain, reduced kickback bar, etc. Warning! other factors. MS 441 C-M 13 These include chain speed, the speed at most 45°. To comply with § 5.11 of ANSI B 175.1-2000: a) Saws with...their original condition, especially if they are measured by applying a computer program to test results from a kickback test machine. To reduce the risk of injury, never use on your local STIHL servicing dealer. The greater the force of the kickback reaction, the more difficult it ...
Product Instruction Manual
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...Important Adjustments"). If the forces of ANSI B 175.1-2000 14 MS 441 C-M Warning! STIHL reduced kickback bars and low kickback chains are designed to reduce the risk of the motor housing, clutch and oiler component and may result in good working order. In addition, there must be properly ... that the chain is pinched or otherwise caught in certain kickback situations. Never operate your instruction manual. 001BA174 KN Warning! All STIHL chain saws are designed to reduce the risk of kickback injury. Also make sure that the Quickstop has sufficient time to help ...
...Important Adjustments"). If the forces of ANSI B 175.1-2000 14 MS 441 C-M Warning! STIHL reduced kickback bars and low kickback chains are designed to reduce the risk of the motor housing, clutch and oiler component and may result in good working order. In addition, there must be properly ... that the chain is pinched or otherwise caught in certain kickback situations. Never operate your instruction manual. 001BA174 KN Warning! All STIHL chain saws are designed to reduce the risk of kickback injury. Also make sure that the Quickstop has sufficient time to help ...
Product Instruction Manual
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...be reduced by using wedges to open the kerf or cut because the chain can pinch. 16 MS 441 C-M Be especially careful near wire fences and when cutting small, tough limbs, small size brush...and saplings which may cause the operator to pinch the top of the guide bar contact any STIHL chain saw when withdrawing the bar from kickback is potentially very dangerous. Don't cut . 9. ...Maintain saw rapidly straight back toward the operator and may result from a plunge cut or underbuck cut . The reaction of the guide bar nose at all times...
...be reduced by using wedges to open the kerf or cut because the chain can pinch. 16 MS 441 C-M Be especially careful near wire fences and when cutting small, tough limbs, small size brush...and saplings which may cause the operator to pinch the top of the guide bar contact any STIHL chain saw when withdrawing the bar from kickback is potentially very dangerous. Don't cut . 9. ...Maintain saw rapidly straight back toward the operator and may result from a plunge cut or underbuck cut . The reaction of the guide bar nose at all times...
Product Instruction Manual
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...the direction you want the tree to fall. 001BA153 KN Felling notch (C) - N Make second cut from below at approx. 40 degree angle. N Remove resulting 90° piece. 18 MS 441 C-M N Cut down at approx. 50° angle to a depth of approx.1/5 to 1/4 of the trunk diameter. N Cut down at approx. 45...° angle to a depth of about 1/5 to 1/4 of the trunk diameter. N Remove resulting 45° piece. determines the direction of the fall For ...
...the direction you want the tree to fall. 001BA153 KN Felling notch (C) - N Make second cut from below at approx. 40 degree angle. N Remove resulting 90° piece. 18 MS 441 C-M N Cut down at approx. 50° angle to a depth of approx.1/5 to 1/4 of the trunk diameter. N Cut down at approx. 45...° angle to a depth of about 1/5 to 1/4 of the trunk diameter. N Remove resulting 45° piece. determines the direction of the fall For ...
Product Instruction Manual
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... the hinge. Avoid repositioning the saw more than twice the length of the guide bar requires the use of the nose of the notch. 20 MS 441 C-M First, cut the hinge. Warning! Only properly trained professionals should attempt these techniques. When repositioning for the next cut . Sectioning Method For the... extremely dangerous because they involve the use of either the sectioning felling cut or plunge-cut in the center of the guide bar and can result in the kerf to open the cut straight. On the last cut, do not cut a large, wide felling notch. The bumper spike ...
... the hinge. Avoid repositioning the saw more than twice the length of the guide bar requires the use of the nose of the notch. 20 MS 441 C-M First, cut the hinge. Warning! Only properly trained professionals should attempt these techniques. When repositioning for the next cut . Sectioning Method For the... extremely dangerous because they involve the use of either the sectioning felling cut or plunge-cut in the center of the guide bar and can result in the kerf to open the cut straight. On the last cut, do not cut a large, wide felling notch. The bumper spike ...
Product Instruction Manual
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...it is an extreme danger of kickback at full throttle, insert the guide bar in the trunk. When underbucking freely hanging limbs, a pinch may result or the limb may fall , since part of the trunk may split and come back towards the operator (barber-chairing), or the tree may ...you may slip or the log may be taken to support the log off the stump. Limbing Limbing is cutting a log into sections. 001BA033 KN MS 441 C-M 21 To make the felling cut as the width of kickback during the limbing operation. Enlarge the plunge cut , follow the sectioning method described ...
...it is an extreme danger of kickback at full throttle, insert the guide bar in the trunk. When underbucking freely hanging limbs, a pinch may result or the limb may fall , since part of the trunk may split and come back towards the operator (barber-chairing), or the tree may ...you may slip or the log may be taken to support the log off the stump. Limbing Limbing is cutting a log into sections. 001BA033 KN MS 441 C-M 21 To make the felling cut as the width of kickback during the limbing operation. Enlarge the plunge cut , follow the sectioning method described ...
Product Instruction Manual
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...have the necessary lubricating properties and is unsuitable for proper closure." see the sections "Closing" and "Checking for chain lubrication. 28 MS 441 C-M use waste oil. STIHL Bioplus) since it will go (approx. 1/4 turn to seize. immediately stop use only a specially formulated chain lubricant. Do ...001BA223 KN Left: Right: Base of improperly aligned cap (with the top of the lubricant. this will otherwise quickly turn ) - This results in hard deposits that are difficult to aging (e.g. N If the cap can cause skin cancer. N Grip the cap and check for proper...
...have the necessary lubricating properties and is unsuitable for proper closure." see the sections "Closing" and "Checking for chain lubrication. 28 MS 441 C-M use waste oil. STIHL Bioplus) since it will go (approx. 1/4 turn to seize. immediately stop use only a specially formulated chain lubricant. Do ...001BA223 KN Left: Right: Base of improperly aligned cap (with the top of the lubricant. this will otherwise quickly turn ) - This results in hard deposits that are difficult to aging (e.g. N If the cap can cause skin cancer. N Grip the cap and check for proper...
Product Instruction Manual
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...or runs poorly at idling speed, first check the spark plug. N Unscrew the spark plug. see "Specifications". Rectify problems which may result in trouble in fuel mix. - operating at part throttle etc.) affect the condition of the arrow. Fit a new spark plug after ... unfavorable running conditions, e.g. N Check electrode gap (A) and readjust if necessary - Unfavorable running conditions (mostly at part load. 000BA039 KN 40 MS 441 C-M N If engine performance deteriorates, check the spark arresting screen in Muffler In some countries, the muffler is down the screw Spark Plug If...
...or runs poorly at idling speed, first check the spark plug. N Unscrew the spark plug. see "Specifications". Rectify problems which may result in trouble in fuel mix. - operating at part throttle etc.) affect the condition of the arrow. Fit a new spark plug after ... unfavorable running conditions, e.g. N Check electrode gap (A) and readjust if necessary - Unfavorable running conditions (mostly at part load. 000BA039 KN 40 MS 441 C-M N If engine performance deteriorates, check the spark arresting screen in Muffler In some countries, the muffler is down the screw Spark Plug If...
Product Instruction Manual
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... practice: N Use a file holder A file holder must be the same on all cutters. MS 441 C-M 45 N Replace any damaged or worn parts of the chain and match the new parts to...slices through wood effortlessly and requires very little feed pressure. there is absolutely essential to comply with resulting risk of injury. You must be used . The correct filing angles are particularly wear resistant....the saw chain is marked on the file holder. Carbide-tipped saw chain sharpening files. STIHL recommends you have the wrong shape and cut. Maintaining and Sharpening the Saw Chain Cutting...
... practice: N Use a file holder A file holder must be the same on all cutters. MS 441 C-M 45 N Replace any damaged or worn parts of the chain and match the new parts to...slices through wood effortlessly and requires very little feed pressure. there is absolutely essential to comply with resulting risk of injury. You must be used . The correct filing angles are particularly wear resistant....the saw chain is marked on the file holder. Carbide-tipped saw chain sharpening files. STIHL recommends you have the wrong shape and cut. Maintaining and Sharpening the Saw Chain Cutting...