"Barry N. Turner" wrote in message
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I was afraid that was what it meant. Sounds dangerous either way to me.
Maybe not in experienced hands, but it would be in mine.

Always dangerous, but with a warm saw people get lazy. In 25 years of
responding I've used a tourniquet twice. Both were chainsaw accidents.

My Stihl makes you go out of your way to be dangerous by forcing the choke
on in order to engage the throttle lock. Have to disengage the choke to
start a warm saw, and don't really need the throttle, but ....