Tool Operating Precautions; Maintenance - CAMPAGNOLA P8 Manual De Uso Y Mantenimiento

2 - SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

2.2 Tool operating precautions

• Always hold the tool with both hands on the handles and make sure you are in a steady and safe work position.
• Use the tool just for the aims indicated in ch. "Product description". Any other kind of use may cause injuries.
• Always check that the safety devices are perfectly efficient.
• Transport the tool by keeping its bar (10) backwards, protected by the bar guard (32). The air hose must be disconnected
from the coupling (15).
• Before starting the tool, make sure the chain (11) is not in contact with anything.
• Hold the handles (7) and (17) with both hands tight (picture G).
• When cutting, make the motor run at high speed.
• Never cut higher than the operator's shoulders. • Never cut branches having a diameter which is over 150 mm, if the bar is 8", or over 200 mm, if the bar is 10" (picture N).
• Follow the chain manufacturer's instructions as for the chain (11) sharpening and maintenance.
• Never use the tool if it is damaged, uncorrectly regulated or only partially assembled.
• Be very careful when cutting bushes or small shrubs, since soft parts may get entangled in the chain and then may be
thrown against the operator, or they may make him loose his balance.
• Be very careful with the handles (7) and (17). They must be always perfectly dry, clean and free from oil residues.
• Check the oil level. It must always reach at least the half of the chain reservoir (26). Lack of oil causes chain seizing.
• Be careful with the kickback effects due to upwards directed reaction movements of the bar (10). They may make the
operator loose his balance or the tool control (picture P).
SAFETY RULES ABOUT THE KICKBACK EFFECT
Kickback may be caused when the bar (10) top touches an object, or when some wood stops or crushes the chain (11)
during the cutting operations. In order to prevent from or reduce the kickback effect, hold the tool with both hands
tight.

2.3 Maintenance

WARNING!
Before performing any maintenance operations or adjustments on the mechanical parts of the equipment, put on
heavy-duty work shoes, gloves and goggles.
Routine maintenance and repairs can be carried out only by an operator with the necessary physical and intellectual
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qualifications.
Special maintenance and repairs can be carried out only by a service mechanic.
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• Before any maintenance or adjustment operations, disconnect the air hose.
• Keep bystanders away when servicing or repairing the machine.
Only service mechanics are authorized to inactivate the safety devices provided on the machine when maintenance is to
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be performed. It is their responsibility to safeguard the operators and the machine. The safety devices should be activated
as soon as maintenance work has been completed.
• All maintenance procedures not dealt with in this manual are to be performed at CAMPAGNOLA S.r.l. Authorised Service
Points.
When maintenance or repairs have been completed, the machine can be started again only if duly authorized by the serv-
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ice mechanic. The service mechanic must make sure:
- work has been completed;
- the machine runs in a trouble-free manner;
- the safety devices are activated;
- no one is working on the machine.
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