Saw recall

[sawguy21]

It seems some bright light at Health Canada has deemed it necessary to recall Dolmar and Makita 64,73 and 79 cc saws due a 'laceration hazard'. Hmmm. YA THINK? : Apparently the chain brake does not activate easily enough to suit them. I have to wonder since nobody else seems to have a concern.

[realzed]

Hey - it's 2018 and Canada.. is there generally anything  that doesn't need to be scrutinized way past logical and meaningful limits here these days??  
Crazy part is, if someone actually enlisted a government consumer protection agency to help evaluate a product that they considered was dangerous.. you might surely bet that will spell the end of it - at least in a Canadian consumer sense - once that ball gets rolling!

[Andries]

Had my brake activate on my Stihl 660 today.
My wrists are sore this evening - 8 hrs later.
Wonder what Health Canada knows about 'activation force' ?
Send a few civil servants my way.
I'll show them what a plunge cut is . . . . 
;D

[teakwood]

 good post! it's amazing how regulations and restrictions are made by people who absolutely have no practical experience on the matter.  

[realzed]

You would have to know 'our Canada' well these days to appreciate how accurate and very true your comment really is.. 
It's surprising some haven't complained about some brands of toilet tissue 'scratching'..

[HolmenTree]

I wonder if that was CSA Group?
Being here in Canada myself I had the experience years ago getting a warning from a government Workplace Health and Safety officier when he saw me cutting a few limbs without my safety chaps on.
He threatened to lock out my saws for 5 days and a second warning would be a $5000 fine.


I was ordered to make up a work procedure safety manual with all my credentials and keep it in my truck.
Then he would have to audit it.

Yeah alot suspense and trouble on my part, but it did change my once sloppy game plan being a tree service owner operator.

I came to accept that operating here on Canada with our free medicare.... my taxes pays to mend up some idiot who does not wear his safety chaps.
So the goverment has safety officiers to police the problem.

But as I look south of the border into the US, I can see the need for private insurance for both oneself's health and from getting sued.
But from my uneducated guess with the US having 10 times the population of Canada. The US has room for "natural selection".

[realzed]

"So the government has safety officers to police the problem"..
Pretty much says it all Willard - Big Brother is watching and Big Brother is growing and getting bigger every day in this fair land.. not necessarily to help us be safer or better - just because more government always here seems to lead to more of the same, which ultimately means soon things get over-thought, over-scrutinized, and over-costed or is that costly? (as in over-regulated with permits and licencing, rules, and Well you know - you're Canadian).. EH?
Give them some time and soon it will take (after all of the preparation and hoops are jumped through) more than a day to cut a tree down that previously took an hour.. and a 'safety officer' to come by and put his stamp of approval on the job - which by then is 4x the cost to the landowner..   

[HolmenTree]

Yup pretty well explains why our costs to produce and ship softwood lumber is so high.

All we can do is invest in higher technology mills with higher production going through the wall.

I won't get into the other political side of it... ;)