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I had a pretty nose until high school football. The coach used to shout over and over in a loud voice with a dumb grin on his face, "Reckless abandon....reckless abandon". It was his pet phrase. I can't believe we listened. :roll:

With all due respect, if you have kickback to the point that the bar comes back and would have hit you if you were in line with it, the saw handling is inadequate for not being firm enough, imo. Alas though, it isn't a perfect world.

Agreed, positioning is a wise precaution and certainly doesn't hurt, but holding the saw firmly seems to me to to take precedent over everything else, and greatly helps to mitigate concern about positioning and kickback. If a person might not be strong enough to support the saw against...

I think that kickback is an over rated problem if you extend the concern to professional sawyers. It is easily avoided if you know what you are doing with proper handling when the risk is there, as applied to yourself and knowing what you can handle i don't see that cutting position is the...

Awhile back my shoulder was hurting a bit, so I started holding the saw with my right hand and pulling the starter with my left, always the opposite before. Now it seems more ergonomic to do it that way with the starter handle closer in and more strength holding the saw. It occurs that it is...