[Treemonkey1000]

Low kick back chain is like chain with training wheels. Most of your kickback comes from the tip of your saw. Usually if it gets a little pinched if you are cutting wood that is under load of some sort. Say a branch sticking up and you cut it there is torsion there. Or cutting a log that has downward pressure which will pinch. Where guys will get in trouble is they get complacent and try to cut too quickly. Especially if they are getting tired from lugging a saw for awhile. The reaction time to get the saw out of a bind will slow down. Or just don't use the tip of the bar helps a lot. The Chisel, skip tooth, and semi chisel are more aggresive and can cut faster. Like any chain though keeping it sharp helps. I have skip tooth chain on the 40" bar for my large Husky saw. Then round chisel for my medium saws and my topping saws. Mainly because it is cheap in loops and I can sharpen it quickly. In my mind the low kickback isn't a bad idea for people that aren't used to cutting. Or that are going to be doing a lot of cutting that they normally don't do where they might fatigue. Try not to use the tip of the saw to cut wood that is under a load. Especially branches. One of the few times that I have had a kickback was when I was 10 years old cutting firewood. The branch pinched the saw and kicked it towards my knee. Just a small scar to show for that one. The only other memorable kickback was hitting barbed wire that had grown into the trunk of a tree. That kicked it back and tapped me on the scalp below the hairline. No scar from that one. Thank God. Not too bad considering 40 years of cutting trees.