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Stihl red control levers |
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By: Chainsawrepair Date: November 8, 2025, 7:40 am |
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These 2 old post make the most since of it all. |
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stihl99 = This is my experience from industry coming from |
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automotive automation world. |
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Osha does mandate an emergency stop button for energized power |
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source / equipment must be red, newer stuff the past 20 + years |
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have been red buttons or red with yellow circle labeled |
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Emergency Stop |
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Disconnect switches are also red tipped or red/yellow combo. I |
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have seen black e-stops and temp stops before, but they were |
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replaced I have not seen one one in years now. |
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Osha made a big push in the late 90's early 2000's that all |
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emergency stop button / switches to kill an energized source |
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must be red. |
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Power Distribution Panels 480 volt or higher are still |
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acceptable with the black rotating lockable disconnect switches, |
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but that is all I have seen for years newly manufactured that |
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were acceptable and not red in color. |
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DaveP = That would be about the time frame and now that you |
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mention it I was a maintenance man at Poulan in Nashville, AR |
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and I remember having to replace quite a few black kill switches |
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with red right after an OSHA inspection in 98 or 99. |
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Personally I think if you don't know how to turn a saw off |
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without looking you probably don't need to be running it. Also I |
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totally agree that a red switch on an orange background is much |
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harder to see than a black switch. |
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Poulan and stihl shown in couple pics. |
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