Cobra installs flawed via label?

[Tom Dunlap]

After reading about the word 'moot' I may have used it wrong...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mootness

In another Stihl, and I would bet other manufacturers, manual I've read that the saw was not to be used off the ground or above the head. The manual was for a top-handle pruning saw.

My point being...using the chainsaw analogy doesn't hold water here since the manual that I read could not be followed and would put the users at risk of breaking a manufacturers recommendation. The saw manual was for a top-handled pruning saw like an 019/020 or such.

 

[mdvaden]

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I posted in hope to see various opinions, especially different forms of defence for practices: practices of using something that instructions may say not to do.

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"The use of methodologies which are controversial, experimental or not generally accepted (which can sometimes be referred to as "cutting edge" methodologies) can provide value to clients, employers or the public in particular assignments and might result in the advancement and evolution of arboricultural consulting."

Members may employ cutting edge methods if they are competent, able to explain and justify the methods and the results, and disclose their level of certainty and reliability.

from the ASCA standards of practice, a good document to work by. Works for non-consulting arborists too, imo.

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Reminds me of golf course superintendents. A lot of them have altered greens mowers and other machines into useful stuff a few steps short of making them into spaceships.

That was my intro to the green profession.

Sort of a compliment then that the greens crew nicknamed me "The Master of Invention"