The 3 Ways to Start Your Saw

 

 

Video Caption File/Transcript by Arborist Industry Expert Nick Bonner and Ryan Torcicollo.

[Music] Hi, I'm Nick Bonner for TreeStuff.com, and this is Ryan Torcicollo from Husqvarna. In this video, Ryan is going to walk us through how to start a Husqvarna saw under three conditions: the cold start, the hot start, and the AutoTune 3.0 start. Honestly, I'm most excited about AutoTune 3.0 because I'm one of those people that has trouble starting a saw sometimes—it's not surprising.

Walk us through how to start this saw under the cold start condition.

So here we are, we're going to go through the proper startup procedures with the cold start. Like any startup, we're going to make sure that our chain brake is engaged first. We are then going to purge our bulb here approximately six to eight times.

If I press this too much, can I flood this saw?

No, this is a purge bulb, but not a primer bulb, so this will actually never get full of fuel and it will not flood the saw.

Okay, I've flooded a saw before, you can tell.

We're going to engage the on/off switch here up into the choke setting.

Okay, and that's like a normal two-cycle engine—put it in a choke.

Exactly, it's easier to start.

Exactly.

From there, we're ready to pull. It should take approximately two to three pulls.

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Once you get the engine to kick like that, we're going to drop it down into run mode, the normal on/off, and we're then going to give it a few more pulls.

And that's how you do a cold start.

Hot start is different, it's a little easier, there's less steps. Is that how it works?

Yeah, that's correct. That's once the saw is already warmed up. So once again, we're going to start—make sure our chain brake is engaged here.

And I like how you take it off and put it back in, because that way you get that audible click.

Yeah, you know it's in—not that you just haven't—you've pushed it and it didn't engage.

Exactly, because even when it's pulled back, sometimes there can be a little bit of resistance, so you want to hear that click there. That's good.

We are then going to hit our purge bulb a couple times.

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And then we go through a normal startup procedure.

You use the right technique.

Exactly. So this covers all of the Husqvarna chainsaws that have been made over all the years. But now, AutoTune. Now we have AutoTune 3.0, and there's less switches, there's less buttons, there's less steps—everything. Take me through it.

So on our new AutoTune 3.0, we've eliminated the choke option on the saw.

So there's no choke?

That is correct.

I'm a starter here?

That's correct. Once again, make sure chain brake is engaged, we're then going to hit the purge bulb, and then just put the saw in the on setting.

As simple as that. You're supposed to look at the camera and go—

So there it is. That is a really quick primer on how to start a Husqvarna chainsaw, whether it's a cold start, a hot start, or with AutoTune. And I gotta say, that AutoTune was sweet—simple, it just came right on, fires right, there were no—like, no choke to mess with, and you can't flood it, right?

No, you've got the purge valve, it's not a primer—uh, incredible.

Thanks for sharing.

Thank you, Nick.