EN 1870-6:2002+A1:2009

This document deals with the significant hazards, hazardous situations and events as listed in Clause 4 which are relevant to firewood and dual-purpose circular sawing machines for firewood/circular saw benches, with manual loading and/or unloading, hereinafter referred to as machines, designed to cut solid wood.On Combined circular sawing machines for firewood - Log splitting machines only the circular sawing machine for firewood is covered by this European Standard. For the requirements for the log splitting part of this machine see EN 609-1: 1999 and EN 609-2: 1999.!deleted text"For Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) machines this European Standard does not cover hazards related to Electro-Magnetic Compatibility (EMC).This European Standard does not apply to:-log sawing machines where the saw unit moves to cut the workpiece;-machines where the sawblade is capable of tilting;-hand-held motor-operated electric tools or any adaptation permitting their use in a different mode, i.e. bench mounting;NOTE 1Hand-held motor-operated electric tools and saw benches to form an integrated whole with a hand-held motor-operated electric tools are covered by EN 60745-1:2006 together with EN 60745-2-5:2007. -machines driven by an internal combustion engineThis European Standard is primarily directed at machines which are manufactured after the date of issue of this European Standard.NOTE 2Machines covered by this European Standard are listed under A.1.1 and/or A.1.2 of annex IV of the Machinery Directive