ASME B107.55:2002 pdf free download

ASME B107.55:2002 pdf free download.AXES: SAFETY REOUIREMENTS.
ASME B107.55 provides safcty rcquircmcnts for the design, construction,, testing, and use of axes that arc intended spcci&ally for use in felling, trimming, and pruning Lrccs; splitting and culling wood; notching and shaping Jogs and timbers: driving wooden or plastic stakes; pulling unhardencd nails when thc tool is providcd with a nail slot; or digging when thc particular tool is provided with a digging blade.
1.2 Purpose
This Standard is intended to serve as a guidc in selecting, testing, and using the hand tools covcied. Details of design, testing, and use of the tools covered are specified only as they relate to safety.
4.4.2 Hardness Determination Test. Hardness determination with respect to faces, eye sections. bits. picks, and digging blades shall he m&lc on a fixtured ax or suitable mounted or unmounted specimen that has bccn cut from the tool using the wet abrasive or other equivalent method. Any hardness test that uses equipment and niethods cquivalcnt LO Rockwell hardncss detcrminations, as specified in ASTM E 18, will be acceptable.
4.4.3 StrikIng and Tensile Force Test. Prior to tensilc force testing, sample axes shall be subjected to the following striking tcst:
Thc sample ax shall rcccivc twenty swinging, continuous hard striking blows by a pcrwn of acragc
0 lb to kg).