Seems the arbs most ardent and condescending about wearing of the hardhats etc all the time are the ones that HAVE to wear them themselves.
Wearing them at appropriate times is sensible and prudent but ANSI cannot legislate the wearing of them "sometimes" so you wear them all the time. They also cannot legislate who wears them where, so a guy planting trees wears them all day just as a green groundy wears them rightfully under a dead takedown.
Watch a professional baseball game for example....batter puts on his helmet to hit.....afterwards he goes in the field without it. In some of you guy's worlds .....every fan in the stadium and hotdog salesmen would wear one the whole game.
(on a sidenote) How would your dad's best friend been protected from a chainsaw hitting him in the face by a hardhat.
Seems the arbs most ardent and condescending about wearing of the hardhats etc all the time are the ones that HAVE to wear them themselves.
Hardhat, safety glasses, and steel toe boots 100% of the time.
Chaps and chainsaw boots 0% of the time.
After eight-years, I've finally got my climber wearing a hardhat. (A rock climbing helmet actually, but I simply cannot get him to wear glasses. Idiot that he is.)
Well you have steel toe boots, hopefully "green patch" as well - with steel plate..
Glasses are essential if using any power equipment at all.. Your eye is the most delicate part, and you simply do not want to loose one.. PERIOD.
You are right on there!! Gloves do very little indeed except keep slivers out of soft smooth hands.
TreEmergencyB said:gloves? ha the only time wear gloves is sappy trees ie. spruce pine etc and when I gots to chip throney locast always got my ear muffs on though and glasses always
Not counting anti-vibration gloves, or gloves with the cut resistant/chaps material on the left hand, general use work gloves are recommended to protect against contact with the sharp chain (when it is not moving, i.e. adjusting tension, etc.) and from contact with hot surfaces (muffler, bar, chain, etc.). Might also prevent blisters (?).
Some guys I know wear gloves for all work tasks, others . . .
Philbert
Not counting anti-vibration gloves, or gloves with the cut resistant/chaps material on the left hand, general use work gloves are recommended to protect against contact with the sharp chain (when it is not moving, i.e. adjusting tension, etc.) and from contact with hot surfaces (muffler, bar, chain, etc.). Might also prevent blisters (?).
Some guys I know wear gloves for all work tasks, others . . .
Philbert
We use these gloves almost all the time now.
They provide as much protection as Kleenex, but you do keep a good grip on the saw. Especially in the rain. So it's six of one and half-dozen of the other.
Not great for ropping, though.
Gloves? I call them pus*sy mittens. I, like Shigo, like to " touch trees". Grow a pair fag*gots.
Would you like another cup of coffee while you grit your teeth and flex your testicles?
Groundman One, with all due respect, you are a groundie, I am a climber. Two different worlds. Gloves certainly have their place on the ground but to be honest, I've never seen a good climber wear gloves. My favorite is when I see one break out his Michael Jackson's and commence to climb a tree like a crippled cow on crutches...
I wear them everyday now days myself climbing.
I was like you MD for years, gloves was for girls.
Then one day I had my fill of sore hands and fingers.
Bought a pair just till my hands healed up and been
wearing them ever sense.
But then what do I know? I'm just a hacker but then
I am one of the best hackers around. :agree2:
I have worn the Atlas gloves in the winter myself but don't like to wear gloves when I climb. I think it causes more risk to the climber. I read about a climber getting his saw trigger pinned because of the gloves he was wearing. He cut himself out of the tree. Can't remember his name but it's the guy who wrote The Tree Climber's Companion.
The p***y mittens comment was a joke. It's what my foreman said to me when I asked him about a pair of gloves on the first construction job I worked pouring concrete at 17. I thought it was funny.
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