woodyman
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I was thinking of getting some chaps and was wondering if they get hit with a sharp chain like I have on my saws can you repair them or just hope you don't get hit in the same spot or buy a new pair?
I was thinking of getting some chaps and was wondering if they get hit with a sharp chain like I have on my saws can you repair them or just hope you don't get hit in the same spot or buy a new pair?
I was thinking of getting some chaps and was wondering if they get hit with a sharp chain like I have on my saws can you repair them or just hope you don't get hit in the same spot or buy a new pair?
Chaps are easily repaired and patched, cut appropriate sized patches from canvas or heavy-duty nylon fabric and stick them on with a decent contact adhesive. A few cuts and nicks on the chaps here and there are nothing
...........................I know when they're f***d and when there's nothing wrong with them, majority of rips and tears are from sticks and thorns etc.., the dogs catch them occasionally as well, .................:deadhorse:
I was thinking of getting some chaps and was wondering if they get hit with a sharp chain like I have on my saws can you repair them or just hope you don't get hit in the same spot or buy a new pair?
It's actually the sort of thing you'll hear from the sandal-wearing vegan crowd, you know the type, they all look amusingly the same worldwide, they're the ones who spend 20 minutes each morning naked in front of the mirror doing pilates...
There's vids of them , they pose in an officious manner, always dressed in immaculate dry-cleaned and pressed blaze yellow clothing and brilliantly shiny helmets (not that there's anything wrong with that...)and adorned with all the useless restrictive glitzy bling you can think of, instructing and demonstrating with an indignant expectation that every word and action presented shall be taken as gospel.
They've got badges and have read all the manuals, done all the courses on the safety institutes back lawn and watched all the instructional vids themselves you see...
These dudes are invariably heavily into things like gay-rights(not that there's anything wrong with that...) and the society for the prevention of ill-treatment to sardines on north sea fishing boats and any other weirdo stuff you can think of..
There was a vid posted here a while back, about triple chainbrakes or some garbage, this strange individual was cutting twigs off a log, stroking his saw in a creepy sweeping manner as if he was practicing for a swan lake ballet production.., (guess he was thinking of the way he strokes his boyfriends inner thigh or something...not that there's anything wrong with that...)
These are the dudes who'll tell you to immediately discard your chaps and buy new ones because they copped a chain,
They'll also tell you that starting your saw off the ground is absolutely reckless behavior,
that safety chain should be compulsory for everyone,
that chainsaws should be licensed and operators charged a seasonal fee,
that operators should be smothered in cotton-wool to protect themselves FROM themselves,
that things like opened mufflers or cut-down modded and lightened chainsaws are absolutely un-acceptable,
or, OMG, horror of all horrors, a saw with no hand-brake!! blah blah blah, you wonder why someone like me who wants to be able to do my job without all the B.S. is cynical as hell... hehe
I reckon it depends if any of the layer fibres have been pulled.
If only the outer cover has been cut and no fibres pulled, I don't see anything wrong with patching up the outer shell provided during the patching no fibres are stitched down.
As soon as even one fibre has been pulled that may leave the whole of that pad compromised since pulling even one fibre may puts the whole fibre pad under tension and that may not allow the fibres to flow freely - and they do need to flow freely. Minimizing the amount of flesh and bone being ripped off your body is microsecond stuff so every microsecond counts.
Now here is something some users don't realise. When was the last time you washed your chaps? As I said above chaps will work better if their fibres flow freely. Chaps clogged with mud, sawdust and oil are not going to allow their fibres to flow as freely as when the fibres are clean. This then gets back to what I said above, if the outer shell is cut this allows dirt etc to get inside the fibre pad so it is better to repair that cut than do nothing.
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