Tin Pants Failure!! Another Fine and Miserable Day

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I drove up to the unit through a snowstorm. While writing unit numbers on this was going on.
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There were only so many tags that would be needed. So, I got my gear on, including fingerless wool gloves, and reluctantly got out. I'm doing some boundary layout so have to tie flagging, slap paint on trees, and staple up unit tags--those little blue ones that tell you that you are in the right or wrong unit.

This is a job that used to be done by 2 twenty somethings, back when we had a big budget and sold a lot of big timber. Now we old folks have to do it alone. Since I only have 2 hands, I was sticking the staple hammer in the back pocket of my tin pants between use. It didnt take long, and I soon felt a trickle of water going down my right cheek. Whoops. I had Tin Pants failure. I finished that tag line, was soaked from water running down my sleeves and pocket, my gloves were saturated, and it took 12 miles with the heater on high to warm up on the way in. I've now got the wood stove roaring, a big mug of hot tea, and will soak in the hot tub later.


So, anybody still want to work here who isn't from here?

 

[Cedarkerf]

I went for a walk out in this beautiful stuff were finally getting our January weather glad you survived. I was wearing shorts up above paradise Saturday snow shoeing with mountaingal

 

[Meadow Beaver]

I still want to work out there, I like the rain.

 

[Sparky8370]

I don't get it, what was in the video that I missed?

 

[hammerlogging]

So, anybody still want to work here who isn't from here?

Dont worry, I'm local everywhere

But, i had all the steep snow covered ground I needed this year, ready for a little snakey bee season.........

 

[redprospector]

That looks like it did here this morning, except yours looked wetter.

Andy

 

[floyd]

This is why I wear wool in the wet. At least I'm warm.Yeah, it gets heavy.

So, are the sales laid out better now? I worked on some marking crews that did not understand log extraction.

 

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This is why I wear wool in the wet. At least I'm warm.Yeah, it gets heavy.

So, are the sales laid out better now? I worked on some marking crews that did not understand log extraction.

This one seems to be. I like fleece better than wool. I would still be wet and chilly after stopping with wool on, plus itching. :greenchainsaw:

 

[Hddnis]

Cold and wet is the worst. It can take a person all night just to warm up and then you get to go do it again the next day.



Mr. HE

 

[Greystoke]

Tin Pants and a light wool shirt....4 years in Southeast Alaska, weather like that was norm in the winter, made me learn what worked the best, which is why I can't stand cotton anything in a wet climate...13 feet of rain a year gets old fast! On the real rainy days I would wear a raincoat occasionally when my wool got soaked up, so as not to catch a chill, then once in a while I would stop and take my shirt off and wring it out...dry again Tin pants are awesome if you can put up with the rigidity of them. Also, I was anal about treating them and patching holes. On real rainy days I would come into my toasty saw shop and apply snow seal on them while still wearing them; I would use a heat gun to help spread it and soak it in.

 

[BigE]

I don't get it, what was in the video that I missed?

Unless you didn't see the rain, you didn't miss much....

 

[Metals406]

That storm is headed this way. . . Yuck.

 

[bobsreturn]

hey guys what are tin pants? am in tropical australia shorts year round ,except in the scrub with stinging trees ,tics scrub itch etc , just dont like the cold ! best regards Bob

 

[floyd]

Heavy waterproofed canvas. Hot & uncomfortable to me, but that is me...not you.

 

[Meadow Beaver]

Is there really any advantage of wearing the tin pants compared to rain overalls?

 

[redprospector]

Is there really any advantage of wearing the tin pants compared to rain overalls?

If you're talking about those plastic rain pants, YES!
I've never had a pair of those come out of the woods intact. Tin pants will generally come out in pretty good shape.

Andy

 

[Greystoke]

If you're talking about those plastic rain pants, YES!
I've never had a pair of those come out of the woods intact. Tin pants will generally come out in pretty good shape.

Andy

And they breathe!

 

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Yes, they breathe. I brought them home to grease or use the stuff that came with them. Whatever I manage to find. The bad thing about them? You can't wash them, I have to wear longjohns under them because they are rough. I like them waaaaay better than rainpants. My rubber rain pants have a big strip of duct tape on them and they aren't that old.

For tops? I'm usually too warm with a raincoat. Sometimes wool makes me break out although I do wear wool fingerless gloves for doing layout. It is a poly base. Something like Capilene, then a poly fleece pullover. I keep a few extras to change into in the pickup.

Speaking of wool, my old favorite was a yardsale wool ski sweater. It had padded elbows--for hitting poles while racing. That padding was good for fending off devil's club. Unfortunately, as I've done to most of the wool sweaters, washing in the machine finally shrank it. But I think I got my 50 cents worth out of it.

Thrift stores and yardsales can be your friends.

I did not return there today. I went up to the one logging job, thinking I saw tracks in the snow. It was at the same elevation and there was a half foot of new, gloppy snow with more coming down hard. No sign of any loggers up there today.

 

[Greystoke]

Yes, they breathe. I brought them home to grease or use the stuff that came with them.

I like the wax that comes with them but it is not nearly as forgiving(or as cheap) as Sno-Seal. Works especially well with a heat gun.

Thrift stores and yardsales can be your friends.

:agree2: I once picked up a Gray Filson wool coat at a second hand store for $4...I felt a little guilty, but it is very much appreciated! Now I am on the lookout for a Filson Mackinaw Cruiser

 

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I found a Woolrich jacket with the double layer on the shoulders. It came from a thrift store. I wore it out.