Didn't always, but got serious about 5 years ago for various reasons and now wear the whole shabang. Pain at first until you get used to it... now almost no hassle at all, any of it. Chaps, steel toes, helmet/face shield/earmuffs AND earplugs. Good quality respirator usually only when milling, due to face so close to exhaust and thus breathing that in all day, which is NOT good... goes right from lungs into your bloodstream among other things when you breath that exhaust in so close for that long a period. Bottom line is... 10-15 years down the road, do you want to still be healthy with your hearing OK, sight OK all your fingers and toes there, skull in one piece? Then just bite the bullet, spend the cash for the ppe and just do it. How much is your sight worth to you?
Working as a logger years ago I was hit in the head by the end of a log that had been hit and thrown up at me by a load of logs behind a skidder going through the woods about 50 feet away from me. Domino effect you sometimes get when logs are laying all over the place like pickup sticks. Anyway, it cracked my helmet open and threw me on the ground after a few loops, but I walked away with just a headache. Had I not had my pretty orange helmet on that day, you probably wouldn't be reading this right now.