A consideration for Job Corp:
Since you are working with trainees, you'll have washouts and noshows, so go chaps.
I'll stap on the filthiest pair of chaps of questionable history, no qualms, but sliding someone else's pants up my goods, ergh: You can tell me they've been boiled in bleach, I still want fresh.
I never ask anyone to do that which I would not.
As a ps: I used to look down on chaps. Something a part-timer would wear, certainly not for a pro. In my quest for the best pants, I have worn Stihl's version, Husky's version, StretchAirs, SIP 5's, and a really good coverage design from Labonville. In general construction, everything from full denim to polyprop with vented crotch.
Then I tried a pair of chaps. Adjustment here, adjustment there, I still expected them to be a nonsense PITA in the tree. Never Happened. Ascended a cramped, confused Pine that grabbed at my scabard hook, my side D's, my chainsaw clip, Hardhat Peltor mounts, with every step I took the tree put a stick into every gap. It never found my chaps, likely because like everyone I clear a gap out of deadwood as I go.
I now use chaps all the time. If it's hot I can dump them the moment I'm done with chainsaws , it's like a breath of fresh air. When it's wet and rainy, chaps are better than raingear, they repell all but the worst, and when the worst happens, I can take them off without hiding, and I don't have to wear soaked sawpants all day!
Chime in now with your dislike of chaps!
I have seen the light and won't go back.
RedlineIt
