Okay, how safe is it to wear chaps and shorts? I always wear chaps with pants, but summers here and it's getting hot. So how safe is it to wear shorts with the chaps?
Okay, how safe is it to wear chaps and shorts? I always wear chaps with pants, but summers here and it's getting hot. So how safe is it to wear shorts with the chaps?
Plus if you show up at a bar wearing tall leather boots and shorts... well you figure it out. (Cue THE song.)
Chaps and shorts??? All the time.
As a crew supervisor I would never allow shorts. Chaps will help prevent chain injuries but that is not all that happens. Branches commonly get caught between my chaps and pants, branches, vines, chokers can rub across the back of your legs, if you have to dump your chaps to run from a fire you would have no protection. Rattlesnakes, rats, nettle, poison oak, barb wire are all out to get you and wearing pants will help out.
Plus if you show up at a bar wearing tall leather boots and shorts... well you figure it out. (Cue THE song.)
But to answer you question the chaps do the protecting, a pair of jeans wont even slow a chain saw down. So go ahead and wear short if it keeps you cool.
Okay, how safe is it to wear chaps and shorts? I always wear chaps with pants, but summers here and it's getting hot. So how safe is it to wear shorts with the chaps?
+1 There is a safety video floating around the site that shows the uselessness of jeans very graphically.
Only if you submit a photo on this forum.
Only if you submit a photo on this forum.
There is more to worry about than just a cut on the front of your legs.
That's right, but I don't know how that has any relevance to the issue of wearing shorts and chaps. Jeans aren't going to do you any good if they are in the back, front or side. It is the Chaps that offer whatever protection you will have.
speaking of a shoulder pad what is good place to get one ive never had one but i think it might be a good ideato get one. are the ones that baileys have any good.I often wear a Stihl cut resistant shirt but I still wear a shoulder pad because it offers different protection.
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