Chainsaw chaps--ouch

[mizzou]

If you cut when its at all warm I think the pants would be too hot.

 

[stihl sawing]

There hot in summer and heavy. Have to wear suspenders to keep em from pulling the pants down.Do i use them...You bet.

 

[stihl sawing]

JW Younger and me.

Always got em on.

 

[Foxfire]

JW Younger and me.

Always got em on.

Too bad you couldn't find a pic of a big tree to post...

 

[timbrjackrussel]

I bought the Labonville full wraps from Bailey's. The're very high quality, with and excellent fit so that one can move with ease on steep brush covered hillsides. Where I'm cutting is an 1 1/2 down a bad four wheel drive road, and spotty cell phone coverage. You could bleed to death before you got to help. I'm kinda fond of breathing.

Got a pair for me and a pair for my wife. Prepared when she starts to cut firewood.
Bailey's - Labonville X-Treme Competition Chainsaw Safety Chaps

 

[Gkiesel]

Thanks love the feedback and storys. I am considerining the pants now, any issues?THOUGHTS???

Just watch the sizing.
28 inch chaps are a total of 32 inches long, the 30's are 34 inches and the 32's are 36 inches long when you add in the width of the waistband.

 

[mizzou]

Just watch the sizing.
28 inch chaps are a total of 32 inches long, the 30's are 34 inches and the 32's are 36 inches long when you add in the width of the waistband.

Agree. Try some on before you buy.

 

[Patrick62]

almost always

... and the guys who are cutting for me have to wear them, or they are "down the road".
I wish I had pic to go with it, no accidents, but a fella who was cutting for me would happily be cutting wood in shorts and sandals :confused2:

That ain't gonna happen around here now.

 

[mr.finn]

I used to own a pair of the husky pro forest pants. They had an elastic waistband that started to lose its elasticity. So I stopped wearing them and bought a pair of Husky chaps(blue ones). I did like the pants, but like others said once they are on they stay on which makes them hot in the summer months. I like the chaps a lot better. Just get something and do it before it is too late.

 

[Dogsout]

Stihl Sawing what kind of tree is that huge monster in your picture and did it hit the building that you can see on the left side of the pic?

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

I've never owned a pair of chaps, i guess after 16 year of tree work i've been lucky.

I've cut my own firewood for over thirty years and never had a chainsaw accident, but I bought a pair of orange Husky chaps this year. I figure there's no reason to push my luck. I put them on anytime I'm going to use a saw. Yes, they're heavy and hot, but I don't cut any wood until September.

As you get older, you realize just how easy an accident could happen, and how it can put you in a tight spot. I own my own business, and a bad accident would cause me to close up until I'm healed up. Can't afford that.

 

[demc570]

I used to own a pair of the husky pro forest pants. They had an elastic waistband that started to lose its elasticity. So I stopped wearing them and bought a pair of Husky chaps(blue ones). I did like the pants, but like others said once they are on they stay on which makes them hot in the summer months. I like the chaps a lot better. Just get something and do it before it is too late.

thankyou, good to know,yes i mite go find some tonite,no one has the pants here,just chaps,so chaps it is!!!!

 

[demc570]

There hot in summer and heavy. Have to wear suspenders to keep em from pulling the pants down.Do i use them...You bet.

Sounds like chaps would be better after reading this.THANKYOU!

 

[stihl sawing]

Stihl Sawing what kind of tree is that huge monster in your picture and did it hit the building that you can see on the left side of the pic?

it's a red oak and a tornado took it out, It did demolish the builing, Luckily no body was home at the time.

The whole deal is in this old thread.


http://www.arboristsite.com/firewood-heating-wood-burning-equipment/168587.htm

 

[KyleOh]

Never wore em, never cut my jeans or body. I bought a pair of stihls and never cut without em now.

I wear a 34 length jeans, had to order size 40 chaps. I am 6'2. 36s were about 4 inches short!

 

[medic8852]

I have a pair of the black stihl promarks' and i love them. Got them after a close call and never cut without them. The ol man wouldn't ever wear them till last year he went thru his carhartt bibs, jeans and long johns and ended up with a small gash in his leg. Needless to say, he got a new pait for xmas and wears them all the time too.

 

[Foxfire]

I wore my new Husq chaps today for around 4 hours (while bucking some oak) and they started off being not very comfortable and somewhat cumbersome. By the 3rd or 4rth hour they weren't so bad. The only time I really noticed them was when I'd kneel down for a cut or to gas up. I've got a gut and not much butt so it took a bit to keep my jeans and the chaps all in order. I'm gonna look in to getting some suspenders. Given this was my first time wearing them and how much safer I felt I'm glad to have them.

Now what I found really unpleasant was putting my cold but sweaty forestry helmet back on my sweaty head, especially the earmuffs...that's for another thread though.

 

[slowp]

I like to wear my modified jeans that I bought at the large saw shop in Chehalis. They have snaps and some cotton material sewed inside and you buy kevlar inserts which slip in and are held in place by the snaps and cotton strips. For me, they are much more comfy than chaps.

Unfortunately, if I do vounteer work, I have to wear the chaps. The inserts in jeans are not considered to be acceptable....

 

[demc570]

wow those sound cool

 

[slowp]

Here they be. Suspenders are a must due to the weight of the kevlar inserts. They also have buttons for suspenders.


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