oppermancjo
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Learned something new the other day. Not sure if it's common knowledge or not but thought I ought to pass it along as it just may save someone's leg.
My future father in law owns a saw shop and is a Stihl dealer. I stopped in to get some bar oil and of course we chatted about this that and the other. I don't currently wear chaps but I am seriously considering. I just don't have the extra coin at the moment. At any rate, he was telling me that a lot of guys will buy them and wear them right off the shelf. If you read the "instructions" you will know that you are supposed to wash them first as it fluffs up the inside material. If you don't wash them, you are effectively wearing regular pants. They showed a video during one of his Stihl classes where they put a ham inside a pair of chaps, one washed and one not. When they hit them with a saw, let's just say that the unwashed pair didn't do much good. The same goes for older chaps. You should wash them semi-regularly as they will eventually "un-fluff" and become useless.
My future father in law owns a saw shop and is a Stihl dealer. I stopped in to get some bar oil and of course we chatted about this that and the other. I don't currently wear chaps but I am seriously considering. I just don't have the extra coin at the moment. At any rate, he was telling me that a lot of guys will buy them and wear them right off the shelf. If you read the "instructions" you will know that you are supposed to wash them first as it fluffs up the inside material. If you don't wash them, you are effectively wearing regular pants. They showed a video during one of his Stihl classes where they put a ham inside a pair of chaps, one washed and one not. When they hit them with a saw, let's just say that the unwashed pair didn't do much good. The same goes for older chaps. You should wash them semi-regularly as they will eventually "un-fluff" and become useless.