Times change
I used to wear a baseball cap and sometimes gloves. Now I wear Peltor hard hat with visor and muffs. Labonville chaps and very heavy boots. There was a thread on hear a few months back that showed a US gov. film about chaps. It was good. I ordered my chaps right then. As for slowing ya down, well there was a time that I ran 1\4 mile in 49.9 seconds, those days are gone, and I'd probably run the distance to safety in about the same time now days if I was buck naked, or pulling a Buick, so the ppe is not a factor. I was way up the Amazon a few years back, so far from civilization that I'm pretty sure that they had to pump oxygen in to us. Met some loggers one day on the river and we followed and watched them cut down a HUGE tree, must have been 7-9 feet in dia., maybe more. They had the longest bars that I have ever seen. We kept back a ways and I never figured out what they were using for saws, one I'm pretty sure was a Stihl, but don't know about the other two. Anyway these guy only had short, t shirt, and taped up tennis shoes. Took them about 15 minutes to get the tree down. I always carry a cell phone, especially if cutting alone, and about a half roll of duct tape, and a box of Kotex. Be safe out there guys. JR