kennyplay
ArboristSite Member
Hello, do to safety issue from last year I now have safety boots and chaps. When I was splitting wood in the dead of winter, freezing, I had dropped a big log on my right foot and broke a metatarsel bone(yea spelling prob wrong) I went out and got a pair of real good steel tip/met-guard work boots. They have done wonders! Met-guard on the top. Spend the money, get good ones.
Recently, I opted and shopped around and ordered safety chaps. I used them once. Went good. Then next time I was cutting and splitting, the saw just lighting touched the chaps and man, the things just shreadded apart! Yellow twine/tread got rapped up in the saw, what a mess. It took 1/2 hour to unravel it, it was in the bar sprocket too. I Duct taped that hole in the chaps and went back to work.
Now, I have to say that I am real careful! and been cutting for sometime and have touched my pants before with the saw, it just ripped a hole in them and that was it. Went back to work! Shortly after, the same day wearing the chaps, I touched the chaps again lightly and BAM, again, the crap pulled out, and wrapped up in the sprocket and saw bar and chain. What a mess.
Here's my thought, I thought that the chaps would have a harder protector surface on the outside and not have this stuff inside that would pull out and wrap up in everything...
I got these from the Big B's...Does anyone know of a different kind of chaps that don't do this? thanks
Recently, I opted and shopped around and ordered safety chaps. I used them once. Went good. Then next time I was cutting and splitting, the saw just lighting touched the chaps and man, the things just shreadded apart! Yellow twine/tread got rapped up in the saw, what a mess. It took 1/2 hour to unravel it, it was in the bar sprocket too. I Duct taped that hole in the chaps and went back to work.
Now, I have to say that I am real careful! and been cutting for sometime and have touched my pants before with the saw, it just ripped a hole in them and that was it. Went back to work! Shortly after, the same day wearing the chaps, I touched the chaps again lightly and BAM, again, the crap pulled out, and wrapped up in the sprocket and saw bar and chain. What a mess.
Here's my thought, I thought that the chaps would have a harder protector surface on the outside and not have this stuff inside that would pull out and wrap up in everything...
I got these from the Big B's...Does anyone know of a different kind of chaps that don't do this? thanks