Who, anybody wear the gear?

[user 122190]

I've watch a lot of videos, and other then factory videos, nobody wears chaps, helmets, eye protection, hearing protection(?), or even gloves. Some even wearing shorts and a tee-shirt, Yikes!

Living dangerously?

 

[old guy]

I use eye and hearing protection and put on gloves when it gets below 0°.

John

 

[Warped5]

I wear gloves, usually wear my muffs and always wear my chaps:

 

[sunfish]

I do hearing protection, nothing else, since 1977.

 

[chris zautner]

i wear ear plugs,chaps, and boots

 

[SAWMIKAZE]

I wear chaps when im actually workin , and even though i have some nice battle wounds i dont usually wear them when im just dickin around cuttin firewood thats decked up or somethin..ill probably learn the hard way..again.

 

[nixon]

I wear full wraps ,eye ,ear and foot protection . Can't say I wear it 100% of the time ,but it's way more often than not .

 

[Raganr]

Plugs, glasses, boots, and pants are what I use all the time. Dont even own chaps.

 

[Jimbo209]

Plugs/muffs, have chaps glasses and gloves some times

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[bcaarms]

I wear eye, ear, chaps, boots and gloves every time. Helmet if climbing or felling. I own 3 pair of chaps. If you run one of my saws, you wear them. If you don't want to, that's fine. You run someone else's saw.

 

[Rockjock]

I wear it all. Hard hat, chaps, gloves, hearing /mesh face shield. Better safe than sorry. No excuse for not wearing proper PPE.

 

[mdavlee]

Glasses and ear plugs for me. Occasionally I'll wear chaps if I'm in brush and want to wade through it. Boots are always on unless I'm testing a saw in a cant at home.

 

[SAWMIKAZE]

Glasses and ear plugs for me. Occasionally I'll wear chaps if I'm in brush and want to wade through it. Boots are always on unless I'm testing a saw in a cant at home.

Gloves are somethin i just cant wear mike , i always wear glasses and either plugs or muffs..and chaps when im marchin through the woods...i just cant get used to gloves , Sometimes i try but they come off in under 2 minutes.

 

[SAWMIKAZE]

Chaps are cheaper..i missed work for 10 days because i couldnt bend my leg..and it even still hurts occasionally now because i cut alot of my knee cap away.

 

[user 64030]

Chaps, gloves, muffs/plugs, glasses, sometimes a face screen/muff combo, steel toe boots. I am worth way too much (to me) to risk cutting me to pieces.

As a firewood hack I (we) stand a better chance of slipping falling w/ saw in hand. Fellers tend to cut delimb the main trunks, get up the end top off and done. We are stepping in around and over limbs cutting every branch 6" and bigger into 16 " lengths. We have much more debris to step on and 16" lengths roll under foot much easier than a full length limb.


dw

 

[Old Longhair]

Full wrap chaps, boots, and gloves. My hearing has been toast for years, so muffs or plugs would be a total waste. I'll probably be a bit more religious about glasses this year than I've been in the past.

 

[mdavlee]

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Chaps are cheaper..i missed work for 10 days because i couldnt bend my leg..and it even still hurts occasionally now because i cut alot of my knee cap away.

That looks a bit painful. I cut my leg with a chain not running with the brake locked. I drug it across my leg and had a nice 2" long cut. If it had been running it would have been much worse.

 

[SAWMIKAZE]

That looks a bit painful. I cut my leg with a chain not running with the brake locked. I drug it across my leg and had a nice 2" long cut. If it had been running it would have been much worse.

Actually when it happened it didnt hurt..it was probably my adrenaline..i had maybe a half mile to get to the road and i jogged the whole way there and called my woman to come get me .. the next day it felt like i shut my nuts in a truck door..it hurt.

 

[Rockjock]

That looks a bit painful. I cut my leg with a chain not running with the brake locked. I drug it across my leg and had a nice 2" long cut. If it had been running it would have been much worse.

Been there. Done that. Got 3 staples as a door prize.

 

[Chris-PA]

I always wear ear protection, gloves and steel toes. If falling I wear my Husqvarna forestry helmet setup.