Do you always wear your helmet?

[Suuz]

I didn't read all the 5 pages before replying... Did anyone suggest wearing these special goggles already? They enable you to look upwards without tilting your head.

 

[ghostice]

I do all my pruning barefoot….

We'd heard that somewhere near the Olympic Peninsula maybe there was a famous arborist with the nickname "Three Toes" . . . .

 

[evo]

Blue is much more visible than orange, yellow, or lime.

Fall is particularly a challenging time for those colors.

I’ve read that blue is the most rare color in nature and humans are wired to notice it..

 

[Tree Lady]

I didn't read all the 5 pages before replying... Did anyone suggest wearing these special goggles already? They enable you to look upwards without tilting your head.

Are you talking about belay glasses? Do you have to be under what you are looking at?

 

[Chris Schultz]

Are you talking about belay glasses? Do you have to be under what you are looking at?

I assume so about the belay glasses, and yes you need to be underneath…. Probably not great for our industry!!!

 

[Muggs]

I really prefer that everyone on our crew has a different color helmet. Makes it easier for me to keep track of people from above.

 

[Crimsonking]

I really prefer that everyone on our crew has a different color helmet. Makes it easier for me to keep track of people from above.

Yes! Matching uniforms are crisp and professional, but man, it’s hard to tell who’s who.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Yes! Matching uniforms are crisp and professional, but man, it’s hard to tell who’s who.

There are plenty of stickers in various geometric shapes for the tops of helmets. I’m thinking of the WWII RAF and USAAF White star

helmet blinking safety lights - Google Search

 

[evo]

There are plenty of stickers in various geometric shapes for the tops of helmets. I’m thinking of the WWII RAF and USAAF White star

I prefer red and white concentric circles radiating outwards.. keeps em humble

 

[Crimsonking]

A friend once painted that exact pattern on a helmet and handed it to people when they forgot their helmet.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

handed it to people when they forgot their helmet.

Using shame in small doses can work well in a training system

 

[oceans]

For multiple reasons. Though I thought about trying to get onto welding in that industry. They need rope access techs who can weld aloft. I hear those guys typically see $600/hr USD.

Not sure that’s a great gig for a family man. I dunno. Prolly gotta live in a hotel?

 

[Matias]

Not sure that’s a great gig for a family man. I dunno. Prolly gotta live in a hotel?

oh it's a dogshit gig. live out on the platform the entire time, and it's not like you work a full time schedule for the whole year. you go build something and then you're done. it's really only for young, single dudes with little regard for anything but money.

 

[Webfoot]

I assume so about the belay glasses, and yes you need to be underneath…. Probably not great for our industry!!!

They're just 90 degree prisms. If you tip your head forward you will see forward at the same relative angle.

 

[Willber]

I have found people that I've worked with, it's almost as if they are more arrogant, egotistical and pompous, like a cliche typical American, with a helmet on. As if they hide behind the helmet, similar to the way sunglasses, can change how a person acts.

Yes, I do know that a helmet could save you form a fractured skull or a puncture to the skull.

So, can a helmet create a lack of awareness by the slight restriction to reaction time, by weight and sight limitations.
Causing one to not be aware of impacts, that a helmet cannot protect, where a broken neck or severe crush injury is possible.
And, also a learned lack of awareness, created by the psychological influence of others how exude this cliche perspective on life, and will scowl or verbally ridicule those who don't exude this cliche demeanor.

I had 2 of my front teeth knocked out a few years ago.
I was clearing a small piece of land, with a another person who was operating a small excavator, to lift and pile the logs. We were nearly done, and I had felled a small 5inch tree.
I was freeing the tree by cutting a bit of the holding wood from the butt, as the operator was lifting the tree, but the tree was lifted in such a way that it had signifigant loaded pressure up, but also towards me.
My head was out of the way from it vertically, with full out reached arms, parallel to the tree, as I cut the holding wood, but I guess the tree came at me hitting just above the gumline.
If I had a near 1lb helmet on, I may have been more severely injured, from the added head weight.

 

[evo]

I have found people that I've worked with, it's almost as if they are more arrogant, egotistical and pompous, like a cliche typical American, with a helmet on. As if they hide behind the helmet, similar to the way sunglasses, can change how a person acts.

Yes, I do know that a helmet could save you form a fractured skull or a puncture to the skull.

So, can a helmet create a lack of awareness by the slight restriction to reaction time, by weight and sight limitations.
And, also a learned lack of awareness, created by the psychological influence of others how exude this cliche perspective on life, and will scowl or verbally ridicule those who don't exude this cliche demeanor.

I had 2 of my front teeth knocked out a few years ago.
I was clearing a small piece of land, with a another person who was operating a small excavator, to lift and pile the logs. We were nearly done, and I had felled a small 5inch tree.
I was freeing the tree by cutting a bit of the holding wood from the butt, as the operator was lifting the tree, but the tree was lifted in such a way that it had signifigant loaded pressure up, but also towards me.
My head was out of the way from it vertically, with full out reached arms, parallel to the tree, as I cut the holding wood, but I guess the tree came at me hitting just above the gumline.
If I had a near 1lb helmet on, I may have been more severely injured, from the added head weight.

Can you explain how the additional 16 oz of the weight of the helmet would have potentially changed the outcome?
My imagination can’t make it add up

 

[Willber]

It would've added weight to the head, absorbing more of the inertia of the tree. I do have decent reflexes, and a helmet does reduce some acceleration of movement, as does a glove to the hand when pitching.

 

[Friedrich]

sounds terrible but your theory doesn’t add up in my book. doing unsafe treework and trying to make it safer by not wearing a helmet??

 

[Serf Life]

I have found people that I've worked with, it's almost as if they are more arrogant, egotistical and pompous, like a cliche typical American, with a helmet on. As if they hide behind the helmet, similar to the way sunglasses, can change how a person acts.

That's an interesting one and I can see the reasoning behind it. Certainly if someone is a dick already and any degree of separation between them and others increases the dickishness. Wouldn't use it in the equation for deciding not to use ppe, but interesting.

 

[macrocarpa]

I don’t know about that, but I can definitely say wearing a helmet will put more wear and tear on neck vertebrae when looking straight up for hours a day. Like doing shearing and pole pruner shaping work for wealthy customers that want everything to look like in English garden. Shaping European hornbeam, etc..Uhggg!

Horrible