chainsaw chaps

[williamd]

I'm browsing the usual suppliers sites for chainsaw pants and chaps. Who out there makes their crews wear them? Any recommendations/suggestions about types for hot weather? Which are easier to get on and off? I'm looking for basic best value for starters. Do crews complain and resist wearing them?

 

[Toparboring]

I have the Husky pro forest chaps and SIP 5 10. I use the SIPs on warmer days and chaps on the colder days. On the hot days well that depends probably chaps get them off fast into shorts quick after the job. I am looking into new pants SIP and Pfanner. For starters I suggest chaps then move up from there as for crews you touch a saw you better be wearing them. Just a fact you cut that artery in your leg you have 2-5 mins till you bleed out so cover them. I have 1 little scar just above my knee do to chaps all I had to do was clean it up with a antiseptic wipe and put a large band aid on it. I don't want to think what it would be without chaps.

 

[FlashD]

I personally prefer chainsaw pants, though buying them for a crew would be fairly pricey. For me, if I'm going to be chipping brush and running a saw, it's a hastle to me to put them on and take them off over and over. I just hate getting brush snagged on the chaps while I'm chipping. My recommendation to you, would be the designate a "cutter" or two and they are the only ones that run any saws while the rest of them can drag brush. As long as you rotate who the "cutter" is from day to day, I wouldn't think that anyone would throw a fit.

 

[southsoundtree]

Around here, not wearing chaps during ground ops is about a thousand or 2K fine.

I like to have one person be the cutter, and one be the roper. We usually switch up during the day, that than on a day to day basis. Just depends. If we are going to be able to put down a bunch of brush without cutting, then the designated cutter can "pop" off the chaps, and put them with the saw in the staging area, ready for whomever picks up the chaps.

I wonder how well chainsaw pants hold up to hauling brush. I'd like to buy the ground crew pants, but doubt they'd hold up to all the groundwork in the same way as chaps.

 

[FlashD]

I had my chainsaw pants for 3 months, never washed, showing very little wear. They were worn 6 days a week for both climbing and ground ops. I loved them. Unfortunately, when you ask the nurses in an emergency room not to cut your pants off, they just look at you like you're stupid and do it anyway. I guess that's a good reason not to get hurt on the job.

 

[southsoundtree]

FlashD, What brand?

 

[poetmk]

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I had my chainsaw pants for 3 months, never washed, showing very little wear. They were worn 6 days a week for both climbing and ground ops. I loved them.

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No wash for 3 months! Whew - I'll stand upwind Seriously though, washing chainsaw pants/chaps is a good idea - it fluffs up the protection material and makes it more effective.

 

[FlashD]

I just had the husqvarna ones from Sherrill. I'd been wearing them during the winter, so they weren't sweaty and smelly... yet. I was planning on washing them, just needed a few days off from work so I could get them dry as you aren't supposed to dry them, if I recall correctly.