helmets are dumb.

[Phthalocyanin]

 

[colb]

I have been required to wear safety glasses at various times during both my construction and nursing careers and always find it ironic that they fog up and create more of a hazard than the thing they're supposed to be protecting me from.

I really like the Protos glasses because I feel the same way. I flip them down for cuts, then flip them up out of the way the rest of the time. If the sawdust is heading away from my face I forego using glasses altogether, but I can flip them down in an instant if the wind changes direction, or I miscalculated where the dust is going. It's become my favorite feature of the Protos.

 

[oldoakman]

Halo skull cap and Rain-X Anti Fog. Keeps my glasses reasonably clear most of the time.

 

[oldoakman]

And when I just wear the skull cap for outside work around the house it protects my growing bald patch from sunburn.

 

[flushcut]

We showed up to a customers house to do a job and he starts laughing at us for “wearing football helmets”. I say back you mean industry standard PPE, come on Doc you wouldn’t go into surgery without sterile gloves would you. He laughed and said no.
I have always worn a helmet and muffs it just made sense to me.
I have personally seen someone get smacked by a log coming from height. I can only imagine that I would have seen brain tissue that day but I just saw a cracked helmet.

 

[dmonn]

Has anybody on this forum NOT been hit by falling dead branches? I've been hit twice hard enough to remember. Once on the top of the helmet and once on the top of my shoulder. Both knocked me to my knees. I had to replace the helmet, but fortunately did not have to replace my shoulder.

 

[flushcut]

Don’t forget walnuts.

 

[Vicente]

Don’t forget walnuts.

We don't have walnuts but a greenish pinecone would be a doozy. I got smacked in the head by a dead branch last year cleaning broken limbs out of storm damaged oaks, probably wouldn't have been super bad but definitely would've hurt a lot if I hadn't been wearing my helmet.

 

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[chiselbit]

I wonder if that kid knows how lucky he is, that likely would have been a life changing Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI.)

 

[Daniel]

what do you think about this message from Mike Rowe regarding Osha forcing people to wear helmets and eye pro? kind of funny. Ive always liked Mike. made me laugh

Mike Rowe on Instagram: "Why take chances?"

111K likes, 4,980 comments - mikerowe on January 13, 2022: "Why take chances?".

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he's talking about vaxxines most likely.. where did you get the idea that he's referring to helmets. that's ridiculous.

 

[treebing]

ive gone to work every day for years and never been hit in the head. not even close. yet they still insist on making me wear this hot, sweaty, and heavy helmet. I have way more than a 99.7% chance of being fine without one. why should I be forced to wear one?


I dont know anything about vaccines. that seems an abstract interpretation furthur more nobody has ever once asked once whether i have one or not besides when i was in elementary school but then they asked my parents I'm pretty sure.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

For the first part of my career I didn't wear a helmet. Then, they were worn just for chipping. Finally, duh, wear a helmet

Over my career I cracked one helmet and a worker put a nasty folded dimple in another. Two head breaking accidents.

Helmets are smart.

 

[Chris Schultz]

I remember on a logging job about ten-twelve years back, a pine cone landed directly on the top of my head. Snapped my jaw shut, and about dropped me to my knees. The tin skull bucket helmet had a large “dimple” after that. Dumb helmet……

 

[Daniel]

I remember on a logging job about ten-twelve years back, a pine cone landed directly on the top of my head. Snapped my jaw shut, and about dropped me to my knees. The tin skull bucket helmet had a large “dimple” after that. Dumb helmet……

RIGHT... it doesn't take much weight falling 75'+ to do some real damage to steel

 

[chris_girard]

One morning in ninth grade…circa ‘68…woodshop started with a write in campaign. The state legislature had passed a law requiring safety glasses in shop and chemistry classes. My teacher thought it was dumb so he had us transcribe what he wrote on the chalkboard to postcards that he mailed to the legislature. All four of us at my workbench thought that safety glasses made sense but we didn’t dare speak up. Been wearing them ever since

It took me a few years of doing tree work to wear helmet and ear pro though. Now I wear ear and eye pro when I mow and snowblow

Same here Tom!

 

[Mick Dempsey]

I wonder if that kid knows how lucky he is, that likely would have been a life changing Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI.)

Well, he wasn’t lucky, he wore a helmet. That’s not luck.

 

[Pinhead Squirrel]

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