New gear for school

colb said:
Do you get a visor with that kask?
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The Kask "Half Face" visor is excellent for me, never fogs, catches a potential eye hit very well. Full plastic face visor is never ok for me. Ok, maybe in a Covid ward. When you're throwing saw chips into your face close your mouth!

Didn't like the Petzl partial plastic face shield, was not quite enough, stuff was always getting up under it. This is all so personal, mileage varies on everything.
-AJ
 
moss said:
The Kask "Half Face" visor is excellent for me, never fogs, catches a potential eye hit very well. Full plastic face visor is never ok for me. Ok, maybe in a Covid ward. When you're throwing saw chips into your face close your mouth!
-AJ
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The kask visor looks cool and looks like it would function nicely- I believe you and it's good to hear. My point was that I thought it costs extra on top of the base kask price.
 
I've said this before, if you're ever in NYC go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, go directly to the armor gallery. Compare the German armor to the Italian armor. The Italian armor is extremely well crafted, lightweight, protects the important body areas. The "knight" can be quick and agile, jump on and off a horse in a flash. You will die instantly if you are hit by a "light catapult" projectile. The German armor is head-to-toe bomb proof. No fancy filigree. There is an iron bar connecting the back of the helmet to the top/back torso piece with heavy bolts. If you are struck on the head with a two-handed broad sword blade you'll be, "Pardon me, was that a mosquito?". On the other hand you'll need two attendants to get you on or off a horse. And if your attendants die you're dead shortly thereafter.

Point is every climber style and predominant work tasks will dictate PPE preferences. Medieval food for thought.
-AJ
 
moss said:
I've said this before, if you're ever in NYC go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, go directly to the armor gallery. Compare the German armor to the Italian armor. The Italian armor is extremely well crafted, lightweight, protects the important body areas. The "knight" can be quick and agile, jump on and off a horse in a flash. You will die instantly if you are hit by a "light catapult" projectile. The German armor is head-to-toe bomb proof. No fancy filigree. There is an iron bar connecting the back of the helmet to the top/back torso piece with heavy bolts. If you are struck on the head with a two-handed broad sword blade you'll be, "Pardon me, was that a mosquito?". On the other hand you'll need two attendants to get you on or off a horse. And if your attendants die you're dead shortly thereafter.

Point is every climber style and predominant work tasks will dictate PPE preferences. Medieval food for thought.
-AJ
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I’m surprised you didn’t give a shout out the Higgins armory museum, which I just googled and saw it closed 9 years ago and got absorbed into the Worcester Art Museum.
 
Stumpsprouts said:
I’m surprised you didn’t give a shout out the Higgins armory museum, which I just googled and saw it closed 9 years ago and got absorbed into the Worcester Art Museum.
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My neighbor's father growing up was named Ernst (Americanized to Eric), he was the manager at Worcester Pressed Steel for a stint. I visited there a few times and got to go on the factory floor and watch guys punch out steel construction helmets on huge vertical die presses that were scary to a kid. Two button trigger to operate two hands only so no one would cheat to speed up production and get one hand under the press. WPS owned the Higgins Armory Museum (as far as I can remember) that later became part of the Worcester Art Museum. I hung there off hours but was too young to appreciate what all that armor was/meant.

Not to go on but he fled Nazi Germany in the mid to late 30's (don't know exact date) and was on the street in Boston at 13 years-old, his parents didn't make it out of the concentration camps. He was a street fighter and eventually served in the U.S. Army in the UK as a motorcycle courier then helped interrogate (translator) German prisoners. They loved him and one made him a perfect scale model of a Panzer tank from wood scraps but finely crafted and finished with the correct insignias painted on it, operating turret etc etc. He kept it on display in his home office until his eventual death. Everything is connected no?

Ok I'll back out, back to helmets!
-AJ
 
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