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All of this is good advice.... I cut a million brd ft a year and I don't wear them. I just wear nee pads and shin guards. I think chainsaw training would be good thing to do. There is a lot of people that I see that don't know that the bar tip is dangerous when touched with something hard. And improper sharpining is danderous. So if you are inexperienced wear chaps....

Most of my chain sawing was done when I was a younger man who had never heard of chainsaw chaps. Though I never had one get away from me, that experience showed me how dangerous these are. Thanks for bringing this up.

You folks that don't have a pair, look at it t his way. A set of $100 ones is only 5 boxes or so of American Whitetail ammo.

http://www.cabelas.com/product/Hornady-American-Whitetail-Rifle-Ammunition/1571906.uts#productChart


And there's lots cheaper than $100

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=CHainsaw+chaps&t=ffsb&ia=products

If you even think your wife and family (and maybe even a few of us ) might like you alive and whole, maybe you want to consider a pair?

Geno

while i downplayed the concept and the need for more than a day, i was wrong.

chaps are needed, and they're very important. a trip to the emergency room is not a good thing, when it could have been avoided.

just because we didn't know what chaps were, back in the day, didn't mean they wouldn't have been helpful.

like fire, chainsaws can be friend or foe.

and yes, a chainsaw can saw through the front of an aluminum hat, and still cut into one's nose.

While I don't cut a million board feet a year and have only ever had the one close call I wouldn't call my self inexperienced. I have cut several hundred full cord of firewood, hundreds of saw logs, and as many logs bucked out of trails or fallen while firefighting. I guess I'll wear the inexperienced sawyer chaps.

There are times I hire another cutter, therefore I own two pairs of chaps. Mine and a pair for the cutter who forgets his or does not own any.

As a matter of fact I carry an extra helmet in the truck for the same reasons.

Sam, we already know yer plum cazy, you don't have to keep proving it.

This is a timely post! I have a hardwood treefarm, and do lots of thinning, lumber cutting, and road clearing all year long. I've bounced a sawblade on my leg 2-3 time, always as the saw was stopping, so I only ripped up some skin. I've been thinking about getting a pair of chaps, and today, after slipping and falling with a running saw, I came home to search for a pair on line. A big Stihl 066 could turn into a pretty formidable weapon if it got out of control.

I've seen "experienced" fallers nice and bloody. Actually, it wasn't real nice. Bloody.
The more creative you have to be, or think you can be, with a chain saw, the more ways that thing can attack you. Seriously.

Always wear your hardhat.
You guys are a trip. Who ever said they cut firewood and such. Is not experienced.
When your on a fuggin hill side drop 1000 feet oaks and doing it successfully. And doing so for 20 years then you're experienced. And who ever says a oak doesn't grow to 1000 feet... Is a fuggin idiot, and shouldn't be talkin to me about fuggin tampon chaps....

Iffin' I was fuggin you, I'd "hire" a few fuggin illegals to do the dirty work on the banks.

No fuggin tampon chaps or hardhats required.

Hello ADD, who is the cranky little [bleep] with the attitude...friend of yours?

I wish you would just carry around my saw gas.... You would be humbled for sure... We don't cut firewood and bean poles boy....

Wanker.

BOARD feet, you mean. In how many logs?

nYou guys want to talk like big tree cutters. " I'm going got get me some far wood, and wear me some chaps so I'sa don't cut cut my vagina....." Well the. Let's talk experience. You guys crack me up.. I wore chaps didn't like them... Threw em in the truck about 18 years ago and are probably still in it out in the field. So as I said.... If your not experienced, wear chaps. I was just replying to the sarcasm of my first post, about cuttin a million feet a year. I was just voicing my opinion about experience and proper saw handling and sharpening. Those two will put you in the hospital faster than any tree falling.

What the hell are you talking about? If I said 1000 ft oaks. I'm mean 1000 ft oaks.. There might be three logs in a tree might be four might be two....

These are the best chaps....

http://www.labonville.com/Full-Wrap-Chainsaw-Safety-Chaps-Parts-_c_80.html

Worked many years without chaps, always wear them now...

Myself and all my sawyer friends have too many scars.......

logdog, got you beat by 20 years.
I don't have a clue about "1000 feet oaks". If your talking about 1000 board feet in a tree, come to Idaho, we can beat that in 1 log...... and the boys in the PNW make us look silly....

I see you don't mean board feet.....
you mean 1000 feet of logs????

It's a 1000 brd ft.

1000 brd ft in a oak tree is not that big. But it's nice mature timber. Cut poplar trees on a river hill side that had 3000 brd ft in one of them.