Unless it is just me, but I doubt it, my shins take a beating when cutting and splitting firewood. Happens every year, a round rolls into them or a split flies off the stump and whacks them. I usually wear chaps while cutting which adds protection, but Monday, was not as I was just cutting a few rounds off a tree on a steep roadside embankment to top off the pickup load, and one rolled into me. Nothing serious, just added to my fire wooding shin scars.
Mine take a beating too. No current scabs but lots of scars. Ms. buZZsaw always comments as I wear sweat shorts all the time inside. There's a member here that wears shin guards when making firewood.
I posted this a while ago After I cut up my shins and finished splitting I thought of catchers shinguards, soccer shin guards etc. Had to have Velcro/elastic straps etc Too expensive searched eBay and found cheap $3.00 ones and what the heck ordered a couple of pairs. Laughed when I finally got em cause the looked like they would fit a 6 year old. Well I started splitting and after a couple of hits to the shins decided to see if they would when fit. Well they are small and thin but they work well and cover the area between knee and ankle pretty well. I can also slide my jeans over them
I remember your post and pic and although I salute your effort, I gotta say they look ridiculous! Have you considered buying a second pair and joining them to the “top” ones with something…? Heck, we know duct tape would work!
I always thought it was just me, I don't usually notice until after I'm done cause the nerves in my shins are mostly dead from years of kicking training. Good idea on the shin guards.
My shins are wood magnets. Especially when splitting. I use cheap soccer shin guards when wooding....usually.
Yep, my shins look like that in the summer when I do most of my cutting. When running a log splitter, you need to know how to dance from time to time to save the shins.
I did that. Then I started making sure I only wore boots with toe protection when doing firewood work. The boots didn't stop the falling wood, but prevent the blackened toenails that ended up falling off and eventually replaced by new nails. Shins can take a beating too. I usually just wear pants and chaps. But I could see days when soccer shin protection would help
Yup, wife is always asking me what I did to my shins...often I'm not even aware of anything until she mentions it, its just another "boo boo" to be ignored
I have always wore steel toe logger soul boots. The best part when a cut falls and rolls it seems to miss my toes and hits me right on the side of my foot
My shins are always dinged up, but I figured it was from splitting vertically. Splits break off and smack a shin.
Used to, but now it seems to be more my feet taking the brunt. Then I come inside and walking around barefoot (or in socks) I stub my toes. Little toe on each foot have unnatural looking bends.
My wife bought be shin guards a few years ago because she grew tired of blood stains on her sheets. I have a small and large pair. I am more comfortable in the small pair and they provide about 90% of the protection I require. The larger pair cover a portion of my feet which isn’t protected by steel toe boots. They are a must have when splitting big rounds in my opinion.
