During the colder part of the year many of you continue to cut wood. If you are wearing a helmet, what are you wearing for warmth? A helmet alone is cold. What have you found that keeps your head warm as well as being safe? I do most of my cutting spring, summer and fall but don't do much in the winter.
I don't wear anything under my helmet. I find that having a helmet keeps my head warm enough since I'm getting plenty hot by working with wood. That said, I don't usually cut for a long period of time. The most I've ever cut continuously is under an hour. Typically I'm bucking to length, then moving rounds into the truck, then cutting some more....... You could get one of those super thin polyester skiing hats and wear it under the helmet. My head is so big that I can barely fit into the Pfanner Protos helmet and I also have to leave the locking mechanism open or else I'll cut off blood to my brain. And if I had to choose I'd choose safe over warm. Something like this perhaps $11.95:
I wear a hard hat for work, usually have a hood up or a stocking cap on underneath although it’s a no no with the safety nazis. They recently handed out thin fleece balaclavas that they say are acceptable. I haven’t tried it out yet.
I would guess that if you are not felling, the risk of getting one in the head is lessened quite a bit?
Depends. If you are blocking up a tree you just dropped and aren’t in an open field you still run the risk of widow-makers. Bumping a tree while hauling out wood and shaking loose a widow-maker has killed more than one logger. Mine goes on and stays on until I leave the trees behind.
They make hard hat liners, they are not all made the same some work better than others. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Hard-Hat-Winter-Liner-Regular-Fleece-Lining/189390172?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=1313&adid=22222222223000000000&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=e&wl1=o&wl2=m&wl3=10352200394&wl4=pla-1103028060075&wl5=&wl6=&wl7=&wl10=Walmart&wl11=Online&wl12=189390172_10000001356&wl14=hard%20hat%20liners%20for%20winter&veh=sem&msclkid=fbbc2297f0311ab6543743395bd436d0&gclid=fbbc2297f0311ab6543743395bd436d0&gclsrc=3p.ds
I wear a hard hat over a beanie. Hard hat has adjustable fitting so I open it to pumpkin head setting.
I wear a beanie underneath my Husqvarna helmet. I can also wear a balaclava or my hood green my hooded sweatshirts. Otherwise, yeah it can get chilly cutting in winter.
Most of the time I don't but I'm not climbing or anything but I do keep the faceshield down. It has a pretty neat magnetic clip but it's a little tough when you have to max out the strap length with a watermelon head like me.
Usually just the helmet is enough. If it is pretty cold the Under Armour cold weather balaclava works really well. Thin and warm.
I've got a small kinda pointy head lol. My muffs down & helmet are good down to about 20F, after that a stocking cap will do down to about 0. We don't often get temps colder than that. 20-25F & sunshine is optimal wood cutting temps.
I have a LARGE size white plastic MSA V Guard hardhat with Peltor ear muffs that lives with a Northern Outfitters , Arctic hard hat liner . It takes velcro on fleece face masks also by Northern Outfitters. I need to get another clip on face screen. That hard hat is for Cold weather. For milder conditions . A light fleece touque and Peltor ear muffs on a red MSA V Guard hard hat. Same hat I wear when running my sawmill. I've froze the N.O . Liner to my hair when working in 45 below and colder. So I try not to work hard in those temps any more.
I just got one & I’m having a heck of a time trying to get it adjusted so it’s comfortable. I kind of gave up on the chin strap it keeps getting tangled on both front and back of the earmuffs. It certainly looks like a quality product but man I just can’t get it to feel right on my pinhead.
I just usually pull my sweatshirt hood up under my helmet if it is really cold even with my big head the helmet adjusts out enough the earmuffs hold well even with the hood JB
Adjusting the straps is a little tedious but they do fish a certain way. There's two slits in the rear it has to fit through if not they will get in the way and flop down. They don't get in the way while I'm wearing it at all but like I said I had to max it out. Are you saying you have a small head?
No not small. I have a longer narrow head. I guess I’ll have to study the Protos some more. I was getting frustrated with it initially. I will see if I can locate the slits in the rear you mentioned. Thanks!
