If you take the Kevlar pads out, the pants can be shorten. At least the jeans can be. I think I shorten Campinspecter's raingear fallers pants as well.
Like Basod and his chaps, I always wear safety glasses. But better eye protection is the next thing on my safety list. When I bought my last pair of prescription glasses I decided I wanted a pair of glasses that served several functions. Sun glasses, prescription, and safety glasses. A job site I was working on for several months required me to wear safety glasses. So I bought a wrap around safety rated frame and lenses and got them to put transition type lenses in so they would go dark in the sun, and of course the lenses are prescription for my slight near-sightedness. But frankly they just don't give me enough protection, I still get sawdust in my eyes when I'm cutting and I find it very irritating because of a small pterygium I have in one of my eye. So my next piece of safety equipment will be a face shield, and probably a helmet to go along with it. I only cut about 3 cords of dry lodgepole pine a year on average and often burn it that winter. However one of the down sides of cutting these very dry Lodgepole pine trees is it produces a lot of fine dust compared to green living trees. Though I think most of the fine stuff comes from the surface bark. A lot of guys here seem to be getting their chap as gifts from their wife or girlfriend,,,, I'm not holding my breath waiting for my wife to buy me a pair,,,,,,,,, although she did suggest I up my premiums on my life insurance policy.
Glad you got em,......now wear em'.......... contrary to most thinking, we aren't 10 feet tall and bullet proof......
I have very little experience with a chainsaw. After running one a few times I googled chainsaw injuries and bought some the same night. I haven't used the saw without them. I'm bad about eye and ear protection though. Anyone use those chainsaw gloves? I was really thinking about those.
Around 25+ years ago, shortly after I was married, I was cutting in a remote woodlot, by myself, in the winter. I stepped on a log I couldn't see under the snow with my saw running, (my old saw at the time didn't even have a chain brake) and my leg slid along the log causing me to fall. The saw chain was just slowing down from the last cut and landed across my thigh. It cut through the double faced front of my Carhart pants, through my long underwear, and stopped after making only a small scratch in my leg. I bought a new saw (Husky 51) and a pair of chaps. I've replaced both the saw and the chaps over the years but I still wear chaps or more recently, the chainsaw pants I bought, whenever I'm cutting. I wear a helmet as well, with prescription safety glasses under the mesh screen. I wear steel toed boots unless it's winter and there is snow on the ground and then I wear a pair of Husky rubber chainsaw boots. I've had various surgeries over the years and I find it takes longer and longer for me to heal the more I age. I want to be around to see my daughter grow up. PPE is mandatory for me.
Here is the brand of fallers pants Campinspecter is wearing. This is the manufacturer but they list retailers they supply. Can-Swe Distributors Inc. - Canada's leader in quality outdoor work protective apparel.
Now if you are looking for the real deal, these are the most authentic and stylish "chicken pants" out there.
I already said that I use chaps in this thread but the question about carrying over to hearing protection is insulting to me. I have been using hearing protection for over 45 years in all kinds of noisy environments and running a chain saw certainly fits that description. At 68 years old my ears are not as good as they once were but I am not even close to a hearing aid candidate because I have been very cautious about my hearing. Chain saws, chop saws, nail guns, motorcycles and several other tools will result in me using my -32db hearing protection. I bought a sample pack a few years back to find out which fit me best and now own a lifetime supply of those that did fit me best. I got about 100 pairs for around $15 and since I only use 3 or 4 new pairs each year I doubt I will ever need any more. What I have will carry me to at least age 90. Meanwhile 2 of the guys I used to work with have died of "old age" in the last 10 days. One succumbed to cancer and I have not heard what killed the other guy the day before.
I'm sure you'll get over it. lol It's good to hear (pun intended) that you have taken care of your hearing and continue to do so. I brought up hearing protection because it is really just as important as, if not more important than, the physical protection chaps offer. When you think about it, we'll wear a hard hat because something might fall on our heads, and we'll wear eye protection because we might get something in our eyes, and we'll wear chaps because we might cut our legs with the saw, but we wear ear protection because we will damage our hearing when running a saw or operating other noisy equipment. There is no might or maybe about it. And yet, I have observed that ear protection is the least utilized PPE. I say that with the experience and observation point of working in construction most of my life and working in the safety field as a safety officer and first aid medic. And knowing several long time work mates that now in their early 60s require hearing aids just to carry on normal conversations or watch tv at normal volume levels. We don't bleed when we damage our ears from noisy equipment, and often we won't even feel pain, so it's very insidious in the way it harms us and well worth bringing up as a reminder, even if there's a possibility a few people might be hurt or insulted by doing so.
That was one close call there DM. I nicked a brand new pair of Filson "Tin cloth" chaps that I had on for the briars about 10 years ago, and that has been going through my mind lately, along with posts here and ther about chaps. I might look around for a full legged, strap and buckle less style before I wear the "regular" chaps I got the other day so I can bring them back. It might cost a little more, but I think I would be more likely to wear them. PPE sittin on the tractor doesn't do much PP'in 10-4 on the skin growin back and healing a little slower as you age.
I wear chaps, helmet with face shield and ear muffs and, because I've already lost most of me hearing and can't afford to loose any more, ear plugs under the ear muffs. Also a cut resistant left glove. With all that protection I'll probably get hit by a bus!
