Safety precautions while cutting?

99% percent of the time I am alone in the woods while cutting. These two items always go with me.

 

Good idea. Keep the Inreach where you can access it if your down so to speak. Upper Carhardt pocket perhaps. If you can't reach/run it, it's worthless. Old offroad motorcycle riding advice.

 

Why not describe what you have and why you take them! I can make some assumptions but I'd rather not!

 

I like to address as many of the "what ifs" as reasonably possible where safety is concerned. My cabin is 3-4 miles from the nearest neighbor and 25 miles from the nearest staffed medical facility. I also have no phone service.

The small trauma kit is for life threatening injuries that require immediate attention. It was designed primarily for police/military use. Pulling on the red strap dumps all the contents out at once, allowing for one handed deployment. Strapped to the side is a tourniquet.

The inreach is a satellite transponder with an SOS function as well as standard 2 way texting. It usually sits outside on the deck rail. I can then sit inside and control it with my phone via Bluetooth. Its a nice peace of mind thing for emergencies, but gets used mostly for sending texts home.

 

I carried a SPOT back in my LD motorcycle riding days. It was fun to set a tracking map for family to follow along.

 

Good stuff. Never heard of the inreach. I have a small belt bag that lives on my chaps belt that has a tourniquet and some quick clot "just in case". It made my wife feel better since 99.9% I cut alone.

 

Inreach was a DeLorme product (Freeport, ME). Garmin bought them out.

 

While I think what you carry is absolutely wise, I hope your safety plan starts with chaps, helmet, & steel toed boots. Thanks for posting the med kit, I do believe I'll grab one to carry.

 

I use all of the standard ppe you mentioned EXCEPT for the steel toe boots. Spent the last hour or so looking at options to upgrade my regular leather boots but didn't find anything that looked good. New steel toe boots are now at the top of my list.

 

I bought some chainsaw boots from England last year that are awesome. Coffra brand with steel toe and the entire boot is secured with velcro flaps. A little heavy but fine for chainsawing. They have kevlar or similar material inside for cut protection.