Do Clothes Make The (Tractor) Man?
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RoyJackson
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Bib overalls (Carthart)...sometimes a shirt under them, sometimes not.
If I'm brush cutting or working in the woods, I'm wearing steel toed high top work boots. Sneakers or light weight work boots if I'm mowing the yard.
Head gear is normally a John Deere baseball cap or a Cabella Oil Cloth cap. I frequently have a bandanna on my head (adjusting the cap to fit) for sweat absorption.
If I'm brush cutting or working in the woods, I'm wearing steel toed high top work boots. Sneakers or light weight work boots if I'm mowing the yard.
Head gear is normally a John Deere baseball cap or a Cabella Oil Cloth cap. I frequently have a bandanna on my head (adjusting the cap to fit) for sweat absorption.
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Alan L.
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I go with a white T-shirt that is about 2 sizes to big. Cutoff bluejeans. This is the least stifling in our weather.
frank_f15
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for normal days a pair of jeans and a work shirt, and a baseball cap. on really hot days (like today) i switch to cut off jeans.
v8dave
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As Rat notes in another thread, we here in California don't get the humidity like the rest of the USA. And, after a few too many sun burns, even on hot days, I wear a long sleeve t-shirt and regular levis. Ball caps don't protect my neck well enough, so I always a wear a wide brim hat. That pith helmit you wear would be even better than the cowboy hat I'm wearing in my avitar (signature picture).
After jumping off the tractor onto rocks one-too-many times and twisting my ankles. I now wear work boots of some kind. I just got a pair of tan wellington work boots and like them a lot--quick to put on and take off with out fussing with boot laces and they still seem to protect my ankles just fine. In addition, this area is fairly arid and we get poisonous snakes basking in the heat, so the taller boots makes me feel safer. Don't know if it really is safer, but, I do feel better about it.
After jumping off the tractor onto rocks one-too-many times and twisting my ankles. I now wear work boots of some kind. I just got a pair of tan wellington work boots and like them a lot--quick to put on and take off with out fussing with boot laces and they still seem to protect my ankles just fine. In addition, this area is fairly arid and we get poisonous snakes basking in the heat, so the taller boots makes me feel safer. Don't know if it really is safer, but, I do feel better about it.
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Here we go.. tshirt.. some carharts and a bad had, rubber boots.
I was out breaking up maneuer clods that day.
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I was out breaking up maneuer clods that day.
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As Dave noted, sun protection is important.
Probably due to working construction when I was younger, I've had several pre-cancerous spots removed along with stern advice to avoid any more sunburn.
I wear my old long sleeve office shirts for sun protection. Likewise old Dockers (heavy cotton slacks). I like Dockers because they are lighter than Levis.
Because of so many headbangers in the orchard I wear a leather cowboy hat I got in a tourist shop in Tijuana. They told me it was buffalo hide. Whatever, it gives considerable bump protection. The brim keeps sun off my neck and serves like a cat's whiskers to warn me if I am backing slowly into a limb. Up on the hat is the best place to carry my dust mask, sitting up there like a hatband, ready to use if needed.
My neighbor (with the 75hp tractor) says that dust mask riding on the hat is the finishing touch to my elegant sense of tractor style. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I tried rubber boots once. Impossible to get on this little Yanmar without bumping a lever and it would be impossible to make an emergency eject without getting snarled up in something. The last straw was when I stepped down to the loader subframe as a lower step, slid off it, and grabbed a tire cleat and the loader pedestal to avoid going flat on the ground. Good thing the engine was off. I stick to hightop hiking boots.
Probably due to working construction when I was younger, I've had several pre-cancerous spots removed along with stern advice to avoid any more sunburn.
I wear my old long sleeve office shirts for sun protection. Likewise old Dockers (heavy cotton slacks). I like Dockers because they are lighter than Levis.
Because of so many headbangers in the orchard I wear a leather cowboy hat I got in a tourist shop in Tijuana. They told me it was buffalo hide. Whatever, it gives considerable bump protection. The brim keeps sun off my neck and serves like a cat's whiskers to warn me if I am backing slowly into a limb. Up on the hat is the best place to carry my dust mask, sitting up there like a hatband, ready to use if needed.
My neighbor (with the 75hp tractor) says that dust mask riding on the hat is the finishing touch to my elegant sense of tractor style. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I tried rubber boots once. Impossible to get on this little Yanmar without bumping a lever and it would be impossible to make an emergency eject without getting snarled up in something. The last straw was when I stepped down to the loader subframe as a lower step, slid off it, and grabbed a tire cleat and the loader pedestal to avoid going flat on the ground. Good thing the engine was off. I stick to hightop hiking boots.
Indydirtfarmer
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Usually a pair of (faded) bibs, a Carhardt pocket tee shirt, topped off with one of many Pioneer seed corn hats. Carolina 9" work boots.
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Mostly mowing this time of year and I wear jersey cotton shorts and a cotton tank tip. Never been one to wear a cap but since the hair is thinning I've been getting sores on the top of the noggin' and started wearing a ball cap. When it's cold, duck coveralls and hooded sweatshirt. I used to wear Big Smith bib overalls but they are pricey these days. Now I wear carpenter jeans from Sam's ($12.50)
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( wondered what other well dressed tractor men wear )</font>
I didn't respond earlier because no one's ever accused me to being a clothes horse. I've never had any interest in "fashion"; only comfort. Now that I'm retired, I almost never wear anything but Dickies short sleeved coveralls (used to call them jumpsuits) and sneakers (used to call them tennis shoes). /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif And I thought life would be simpler if they were all just alike; i.e., the same color, but my wife insists on the variety of different colors. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I didn't respond earlier because no one's ever accused me to being a clothes horse. I've never had any interest in "fashion"; only comfort. Now that I'm retired, I almost never wear anything but Dickies short sleeved coveralls (used to call them jumpsuits) and sneakers (used to call them tennis shoes). /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif And I thought life would be simpler if they were all just alike; i.e., the same color, but my wife insists on the variety of different colors. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif