Ware your HARD HAT

[DieselPower]

After being hit in the head by a falling tree many years ago when cutting down dead trees I started wearing a hard hat. Of course, since I started wearing it I have never been hit again. But that's a good thing.

 

[wushaw]

I use the husky combination face shield ear muffs when cutting then switch to a regular hard hat when dragging the slash to a pile...after a few mesquite thorns upside the head your attitude on wearing head gear changes quickly.

 

[williekioti]

Back when I used to climb trees for a living I always wore my hard hat with ears and face shield, or climbing helmet in the tree, safety glasses, chainsaw chaps when on terra firma, chainsaw boots and gloves on the jobsite. Then I'd think nothing of cutting firewood on my own time in my shorts, hiking boots, tank top and sunglasses. Till the wife came out one day during my homestead firewood operation asking why didn't I wear the same protection cutting trees at home that I did at work? DUH! Needless to say the SOPs at home changed. Sometimes we take things for granted in our "leisure" time.

I've had enough close calls over the years with widow makers or small limbs dropping from the heavens not wear a dome cover in the woods. A small, dead 1" limb seems harmless enough until it falls 80' and lands end down. Can you say javelin?

 

[Charlesaf3]

I always wear the husqy hard hat with shield and ear muffs in the woods - I get hit in the face by branches often enough to appreciate the protection even when the branch isn't falling on my head.

And I never start the saw without wearing the chaps. Minor pain, but they've already stopped a thrown chain - much better than a big pain.

 

[_RaT_]

You are correct...Wear.

I do have some dyslexia when transposing numbers and some letters. I rely on spell check to correct the letters. Must not have worked this time. I always have to check the sequence of numbers (phone# for example) several times to make sure they are in the proper order. Even with this I still made the deans list several times in college.

I fully understand. My wife corrects me left and right. I always use then rather then than (see). I know I'm wrong, but I to am dyslexic either that or I can fall back on my new found excuse - "I was abused as a child"

 

[Egon]

Having a bald pate has certain atvantages aside from a perfect head. For summer sun and winter cold protection some sort of head wear is always needed.

Hard hats or a petzel climbing helmet are my choice when on the tractor. I like the petzel as it straps on.

When using the chain saw it's always a hardhat with visor and muffs, proper boots and pants.

Unfortunetly I have small hands and wearing gloves makes it difficult to properly grip the saw.