Chaps

[Eagle1]

Just a quick survey: ?What are everyones opinions on wearing chaps when climbing??

 

[Grace Tree]

I never would wear chaps when climbing. Seems like they'd get hung up on everything. If I felt protection was needed I'd wear the full pants. 'Not saying that protection isn't needed. I just don't feel spending the $$ and wearing something that to me, looks hot and uncomfortable.
Phil

 

[Mike Barcaskey]

nope, and never wear them in the summer

 

[Jumper]

Pants, especially the newer lightweight styles are the way to go, most chaps are heavy, bulky and would get hung up aloft. Only good thing about them is that you can don/doff them as necessary. Maybe they have a use in commercial logging, but I never have seen an arborist or groundsman wear them around here.

 

[clearance]

I have to wear leg protection at my job as it is for a logging company, I wear fallers pants (summer, light ones), I can clip my radio and whistle to the suspenders. I prefer to climb in jeans though. If you get cut climbing it will most likely be in the hands, face or upper body.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I have to wear leg protection at my job as it is for a logging company, I wear fallers pants (summer, light ones), I can clip my radio and whistle to the suspenders. I prefer to climb in jeans though. If you get cut climbing it will most likely be in the hands, face or upper body.

Depends on what you are working on, I've known a number of climbers with close calls to the leg from kickback while onehanding on a limbwalk.

I wear sawpants from time to time if taking a large saw in a tree. LaBoniville will custom make class A's (or did) wich are not all that hot. At least compared to class C. My thinking is that most in tree injuries are grazing contact with smaller saws, where on the ground you need to protect against the weight of the saw too.

At one trade show, one of the bigger northwoods sawshop reps told me that a common saw contact for fellers is setting a saw on the thigh while it is still running down

 

[Bermie]

Chaps would get stuck on everything what with all those buckles. I climb in arborwear trousers, If I feel the need for protection I wear Stihl hiflex trousers (all around protection very flexible)
Here in Bermuda everthing is optional,(and it's hot) so it depends on my risk assessment what I decide to wear.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Here in Bermuda everthing is optional,(and it's hot) so it depends on my risk assessment what I decide to wear.

Shorts jacket and tie ?

 

[beowulf343]

I have never worn chaps when climbing. It seems like they would be too bulky and would get caught on everything. However, if I am running a saw on the ground, I'll always make sure I wear chaps.

On a similar note, I nicked my leg a few months back while in a tree and have considered buying some saw pants to wear. However, does anyone know if they make them with at least a 38" inseam?

 

[Bermie]

Shorts jacket and tie ?

Ha ha!
Well being as I'm a girlie, I could go for a miniskirt but my groundie might faint!
Hey, high heels might work instead of spikes though:biggrinbounce2:

 

[DDM]

Chaps? Good grief dont we have to haul enough crap up a tree. I was heading up a water oak just yesterday thinking WoW this would be alot more enjoyable if i didnt need to haul all this gear up.

 

[Treeman14]

Ha ha!
Well being as I'm a girlie, I could go for a miniskirt but my groundie might faint!

It would actually be safer, since he'd probably spend a lot more time looking up!

 

[Treeman14]

I've got 2 or 3 pairs of chaps.





Hanging in the shed, brand new, never used. Of course they look used. They laid in the toolbox of the truck for the first few months after I bought them.

 

[Mike Barcaskey]

treeman, if you ever had snow down thar, you'd wear them.
If there's snow I always wear them. just too hot in the summer

 

[jmack]

Just a quick survey: ?What are everyones opinions on wearing chaps when climbing??

not in the tree but if its raining, sometimes

 

[Bermie]

I've got a pair of chaps, one chap helps me on the ground, the other chap is my brother

 

[xtremetrees]

Chaps can really save your knees on leaners over the house. When you have to man off chuncks chaps will help

 

[inztrees]

i have climbed w/ chaps and the big clip on the wast band digs in under my saddle plus they do get hung on every thing the only good thing is when you do-not have to put them on when you dump a butt