Contacts?

[Blakesmaster]

Anybody where them? I tried a decade or so ago, ripped my first pair and went back to glasses. Lost my glasses on a crane job last year ( annoying, and cost $500 bucks to replace ) , then today, in the rain, kept having them fog up and get covered with sweat and rain drops. Ended up throwing them down to Eric and working without the rest of the job. Considering contacts as an alternative. For the most part I'd wear safety shades as well but for days like today or the unfortunate incident that they fall off it'd be nice not to have my scrips on. Anybody experience abnormal irritation from the obvious amount of dust, sweat, weather and whatnot while wearing contacts on the job?

 

[TreEmergencyB]

couple guys i know wear them, really bad when you get something in your eye, dust/chip. Impossible to find on the job site if you lose em. I been tossing the idea around of changing over myself, the fog is a pain for sure, my biggest problem with my 'scripts' is the lack of protection from debri entry.

 

[Mike Cantolina]

I've been wearing contacts during work for at least 10 years. Today I had safety glasses on (as usual) but they kept fogging up so I took them off. I felt naked without them but I could see.

I rarely have trouble with the contacts but I do almost always wear safety glasses.

 

[Blakesmaster]

I've been wearing contacts during work for at least 10 years. Today I had safety glasses on (as usual) but they kept fogging up so I took them off. I felt naked without them but I could see.

I rarely have trouble with the contacts but I do almost always wear safety glasses.

Good to know, Mike. Thanks.

 

[no tree to big]

I've been wearing contacts for like 8 years now the only time they ever bother me is when we are chipping dead wood in mass quantities and it forms a cloud of dust that engulfs the chipper, chainsaw chips/dust give me no problems unless its blowing right in my eyes. I actually find that the contacts help protect my eyes from debris if something shoots into your eye and hits the contact it seems to bounce right off and other times it settles in the bottom of your eye and is easily rubbed out I have only once had something get under the contact itself

just keep an extra pair on the truck and eye drops to rehydrate your eyes if they dry out. well worth it in my oppinion

 

[Toddppm]

Wonder if they would have helped when I had some carb cleaner ricochet out of a clogged jet I was cleaning yesterday? That sucked.
I only tried contacts once many years ago too, couldn't get used to the feeling. There might be something in safety glasses similar to these Pro-Vue Prescription Goggle Lens System, MotoCross, ATV, Snowmobile, Ski, Snap Lens ? or maybe try emailing the guy and see if he can make some?

 

[no tree to big]

Wonder if they would have helped when I had some carb cleaner ricochet out of a clogged jet I was cleaning yesterday? That sucked.
I only tried contacts once many years ago too, couldn't get used to the feeling. There might be something in safety glasses similar to these Pro-Vue Prescription Goggle Lens System, MotoCross, ATV, Snowmobile, Ski, Snap Lens ? or maybe try emailing the guy and see if he can make some?

ummmm dont think that contacts would help that...and remember contacts are a rubbery plastic substance or what ever they are... and are susceptible to being dissolved by heavy solvents back in wood shop we were not allowed to wear them when we were spraying lacquer when we were finishing projects(stuff will melt a contact to your eye supposidly) so if you get splashed in the eye by gas, carb cleaner, or something similar I would immediatly remove them then flush your eye out.

 

[Toddppm]

Oh I'm sure they would have melted but at least it wouldn't have burned the #### out of my eyes right away

 

[deevo]

Anybody where them? I tried a decade or so ago, ripped my first pair and went back to glasses. Lost my glasses on a crane job last year ( annoying, and cost $500 bucks to replace ) , then today, in the rain, kept having them fog up and get covered with sweat and rain drops. Ended up throwing them down to Eric and working without the rest of the job. Considering contacts as an alternative. For the most part I'd wear safety shades as well but for days like today or the unfortunate incident that they fall off it'd be nice not to have my scrips on. Anybody experience abnormal irritation from the obvious amount of dust, sweat, weather and whatnot while wearing contacts on the job?

I got las:msp_smile:er eye surgery 10 yrs ago, best thing ever, but I hear ya on the glasses fogging up and rain etc...

 

[brookpederson]

I buy prescription safety glasses. I get the ones with the little replaceable sweat bands. You can get them polarized w/ scratch proofing for about 150.00- 180.00. and if yur self employed like me, you can write them off on your taxes as safety equip. They also work well for fishing, snowboard goggles and motorcycle shades.

 

[derwoodii]

Worn them for almost 30 years of tree work & could only count on one hand the fews days they gave trouble. Last 10 years the newer disposable are even better cheap easy no cleaning fuss can get two weeks plus for a set.
Swim surf shoot & saw dust nay issue the only care concern is fuel or oil on my fingers or spraying say WD40 in ya eyes, oops it destroys them fast.
Saved an eye once when a stray wire splinter lodged in the lens and so not in the eye.
Ah thats right, when ya helmet face shield pops up at 100mph they can peel away in the breeze
Lazer be good but nay just yet wait a bit longer as my condition is not stable.

 

[arbor pro]

what's up Chris!

Funny you should bring up this topic, Chris... just lost my glasses last friday on a tree job. had a rogue branch snag my forestry helmet and prescription glasses and pull them off my head. Looked for a long, long time and no sign of my glasses. $400 replacements still on order so wearing old contacts. I dont' mind contacts for tree work except mine don't correct for my astigmatism properly so I get headaches if I wear them over a few hours at a time. They do create problems if you get debris in your eyes and can tend to dry out but they sure are nice on hot humid days when the sweat and fog would otherwise be covering eye glasses and making it about impossible to see out of them.

If I could go back a decade, I would also opt for eye surgery. My brother did and is very happy with the results. I'm now 41 and the eye doctor recommended against it saying that it's really better suited for someone in their 20s or early 30s but not for us 'old timers' I guess...

scott
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[Blakesmaster]

I really should look into laser eye surgery again. The money I've spent on specs in the last 15 years would easily cover the surgery. And it appears I should do it soon before I become an old timer like you, Scott. :msp_biggrin: Something to think about at least. Thanks for the replies, guys!

 

[deevo]

I really should look into laser eye surgery again. The money I've spent on specs in the last 15 years would easily cover the surgery. And it appears I should do it soon before I become an old timer like you, Scott. :msp_biggrin: Something to think about at least. Thanks for the replies, guys!

Go for it! Recovery time is very short!

 

[gorman]

I've been wearing contacts and climbing for the last 10 years and rarely have a problem. I have been however, saving up for laser surgery. You gotta get the best of the best to do it. No jerking around with my sense of sight, and it runs around 25 hundred. Winter is the best time to get it for us guys because once you get the surgery, you can't get anything under any reason, stickin in your eye. No dust, no chips, no deadwood. And you have to put special eyedrops in your eyes every 15 minutes or so.

 

[corsair4360]

Contacts

Be glad you can wear glasses and or consider laser surgery. I have to wear contacts, no alternatives and the doc's will not consider laser surgery for my condition. I have used chainsaws for years without many problems, I use safety glasses and a Stihl screen faced helmet visor to keep dust and chips out. It is a pain to have to have both safety glasses and a screen, but that is a small price to see clearly. Luckily, I have 20/20 vision with contacts (the small plastic hard ones).

I recall very well fogging of my glasses many years ago, and it was not fun, nor all the gunk that collects on the lenses.