Does anyone know what the cheapest chainsaw chaps available are ?

[HorseFaller]

The cheapest and most effective chaps are the ones in your brain in my opinion. Keep that brain up to date on exactly what is going on and it will pay in dividends. .

Chaps are good, but one should never ever rely on them to keep one safe from injury and mistakes. .

Agreed chaps don't stop injury completely, but they are meant to lessen the likely hood of SERIOUS injury. Taking nothing for granted ever. Another faller down the road from me took a pretty serious blow back in Sept. while cutting on a Saturday with his son. He reached over to buck a top, coming up from the bottom, just barely caught the tip of the bar. It kicked back catching his arm that he used to block the saw from catching him in the throat. Cut all the way to the bone and even cracked the bone. This cutter has been in the woods for all his life and cutting for over twenty. He is the best around for a production faller. It only takes a split second.

 

[Cedarkerf]

This is also what I use but without the pants mod. Just cut a slit in the top of the inserts and hook it over your suspender button and they hang nicely. I am going to try the jeans from Madsen's this summer though.

Definately get the pants and wear em right. Dangeling they can easily end up out of position from brush or catch on something kinda defeats the whole pupose of the design.

 

[HorseFaller]

Definately get the pants and wear em right. Dangeling they can easily end up out of position from brush or catch on something kinda defeats the whole pupose of the design.

I guess I should say they hang inside my jeans. Have not had a problem since I started using these this way. Nor has any other faller in the area. They wrap your leg pretty well, inside your pants.

 

[Cedarkerf]

Sounded like you just hung em down the front

 

[HorseFaller]

Sounded like you just hung em down the front

Relized that when I read your post. No big. They do bunch a little at times, but laying them out flat at home helps. I will be trying the jeans from Madsen's that have snaps and sleaves for the inserts.

 

[Sagetown]

Relized that when I read your post. No big. They do bunch a little at times, but laying them out flat at home helps. I will be trying the jeans from Madsen's that have snaps and sleaves for the inserts.

Nah! I was onto it. Inventive, but cheap non-the-less.

 

[cpr]

Don't skimp. I love the Duke, too, but Marion Morrison was an actor.

I wear the 10-layer Husqvarna chaps. Forget what I paid and don't care, because it was cheaper than this...

I've posted this pic a time or 2, but let me reset the scene. Blocking firewood with my 288. Tossed it's chain. Sproket nose and not a new chain so I wasn't running loose. No warning, no pinch nothing. I felt a tap on the leg, felt the saw quit cutting, and heard the revs spike. I shut off the saw when I saw the chain hanging. I turned around and made for the table. I reset the chain, inspected it, filed it, tightened it up and locked it in to go cutting. When I stood up (some 15 minutes had now elapsed), I saw the damage and had to sit back down. That "tap" I felt was a sharp Carlton round-filed chisel tooth going through the cordura and the first 4 layers of protection. Had it just been jeans, I'd have spent the last 15 minutes writhing in agony, trying to tie off I don't know what to my leg, and crawling towards the garage, I imagine, where I would have hoped to find one means of transport to the hospital or other to be stitched up.

I'm a firewood hack, but I'm one without a hitch in my giddyup.

 

[hammerlogging]

Had it just been jeans, I'd have spent the last 15 minutes writhing in agony, trying to tie off I don't know what to my leg, and crawling towards the garage, I imagine, where I would have hoped to find one means of transport to the hospital or other to be stitched up.

I'm a firewood hack, but I'm one without a hitch in my giddyup.

This may be a bit over dramatized. mabe I'll call it axmen'd.

You just threw your chain.

 

[promac850]

This may be a bit over dramatized. mabe I'll call it axmen'd.

You just threw your chain.

I have an idea. You should go take your saw with a razor sharp chain and get it to throw said chain into your leg above the knee in about the same place as his chaps got hit... Let us know how that turns out, *******. It'll tear the hell out of your leg, and you will bleed, a lot.


I haven't encountered a chain being thrown, yet. Last thing I need is a chain fitted to a real long bar to throw and end up slicing my upper leg. Him mentioning this post changed my view on chaps and when someone should get a pair. If a thrown chain can tear through four layers of kevlar, it'll tear well into your leg.


I will agree that it's hard (nearly impossible) to tell that there are four layers of kevlar that have been sliced in that picture, but from meeting CPR in person to pick up a saw, I can tell you he would not lie or overly dramatize stuff. At least not anywhere near current ax men levels anyhow.

 

[teatersroad]

even so, I've been buckin firewood without chaps lately

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[k5alive]

if you want to skimp on chaps layer up on jeans........................... but seariously, NEVER SKIMP ON SAFETY.

 

[hammerlogging]

the difference between what a running chain does to chaps and what throwing a chain does is so huge that one of them isn't even worth mentioning.

 

[cpr]

Easy gang, no harm no foul.

I wouldn't work on TV, I have a face for radio only.

 

[bitzer]

I've thrown chains countless numbers of times on bars from 16-36" and I've never had them even pentrate my jeans. ####, yesterday was just one of those days. I threw the chain 4 times on different bucks. The super cold weather had my parts moving a little slowly I guess.

Like Hammer said, a chain running on a saw and being thrown aren't even in the same ball park. My guess is CPR nicked his leg with the chain on the saw somewhere in the process and didn't even realize it. It happens.

 

[mile9socounty]

This may be a bit over dramatized. mabe I'll call it axmen'd.

You just threw your chain.

Yep.

I have an idea. You should go take your saw with a razor sharp chain and get it to throw said chain into your leg above the knee in about the same place as his chaps got hit... Let us know how that turns out, *******. It'll tear the hell out of your leg, and you will bleed, a lot.


I haven't encountered a chain being thrown, yet. Last thing I need is a chain fitted to a real long bar to throw and end up slicing my upper leg. Him mentioning this post changed my view on chaps and when someone should get a pair. If a thrown chain can tear through four layers of kevlar, it'll tear well into your leg.


I will agree that it's hard (nearly impossible) to tell that there are four layers of kevlar that have been sliced in that picture, but from meeting CPR in person to pick up a saw, I can tell you he would not lie or overly dramatize stuff. At least not anywhere near current ax men levels anyhow.

Over the 7 years Ive been working for my company, Ive thrown a lot of chains. Hell Ive most likely broke as many chains as Ive thrown. Whether it be residentual cutting, forest service cutting/thinning, thinning, brush cutting or PCT. Ive thrown chains. The company requires us to wear chaps, company policy. Which I totally agree with. Ive cut chaps, kick back into my hard hat, hell even a pair of boots. But not once have I thrown my chain and pulled kevlar threads out chaps. The cordura was torn or cut. Ive put more holes in the outer layer sharpening a saw on my lap than throwning a chain.

The worst chap cut I have seen was almost 2 years ago. The kid had been working with us for about 6 months. I was the foreman of the crew and had been showing him the in's and out's of our cutting specs. He was doing okay, just needed to learn a little "finesse" and pay attention to the tip of his bar. Handed him my saw, pointed out his line and I went to check on my other cutters. No more than 10 minutes later here he comes walking out of the brush. Saw hanging from his leg, stepped right into it. 10-ply chaps were toasted. There was 8 layers of kevlar hung up in the sprocket, chain and bar.

 

[hammerlogging]

Let us know how that turns out, *******. .

Must have meant badass. I'm way more of a badass than a *******.

 

[Gkiesel]

If you've got a $10 head, buy a $10 helmet. I got the Baily's green chaps for $56 bucks i think. Not bad, just not as thick as the better ones. G

 

[promac850]

Must have meant badass. I'm way more of a badass than a *******.

Nope... I meant *******...


Sure, throwing a chain can be uneventful... but there is that 1% that causes severe problems... never discount that 1%


Unfortunately, I doubt we all follow that rule 100%...

 

[teatersroad]

Nope... I meant *******...


Sure, throwing a chain can be uneventful... but there is that 1% that causes severe problems... never discount that 1%


Unfortunately, I doubt we all follow that rule 100%...

I think I'd be more likely to get injured calling someone a ******* than by a thrown chain. Even if it was only by 1% of the people I called a *******.

 

[axeman73]

Watch forester brand I got an aluminum forester hardhat as a gift purchased from a logging supply co the hat is suposed to be safe ansi approved but I stumbled into the skull bucket web site with a warning about knock offs with names being ground off well I lifted the sticker and found grind marks that being said safety is not something to play with go with a good brand I have stihl skidder chaps they are like bibs they dont get caught up in brush but are hot in warm weather and I paid less them a hundred for them