Does anyone know what the cheapest chainsaw chaps available are ?

[hammerlogging]

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%...

Get ####in real man. I can't even think of an example of what really that bad could happen from a thrown chain. It is so vastly different from cut from a running chain that I'm going to have to ask you to step aside on this one.

Heres another heart, feel the love.

 

[Gologit]

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.

The reason you haven't thrown a chain yet is because you haven't run saw long enough. You also haven't been on the saw enough to be running your mouth about what other people do.

Hammerlogging runs saws for a living and probably cuts more wood in a week than you have in your extremely short life.

When you call him a ******* and then expose your own complete lack of experience your credibility drops somewhere down around that of HBRN.

 

[Slamm]

I have thrown a lot of chains over the years ........ I was unaware that it was a safety issue more than just a pain in the butt ............ timewise, LOL. Chaps or no chaps, I can't think of one time, I've sustained damage due to a thrown chain, possibly one has stuck me, but never a cut of any noteworthy length or depth, certainly it wasn't more than what would be sustained while walking through blackberries or thorny vines.

Chaps are good, good chaps are better. I've always said the cheapest chaps I have ever used where some Husky Blue chaps. They saved me twice from a 660 28" bar on the left thigh twice. Never even cut the jeans, but it took 15 minutes to clean the fibers out of the clutch and sprocket and chain, this was time well spent in contemplation. It would have been better spent the first time I hit my leg, LOL.

A hundred dollar pair of chaps will save you $400 in jeans, is another reason I wear them when logging, LOL.

Sam

 

[mdavlee]

I've thrown a few chains and never had one go through my jeans. Did have one get tangled in my jeans behind my knee. This was a 460 with a 32" bar on it. I did get a 4" cut on my leg from dragging the saw with it not running across my leg. I was trimming branches on the edge of a 50 ft cliff sitting I'm glad the chain brake wasn't on as it probably would have buried up in my leg. I finished trimming the trees so we could look off the deck and went inside to check the damage. I htink I might have been married a week or two at the time and my wife about freaked out. I hadn't paid the cut any attention since I done it and the jeans had a good sized hole and a little blood was there.

 

[cpr]

Cool it Kyle, you're going to get trimmmed...

I didn't post my anecdote of a thrown chain to start a fight. The OP asked a question, so I responded. That full throttle chain toss went through 4 layers of the chaps, period. Maybe it hasn't to others on their experience with it, but it did for me. People read this and I've been around the skilled trades long enough to understand the tough guy bluster, but it can happen to you. Let's just leave it at that.

What're we drinkin' tonight?

 

[hammerlogging]

No doubt it did this to your chaps, its like the little holes in my left thigh of my jeans I can get when I throw a chain- I wear inserts so it gets my pants first. thats just a little hole. A saw cut is a veritable explosion of the chap. thats why that dude needs to just can it. You are correct in your contributions, the other guy, um, not cool.

Gologit, thanks.

 

[bitzer]

No doubt it did this to your chaps, its like the little holes in my left thigh of my jeans I can get when I throw a chain- I wear inserts so it gets my pants first. thats just a little hole. A saw cut is a veritable explosion of the chap. thats why that dude needs to just can it. You are correct in your contributions, the other guy, um, not cool.

Gologit, thanks.

The ####ty thing about those little holes in the jeans is that the perfectly placed snag will let your whole damn knee get sunshine for the the rest of the day. Once the holes are opened it never takes much.

 

[Rounder]

The ####ty thing about those little holes in the jeans is that the perfectly placed snag will let your whole damn knee get sunshine for the the rest of the day. Once the holes are opened it never takes much.

That is the one downside to the inserts......so I bought a sewing machine. I've become domesticated. Thank God my wife can actually operate it. I'm barely fit to dress my self.

 

[dancan]

I don't wear chaps , I wear pants .
I find them more comfortable and don't get snagged up like chaps .
Winter Protective Pants - Chainsaw Protective Garments | STIHL
I've thrown plenty of chains , the last one was a 28" off my 660 right in the family jewels :censored: !
When I looked down at the non protected area there was no vasectomy cut so back to work I went .

 

[mingo]

I like the inserts buy a lot of iron on patches which also work on chaps.

 

[Sagetown]

I like the inserts buy a lot of iron on patches which also work on chaps.

Repped

 

[Samlock]

I don't wear chaps , I wear pants .
I find them more comfortable and don't get snagged up like chaps .
Winter Protective Pants - Chainsaw Protective Garments | STIHL
I've thrown plenty of chains , the last one was a 28" off my 660 right in the family jewels :censored: !
When I looked down at the non protected area there was no vasectomy cut so back to work I went .

Last summer a chainsaw dealer bribed me with a pair of pants - Windsor pants, made in the OR, USA. I think the price was 100€ - 140$. The cheapest on the market, which is a bit surprising. I've only worn them for a week - a test trial. I found them considerably hotter than the expensive stretch-pants, and the quality may not be the best possible. But for the price, they're OK. And they'll give protection for the gems as well.

A poor picture:

 

[dancan]

All of my chainsaw pants protection are full wrap but stop at mid thigh , yours go higher than that ?

 

[coastalfaller]

These are what most guys wear up here. Yes, they look dorky in the pics, but get the next size up and they break in nicely!Great pants. Great protection.

Can-Swe Distributors Inc. - Canada's leader in quality outdoor work protective apparel.

And on the chain throwing debate.....I'm with Hammer.

 

[Samlock]

All of my chainsaw pants protection are full wrap but stop at mid thigh , yours go higher than that ?

They're not full wrap but the insulation goes up to the crotch. Maybe it's an European standard. Well, if it was, I think it tells a lot about the preferences of us lazy Europeans - less work, more fun.

 

[2dogs]

I like the inserts buy a lot of iron on patches which also work on chaps.

Bad advice. Chaps should never be repaired in any way beyond what the manufacturer specifies. This usually means tears up to 1" long can be sewn or glued closed. Patches interfere with sole safety feature of the saw chain pulling out the fibers and glogging the sprocket.

 

[HorseFaller]

Bad advice. Chaps should never be repaired in any way beyond what the manufacturer specifies. This usually means tears up to 1" long can be sewn or glued closed. Patches interfere with sole safety feature of the saw chain pulling out the fibers and glogging the sprocket.

I think he/her was speaking of the Labonville chap inserts that go inside your jeans or chainsaw pants. Which means you are protected but your pants are subject to nicks and cuts, thus needing iron on patches.

 

[HorseFaller]

O wait just saw the they work on chaps to. Sorry