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Too late mang... the exodus has started...

Gary

I heard this today as I was entering, and they were exiting, Sunbirds in Chehalis.

"Let's get out of this hillbilly town." Perhaps they were going to return south?


For those of you unfamiliar with Chehalis, Sunbirds is a store where you can buy lots of stuff from rigging clothes to canning supplies. It is my favorite store in Chehalis.
 
Um no, I am 16. If you are going to just jump on this fourm and be mean to people then we don't need that here!

I wasn't bieng mean and didnt mean to offend u or any one else I just didn't relize there was anyone that young on this forum and frankly I am glad to see that there are still a few kids in America learning hardworking early in life by time u get older u will know way more than alot of people who didn't start till late in life which is good and I didn't jump in on the thread I started this thread again I didn't mean to offend u or anyone else and I am sorry of I came off that way
 
I have Stihl chaps and they work great! A little pricey but they are great! I use my Stihl Lumberjack system helmet also when I am in the woods because of the ear muffs and stuff. If I am in thick old growth or 2nd growth wood I wear my signed Rygaard Aluminum hardhat :) Its is awesome and has everyone who works for Rygaard's signature on it!

Great Post Shane.

Beware There Are Sum Grumpy "Old Basturds" On Here That Can't Remember Being Young And Free.

You Are The Future:
Live Well My Friend!
 
Don't have time to read all this, but.......helmets are for bicycles.....hard hats are for timber fallers.
 
What about climbers? 'Hard hats' or 'helmets'?

Philbert

Not sure there, kind of like calling a rifle a gun or a fly rod a fishing pole......just ain't right.
I wear a hard hat. Kind of identifies a green guy when they talk about their helmet.
 
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Not sure there, kind of like calling a rifle a gun or a fly rod a fishing pole......just ain't right.
I wear a hard hat. Kind of identifies a green guy when they talk about their helmet.

My background is in firefighting. We never called a helmet a hat. Guess that makes me and thousands of others "green".

http://www.firecache.com/products.asp?dept=27

Bullard - Industrial Head Protection and Face Protection, Respiratory Protection and PAPR's, Hard Hats, Fire Helmets and Rescue Helmets and Thermal Imaging Cameras

Better let the Germans know they are "green" too.

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Swedes too.

http://www.husqvarna.com/us/forest/...nd-sight-protection/pro-forest-helmet-system/

I worked with guys who did not want to wash their wildland PPE or their bunker gear because they did not want to look like a new hire. I had to threaten disciplinary action to get these guys to wash their gear.
 
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I think Germans and Swedes wouldn't really get that, because in those languages there's no consept of 'hard hat'. Any hard bowl like object worn in the head for protective means is a helmet - 'hjälm' in Swedish and 'helm' in German.

Finnish language makes no distinctions either. Bicyclists, firemen, loggers, hockey players - they all are wearing a 'kypärä'. The only specified name I have ran into here was in the army. There a combat helmet is called 'potta' - a potty in English.
 
Well American English is a Germanic language so I guess we need to reverse engineer a few words back to the old country. Hey what about The Netherlands? They had an Olympic women's softball team, what did they call their caps?
 
I think Germans and Swedes wouldn't really get that, because in those languages there's no consept of 'hard hat'. Any hard bowl like object worn in the head for protective means is a helmet - 'hjälm' in Swedish and 'helm' in German.

Finnish language makes no distinctions either. Bicyclists, firemen, loggers, hockey players - they all are wearing a 'kypärä'. The only specified name I have ran into here was in the army. There a combat helmet is called 'potta' - a potty in English.

A potty? As in toilet? Or maybe just a pot, like a cooking pot?
 
A potty? As in toilet? Or maybe just a pot, like a cooking pot?

Potty as in toilet. The military lingo is kinda salty. A combat simulation, where wearing a helmet is obligatory, is not 'potty training', though.

I don't speak Dutch, nor Friesian, so I have no idea what they call their softball caps.
 
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