Testing chainsaw protective pants?

[tree_huggerr]

Is ther any websites with chainsaw chap/pants beening tested?
I cut through some last week and was wondering if there is
any filming/ or photos of this on the net>

 

[Freakingstang]

I wouldn't want to be the guy that has that job...

Seriously though, I don't know where there are any tests of side by side comparisons

 

[Puumies]

I don't know any tests, but I have talked with a older man who has hit protective pants with chainsaw. He told me that those fibres jammed the saw so well that he had to break it to parts for clearing.

 

[B.Secord]

I personally have been the unwilling test dummy of a chainsaw vs chainsaw pants. I leaned two things, never let someone you don't know hold a limb, and never use a chainsaw without leg protection.

The nose wheel and the sprocket were immediatley jammed, and required at least a half hour of trinkering to clear. The thing that was most disturbing was the sting under the point of contact. It is a little embarrassing to inspect your thigh in the middle of your clients back yard. I feel that I was lucky that the only thing I ended up with was a pair of compromised chainsaw and a bruise.

To answer the question, I know that the manufacturers of the pants and chaps, do test their products, and it is done with # of feet/second that the chain runs. You may want to contact the manufacturer to get the results, and the protocol by which they test.

Always remember "Sometimes you don't get a second chance".

 

[Jumper]

Here in Canada they are either CSA or BNQ approved...I know CSA does not hand out their approval without rigourous testing, similar to UL. There are different ratings as well...try their websites for more info.

 

[Ryan Willock]

I've seen the husky pants and chaps tested many times in person at logger CEU classes. They stopped a 372 and 385 dropped into them at full throttle every time.

 

[tree_huggerr]

I managed to cut right through the pants, and a good portion of my leg<
The strands did not clog or stop the saw,or even come out of the pants.
So we tested the other leg, same thing< right through
(no legs were harmed in this test).

So the company that i work for tested all of the styles and brands we
use, all but 1 failed. The full conclusion to this pant sarga will hopefully
be sort out by the end of the week.

 

[preach it]

Check out Labonville.com they have a video on the site of chainsaw pants being tested. They test five pair in the site's video with a wide open husqvarna. All five pair, each one a different brand, stopped the saw. Only one pair did the saw not go through at all.

 

[Bearclaw]

Wow

That video sure opens your eyes to false safety! So now I'm thinking what brand of chaps do I buy, other than the ones on the site?

 

[blis]

I managed to cut right through the pants, and a good portion of my leg<
The strands did not clog or stop the saw,or even come out of the pants.
So we tested the other leg, same thing< right through
(no legs were harmed in this test).

So the company that i work for tested all of the styles and brands we
use, all but 1 failed. The full conclusion to this pant sarga will hopefully
be sort out by the end of the week.

must´ve been faulty product or something dodgy... all pants ive seen have managed to stop saw just fine...

 

[tree_huggerr]

interesting test on that website. The pants we tested all but 1
didn't even pull the kevlar out! Just a nice clean cut through everything,
The one that did still went through like the 4 others on that video.

 

[Chainsaw_Sally]

I can't get the Labonville site video to load. Anywhere else I can find that video, or similar? I'd like to show it to a couple of my co-workers.

~ S

"Grab'er, growl, and go!"

 

[aquan8tor]

http://www.lni.wa.gov/Safety/TrainTools/Videos/Library/catalog.asp?VideoID=V0969


I can't get the video to load either. I searched for 20 minutes to find this one.

So, does this mean that the green style chaps in the video (and the ones I wear) are NOT safe??? I'm confused. I just bought them this summer. From a sponsor. any thoughts, people?? I'm feeling a lot less safe now that I've seen that video.

 

[Bremen]

The video wouldn't play for me either in the web browser. I swiped the URL from the page source and saved it locally. It's an .mp4, which played for me in WMP10 or QuickTime.

http://www.labonville.com/videos/chaps_test.mp4

I don't see what the all the fuss is about. On the chaps that were penetrated, it looked like the cut to whatever is underneath them was maybe the depth of a cutter and less than a couple inches long, perhaps less. Now I'd rather not take a saw kerf out of my leg if I can help it, but any of those are far better than nothing at all.

 

[B_Turner]

http://www.lni.wa.gov/Safety/TrainTools/Videos/Library/catalog.asp?VideoID=V0969

Jesus, seeing that saw bury into those jeans with a ham looked just like a real leg. That's too real. Crackers, I am going to keep using my better chaps.

 

[aquan8tor]

The video wouldn't play for me either in the web browser. I swiped the URL from the page source and saved it locally. It's an .mp4, which played for me in WMP10 or QuickTime.

http://www.labonville.com/videos/chaps_test.mp4

I don't see what the all the fuss is about. On the chaps that were penetrated, it looked like the cut to whatever is underneath them was maybe the depth of a cutter and less than a couple inches long, perhaps less. Now I'd rather not take a saw kerf out of my leg if I can help it, but any of those are far better than nothing at all.

Did you even watch the video??? On the green chaps that were penetrated, it cut just a little when the engine was at something around half rpm. When it was at full throttle, it cut all the way through the ham underneath. On both of the red new labonville brand chaps, it stopped the saw immediately in both rpm levels.

All I'm saying is that I'm going to get new chaps soon.

 

[aquan8tor]

just in case that sounded too commercial, I have NO AFFILIATION with that company. I bought my chaps from a sponsor here. i'll be buying a new pair of newer chaps from them.

 

[timberrat]

this video rules

that video shows why seven layer kevlar rules
nylon sucks

 

[Bremen]

aquan8tor, I was referring to the labonville.com video not the video with the ham. Surely I wouldn't want to be the ham.

 

[aquan8tor]

the labonville video has a ham under the chaps.