Hillbilly Rick
ArboristSite Operative
Glad ya healed up OK and just come away with a scar and lesson learned.
Around here I've never seen any of the loggers wearing any PPE other than boots and ear plugs. I wear safety glasses. ear plugs and put a hard hat on once in a while, never wore chaps, never even seen chaps at the saw dealerships. One day I was cuttin' a limb and thought a sapling hit me in the leg, when I looked there were no saplings and my chain was off the bar:msp_ohmy: it whacked me on the inside of my right thigh about 2 in. below my stuff. It didn't go through my jeans but I turned white as a ghost just realizing what could have been.
Do chaps protect the femoral artery? Go all the way around the leg?
Around here I've never seen any of the loggers wearing any PPE other than boots and ear plugs. I wear safety glasses. ear plugs and put a hard hat on once in a while, never wore chaps, never even seen chaps at the saw dealerships. One day I was cuttin' a limb and thought a sapling hit me in the leg, when I looked there were no saplings and my chain was off the bar:msp_ohmy: it whacked me on the inside of my right thigh about 2 in. below my stuff. It didn't go through my jeans but I turned white as a ghost just realizing what could have been.
Do chaps protect the femoral artery? Go all the way around the leg?
