Testing on chainsaw trousers

[stihlmadasever]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/539521423095288/permalink/772251279822300/

[Tommy_B]

What was he expecting to happen?

 

[Ratman]

Any of you guys actually had a saw do the above and tested out your ppe whilst on a job? Hopefully you haven’t gone as deep or even had serious injury of course!

[peatff]

27 minutes ago, Ratman said:

Any of you guys actually had a saw do the above and tested out your ppe whilst on a job? Hopefully you haven’t gone as deep or even had serious injury of course!

I've never accidentally put my leg on the trestle while cutting firewood. A bloke I was working with a long time ago put a saw down on the end of his boot while it was still running down, that was the only accident I actually saw with my own eyes.

Edited January 24, 2019 by peatff

[Stubby]

Caught a coasting chain on the upper leg of my strides once . small rip to the outer fabric is all . 

[Mark Bolam]

I banged a 260 running full chat into a retired (6 months?) pair of Hiflex with an oak log in the leg.

Kevlar worked, but cut about an inch into the log first.

[stihlmadasever]

I think most folk think chainsaw trousers are cut proof when in reality they only reduce the injury rather than prevent an injury.

When im felling a big stem ive got a bad habit of propping our 660 side handle on my knee as i start a back cut,a kickback into my knee would be catastrophic going on the evidence in that video...

[Tommy_B]

Rachet strapping the trousers to the log isn't going to give a fair outcome as the likelihood of the material working the way it should is almost non-existent. Added to the fact that the trousers aren't new, the saw is being used in a way in which never going to happen in industry and I'd say that this is pretty much a waste of 9 minutes.

I'd say that its great and definately valuable video about the dangers of old chainsaw trousers from a guy who sells new chainsaw trousers. 

[Mark_Skyland]

I think the way trousers are tested is that the throttle is released when they hit the trouser. I wouldn't like to see what a pair of trousers looked like if they had the rest a 661 on permanent full throttle!

[Khriss]

Dirt contamination is major factor, going by ANSI tests, groundies n landscaper trousers failed harder than climbers trousers. K