Do Not send your lads out Monday and Tuesday.

[Ian C]

1 hour ago, Joe Newton said:

Do people really wear chainsaw trousers in this weather?

If you employ people Joe what’s the options because as sure as shits brown and smells if one had an accident it would come straight back, obviously depending on the job 

[Puffingbilly413]

1 hour ago, Joe Newton said:

Do people really wear chainsaw trousers in this weather?

Why wouldn't you?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

5 hours ago, peds said:

I'm fairly sure "we" adjusted our work methods when building "our" empire by working hundreds of thousands of brown, black, or yellow-skinned locals into the ground, when we, delicate white folk as we are, were unaccustomed to the heat, the humidity, the malaria. Are you suggesting people do the same thing now?

 

Oh how I long for those halcyon days....

 

Bush jackets, pith helmets and chai wallas. 
 

Simple happy days of Empire

[Joe Newton]

41 minutes ago, Ian C said:

If you employ people Joe what’s the options because as sure as shits brown and smells if one had an accident it would come straight back, obviously depending on the job 

Fair point Ian, I'm not thinking like an employer. One company I work for will designate a saw user on hot days and the draggers can wear shorts. The saw guy can swap with another if they want. 

18 minutes ago, Puffingbilly413 said:

Why wouldn't you?

I'd have thought that was a pretty obvious answer. 

[Puffingbilly413]

9 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Oh how I long for those halcyon days....

 

Bush jackets, pith helmets and chai wallas. 
 

Simple happy days of Empire

I bet you still have your pith helmet Kev

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Just now, Puffingbilly413 said:

I bet you still have your pith helmet Kev

Still got the bush jacket 😂 

[Puffingbilly413]

1 minute ago, Joe Newton said:

Fair point Ian, I'm not thinking like an employer. One company I work for will designate a saw user on hot days and the draggers can wear shorts. The saw guy can swap with another if they want. 

I'd have thought that was a pretty obvious answer. 

Evidently.

 

I should have been clearer. You'd wear them when it's cooler presumably? Because it makes sense to wear relevant PPE would be the logic. But when it gets hotter you'd choose not to because it makes life uncomfortable. Which it does of course. But the risk to your legs is the same.

 

So in a roundabout way you can't do the job properly in the heat because your can't or won't wear the relevant PPE.

 

 

[Ian C]

8 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

Fair point Ian, I'm not thinking like an employer. One company I work for will designate a saw user on hot days and the draggers can wear shorts. The saw guy can swap with another if they want. 

I'd have thought that was a pretty obvious answer. 

that is a way round it and sensible option provided they actually do that 

[Puffingbilly413]

5 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Still got the bush jacket 😂 

Seem to remember you spent a bit of time in Basra? I remember the temp hitting 40 in April and didn't stop going up until it hit 50 - shade temp - in Jun. We read 60 in the sun by the front gate. 

 

Now I cry if it's 23.

[Joe Newton]

15 minutes ago, Puffingbilly413 said:

Evidently.

 

I should have been clearer. You'd wear them when it's cooler presumably? Because it makes sense to wear relevant PPE would be the logic. But when it gets hotter you'd choose not to because it makes life uncomfortable. Which it does of course. But the risk to your legs is the same.

 

So in a roundabout way you can't do the job properly in the heat because your can't or won't wear the relevant PPE.

 

 

Sorry for the curt response. To be clear I'm a freelancer, so to some extent I make my own choices.

 

In my experience (and its strictly personal) I feel that the added risk of heat exhaustion far outweighs the benefit of saw protection.

 

In over 12 years I've perhaps touched myself with a chain twice. Very minor both times. Neither time was the front of my leg where the protection is.

 

I'd much rather stay cool and work safely than be too hot and have to rely on my ppe.

 

I wouldn't advise it for a lot of guys that are a bit more "accident prone"