Back and neck spine protector recommendations

[Brett]

i would recomend you go for a job in some other field.

[TreeNuts]

If you are unsure dont make the cut !

 

Wise words from everyone and thanks for the advice. I like to take precautions due to ever so slight hyperactivity that results in lack of concentration or rare occasions (subdued by nicotine usually.) That's my diagnosis anyway.

 

FYI: just bought this hydration pack with built in back protector: Evoc Freeride Enduro Hydration Pack - 2012 - Only £98.99 - Rutland Cycling

 

Who knows what good it'll do, but at least I won't go thirsty and still be able to look upwards.

Edited March 11, 2012 by TreeNuts

[TreeNuts]

i would recomend you go for a job in some other field.

 

It's not that I'm incapable of being careful, far from it. But through experience I know that, for whatever reason, concentration can sometimes fail, and that's when it would be prudent to have taken precautions to minimise the risk in case anything did happen. Can't see what's wrong with taking precautions, especially when you hear stories of super experienced fellers having an easily avoidable accident.

Edited March 11, 2012 by TreeNuts

[Brett]

It's not that I'm incapable of being careful, far from it. But through experience I know that, for whatever reason, concentration can sometimes fail, and that's when it would be prudent to have taken precautions to minimise the risk if anything did happen. Can't see what's wrong with taking precautions.

 

there is nothing wrong with taking precautions, we all do, and must, but bikers wear back protection because they know at some point they will take an impact, tree workers should be working on the basis that they never put themselves in this position, if one of my staf turned up with a spine protector on because of what might happen, i would be asking some serious questions about that person.

[agrimog]

your best back and limb protection is the same as it has always been, your eyes and pure COMMON SENSE, if in doudt dont, and if your still worried, get an office job!

[TreeNuts]

your best back and limb protection is the same as it has always been, your eyes and pure COMMON SENSE, if in doudt dont, and if your still worried, get an office job!

 

Absolutely - common sense is certainly a prerequisite for long term safety. Had high paying office jobs as a specialist contractor, but 15 years sitting in a seat, pressing buttons and staring at a screen formulating computational logic drove me absolutely crazy. Changed direction and became a groundworker.

 

Nothing like the open air.

Edited March 11, 2012 by TreeNuts

[TreeNuts]

there is nothing wrong with taking precautions, we all do, and must, but bikers wear back protection because they know at some point they will take an impact, tree workers should be working on the basis that they never put themselves in this position, if one of my staf turned up with a spine protector on because of what might happen, i would be asking some serious questions about that person.

 

Thanks for the advice, Brett. Noted.

[shanks]

I have a set of 661 'body armour', as you say for mountain biking. Protection every where from the waist up.

 

There is no way you could wear that for work, you would last a couple of hours before you boiled your self alive and would no doubt cause an injury to your self because you wouldn't be able to move and work properly. Bikers that wear that kind of stuff are downhillers, using it for maybe 10 minutes at a time with gravity doing most of the work for them. Its not really suitable for anything else, to be honest.

[Andy Collins]

I going to go slightly against the grain here. You are responsible for your own H&S, if you have identified a risk to yourself then it's up to you to take reasonable precautions to protect yourself from that risk. Is back and neck protection a step to far? Maybe for me it would be, but for the OP, he has seen someone close pick up a series of nasty injuries which may or may not have been avoided. By wearing the protection it gives him the confidence to carry out his duties safely. I suspect in time he will ditch the armour and go back to normal. Me, I'd like the freedom of movement to skip gracefully out of the way if needed. Each to their own.

I wonder if we could step back in time, with all our new dangled safety gear, in to a forestry environment, how our predecessors would have seen us? "Pah! All that protection, you can't be any good!"

Edited March 11, 2012 by Andy Collins

[skyhuck]

TreeNuts are you in the UK????