Visor or saftey glasses

[Arran Turner]

I want to take the visor off my climbing lid and am going to use glasses instead, what are the rules when it comes to not having a visor, mainly when using a chainsaw in the tree? And could i wear my oakleys instead of saftey glasses?

 

thanks folks

 

Arran

[roseyweb]

Save the Oakleys for the beach. You can buy good safety shades for under a fiver

 

It's not how good the tree looks

Its how good you look in the tree

 

I always use both as I got sick of sawdust in my eyes

[Old Mill Tree Care]

I use a visor mostly as I get mad if twigs slap me on the face. I use glasses when cutting through the thick stuff, especially chogging down a stem.

Oakleys are HSE compliant.

[born2trot]

Hate visors in the tree and glasses steam up . I've been guilty lately of not bothering with anything till last week when my eyelid became quite badly swollen as a result of some sawdust. I preach H&S on here religiously so i sort of had it coming

[Paul Jenks]

Visor every time. Squint if you're concerned with a bit of dust. Glasses steam up and get scratched. A visor will keep the big, high velocity, damaging stuff away. I've been cut in the face a few times from stuff exiting the wrong way from a chipper and from branches in a tree even when wearing a visor down. The damage would be a lot lot worse without the visor.

[Stephen Blair]

Visor for me, have ski goggles for windy days , it's the only time they don't steam up.

[Rupe]

Visors are for chipping!! And groundwork. Never used them in a tree, I went from earmuffs to petzle helmet and glasses (in 1996) in one move and passed by all this chainsaw helmet/visor nonsense!!

 

Glasses everytime, just find some good ones that dont steam up, they do exist, bolle do some that are as cool as your oakleys but cost £7.5 and dont have oakley on them!!

[PhilBeech]

^^^ What Rupe said, the black Bolle safety glasses are brilliant, I have many pairs

lying around and they don't steam up.

[PhilBeech]

Bolle Spider Range The Safety Supply Company PPE Specialists

[MOG]

Lexa glasses alway the way, never ever steam up!