Type A or C trousers....

[Johny Walker]

I think from previous threads about it, its comes down to this.

Its part of a safe working practice but u can climb in A's if its to hot etc. but then you have to be seen to explore all reasons why to choose A's, and its on the risk assessment. If some thing was to happen then you should be covered.

 

Ive always worn C's from the start. Sure i get hot etc but its worth it for the 'just incase' moment should it ever happen.

 

you should avoid them moments then shouldnt you

[Dan Earp]

you should avoid them moments then shouldnt you

 

(Knock on Johnys Head)

 

Aye touch wood

[jnoon]

Type "C" are for when its cold, any time else its "A" all the way

 

👍 ditto

[jrose]

As I understand it, It's not a legal requirement to wear type c for climbing - it's recommended best practice.

 

Cutting trees in your own back garden in your own time, you can wear whatever you like and no one can say anything. Working as a self employed gets tricky to define I think, the real issue comes when you employ people or are an employee yourself, as you have to supply/wear appropriate PPE.

 

Most of the time this will be type c trousers. If you wear anything else for climbing, be it type a, pyjamas, kilt... You have to explain in your risk assessment why the decision was made to wear these, to cover yourself should anyone have an accident. So if you identified the weather was too hot for type c, you need to judge in risk assessment whether it is safe to carry out the work in type a, or find a better control measure eg wait for a cooler day.

 

I could be wrong on this, but that's how I see it.

[jrose]

Forgot to say, I wear type c for everything, never had an issue with overheating and would rather have them on just in case

[Gray git]

At least modern trousers are not like what we had to put up with as a student in the 90's. Remember them origon and husky sleeping bags that were the best around, you had trouble climbing into the van nevermind a tree but they did offer good padding under spikes which was the only good thing about them.

[alex_m]

type a's here (with zipped openings at the back of the knees )

c's are way to bulky and hot, even in winter.

[Mr_D]

There some really good feed back and appreciated guys, I have two pairs of type C's so think I might give the type A's a go and see of there is a great difference In terms of comfort ect when climbing...

[hazzygawa]

Type c's too hot

Type a spot on.

[Andrew McEwan]

Sounds messy GG, the injury I saw was ~15 years ago, certainly focused the rest of us.