Chainsaw trousers for the tropics

[Steve Bullman]

Now I'm wondering what would be the best cooling helmet..

 

I've gone for the https://honeybros.com/Item/Husqvarna_Technical_Arborist_Helmet

 

 

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

 

 

If you're worried about heat then ditch the ear muffs for ear plugs, will make the world of difference

[EairthTree]

Mmm, great idea thanks.

 

 

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

[Steve Bullman]

Where exactly are you working then?

[EairthTree]

Are you taking the pith?

 

 

 

Actually, how about chaps, should be cooler, though obviously less protection.

 

 

Where s a good place for chaps, I've been using honeybros so far but they don't seem to have any.

 

 

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

[stihlmadasever]

If your climbing best with type c all round protection chainsaw trousers...all trousers will bake your nads...but pfanner gladiators are my recommendation

[Pete Mctree]

If your climbing best with type c all round protection chainsaw trousers...all trousers will bake your nads...but pfanner gladiators are my recommendation

 

 

Absolute garbage. Sorry, but climbing in such hot conditions, whist wearing type C's would increase the risk of heat exhaustion to such a degree that the risk of a chainsaw cut would be secondary. A lot of people struggle here in the UK with them.

The current AFAG allow the justification of type A even, if a risk assessment is carried out

Edited February 2, 2016 by Pete Mctree

[Mark Bolam]

Personally I wouldn't bother with protective trousers at all in the tropics.

You'd be more at risk from heat exhaustion than cuts.

You certainly concentrate on your work position a bit more.

[EairthTree]

Life is unsure where I'll be, but I do have a life in Costa Rica where I plan to start my own niche arborist company.

I get hot and sweaty as it is, usually going bare foot with a top off when working there.. So I imagine I'll do as much work as I can with a silky saw mostly naked. Donning a pair of the most breezey type a trousers I can get when I need to.

 

They sound extremely hot and I'm second guessing investing in them at all as heat exhaustion is definitely going to be a factor.

 

 

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

[agrimog]

if it isnt the UK, why bother with any ppe, just switch on your common sense, it worked for years before the nanny state took over,

[kimtree]

chaps over shorts work a treat in tropical north Oz where it regulary gets over 40 centigrade with high humidity

just be aware that you might get cut by a non moving chainsaw (on the back of your upper leg) on your belt while moving around the tree:thumbdown: