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    Chainsaw Chaps and PPE Gear I Use

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 4 Comments

    Chainsaw chaps have saved my leg twice. Lots of people don't wear them when using a chainsaw, and I think those people are not being smart. I am not the ultimate expert on chainsaw safety and PPE (personal protection equipment) but I do cut down trees and cut firewood on a regular basis.

    Chainsaw Chaps

    My chaps saved me from tearing open my leg

    Basically, chainsaw chaps keep your chainsaw from cutting into your thigh or leg. The chaps are filled with a threadlike material. If you get a running saw too close to your leg, the chain cuts into the chaps instead of your leg, and the inner material blooms out and stalls the chainsaw. And you are not bleeding all over the ground in the woods.

    This has happened to me twice when I was not paying attention. The first time I was kneeling and cutting up a felled tree, and my leg slipped right up against the running saw. The saw stopped almost immediately after hitting the chaps.

    Chainsaw Chaps and Tree Felling PPE Gear I Use

    These are links to Amazon:

    • Chainsaw Chaps (pick your size here)
    • Chainsaw Helmet
    • Steel Toed Boots
    • Tree Felling Wedges
    • Leather Work Gloves

    Chainsaw Chaps

    Buy chaps a bit shorter than your regular pant leg size, or you will trip over then in the woods. You can get brand name chaps or generic ones. I have both and they both work fine.

    Chainsaw Chaps

    I didn't have a hard hat for a while, then I whacked my head on a limb as it was coming down. Then I bought a hard hat. Its super easy to take on and off. Plus, with the eye screen, you don't have to keep pulling off safety goggles. If you don't get an all in one, buy ear and eye protection separately. Its worth it!

    Chainsaw Chaps

    Steel toed boots are a must. Logs will roll onto your feet, and anything you damage now will become arthritic later in life, learn from my experience.

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    Carry several pairs of gloves, you will lose them, and in all that leaf debris, you wont find them. Plastic wedges make tree felling much more controllable, you wont get your saw pinched in a tree anymore once you buy them.And I am a convert to pre-mixed fuel. Yes it costs more, but it saves on repairs. Its cheaper to buy the fuel than to have your chainsaw in the repair shop for a carb rebuild before it needs it.
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    1. Joe

      May 30, 2016 at 11:54 am

      Hello Eric,
      I saw your video on replacing the spark plug on chainsaw. Would you know of a replacement ignition module for a Craftsman model 358352350. The p/n of the ignition module is 530039088 with a substitute p/n 530039141. But every time I find it is no longer available or out of stock.

      Thank you, Eric

    2. Eric

      June 08, 2016 at 10:19 am

      @joe, sorry, can't help you there, maybe search online? thx!

    3. rhkennerly

      August 28, 2019 at 12:48 pm

      There are some skills you don't need to master....like ligaturing an artery.

      [Thomas Jefferson] could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, dance a minuet, and play a violin.

      Published in James Parton, Life of Thomas Jefferson (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874), iii, 165.

    4. Eric

      August 28, 2019 at 12:51 pm

      Yet another reason to wear chainsaw chaps! -Eric.

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