Sure chainsaw chaps aren't going to enhance your comfort. But I like wearing hearing protection, eye protection, hard hat, gloves and steel toe boots because I can work with more focus and fewer disturbances to my workflow all while simply being more comfortable.
Let's start from the top:
* Hard hat: In the Summer I like my hard hat on anytime I'm mowing, trimming or using the chain saw because it keeps the Sun from baking my head. It provides a good 1" air gap between the fiberglass shell and my skin keeping my head cooler.
* Eye protection: Nothing interrupts your workflow like sawdust getting in your eye or a big dust cloud from the mower's discharge blowing back in your face. Sure a splint of wood could fly out of the table saw and take out an eye. But I wear my eye protection mostly because I don't like getting dust in my eyes.
* Hearing protection: After mowing and string trimming for a short while my ears hurt from the whine and roar of the engines. In the shop I can ignore the agonizing shriek of the angle grinder or sound of any direct drive saw motor and focus on my work. It's much more pleasant to work with power tools when you don't have to hear them at 110Db.
* Respiratory mask: Who wants to spend the first 5 minutes of their shower blowing dirt or fine sawdust out of their nose. Nuff said.
* Gloves (and long sleeves too): You can attack a pile of brush, logs, splits, etc. much faster as long if you don't have to worry about cuts scrapes and poison ivy.
* Boots: When logs are rolling or dropping or you just need to give something a good kick a good pair of boots let you do what needs to be done without jamming your toenail up into your toe.
All in all, the primary reason I end up getting motivated to don my PPE is because I can work faster and more comfortably with it on vs not. I'm just raising awareness of an unsung benefit to wearing your PPE every time you work!
Let's start from the top:
* Hard hat: In the Summer I like my hard hat on anytime I'm mowing, trimming or using the chain saw because it keeps the Sun from baking my head. It provides a good 1" air gap between the fiberglass shell and my skin keeping my head cooler.
* Eye protection: Nothing interrupts your workflow like sawdust getting in your eye or a big dust cloud from the mower's discharge blowing back in your face. Sure a splint of wood could fly out of the table saw and take out an eye. But I wear my eye protection mostly because I don't like getting dust in my eyes.
* Hearing protection: After mowing and string trimming for a short while my ears hurt from the whine and roar of the engines. In the shop I can ignore the agonizing shriek of the angle grinder or sound of any direct drive saw motor and focus on my work. It's much more pleasant to work with power tools when you don't have to hear them at 110Db.
* Respiratory mask: Who wants to spend the first 5 minutes of their shower blowing dirt or fine sawdust out of their nose. Nuff said.
* Gloves (and long sleeves too): You can attack a pile of brush, logs, splits, etc. much faster as long if you don't have to worry about cuts scrapes and poison ivy.
* Boots: When logs are rolling or dropping or you just need to give something a good kick a good pair of boots let you do what needs to be done without jamming your toenail up into your toe.
All in all, the primary reason I end up getting motivated to don my PPE is because I can work faster and more comfortably with it on vs not. I'm just raising awareness of an unsung benefit to wearing your PPE every time you work!
