Forester Durable Chainsaw Safety Chaps with Pocket & Adjustable Belt, Apron Style, UL Certified

Saved me from injury twice so far. I wore these while attempting to log 3.7 acres of closely planted pine trees myself. I spent days wearing these and often wondered why I was wearing extra layers in the middle of the summer heat. After a bit I finally gave in and had a logging company come in since they were literally driving by my place. Then during preps to build an equipment shed I needed to drop about 8-10 small trees and just out of habit put these on. That day it was the smartest thing I did because not only did they save my legs from injury once but twice the same day. First time I just cradled the chain saw on my leg and had not set the brake, the chaps stopped the chain from cutting into my thigh right where I bend. I surely would have bled out before EMS got to me. Second time, and I was being more careful after that scare and a vine came flying by as a tree was falling (attached to the tree) and caught the bar and slammed it into my knee while it was winding down. I didn't even have time to set the brake as I was backing away from the falling tree.

Saved my life while in PuertoRico for disaster relief. Worth getting. You can never predict an accident thats why they are called accidents.must have is you own a saw.see my photo of when the chaps got eaten by the saw. Could have been a massive gash. Remember once they are cut u throw them away and buy another pair. Its well worth it.even tho these are cheaper quality they still did there job.

fits good, I am 5'6". Will also fit if you are taller. I fold down the top seem. It may have been made for that because it fits great. Gives piece of mind. Don't tell my wife that a week before I bought these I cut through my levis at the kneecap two days in a row. 2nd time had a little blood, but I was lucky for my carelessness. After many years of using a chainsaw, it can happen. **** get them before you get careless and make a mistake****

I've used these chainsaw chaps 3 times now, and they do great. I normally wear 34" long jeans, and the 37" length overlaps my boots by a few inches as they should. The tags and documentation say these meet the updated ASTM F1897-2014 39JY spec, along with the Canadian CAN/BNQ 1923-450-M91 39JY class B.There's a lot of different specs thrown around with different chainsaw chaps, though the ASTM is the main US one, the commercial standard for chainsaw chap performance. OSHA 1910.266 says shall wear safety leg protection from ballistic nylon or similar. And ASTM F1414-13 is what UL uses as their standard for testing that it meets ASTM F1897. The only real different one is the USFS 11BF or FS6170-4. Most of those specs are non-safety related details (stitching, color, snaps, etc), along with fire safety related specs. Some documentation from Elvex points out that while the FS spec (year 2000 version) is tested at 3200 ft/sec instead of 2750 ft/sec (2008 version of ASTM F1897), that the testing procedure is a little different so they aren't really comparable.Why does this all matter? If I'm wearing chainsaw chaps, I want them to help protect me. I was willing to pay more for ones that would protect me better. ASTM F1897 is a pass/fail test so it doesn't tell you if one pair is better than another, but it does set the bar. In our forest service trail clearing chainsaw class they said the saw chaps had to meet the FS 6170-4 spec, and so I was trying to figure out what the differences were. But in the end, it turns out that for non-fire related chainsaw use on forest service land, that they now allow your chainsaw chap PPE to meet either the FS 6170-4 spec or the ASTM F1897 spec. See USDA FOREST SERVICE SAW OPERATIONS GUIDE 2016 electronic edition, v 1.3.1, page 15. [...]Long story short, these chainsaw chaps seem good. Like using a seatbelt even if you've never been in an accident, or a bike or ski helmet even if you've never had a crash resulting in a head injury, this is inexpensive insurance to make sure if something bad happens, you'll be better off than you would have been without the personal protective equipment. At this price, they are great. If you want to pay a little more and get a little more protection, the full ankle wrap models from Forester (Chap737-O), Woodland Pro, Labonville, or Husqvarna look like good choices.I'm including a bunch of pictures of the product and docs, since they give all these specs, and the info on these meeting ASTM F1897-2014 39JY for gas chainsaws, but not electric ones (as others have stated, this is due to the continuous high torque from an electric chainsaw). I hope all this info helps in making your decision, as I know if I had this info it would have helped me. Buy some before you fire up your saw again, and use them every time. Along with remembering to cut safely, these will help protect you if something doesn't go right.UPDATE: I've used these for 3 years, occasionally. I've probably dropped 10 bigger trees, done lots of limbing, bucked a few of the 24 cords of wood we burned, and used an alaskan chainsaw mill for 20 hours. No problems, though for trail work I was given a pair of Husqvarna full wrap chaps, so for the last few months I have preferred those. They have a few more straps and wrap fully around the ankle, which should better prevent or minimize injury in certain situations. I still think these are a great value and product, and will let my neighbor use them while I use the more expensive pair.

As an arborist in the PNW, I can say that I, like most other tree workers, work my equipment pretty hard. Finding cheap alternatives without sacrificing safety is a wallet saver. When it comes to chaps though you get into some murky water, cheap chaps usually means less of the protective Kevlar, which means using bigger saws is risky business. Put these chaps next to a pair of stihl pro mark chaps and fairly quickly you will know which one you want to wear. The pro marks offer far more protection and if I'm being honest, are a little more comfortable(as comfortable as a pair of chaps can be anyways). However, as I am on my second pair of these foresters chaps, there must be some advantage to them, right? To understand the advantages, one has to understand that, at least in the PNW, we use chainsaw chaps for more than cutting. Wading through brambles and blackberry bushes? Put on your chaps. Doing anything with hawthorn or locust? Put on your chaps. Is it raining, snowing.? Maybe your legs are a little cold. Put on your chaps. Mind you, these are also good ways to trick the newbies into getting comfortable with chaps, as nobody likes wearing them. But the point is made, if I am running anything bigger than a stihl 362, I'm probably cutting some big wood and that is all I will be doing, so I slip on the pro marks and go. For everything else I throw on foresters. I could buy 3 to 4 pairs of foresters, for the price of a pair of pro marks, would I trust them to stop a stihl 660 from running full bore through my leg? My physical and emotional attachment to my legs says no, but they perform remarkably well with everything else I ask of them. In the end, buy these if you are doing light saw work and for anything where you might need or want to protect your legs, plus they are an economical way to take the wear and tear off of your more expensive and more protective chaps.

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