Eye Protection? With an Axe?

Danke42 said:
You're the target market.
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Square_peg said:
I used to do a lot of work for a huge defense contractor. I was the onsite construction superintendent overseeing our tradesmen and all of our subcontractors. Part of my job was enforce our PPE rules. This customer was adamant that all personnel onsite wore safety glasses, a hardhat and a brightly colored vest at all times. One of these projects was inside one of the largest, most heavily industrialized buildings in the world. There were a million things in that factory that could kill you.

One night (this was a swing shift project) I had to throw a painter off the jobsite for refusing to wear a hardhat. He was working inside an office within the factory where there was no overhead hazard. I had warned him twice before and given him a written notice that he had to wear it. If any employee of the factory had walked in and seen him without a hardhat we'd have been written up for certain. I wasn't going take a fall for this guy so I booted him.

But it's not just about following rules. One of the reasons why my company was getting so much work from this customer is that we had an incredibly clean accident history. This lowered our L&I rates and gave us a competitive advantage over other contractors. We all had to pay the same union scale but our fully burdened rates were lower so our costs to the customer were lower. Our safety record is what got us that work.
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He probably just needed bonnet strings added to his hard hat when painting the ceiling.
 
Perhaps when using an axe sand concerned about eye protection, simply put a small hard hat over the end of the haft.
 
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Old Axeman said:
One thing I forgot to mention besides my comment about gloves is that you should ALWAYS wear a hard hat (I like the older alum. ones not the plastic ones) when felling a tree with any tool. It is also a good idea to wear one when limbing. I also wear glasses when working wood.
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You definitely want a hard hat for falling, along with proper safety trousers or chaps when using a chainsaw, but I didn't wear a hard hat delimbing. I remember as a kid walking along the top some huge fallen Douglas firs, lopping off branches with a double headed axe (the one reserved for this task, so it didn't get dulled doing other work).

My dad would often harvest trees on rural properties, for their view or whatever, in return for us getting the wood (provided there were big enough trees to make it worth it). Nowadays it would often be a royal pain to work with landowners that way, because they'd be underfoot all the time taking selfies and videos, creating content for their personal brand. It's nice to have a lot with my own trees that I can work with at my leisure (now I just need more leisure time).
 
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