Chap length

Don’t know Mark, but I would guess that some guys might consider them a bother that low when thrashing around in the bush. I like mine low as well, good protection from multi-flora rose in addition to protection from chain cuts.

Last winter I was cutting a yellow birch that had a spike type branch coming out just above the root swell. I cut the branch off and it stuck straight up and down in the snow. A minute later when I was making my back cut the tip of my saw hit it on the opposite side of the tree and the husky 372 kicked back and spun right out of my hand so fast I still can’t believe it. It hit me right in the shin and pulled my chaps around so that it was able to draw a little blood on the side of my calf. I think that that was the absolute smallest cut I ever heard of from a chainsaw. But I can say I would have been better protected with wrap around chaps. I went right out and got a pair and will never buy the other kind again. Of course I also learned to take the two seconds needed to throw that branch out of the way too. The funny part was it was below zero that day I was half frozen and the shot to the shin hurt like hell. I knew I got cut but was afraid to look. I worked long enough to get another hitch down for the skidder before hiking out to the truck only to discover that I didn’t hardly even need a bandaid.