I just took a quick look at that OTHER site, and everybody had a hard hat on...
I just checked my "newest" Hard Hat.
Built May 2005, and that's probably the last year I used one (a couple of days at most).
So it's a dog bowl now (if I had a dog), and has been for many years.
Back in the late 60s & early 70s I wore a hard hat quite a bit, but aside from a couple of short term projects in operating Gold Mines, I haven't needed one for over 40 years. I don't miss hard hats AT ALL, and have never owned a "reflective vest," or steel toed boots. I DO have a Blaze Orange Filson Vest, but I have only worn it while hunting.
One of things that I really notice reading this forum, is the diversity of surveys & surveyors that are so much different than my little boondock world in the Great Basin.
Loyal
Loyal, post: 379507, member: 228 wrote: I just took a quick look at that OTHER site, and everybody had a hard hat on...
I just checked my "newest" Hard Hat.
Built May 2005, and that's probably the last year I used one (a couple of days at most).
So it's a dog bowl now (if I had a dog), and has been for many years.
Back in the late 60s & early 70s I wore a hard hat quite a bit, but aside from a couple of short term projects in operating Gold Mines, I haven't needed one for over 40 years. I don't miss hard hats AT ALL, and have never owned a "reflective vest," or steel toed boots. I DO have a Blaze Orange Filson Vest, but I have only worn it while hunting.
One of things that I really notice reading this forum, is the diversity of surveys & surveyors that are so much different than my little boondock world in the Great Basin.
Loyal
Been three years for me.
Sits under my back seat just in case
My white hard hat is from 1966, when I started working for Florida Power & Light. They are made to last. I wear it maybe once a year, not so much construction sites as industrial ones where hard hats are required near the buildings.
My last hard hat has been hanging unused since 1981 and yes, it is orange.
:gammon:
Being a contractor for an electric utility provider makes our insurance and safety program requirements the same as contract linemen. Needless to say we all sport our current brain-buckets and safety gear.
No telling what will fall out of the sky when you're in an intersection painting a circle around a mag nail...
I carry two in the truck. Most years I never put one on, but I had to wear one a couple of weeks ago to recon this station:
This is station FERRY (JS2338). It *was* a ground-level mark, but the designers of a new river water intake decided to build a parking lot over it. They preserved the mark, setting a 12" PVC riser over it, and when the parking lot is finished it'll have a valve box cover over it. That great big green multipath reflector on the north side had me worried, but the results of our 1-hour sessions came out nice and clean.
P.S. I cheated and didn't wear gloves.
Loyal, post: 379507, member: 228 wrote: I just took a quick look at that OTHER site, and everybody had a hard hat on...
I just checked my "newest" Hard Hat.
Built May 2005, and that's probably the last year I used one (a couple of days at most).
So it's a dog bowl now (if I had a dog), and has been for many years.
Back in the late 60s & early 70s I wore a hard hat quite a bit, but aside from a couple of short term projects in operating Gold Mines, I haven't needed one for over 40 years. I don't miss hard hats AT ALL, and have never owned a "reflective vest," or steel toed boots. I DO have a Blaze Orange Filson Vest, but I have only worn it while hunting.
One of things that I really notice reading this forum, is the diversity of surveys & surveyors that are so much different than my little boondock world in the Great Basin.
Loyal
I hope the safety man doesn't look at mine. It was made in 1997. Of course the 15 years of stickers on it gives it away. Me and that hat have been a lot of miles together.
As far as steel toed boots, I love them. Can't imagine not wearing them.
We're pretty much required to wear everything listed on that sign above at all times, but we make an exception on the gloves if you're running the instrument / data collector. I actually really like my Hex Armor gloves, the only problem with them is they don't keep you warm in winter. Pretty sure they make some that do, we just don't usually need that.
Unfortunately we're also often required to wear FRC, which really sucks when it's 97 and humid out. Lot of rest/shade/water breaks.
Lee D, post: 379532, member: 7971 wrote: ...Unfortunately we're also often required to wear FRC, which really sucks when it's 97 and humid out. Lot of rest/shade/water breaks.
hate 'em..
regs here state that 2 years is the maximum allowable age of a hard hat.
Loyal, post: 379507, member: 228 wrote: I just took a quick look at that OTHER site, and everybody had a hard hat on...
I just checked my "newest" Hard Hat.
Built May 2005, and that's probably the last year I used one (a couple of days at most).
So it's a dog bowl now (if I had a dog), and has been for many years.
Back in the late 60s & early 70s I wore a hard hat quite a bit, but aside from a couple of short term projects in operating Gold Mines, I haven't needed one for over 40 years. I don't miss hard hats AT ALL, and have never owned a "reflective vest," or steel toed boots. I DO have a Blaze Orange Filson Vest, but I have only worn it while hunting.
One of things that I really notice reading this forum, is the diversity of surveys & surveyors that are so much different than my little boondock world in the Great Basin.
Loyal
I have picked up a few tricks from cowpoke's in Wyoming and Colorado, the Wild Rag (in blaze orange) is my favorite multipurpose accessory. I have a buddy used to live in Laramie, he sent me a blaze orange Stormy Kromer cap also my favorite. I have had a pair of filson chaps that were well built and lasted years. You can't beat a pair of Wranglers, the real ones. Ranchers attire is functional and rugged, so it makes since that it works well for surveyors.
Adam, post: 379539, member: 8900 wrote: I have picked up a few tricks from cowpoke's in Wyoming and Colorado, the Wild Rag (in blaze orange) is my favorite multipurpose accessory. I have a buddy used to live in Laramie, he sent me a blaze orange Stormy Kromer cap also my favorite. I have had a pair of filson chaps that were well built and lasted years. You can't beat a pair of Wranglers, the real ones. Ranchers attire is functional and rugged, so it makes since that it works well for surveyors.
Yes you can. I ain't Chris LeDoux and I don't rodeo so wearing those painted-on britches is for the birds. I like the relaxed fix Wranglers or Cinch Green Label. The rest of it is for the birds. 🙂
Lee D, post: 379532, member: 7971 wrote: t.
Unfortunately we're also often required to wear FRC, which really sucks when it's 97 and humid out. Lot of rest/shade/water breaks.
Had to wear FRC at the Gaylord Chemical tank car explosion site in Bogalusa in 1996 while doing doing forensic survey for the scores of lawsuits that were happening. Even Johnny Cochran Jr was there but I didn't see him in FRC. despised it but it was for our safety., Needed respirators too in some areas.. Between the nastiness of the site. (Like a slow walking tour of hell) and the heat, we only worked from 7- to noon with breaks. and knocked off. I refused to work in the afternoon heat with the crew.
I had an idea recently of making old hard hats into shades for desk lamps. I think it is a winner.
Kris Morgan, post: 379540, member: 29 wrote: Yes you can. I ain't Chris LeDoux and I don't rodeo so wearing those painted-on britches is for the birds. I like the relaxed fix Wranglers or Cinch Green Label. The rest of it is for the birds. 🙂
I like Cinch too. I didn't say tight fitting like you see in Urban Cowboy, tight fitting jeans are no good, but a good fitting pair of 13MWZ's do it for me. A lot of the rodeo hands back in the day wore tight britches, If you go to a rodeo these days you don't see the painted on jeans on the participants much. Chris LeDoux Rocked!!
Had to wear a hard hat working on an airport taxiway. I really didn't think it was going to help if something fall out of the sky. Just another case of zero tolerance equaling zero common sense.
We used to cover our hard hats with decals and customize them. Then some purist supervisor told us that if an accident occurred, we were not going to be covered since we had "altered" the hart hats. Took the fun out right there.
Lee D, post: 379532, member: 7971 wrote: Unfortunately we're also often required to wear FRC
Fire resistant clothing?
Kris Morgan, post: 379540, member: 29 wrote: Yes you can. I ain't Chris LeDoux and I don't rodeo so wearing those painted-on britches is for the birds. I like the relaxed fix Wranglers or Cinch Green Label. The rest of it is for the birds. 🙂
Chris LeDoux?
Chris LeDoux was the real deal, good guy 🙁
Jim Frame, post: 379548, member: 10 wrote: Fire resistant clothing?
yup
Jim Frame, post: 379548, member: 10 wrote: Fire resistant clothing?
Yep.
