Work shirt recommendations

[biggun]

Butch, whats the issue with cotton?

I must be so ignorant on the content of my clothing, I have no idea or never looked at the make-up of a teeshirt.

I do like Merino wool thermals in the winter though.

 

[woodslinger]

+1 on the merino wool. I like them even better than under armor cold gear

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

I like the Gildan 50/50 shirts. I'm trying to decide between an order of them in dark green or maybe trying some hi-vis shirts. Right now we just wear vests when they make sense. I think the hi-vis tees would get filthy quick.


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A question of safety versus looking like a clean tree worker, IMO.

I have a hard enough time seeing guys anyway, while orchestrating the whole job. This was the best view of the groundie during the whole tree, down in the hole where I stripped dead wood off a live tree for a high TIP for the neighboring dead one.

Once he was 10' to the side from this position, i could hardly see him through the foliage.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Funny how most the ground guys think we can just see them from up there no matter... I constantly am saying... I can't see you... I can't see you so you are going to have to make sure you ARE clear. It's a jungle down there.. sometimes.

 

[MasterBlaster]

This thread suffers a bit from the fact that we work under so different conditions.

Hot is hot, cold is cold, wet is wet... it's all the same.

Butch, whats the issue with cotton?

When you sweat, cotton glues to your skin and dries out quite poorly. A 50/50 blend doesn't do that, and a wicking fabric works even (although it can get stanky) better.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

I think its different. Staying warm and not going hypothermic in the woods, in winter, logging, fighting frostbite is different than your cold, Butch. My cold is wet, 33 and raining and windy.


I don't wear rain gear much. My way is generally warm and wet. Sweat and/ or rain.

I'm a synthetic-type, myself. Couple poly/ fleece shirts/ sweatshirts, synthetic thermals, and synthetic arborwear pants in winter.

Summer, just one layer. Summer here is Nothing like yours. Probably closer to your winter (though I am looking to get cool vests this summer).

http://www.wesspur.com/clothing/high-visibility-work-wear.html

Cheap, and Class II for something... I don't know what Class II satisfies, legally.



("What do the Performance Classes mean?
Garments are classified as Performance Class 1, 2 or 3 depending on the total area of visible background and retroreflective material. The amount of required visible material increases with each Peformance Class. Performance Classes give users a way to specify the most appropriate garment for the use environment and hazard.")

 

[stig]

Hot is hot, cold is cold, wet is wet... it's all the same.


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Not really.
If I recommended a shirt to you, you would be sweltering in it, and if you did it to me, I'd be turning blue.
That is what I meant about working under different conditions.

 

[Tucker943]

Humidity shatters the notion that temps are temps and cotton sticks to you. Working in extremely low humidity environments out west, I remember never even having sweat on my shirt because I dried too fast. I'd only know ideas sweating from some salty coloring in the arm pits. South Carolina was quite the opposite. I'd have killed for moisture wick clothing there.

 

[HolmenTree]

I cover all extreme temps. If I do winter ROW work it's down to -40/50 F below to 110 F above in my busy months.
Let's try that for a TV Survivor Series. Probably why I have no competition

This pic is of my comfort element at about 70-75 F above in the spring at the start up of my busy tree season, after a long winter of hibernating.
Over 90F I switch out the Pfanners pants with chaps. I love these synthetic shirts from Bailey's for warm temps...don't stink either. Just keep a dozen on hand.

 

[Tucker943]

How's your average humidity? I think Butch's humidity is enough to soak clothing before you even start sweating. Here, its hit and miss. It can be on the low side often times and can go sky high other times.

 

[HolmenTree]

Lots of humidity here......they don't call Manitoba the Land of 100,000 lakes for nothing.

And our provincial insect is the mosquito

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Not your provincial Bird?

 

[Burnham]

Tree work in short sleeves, no matter what the fabric...not for me. I'm with Bermy, I think cotton weaves breathe and dry pretty well, vs. a knitted item.

Hickory shirts, I say .

 

[HolmenTree]

Come out of the cool PNW and work in high humidity and heat. You'll love short sleeves

 

[HolmenTree]

Not your provincial Bird?

Yeah I was going to go back and edit it to bird but you beat me to it

 

[RopeArmour]

Come on show us them guns dad.

 

[HolmenTree]

Who me or Burnham

 

[RopeArmour]

We've seen you hulkin on the beach recently Holmen. plenty enough :/

 

[RopeArmour]

Sleeveless as soon as I can, skins in byards. I could care less about shirts when it hot and humid if the neighbourhood isn't all uppity and shit.

 

[Burnham]

Come out of the cool PNW and work in high humidity and heat. You'll love short sleeves

Oh, I like the coolness of a short sleeved shirt in the summer plenty as much as the next guy or gal, but not enough to overcome my aversion to cuts, abrasions, and pitch. So I put up with the long sleeves in hot weather in my own self interest. No different than long pants, imo.

It's just the way I was trained, like using a helmet or hardhat, and gloves, and hearing and eye pro, etc.

 

[stig]

Same here.

 

[HolmenTree]

Well it's all relative how hard you work in the heat. Upper body where all your vital organs are doesn't need to be sealed up causing overheating when it should have extra ventilation through short sleeves with every movement.

In high heat and humidity a short sleeve shirt is PPE.
Now look at my avator pic in Egypt at 100F dry heat, very comfortable with thin loose long sleeve cotton . Tilley hats off for the camera.

 

[Burnham]

I will respectfully disagree, Willard.

To the surprise of neither of us, I'm sure .

 

[HolmenTree]

Yes I guess it's a regional thing Burnham. It sure is nice moderate weather out on the west coast, the many summers I spent out there I can't remember anything over 80F. Easy to get soft out there.

Reminds me of stories my Grandpa told when he immigrated to Saskatchewan in 1900 and took up a 1/4 section of free land and homesteaded it. He was from the northern central area of Norway so he could better handle the prairie extreme temps of -50 below and a few months later 110 above in the summer months...... raising a family in a one room sod shack with dirt floor for the first few years.

But a few of his buddies from coastal Norway couldn't handle one winter of that let alone the summer and headed for the coast of B.C. and ended up working in fish processing plants.
115 years later Grandpa's kin are still doing very well for them selves in this land only for the strong.

 

[Burnham]

Yeah, all these west coast loggers and fisherfolk are a bunch of limp-wristed wussies. I keep forgetting that.

I'll remind you that among my other softy jobs, I worked as a sawyer on firelines all over the West in my earlier years with the Forest Service. Fire season in full Nomex in eastern WA and OR, Montana, or Arizona, or S. CA is no easier than any work you have done, I promise.