10 Top Questions About Chainsaw Chaps and Pants Answered

The use of chainsaw chaps or pants is important.

Really important.

Continuing cases of chainsaw injuries show that there is a real need to educate many chainsaw operators on not only wearing chainsaw protection but also selecting the best chainsaw protective product for their situation, how to maintain chainsaw protective garments and other critical questions.

In this post, we review the most common questions we get asked about chainsaw protection and provide the answers that you need.

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Introducing the Clogger Colouring Book

New Zealand is in lockdown for two weeks more weeks and the Clogger team knows how hard it is to keep kids entertained and we know that it’s even harder for all the older outdoorsy forced to stay at home.

So we decided to publish our first ever (and probably only) colouring book! For young and old, lovers of bold colours or darker ones, this is your chance to recreate Clogger’s most famous PPE in your favourite colours.

Stay safe everyone!

Note: Make sure to share your art with us on social media!

Taking Care of Your Chainsaw Pants and Chaps – A Quick Guide

For most of our clothes, cleaning is a pretty common practice.

For some clothes, we make an exception such as jeans, coats or the ones made with natural fibers like merino.

But what about your chainsaw pants and chaps?

Will washing increase, decrease or have no effect on the protection you will have from your chainsaw pants and chaps?

How should you wash and dry them?

How to take care of your chainsaw pants and chaps?

No worries, we have all your answers here. And if there isn’t, just leave a comment below and we will get back to you!

We also have created an Ultimate Guide post on how to best maintain, clean and repair your chainsaw pants and chaps going into a lot (maybe too much!) detail. 

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The Gen 2 Zero Chainsaw Pants – What’s new?

The Gen 2 Zero Chainsaw Pants are now available for purchase.

And we’re all pretty excited about this launch at Clogger.

We’ve been working on the Zero Gen 2 for months. Getting all the feedback we could on the first generation of the Zero chainsaw pants and thinking how we could improve them. We tested multiple fabrics to make sure this model would be more durable and sent the new Zero to some Arborists to trial.

The main objective was to make them tougher and more durable. We’ve made the changes and to put them to the test under real-life work pressure. The Gen 2 Zeros passed every test that we could think of. And voilà. The Gen 2 Zero is now on the shelf!

But, before getting it, you might wonder: what’s new about the Gen 2 Zero Chainsaw Pants?

Here’s the quick summary.

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5 Unexpected Reasons You Must Wear Fully Fire-Resistant Chainsaw Gear

Safety awareness in the tree industry is increasing. Governments are step by step reinforcing PPE regulations and workshops are being organized all around the world. Yet, not all crew are wearing chainsaw protection adapted to their needs.

But sometimes, we just don’t know what we truly need. With an increasing number of e-commerce websites, the choice is larger than ever and it is easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of information available. Continue reading “5 Unexpected Reasons You Must Wear Fully Fire-Resistant Chainsaw Gear”