Best Logging Helmet System

[VTLogSlayer]

The best helmet system that i have found is made by Pacific Helmets.  Super strong kevlar...which is kinda expensive but well worth it.  My roommate has one for tree climbing, and i will be getting one for x-mas this year.  You can find them  at www.sherrilltree.com.  You have to order the muff and visor system separately but definitely a top of the line helmet.

[okie]

My vote is for the husky. I wear one at work, works great and is 10X's more comfortable than some of the others they have bought us. I really ought to buy me one for when I am milling and felling trees but I am cheap and get earplugs for free.

[rebocardo]

The main feature I have come to appreciate most is the face screen, I used hard hats and muffs for a long time, but, once I started using the face screen I never went back to the old way.

Much less ends up on your glasses and when you are cutting a log with the saw in the vertical with the bar end down it really cuts down on the amount of stuff you eat. Plus, it really saves on branches and wild flora catching you in the face, plus, helps on keeping the ivy bits off your face.

I always wear muffs, no plugs, because it really cuts back on the bugs, both annoying and biting, from getting in and on your ears. Removing them multiple times in an hour, to hear someone else or to hear a tree as I am making the final cut, would just invite shoving something foreign back into my ear with the plug.

[VTWOODKID]

I have a stihl helmet and i dont like it. The ear muffs on it flop around and when the shield is up it sticks out a mile. My dad has a husky helmet and i use that at home. Much more comfortable, better ear muff fit, and nicer shield.

[SouthernVT LawnLogger]

I have purchase the New Zealand Pacific helmet and i love it.  i will not think twice about getting one.  they are the most rugged helmet i have ever used.  the Peltor ones are nothing compared to this one with a much more compact helmet for any use.  I use mine as a climbing helmet.  With the adjustable back you can put a light weight hat on under it and tighten it down to were it is comfortable.  going to school in the Adirondacks its nice to have a warm head when it is -20 out.  the visor on it comes down and protect you from particles coming up under your face mask.  i think it was one of the greatest purchases out of any.  I actually dropped it out of a tree over the summer from about 80 feet and once i got it back at the top of the tree it didn't even look harmed.  i would recommend it to any one.  it is way stronger than either husky or the peltor.  More and more people are starting to invest in them due to better assets the helmet has.

[beenthere]

Welcome to the forum..SouthernVTLawnLogger

Do you have a pic you can post of the helmet...with you wearing it?

Would like to see it with a hat underneath too..

thanks. 

I see our Sponsor Bailey's has these Pacific helmets listed online.

[timberfaller390]

finally got around to ordering my bugz-eye goggles to go with my skull bucket, should be here by the end of the week.

[SouthernVT LawnLogger]

i am sorry i can not up load the  photos if you would like pictures i could email them to you.  sorry for the inconvenience

[chevytaHOE5674]

When felling I wear a older Mac-T aluminum hat with a new ratchet suspension system in it. I wear ear plugs and safety glasses as well.

When I'm up in the tree i have a Petzl helmet.