Husqvarna Technical Forest helmet ?

[Offthebeatenpath]

Reviving this thread to ask a quick question- does anybody know if you can remove the ear pro and the face shield separately on the Husky technical helmet?

I'm looking at possibly getting a few for myself and employees, but I would like the freedom to have only ear or only face protection, depending on the task.

Thanks!

Jed

[John Mc]

Yes, on the Husqvarna Forest Technical Helmet you can remove the hearing protection without removing the visor.  (This is not the case with the Pro Forest Helmet).

Nice to see that the technical helmet finally appears to be becoming available in the US again. After more than a year of shopping around and unanswered emails to Husqvarna about when it might be available (during which time it was still being shown on the Husky US web site), I gave up and ordered one from England off of eBay. (It was also significantly cheaper than what it was and is being advertised for in the US, even after adding shipping.)

[Offthebeatenpath]

Thanks John.

They seem to be readily available again. I'm assuming that you can also take off the visor and keep the muffs on as well too, right?

[John Mc]

I'm assuming that you can also take off the visor and keep the muffs on as well too, right?

That appears to be the case, but I have not tried this myself. The visor is attached at three points on each side. The attachment points are slotted plastic posts which push through holes in the helmet, then expand once through and a barb on the prong latches it in place. I'm not sure it's something I would want to do on a frequent basis, but it can be done. You could also remove the visor and leave just the two arms on the helmet. There is a similar attachment method for clipping the visor to the arms with only two of those slotted posts per side, but it looks tougher to get to - and I don't think I'd want just those arms alone poking up - they'd catch on something and get damaged or ripped off.

The visor itself swings up further out of the way than the the design on the Husky Pro Forest Helmet, so if the need to remove it is a visibility thing, that may not be as much of an issue with this helmet. When it's flipped up, it's just barely in the edge of my vision.

It still baffles me that the selling price in England (and other parts of Europe) including shipping to the US is about 2/3 of the price that they are sold for in the US. Are the US retailers making that much of a killing? They could buy retail from a UK vendor (who has already marked up for their own profit), mark it up almost 50% and resell it here. Or is this something to do with the US' wacky liability laws driving up the price?