Hard hat styles....

[FTD]

How come "Back East" here we wear partial brim hard hats and "Out West" they wear the Old "Mac-T" and "Skull Bucket" hard hats?  The full brim seem so much more practical?

I just bought a Peltor set up but am considering buying a Skull Bucket.  So much more practical!  I wear glasses and the idea of the swing up screen visor has always been appealing.

[Jeff]

I dont think the skull bucket design allows for the attached muffs and screens. I could be wrong.

[isawlogs]

Can you put the snow/rain shield on the back side of one of those, ???

[FTD]

I found full brim that will allow screen and muffs.  It is plastic and real expensive.  I am just curious why the full brim with ear plugs and safety glasses is so popular out west and virtually unheard of around here and why out west an "east coast" rig is unheard of?  ???

There is a nylon sheet available for the back of a Peltor.

[madhatte]

"Mac-T" for me.  Keeps the rain off in the winter, the sun off in the summer, and the needles outta my shirt year-round.  No plastic.  Holds heat in.  In the winter I often wear a wool hat under my helmet.  Summertime I just wrap a bandana around the suspension to keep the sweat out of my eyes. 

[stumphugger]

I found full brim that will allow screen and muffs.  It is plastic and real expensive.  I am just curious why the full brim with ear plugs and safety glasses is so popular out west and virtually unheard of around here and why out west an "east coast" rig is unheard of?  ???

There is a nylon sheet available for the back of a Peltor.

Because it is the style out here!  Everybody wants to be fashionable.   Actually, the theory is that a full brim will help the limbs bounce off better, and we like it because it helps keep the rain off your neck.  I think an equal amount of guys wear plastic as do the "skull bucket" brand.  The plastic full brims don't cost as much.  The Bullard brand does and has velcro on the back part to attach one of those neck cloth things too.  My hair gets hung up on it. 

An awful lot of guys chew.  Smokiing is a no no in the woods in the Summer and Fall.  So, try spitting with a face screen on? 

[timber tramp]

  FTD- Have'nt you watched ax-men? We wear the full brim because they fly really well ;D ;D

Naw, I wear a skull bucket, safety glasses, and cheapo ear plugs. Full brim keeps rain off the back of my neck.                              TT

[timberfaller390]

I wear a skull bucket, and I live in Georgia

[Kodiakmac]

Funny, 35-40 years ago in the Upper Fraser Valley in BC, we called our full-brims lids or knobbers.  We had a few French fellows from New Brunswick...they called the full-brims 'capote'  (pronounced ka-pot) ... which, I think, is the same word they use for condoms. 

[Skip]

I wear a skull bucket and you can't attach screen and muffs. Was told this week  by "safety man" on pipeline job I'm on NO Metal Hardhats.