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Chainsaw Safety Gear in Johannesburg
Chainsaw safety gear in Johannesburg: garden equipment dealers and safety shops around Johannesburg stock helmets with visors and ear muffs, chainsaw trousers and chaps, boots and gloves. Try trousers and boots on before you buy, and check the EN 381 or ISO 11393 marking.
Want to know more first? Our chainsaw safety gear guide covers the methods, the choices and what affects the price.
Johannesburg notes on equipment & supplies
Hire shops along Main Reef Road and in the south of the city rent petrol chainsaws, towable chippers and walk-behind stump grinders by the day. For the tall canopy in Emmarentia and Parktown, a cherry picker with a 15 m or higher working height is often hired with an operator. Bring your ID for the deposit, and buy cut-resistant trousers and a helmet with a face screen before you start any saw work.
What grows around Johannesburg
Johannesburg is often called one of the largest planted urban forests in the world, and most of that canopy sits in the old northern suburbs. Parktown, Houghton, Saxonwold, Parkview and Melville grew up under plane trees, English oaks, pin oaks, jacarandas and towering bluegums planted a century ago. Many are now old, top heavy and sharing small stands with houses, walls and overhead cables. The shot hole borer beetle has weakened plane trees in parts of the city, and summer thunderstorms bring down limbs that were already dying. Homeowners ask for crown reductions, deadwood removal and sectional felling over roofs. Street trees usually belong to the city, so check with the municipality before anyone cuts a pavement tree.
Who asks for chainsaw safety gear around Johannesburg, most often first:
- Homeowners: a helmet set and chaps for cutting up fallen branches and braai wood
- Estates, complexes and body corporates: kitting out the maintenance team who handle storm clean-up in the complex
- Schools, churches and municipalities: protective gear for municipal parks and school grounds chainsaw users
Local tips for Johannesburg
Tree work, hire and supplies in Johannesburg mostly come from here: teams based in Randburg, Roodepoort and the south, travelling into the northern suburbs. The requests that come up most: sectional felling and crown reduction of century old planes, oaks and bluegums. When you ask for quotes, ask whether the tree is a pavement tree and who has to give permission first.
Chainsaw Safety Gear usually suits anyone running a chainsaw or pole saw, done like this: helmet set, trousers or chaps, boots, gloves. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means a helmet set and chaps for cutting up fallen branches and braai wood. On the weather side: afternoon storms and hail from October to March; dry, frosty winters suit big pruning.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Requests from Johannesburg go to teams and suppliers who already work in Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville and the rest of the area. Mention an estate gate, a narrow driveway or a steep garden, because they change how the job is planned.