So I'm wanting to invest in a great quality, long lasting, and good name structural fire helmet. I've been looking around online and have found that the cairnes helmets are pretty popular. I really like the sam houston or the chicago style cairne helmets. I want a leather helmet too && I'm not worried about prices.
I've only used a helmet with the full 4" shield and I thought that's what I wanted my helmet to have on it but I see a lot with the goggles and bourkes shields on them ... What is better? The shield or bourkes? I think the goggles are cool because they'll keep dust & stuff out of my eyes a lot better than the shield did (good for extrication and overhaul I guess). So I might have answered my own question on which shield is better but I would like some opinions for guys/gals who have been doing this longer than me ....
Suggestions!?