How many Rights?

[Magicman]

Is enough, or even too many?  I am re-loading my truck with all of the sawmill stuff and looking at the old gloves that I last used decided that I had better break out another pair.  I have a "glove" bag in the truck where I carry several new pairs of gloves, both for myself and for tailgunners that do not have gloves.  OK so what is that "right" stuff all about?


 
Yup, inside of my glove bag along with several pairs are five (5) right hand gloves.  Two well used, one slightly used and two new.  Often when I wear a hole in a glove I'll reach into the bag and grab a single replacement and keep on going but I was surprised to find 5 right hand gloves.  I am right handed but I suppose that I let the left hand do all of the dirty work.  :

[alan gage]

Maybe we could have a glove exchange. I always wear out my right glove first from tossing split wood.

Alan

[terrifictimbersllc]

I don't know what to say.  :

[KirkD]

Lefties are the only people with the right hand. 8)

[woodyone.john]

you are made of the right stuff.

[OffGrid973]

What happens when you reach into the bag of left handed gloves, still a 5 count

[terrifictimbersllc]

Happy Halloween 🎃 

[goose63]

 

 

MM if you don't need those right handed gloves Randy could use them and might have a few left handed to trade you   :D :D :D

[jwilly3879]

Work with a mason that would just put them upside down on the opposite hand.

[Greyman]

You're all right...   ;D

[WV Sawmiller]

Lefties are the only people with the right hand. 8)

My left handed buddy used to say everyone is born left handed till they commit their first sin then they automatically become right handed. ???


(I thought I had posted this but don't see it so am trying again. If not appropriate and being purged please let me know. I do not mean to offend anyone by accident - I can do enough of that intentionally. ;))

[Magicman]

I give up Ken, your buddy Randy wins. 

That picture reminds us all not to complain about having little because there is always someone that has nothing.

[rjwoelk]

I keep wearing out the first 1 or 2 fingers. So I take the old pair, cut the good fingers off and strip them over the wore out ones and glue them on. They are a little stiff at first but it works.

[Lawg Dawg]

I just bare hand everything...makes em TOUGH!  :D



 

[Crossroads]

That's interesting, I almost always blow out the thumb or index finger on my right hand and I'm right handed. 

[Chuck White]

I wear mine out just like Crossroads, thumb and index finger on my right glove, I'm right handed.

[thecfarm]

Hang onto them!! Seem like mine go like that,than I have the lefts. ;D 

[Magicman]

Strangely my left middle finger always wears through first, and almost always in that spot.  


 
I guess it is the strongest finger on my left hand and gets the most wear when picking up boards.

[SawyerTed]

I must be amphibious!  :D  There's no rhyme or reason the way my gloves wear out!   :D :D

[justallan1]

Turn them inside out and you'll have 5 left hand gloves.
Years ago pulling green chain, if I couldn't find mittens I'd use gloves. Gloves just didn't hold up, so we'd find two that were good, turn one inside out and have a pair of brand new gloves.
I also learned that with the price of Levi's, sexy or not, leather aprons are worth gold! 8)

[WV Sawmiller]

Lawg Dawg,

   I find not using gloves just tenderizes my hands so skip the toughening process. ;) I use cheap HF gloves as I find they tear up just as fast as the $15-$20 White or Brown mule or other high cost brands. I was moving some 8/4 LE slabs the other day and smashed one down on a bed rail. Boy did it hurt. Then I got to thinking how much more it would have been hurting without the glove on that hand.

[Magicman]

I do not saw without gloves.  Ditto; steel toe boots, dust mask, eye & ear protection, hat, and my ever present leather waist apron.

[Jeff]

I must have the same quirk as Magicman.   I went to get a pair of gloves out of the truck while sawing in the U.P.  and only found right handed gloves. probably 4 or 5, and not a one left to go with them.

[redbeard]

Same situation here, I have a drawer full of Rights and scared too toss them because the lefts will show up and then I will be back in same boat.

[terrifictimbersllc]

Today I was organizing stuff in the garage and decided to go through a bag full of old gloves. It was a delightful mixture of fungus, mildew and mold. 

I had 7 right hand gloves with no mate.
And 1 left hand glove with no mate.

What is going on?  I am right handed.  I think I probably take off the right hand glove when working much more than the left hand glove.  Does this mean I wear out the left ones first?  

Maybe we can hear from some lefties about their glove inventory.
And is this reversed for you folks "down under" ?

I think it is time to start a poll.

[Magicman]

OK, I flipped a right and made a wrong.


 
Of course that now means that the right is smooth and the left is swede and probably will wear out quicker and I will still have more rights than lefts. ;D

No glove wears correctly anyway until it has been wet and dries to fit.

[SawyerTed]

FWIW, I've been getting good service from ULINE goat skin gloves.

[Jeff]

Can you buy just lefts?

[SawyerTed]

I'm sure you can.  The rights come free!   :D :D

[Treehack]

Maybe it's time for a FF glove exchange.  Swipe right if yer lookin' for rights, swipe left if yer lookin' for lefts.  Jeff could be the matchmaker. :D

[Brad_bb]

Seems like a lot of Lefties on here (me included).  Maybe it's time for a poll for sawyers - lefty or righty.  Who knows maybe more lefty sawyers than righties.  10% of the population is supposedly left handed.

[terrifictimbersllc]

This mill is for them .  



 

[justallan1]

I'm a lefty, but I generally wear out the right handed gloves faster.
When fencing my pliers are in my left hand, I generally swing a hammer lefty, hold a torch or welder lefty. Basically, my right hand gets the abusive jobs.
FYI, I eat with both hands, but only wear gloves when it's my own cooking! ;D ;D

[Jeff]

Jeff could be the matchmaker.

You don't want me to do that.

Several years ago, Steve Beecraft (Burlkraft) came over and went out deer hunting with me in the U.P. On our way out of the woods that morning, He said! Hey look, you must have dropped your jersey gloves under that tree, and started over towards them.  I let him get almost there, and said UMMM...  I wouldn't pick them up if I were you...:D   That year for Christmas he sent me a box full of new pairs of brown jersey gloves.  Funny thing was, we both became acutely adept at spotting stray gloves laying in places they should not be, and several times we would call each other just to say we had spotted a glove.:D

[rjwoelk]

Seems like a lot of Lefties on here (me included).  Maybe it's time for a pole for sawyers - lefty or righty.  Who knows maybe more lefty sawyers than righties.  10% of the population is supposedly left handed.

Well thats a relief, at least 10% of those on the forum are in their  right mind. ;D

[alan gage]

Several years ago, Steve Beecraft (Burlkraft) came over and went out deer hunting with me in the U.P. On our way out of the woods that morning, He said! Hey look, you must have dropped your jersey gloves under that tree, and started over towards them.  I let him get almost there, and said UMMM...  I wouldn't pick them up if I were you...:D   That year for Christmas he sent me a box full of new pairs of brown jersey gloves.  Funny thing was, we both became acutely adept at spotting stray gloves laying in places they should not be, and several times we would call each other just to say we had spotted a glove.:D

I don't get it. But I also don't know that I want someone to explain it. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Alan

[Hilltop366]

So..... do you take the jersey glove off before using it in the woods or.... never mind, I don't want to know. :D

[Brad_bb]

I don't get it either, Why shouldn't he have picked up the gloves?  If it was deer season, it couldn't have been a snake...

[terrifictimbersllc]

Glove is better than nettles or poison ivy. 

[mike_belben]

I don't get it either, Why shouldn't he have picked up the gloves?  If it was deer season, it couldn't have been a snake...

Worse, brown trout.

[WDH]

A man has to go when he has to go   

[Jeff]

Glove is better than nettles or poison ivy.

You gots that right! :D
Now why might a guy abandon a pair of Jersey gloves while being in the woods and warn a buddy away from them if he found them? I like Jersey gloves. Multifaceted.

[Hilltop366]

Well I didn't give the shirt off my back but I did give the pocket off my shirt once to a friend in need.

[Jim_Rogers]

My father was a deer hunter and he said to never use white toilet paper in the woods as someone might think its a white tail deer and shoot you.
They did have some orange tp once.
Jim Rogers

[mike_belben]

my uncle had a shirt with a peculiar square cut out of the chest region this one time. 

personally i think as soon as you drop a stinker your hunt is pretty much over unless you are inundated with little bambies and button bucks.  one whiff of me in rifle season and theyre outta there. 

[WV Sawmiller]

My father was a deer hunter and he said to never use white toilet paper in the woods as someone might think its a white tail deer and shoot you.
They did have some orange tp once.
Jim Rogers

Jim,

   I was working a project in eastern Ohio many years ago and one of my co-workers there told me a local lady got killed because she answered the call and had on white undies and some idiot shot her when she saw the flash of white in the brush.

[Outlaw]

I've lost sleeves and a few socks. But never thought of a glove!!

[SawyerTed]

I had to stop the truck on a trip and let a buddy head to the woods.  He wore a t-shirt into the woods and came out wearing a tank top.  

[Magicman]

You guys are killing me.  :D

I wore the "one inside out", and the other "right side in" pair today and they worked OK.  At least I now know how to make a pair out of two rights.  ;D

[Autocar]

I am left handed and I must have a dozen good right hands and worn out left hands. I use to trade my right for lefts to a tractor repair place but seems like I don't get over there like I use to.

[WDH]

I don't care what you say about a glove in the time of need.  Still does not seem to me to be "gentle".   That is why my stock of left = my stock of right :D. 

[Jeff]

I wore the "one inside out", and the other "right side in" pair today and they worked OK.  At least I now know how to make a pair out of two rights.  ;D

Not an option for the ones I left in the woods.

[goose63]

Glove is better than nettles or poison ivy.

My brother can tell you why you should not use poison ivy  ;D  ??? ;D

[Magicman]

 

 
Here is the one "inside out" and the other "right side in" pair after two day's sawing.  I am OK with that, plus it beats an amputation or a hand graft.  ;D

[Magicman]

In Reply #19, @justallan1 made the suggestion to turn a right inside out to make a left as seen the the reply above.  So yesterday I noticed that my right thumb was getting tender so I looked and sure enough, I had blown out the thumb. 



The funny thing is that the right glove that I turned inside out to make a left glove is still going strong.  There has gotta be something good about that.  I have plenty of right replacements but who knows, I just might take some dental floss and stitch that thumb up for a few more Mbf of sawing.  ;D

[Jemclimber]

There is something about being in the woods, and hunting, that works like a laxative. Maybe the excitement, IDK.  It's the reason I always have supplies in my pocket. Even if I took care of business in the morning, round 2 is sure to hit after I get to my stand.

A man has to do what a man has to do. So what can a man do if a man can't do what a man has to do.  Use a glove. lol

[terrifictimbersllc]

can someone post a video of how to turn a glove inside out please 

[justallan1]

Turning a glove inside out can be interesting for darned sure. :D
You'll find using a stick, an airhose or both will make it bunches easier.