Work Gloves

[barbender]

Moodna, I'll look into it more. I found a few places selling them online. My needs are a tough, insulated glove that is water resistant. Not water proof, the gloves that have a waterproof liner are sweat soaked in short order. Just something that doesn't absorb water like a sponge, which all of my current work gloves do👎

[DDW_OR]

 cutting a blowdown
saved my hand


 

[FactorySeconds]

 

 

 

It was time to get a new pair of these guys. Aggressor with Hyperdri. They'll usually last almost all the winter and are fully waterproof despite appearances which means they're great for the windchill too. I sometimes double them up with large mitts should it start to go below -20C but for the most part I couldn't survive winter without them!

[DDW_OR]

...... Aggressor with Hyperdri. .......

$30 USA, not bad


China ??

[moodnacreek]

My beloved goat skin gloves got wet and cold today. If I have to mess with a hydraulic hose and such I try to remember put on some Do it Best cow hide gloves that are indestructible if uncomfortable. I appreciate anyone considering my suggestions but remember I am not out in the woods or on a job site but at my fixed sawmill and work shop with wood furnace and slab burner outside. What luxury, extra gloves, hooded sweatshirts, hats etc. and all hanging near a stove. I also use foot warmers in steel toe boots as ye old Sorrel's hurt my back. The worst is when I absolutely must put on waterproof gloves. There is nothing colder.

[Old Greenhorn]

Moodnacreek, get yourself some wool faller's gloves, they make great liners in the heavy work gloves. I get mine from Madsen's for a few bucks a pair ($4?). I wear them inside cheap gauntlet gloves at the mill or doing firewood on really cold days, they are a godsend. The cotton fallers gloves work OK for slightly warmer temps but wool keeps you warm even when wet, the cotton ones absorb sweat or water and don't. Just make sure they are not too tight, I buy X-large gauntlets for wearing over the fallers gloves to give breathing room.

[Resonator]

Just received my winter's supply of Endura insulated goat skin gloves. Not cheap but cheap in the long run. A power line worker once gave me pair of  a style of these you can not buy as they are spec'd out for working around high voltage.

Gloves worn by powerline workers are spec'd "insulated" primarily for protection against shocks, and may or may not be "insulated" for warmth. They are heavy rubber and as I was told, have to be inflated by the worker regularly to check for leaks. They are often worn with heavy rubber sleeves for further protection when working with live wires. 

[Magicman]

I stopped by HF and picked up 3 pair of their better double palm Hardy gloves yesterday, $7.99.

[SawyerTed]

The best gloves I ever used were given to me by a friend who was a city fireman.  They were almost impossible to damage, waterproof and insulated.  

I wish I knew where they came from.  

[Old Greenhorn]

Ted, firefighters generally have two pairs of issued gloves (at least). One pair are for structural firefighting and general rescue operations. They have a vapor barrier, a Bloodborne pathogen barrier, are insulated against heat and run about $70-90 a pair. They are tough gloves, but I've damaged a few pair. The other pair is for extrication work, they are pretty cut proof and also very tough with a BBP barrier. Not so good at all with water or heat, but man they make good work gloves when taken out of service (or so I have been told  ;D). There are other gloves for tech rescue guys that vary from straight leather rope gloves to something that looks more like a mechanics glove depending on what they are doing.
 I will say the first glove above that we were issued was exceptional. We were working a structure fire in February and we had a dump tank that was full at the end of the fire, the drain sock had fallen inside the tank (bad move by a FNG) and everybody was trying to figure out what to do. It was about 2° or so. I was tired, it was 3am and we had all been slipping around on an ice sheet for 3 hours, so I reached down in the tank up to my arm pits and grabbed the sock, untied it, and drained the tank. It took about a full minute for my coat sleeves and gloves to freeze solid and fuse together. I could not get them off, but I was warm and drove back to the station and warmed up and got help getting out of my gear. Those were good gloves and I hated it when they got cut during an extrication job a few months later. But I did get a new pair when the job was over.

[SwampDonkey]

These are my favorite winter gloves by Wells Lamont. I don't think you'd get the mileage out of them handling wood.

Leather Winter Work Gloves | HydraHyde | Wells Lamont

I think this is there best winter time work glove with goatskin and nylon, insulated. Never tried them though.

Wells Lamont | HydraHyde® Waterproof Grain Goatskin Hybrid Winter Gloves

This is the insulated work glove I use a lot in cold weather. I've never wore a pair out, but I'm not handling lumber. Great chain saw gloves when it's cold. Not water proof or resistant because of the cloth back, but sure feel nice in dry conditions. I don't cut wood in the wet, I get chose my days. ;D

Wells Lamont | Heavy Duty Leather Palm Winter Work Gloves

I wear these on the brush saw, probably 2 pair a year. Not a material handling type glove.

005 Flextime - Watson Gloves

[Walnut Beast]

Look like nice gloves !!

[moodnacreek]

Moodnacreek, get yourself some wool faller's gloves, they make great liners in the heavy work gloves. I get mine from Madsen's for a few bucks a pair ($4?). I wear them inside cheap gauntlet gloves at the mill or doing firewood on really cold days, they are a godsend. The cotton fallers gloves work OK for slightly warmer temps but wool keeps you warm even when wet, the cotton ones absorb sweat or water and don't. Just make sure they are not too tight, I buy X-large gauntlets for wearing over the fallers gloves to give breathing room.

Yes, thankyou. I have military wool glove liners for hunting.  There is a problem here, age. Back when I raced motorcycles I learned about holding on to fat handle bars. Same with tool handles like cant hooks. They have to be small if you really work them all day. Those who disagree will find out when they get arthritis. Same goes for thick gloves.

[FactorySeconds]

...... Aggressor with Hyperdri. .......

$30 USA, not bad


China ??

I wish I knew where they were made but I've tried dozens of gloves especially when I was climbing cell towers in winter. I always came back to these guys. Hopefully the new colour doesn't mean the manufacturing/quality has been changed!

[SwampDonkey]

I actually like thicker handles or I can't hang on to them very well. Small handles is for small handed women folk. ;) We have a certain spoon brand here that mother uses, narrow and thin and can't hold them worth a darn. I always reach for my man handle spoons. :D Undersized tool handles, I get hand cramps. Can't stand a small handled screw driver, no bit of good to me. You have to grip them darn things twice as hard, can't imagine being helpful for arthritis. ;D

[DDW_OR]

 Aggressor with Hyperdri

the largest i can find is XL
i need XXL
palm 10 cm or 4.25 inch
hand length 21 cm or 8.125 inch

[moodnacreek]

I actually like thicker handles or I can't hang on to them very well. Small handles is for small handed women folk. ;) We have a certain spoon brand here that mother uses, narrow and thin and can't hold them worth a darn. I always reach for my man handle spoons. :D Undersized tool handles, I get hand cramps. Can't stand a small handled screw driver, no bit of good to me. You have to grip them darn things twice as hard, can't imagine being helpful for arthritis. ;D

If you could go into a tool shed full of hand tools made before 1950 you would find the handle diameter at least 1/3 rd smaller than to days handles. I grew up with my grand parents tool shed and still have a few items. When I was about 50 and put on gloves and grabbed a screw dog [on a Lane mill] it felt like an electric shock. With the gloves off no so bad. Same with the roll on cant hook. Fishing in Montanna I had to find a hardware store for sand paper to reduce the cork grip on my flyrod. I did not fish or turn logs for a few hours like I do now, I went all day and sometimes til 10 o'clock at night. I where size large gloves. Each to his own but I strongly disagree with you on this subject. I do enjoy and agree with any other posts of yours I have read. Doug

[booman]

After crushing two fingers from a heavy timber coming down on them unexpectedly,  3 stitches in each finger tip, I looked for gloves with steel toed fingers such as steel toed boots.   I actually found some and really like them.   Superior Glove® Endura® Oilbloc™ PinchGuard Driver Gloves *.  I hope I can hype them here.   They have held up well. 

[Walnut Beast]

100 bucks😳! Does anybody have the Vermont work gloves ? They say there worth the money 

[chep]

We have a store local that carries them. I bet they are worth it, I tried then on and they were nice. But dang 100$ is quite a poke 

[Walnut Beast]

That's what I heard. I would like to try and see a pair in person but I'm with you on the 💰

[Otis1]

I have always liked Kinco full leather lined gloves in the winter.  Once they're waterproofed, they last a long time. Less than $30 I think.

[SwampDonkey]

They are nice goat skin gloves for sure. But, I'd never pay $100 for a work glove. Mine would be coated in fir pitch in no time. I'd rather they were $25 ones. :D Wells Lemont ones I use do the trick, pitch and all, and hold up to.  The splitting maul won't slip from your hands with fir pitch on the handle. :D It would have to be going to town gloves for that money. But I'm not riding a buggy with a horse whip, yet. The heater still works in the car. :D But then again anyone doing a lot of material handling wants the best he can get to. ;D