wearing gloves

[ejtaylor822]

Unless I am doing something intricate, threading small nuts/bolts, removing small parts, etc., I always wear gloves. During the heat of summer, the gloves help to hold onto things with sweaty hands. Also, being a musician, always doing what I can to protect my hands.

[Iplayfarmer]

My wedding ring has so many dings and scratches that you can hardly tell any more what the original design on the ring was. I've only been married 7 years (and I hope for 70 more).

About gloves...

I work with a lot of people that complain about the gloves they have to wear in our work environment. Without fail, anyone who has complained about gloves making them clumsy or awkward has been wearing gloves that are too big. (Some of the guys around here seem to think that their glove size is somehow tied to their masculinity.)

I buy full grain cowhide gloves, and I buy them a little bit small. It usually takes a warm day of some serious work to really break them in, but once they're broke in, I can easily tie my shoes with them on and even button my jacket.

There are probably some geniune safety concerns with wearing gloves in limited situations, but I'll bet most of the concerns would be eliminated with properly sized gloves.

[djg]

Speaking of jewelry, try shorting a 24 volt aircraft battery to ground with your metal wristwatch band . Unbelievable heat in a very short time. I no longer wear any jewelry, but I do use leather work gloves to hook up 3pt implements.

[cgraham]

Old thread - time for a reminder!!

ALWAYS wear gloves when working with a chain saw, even if the saw is not running (unless you use a chain cover).

A friend just laid the back of his hand open by brushing it over a tooth on a brand new chain, as we were preparing to work! 2" cut, ER, just barely nicked a tendon, stitches, no infection but prolonged swelling. Hand out of operation several weeks. Could easily have been much worse.

I never would have thought a stationary tooth could do such much damage! A REAL good lesson for me.

I think a running chain would not grab the glove, just rip through it. Proper chain saw gloves are probably worth it.

A colleague of mine always wore a bow tie: as a student he caught his long tie in a lathe and barely hit the SSTOP button before it strangled him


If you are experienced, you are at high risk for injury; if you are practiced, you have a lot more chances for exposure to injury (not even counting the danger of overconfidence).

So either way, good protective gear should be used unless conditions counterindicate it.

Charlie

[lovemytoys]

my friend was wearing glove and useing a hammer drill.dont ask me how.the bit caught the glove and pulled off the top of his pinky and started to remove the top of the ring finger .so gloves are not a must for me

[brandoro]

I wear gloves for almost every kind of work and they have saved me from all sorts of cuts and softened some pinches. Good fitting gloves and the right gloves for the job are the key, I think. I have a pair of Kevlar gloves that I use for really nasty jobs, usually full leather gloves the rest of the time. I have also tried a few pair of gloves with synthetic ( washable) palms and knit backs. Pretty good for jobs in the shop where they get greasy or oily, just throw them in the wash with the coveralls.
For the ring question, don't care to wear them very much, had to take one off with the pliers once. Also I'm left handed so a wedding ring turned out to be quite a bad thing when using pliers and pulling wrenches. I also wear watches with non conductive bands, a 12 volt battery in a vehicle will light a metal band up much quicker than you can pull yourself away. Rings too are a risk for that, gold being an excellent conductor.

[Treemonkey1000]

I like to wear gloves working on Pitch type trees when I am chainsawing. It saves cleaning up afterwards. Also there is the protection factor. I wear my hardhat, safety glasses and earplugs. I do tree work from the ground and in the tree so want the odds in my favor. The saw can flip back when you are in a safety harness up in a tree and the limb under tension pops. People wonder why I wear my hard hat when I am on the ground flipping branches into the chipper. The reason is several times other people tossing branches have misssed or the chipper is slapping branches around. I don't have many divots in my head because of the hardhat and both of my eyes because of the glasses. The gloves I like to use are tight fitting leather so that I can tell if I have a good grip or not. The only time I don't wear gloves is on wet alder and maple trees. You can't hold the branches with soggy gloves. Gloves should be worn for cables and chains also. For packing bearings and doing brakes a box of Nitril gloves is one of the best investments from Harbor freight.

[chh]

A cheap pair of leather gloves would have saved me a $1000 ER visit a couple of months ago. I was fooling around trying to fix and old drill press I have had for years. I put pressure up on the handle when and the plastic knob shattered. Ended up with a nice rip and a palm full of plastic shards. 6 stitches, xrays looking for how much junk was in there, tetnus shot and antibiotics brought the bill almost exactly to $1000. I'm self employed so I got to pay the whole bill. The old drill press is in the dump now, I could have bought a new one and a bunch of other tools for that kind of money.

I haven't worn a ring in years. I quit for a while when I got my high school class ring hung on a tractor and started wearing a ring again after I got married until it ended up mashed almost flat on my finger. The first wife didn't like it when I refused to wear one anymore, but my second wife is much more practical. She says she knows we are married without me wearing a ring and would rather have me with all my fingers.

[davitk]

I haven't read the whole thread (slow reader ) so I don't know whether it has been touched on, but properly fitted gloves can increase grip strength, dramatically. Repetitive use injury, such as carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, rotator cuff can be reduced by not gripping as tightly and letting the leather from the gloves do some of the work. Increased grip also lessens the opportunity of dropping an unsafe object (such as a running chainsaw).

I vote "wear the gloves". Beats going naked any day.

[Blagadan]

I always take off my wedding ring before going out and doing some work. I also wear leather gloves all the time, even driving the kubota or lawn tractor, I prefer the grip I get when wearing gloves. Feel kinda naked without them.