Gloves

[billfires]

WVBill, there are 3 pieces of eqiupment I use every time I get on the NH. Gloves, a hard hat (hit my head on roll bar when operating the BH, and wrap around safety glasses (usually dark sun glass type). The glasses have saved my eyes from branches as well as dirt (especially when pulling roots with BH). Just my thoughts on safety items.

Bill C

 

[fishman]

I generally use thinner gloves, like pigskin or split-leather, for most tasks. They are indispensible. I just purchased a pair of chainsaw gloves from Baileys.com that are very comfortable. They have cut-resistent backs and thick leather palms. I believe they were about $15.

 

[Soundguy]

Sounds similar to a game my horse used to play.. It was called, "Guess my weight". While grooming the horse, this particular one would look you in the eye, and then ease his front hoof onto the corner of your foot.. Many a time I have snatched my foot out leaving the shoe, an/or sock still firmly wedged under hoof. My wife use to wear sandals out to the barn, but since playing 'guess my weight' with the horse, she wears boots or at minimum, garden clogs...

Soundguy

<font color=blue>" I hate to think what a 500# tractor implement would do if it dropped on an unprotected toe. "

 

[crawdad]

i keep many different gloves around for specific chores, surgical for changing oils or gassing up 2-strokes,comfortable leathers for mowing or BH work,cheap brown cottons for messy jobs then toss them out, i am a volunteer fireman and have begun wearing my extra set of extrication gloves lately around the shop and wonder why i had not thought about that a long time ago. just my thoughts

 

[Bird]

<font color=blue>i keep many different gloves around for specific chores</font color=blue>

How many is many? I think I'm down to only 5 now./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[Redfisher]

You have to be Carefull around rotating stuff with gloves on.
A guy at work got his glove caught in the big drill press and it ripped most of the meat off his hand.Now they have a picture of his hand on the wall saying Don't wear gloves at the drill press. It was one hell of a mess.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I don't wear gloves much at all. I used to never wear them except for hot things like grabbing stuff I'd just welded.

But after losing the pad on my right thumb when it gets below forty degrees the right hand gets a glove. It doesn't like the cold much.

The work I do puts my hands in places where lots of times an extra eighth of an inch is the difference between "OW!!!" and "Whew! that was close." The cuts and nicks are just part and parcel of life. My kids all learned to count by touching the owies on dad's hands.

By the same token I wear metatarsal protection boots. They cost me a hundred and seventy five a couple to three times a year but I feel naked without them. I haven't smashed a foot since I started wearing them. When folks ask about them I proudly tell them I haven't lost a foot stomping contest since I started wearing them. And I've worked around some pretty big horses too.

Welding and working mean lots of sparks flying. You learn to ignore the tingle they give you. Many has been the time when a dingleberry (little red BB of steel) has landed on exposed skin and there wasn't time or space to do anything but ignore it. Even when the smell of burning flesh almost turned the stomach. It isn't about macho. It's about work.

 

[TerryinMD]

Are extrication gloves what I think they are? /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

To be nice, cleaning up the mess from an accident.

Terry

 

[crawdad]

extrication gloves are basically gloves i wear when you dont need protection from heat or flame.
we dont see alot of structure fires but we do get loads of car wrecks.
extrication gloves are like a heavy duty "mechanix gloves" made by (ringer) i think?
very comfortable,and wear pretty well too ..........and they provide great dexterity w/the fingetips
IMO
any other volunteer fireman out there?
take care,
scott

 

[Soundguy]

I don't weld or cut much, but what always gets me is when milling or using the drill press, without fail, a piece of hot metal will always fly to my arm, etc. I don't wear loose clothes around the milling maching, usually not gloves either, and i dont like to take my eyes off the maching while it is running, so like you, Sometimes you just have to smell the burnt skin cause it may be more dangerous to react to it than to ignore it.

Soundguy

<font color=blue>"Welding and working mean lots of sparks flying. You learn to ignore the tingle they give you. Many has been the time when a dingleberry (little red BB of steel) has landed on exposed skin and there wasn't time or space to do anything but ignore it. Even when the smell of burning flesh almost turned the stomach. It isn't about macho. It's about work. "