wearing gloves

[brandoro]

All this talk about being naked without your gloves reminded me of something I came across a while back

 

[Bird]

There was a time, way back in the dark ages, when I wore both a class ring and a wedding band. But on December 29, 1965, I was the passenger in a police sedan when we hit a tree head on hard enough that the impact broke my seat belt so I still stuck my head into the windshield (thank goodness that uniform cap saved my face and eyes), my feet were jammed into the floor hard enough that both feet were black and blue even on the tops of my feet, I had a broad nearly black strip across my lower abdomen where the belt had been, and both hands hit the dash. Someone at the hospital took my rings off (for which I'm grateful). It was over a month before the swelling went down in my hands and fingers enough that I could get those rings back on, but I haven't worn them since, and have no intention of ever wearing a ring again.

 

[RobJ]

With gloves, clothes, etc getting pulled into a chainsaw sounds like the safest way is to play lumberjack in the nude!! OK maybe some briefs to tie up loose ends...

As for me?

Cutting with a saw I do not wear gloves.
moving wood I do, ever grab a spider or scorpion?
Metal work I wear gloves - I'll still grab a hot piece of steel bare handed from time to time.
Mechanic work, use to never wear a glove, these days I have several of the pair Soundguy mentioned and use them in really greasy jobs. most of the time I do not. As a mechanic I never liked the finger-tip-less gloves either. To add these days I'll put on a long sleeve t-shirt when working on things. It helps to keep the dirt/grease off the arms making it easier to clean up later.
Working/riding the tractor, no gloves.
Hunting, bow, gun, wear gloves. 90% of the time the wool GI leather glove liners($5 at the Army surplus) are warm enough down here. During the bow season I may switch to cotton. Gloves help keep the bugs off the hands to. No problem holding the bow and using the release.

and if it's really cold outside...I wear gloves to!

Rob

 

[Blackbird_BX]

I'm definitely a convert to wearing work gloves just about all of the time.

I hardly do anything outside the house anymore without wearing a pair of gloves. Having found gloves that fit tight without binding has a lot to do with it. I bought a pair synthetic leather mechanic's gloves at Sears for working on equipment in the unheated barn. They keep the hands cleaner, warm and cut down on the minor cuts and abrasions. Since then I found a pair of cheap synthetic leather gloves (Case promotional item) at the Kubota dealer for $8.00 that I wear most all the time (have to go back and get a couple spares) The synthetic leather gloves fit better than any leather gloves I've ever owned and the only time I think about leather gloves is when I need heavier protection, like welding.

I wish I had been wearing the leather gloves a few weeks ago when I got my right index finger crushed in the log splitter . Didn't break any bones, but it split the skin open, requiring 6 stitches and it's still swollen pretty bad . Heavy leather might have saved me the stitches. I don't want to know what the damage would have been if I hadn't been wearing gloves.

 

[mrutkaus]

I get 100% Kevlar gloves of various kinds on ebay and find them useful; they will take a brief stint at a 4" grinder without hurting you.

Also have $100 "Draggin Jeans" partially lined with Kevlar, got for motorcycle but most use was in church parking lot where I tripped and dore the denim but not the kevlar in the knee.

Mike

 

[firemanpat2910]

I am getting better at wearing gloves (and Glasses) but I still do alot of stuff with the gloves on truck, instead of on the hands. Its funny though, let me catch my 23 yr old "little girl" doing any work with out gloves and glasses and I go off. I lose more gloves that way than any other.

 

[Beavis]

Wish I would have had my gloves on today.........Doing some metal cutting with a 4 1/2" grinder when it kicked back and walked up my finger.

 

[davitk]

We love pictures

owie. Glad you're alright.

 

[wushaw]

Wish I would have had my gloves on today.........Doing some metal cutting with a 4 1/2" grinder when it kicked back and walked up my finger.

Gloves may have helped you from getting stitches but probably not from getting cut.
That .045 cutting wheel will go through gloves real darn quick, I have a small scar that reminds me of that fact.

 

[Rara Avis]

Gloves will not protect against a Hydraulic Injection Injury
Finger that has been lanced in attempt to save the finger and the hand. The injury was caused by a high - pressure injection of hydraulic fluid. If there is a pinhole leak in the hydraulic line and someone runs there hand along it, at 2000 psi, they can easily incur and injection of hydraulic fluid and may not even be aware that it happened until gangrene begins to set in. Use cardboard held above the line to check for leaks.

 

[EastTexFrank]

I must admit that when I was younger I thought that only a wuss wore gloves. Now that I'm older and wiser, I wear gloves for many, if not most, things. I have them in every vehicle and tractor, in every shape and size from kevlar, through deerskin to triple heavy weight leather. I just got tired of going to the emergency to have wood splinters and shards of metal dug out of my hands and fingers. I can usually do a pretty good job digging them out on my own but sometimes you just need outside help and when you go there, they always want to shoot you full of all kinds of stuff.

In fact, this past Christmas, a friend said he was so tired of seeing me all scratched up all the time, (I was clearing brush and vines at the time), that he gave me some kevlar forearm covers that work great when swinging the chain saw or getting into the thick stuff. No, when the bury me, my body may be all worn and broken but my hands and fingers are going to be as soft as a baby's bottom.

 

[psj12]

When I was in the Coast Guard and worked on a coastal bouy tender in Hawaii we were not allowed to wear gloves. The chains and bouys were covered with coral and shredded our hands. Eventually our hands became very callused and scarred. The thought, at the time, was that if the glove got caught in something like a chain or cable it would drag you overboard and down under.
As recent as March 07 I caught a glove in my metal lathe while turning a rifle barrel. It sucked my hand into the work up to my knuckles and wrapped my fingers, backwads, around the barrel barrel breaking all my fingers backwards and splitting the fingers open on the palm side of my fingers. It was just like breaking a chicken wing backward. Luckly for me the gloves were mostly fabric and it tore off of my hand before sucking me in any further. I actually posted a rather grizzly photo of my hand after the first surgery, on this, and maybe another chinese tractor site. After two surgerys and 4 mounths of PT I still cannot make a fist or straighten my fingers fully. I thank god for the talent of the surgeon that saved my fingers.
I cannot weigh in on the gloves or no gloves argument but believe me I give some deep thought as to wether I should or should not wear gloves on any particular project. As important is what type of glove is called for.

 

[TwinWillows]

I wear gloves for everything but using the drill press or lathe & have/leave many pairs laying around the house/shop/vehicles/barn etc so I don't have any excuse not to wear them. Even with this I recently was using a wire wheel on a 4 1/2" angle grinder & had a piece of wire shoot into my wrist just behind the cuff of my glove - so for that kind of thing I now use a pair of golves w/a longer gauntlet.

I also take my wedding ring off & put it in by mechanic chest when working in the shop on heavy stuff.

@ work, one of the top 5 construction companies in the US, the safety innitiative this year is hand safety - something like 80% of our medical treatment cases are hand injuries so now everyone must have gloves with them @ all times. They project this will save many hundred thousand $'s a year not to mention having workers go home the way they came to work.

 

[davitk]

I also take my wedding ring off & put it in by mechanic chest when working in the shop on heavy stuff.

I wear my wedding ring probably three times a year and tell the wife it's so I can hit on the hot chicks at the lumber yard (I am a carpenter by trade and proudly sport ten complete digits)

 

[Deere Hunter]

I wear gloves for the most part as well. I recently bought a pair of the Mechanix-type gloves with the leather padded palm, and rubber padding at the knucles. Being the type that when I touch a wrench, my knuckles will bleed, I love these things. Of course, they are extremely tight-fitting, as I buy the proper size, but unlike my leather work gloves, I can actually work with nuts and bolts, button my jacket/shirt, etc. Very nice gloves, but sorta expensive.

And, the Stihl and I did this over the past two evenings, five 16' trailers of branches along with a truckload of firewood, with the Mechanix gloves on.

The only parts of me that aren't scratched to pieces are my hands. Durn a live oak branch. I can now cut the grass under them with the finish mower.

 

[Beavis]

Gloves will not protect against a Hydraulic Injection Injury
Finger that has been lanced in attempt to save the finger and the hand. The injury was caused by a high - pressure injection of hydraulic fluid. If there is a pinhole leak in the hydraulic line and someone runs there hand along it, at 2000 psi, they can easily incur and injection of hydraulic fluid and may not even be aware that it happened until gangrene begins to set in. Use cardboard held above the line to check for leaks.

OMG...I didn't need to see that.