Climbing gloves?
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Here's a glove hack that I learned while I was on a winter camping trip.
Instead of cutting off the finger tips of the thumb and forefinger to maintain fine use make a vertical slit in the inside face of the glove.Make the slit on the vertical face not on the top end. Make the slit large enough to poke your finger out like a turtle. No need to do more than thumb and forefinger
The slit will self-close maintaining heat and protection.
Instead of cutting off the finger tips of the thumb and forefinger to maintain fine use make a vertical slit in the inside face of the glove.Make the slit on the vertical face not on the top end. Make the slit large enough to poke your finger out like a turtle. No need to do more than thumb and forefinger
The slit will self-close maintaining heat and protection.
What's the rationale with cut resistant (kevlar, my buddy used them in a glass factory and gave me some)? Wouldn't the teeth of a handsaw just protrude through the fuzz and get you anyway? And I have a story about a chain tooth snagging fiber on my glove and pulling my finger into the chain - my bad - but wouldn't the tough kevlar fiber exacerbate that hazard?
Matias
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There's a lot of variables in the multitude of gloves and scenarios, among them, what type of cutting hazards the materials are designed for
ghostice
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I'd vote for the Showa's as well. I did try cheaper rubber coated grippy gloves one summer, that looked kinda the same, but these kept eventually coming apart between the thumb and forefinger and from time to time got jammed into the throttle trigger on the husky top handles, a couple of times leaving the saw running wide open throttle after a cut. Needless to say not the safest as I tried to get the glove rubber bits unstuck and the saw shut down amid rope and lanyards. In one case it actually was so stuck it almost took the glove off to rip it outta there. So now I stick to tried and true name brand gloves (I use the insulated ones in winter). Cheap ones were relegated to gardening.
I wrote elsewhere in another buzz thread about a glove rubber bit getting sucked up into a zigzag once - a cheapie as well.
I wrote elsewhere in another buzz thread about a glove rubber bit getting sucked up into a zigzag once - a cheapie as well.
Got a pic Alan. Sound like a good glove. I never use them but occasionally a nasty job comes up that could use them.
These are the ones I use they have several different styles, and looks like others have posted their preference for different styles. They have most of them on Wesspur website. Prefer to support arb companies but got a deal on a big pack of them off eBay last, very affordable for how well they hold up.
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Used those for years when I started climbing. They were very durable.
I don't know if these gloves are worth a flip, but for $0.92/pair at Lowe's this morning I thought I'd try a pair.
They also had Mechanix Wear Fastfit on sale for $4.17. Got a pair of those to try as well.
I wear out a lot of gloves doing outdoor work and I'm not convinced the that high dollar gloves ($30-50) really hold up that much better.
They also had Mechanix Wear Fastfit on sale for $4.17. Got a pair of those to try as well.
I wear out a lot of gloves doing outdoor work and I'm not convinced the that high dollar gloves ($30-50) really hold up that much better.
I've used one that have a similar looking rubbery stuff it falls apart pretty quick and doesn't last very long even just stored in the truck. Those grey ones I posted have the best life cost for thinner gloves I've used so far 2$ a pair typically get at least 3 days out of them.
I just switched in a new pair of Atlas Showa 451's (which is the new name for the grey Atlas ThermaFits) for my last holdout pair of thermafits and can confirm that they slightly changed the shape of the glove IMO to a bit looser fit in the finger tips and/or possibly a tiny bit longer fingers.
Hard to imagine only getting 3 days out of gloves, the atlas gloves are only $3 or less if you get a package deal and last a good bit longer
The fit on the atlas gloves I've used isn't as good and you lose more dexterity from my experience. Those firmgrips are close enough to no wearing gloves the only time I take them off at work is to eat and even then I forgot sometimes. To me for less than a dollar a day I'm totally ok with the cost.
Right on yeah different experiences for sure for myself there isn’t enough loss of dexterity to make a noticeable difference with the atlas fits. I only use gloves when I have a need for a little extra protection and when I used the firm grips I felt like i might as well just not be using gloves at all and fell apart in a single climb. To each their own though if it works for you.
There are different coatings for the firm grips, the ones I posted are good the others are absolute garbage, homedepot is the only place that sells those ones I tried to find them in bulk online but they're a home depot exclusive.
Barc Buster
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Agree the 451s are definitely different than they used to be.
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- Sonoma county
I just started using the Pfanner gloves. I like them a lot for climbing, good grip for pulling rope and good dexterity. They probably wear somewhat quick so I only use them climbing
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