Men who don't wear gloves, step forward.

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frashdog

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Men who don\'t wear gloves, step forward.

I have tried many types of gloves in all weather requiring high level of dexterity. From ropes sticky with white pine sap at 90f+ to icey ropes at minus 30f. I'm a ski patroller. All I have to say is gloves are weak compared to a seasoned set working man's hands. My wife is just fine with my powerful body rubs, she smiles when her friends melt admiring my hands, for real! Most dudes have what I refer to as doughy hands. When we shake they know, they wish they did more then drive A vehicle and type on a key board. Hey, if that's yer deal, so be it. Sure when it is cold you gotta wear them, but when you do not have to, i do not get it. I've tried the sticky smurf gloves that get pinched and melted and the leather that just degrade. Decided I would rather look at what I'm grabbing And use friction some where else, then be upset my gloves were missing.

Btw I have not used shaving cream in over 10 years and a razor lasts me about 6 months. I also heal like a star fish!

Anyone else rock the manly hands?
 
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As long as you and, more importantly, your wife, likes your rough and tough hands...so be it!

I sure don't miss having knicked up hands and infections.

I'll step back now...
 
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As long as you and, more importantly, your wife, likes your rough and tough hands...so be it!

I sure don't miss having knicked up hands and infections.

I'll step back now...

[/ QUOTE ]Wife asks these hands daily.
Looking at them right now, on average I have two to three wounds I like to refer to as karma wounds. You know you hit and rub them on everything until you get the next one. Gotta get it some where you know.
Infections, knock on wood.
 
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Wait till you get older and you have to deal with arthritis, then see how you feel about your manly hands.
 
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I prefer not to wear gloves, except in nasty palm trees, particularly date palms!

My wife's passed away now. But she used to rag me about it big time.

In my mind a good grip keeps me safe, as well as things below me.

jomoco
 
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Wait till you get older and you have to deal with arthritis, then see how you feel about your manly hands.

[/ QUOTE ]I'm kinda old. What kinda arthritis Afects the the skin? I got plenty of it else where.
 
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I'm relatively young and I tend not to wear gloves unless it's cold, or there's blue spruce involved. I tried to wear the sticky's and the wonder gloves, even the neoprene super thin gardening gloves, but they all stink so bad after a week I can't handle it. I'll take the constant wounds. My wife doesn't mind the hands, but the kids won't let me apply their sunscreen.
 
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Arthritis effects your grip. And grippy gloves help to improve that.

Just pointing out that reasons for wearing or not wearing gloves may not be as simple as having manly hands and tough skin.
 
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Had an underwrapped tree wrap and the callouses took the heat. First season with no gloves and I was thrilled to use callouses for friction. Not something I want to repeat though.
 
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I prefer not to wear gloves, except in nasty palm trees, particularly date palms!

My wife's passed away now. But she used to rag me about it big time.

In my mind a good grip keeps me safe, as well as things below me.

jomoco

[/ QUOTE ]Ok there is some wicked spiny scrub Around here we see around farm field edges, I swear it is venomous. If I have to deal with it, I'm looking for welding gloves, but since I'm the boss I usually am doing more important stuff when we see it.

Good point about grip. Albiet stickier, i'll bet one loses squeeze force the thicker the glove. I noticed this whitewater kayaking with neoprene gloves.
 
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Arthritis effects your grip. And grippy gloves help to improve that.

Just pointing out that reasons for wearing or not wearing gloves may not be as simple as having manly hands and tough skin.

[/ QUOTE ]Can't say I ever had a problem with grip. More like wear and tear for me.
 
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No doubt there are a list of trees like monkey puzzle, floss silk, caffra coral, locust etc that only a fool would climb without thick gloves.

But generally speaking I prefer climbing and working most trees without gloves.

jomoco
 
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When I was a framing carpenter in Toronto I never wore gloves any time of the year. This was before nail guns so a handful of nails needed dexterity in order to be productive laying plywood floors and roof sheeting. Callouses and the manly hands were fine until I tried rubbing anything.

Now, I like the grip with nitril gloves. The hands are still tough but just no gnarly callouses.
 
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Had an underwrapped tree wrap and the callouses took the heat. First season with no gloves and I was thrilled to use callouses for friction. Not something I want to repeat though.

[/ QUOTE ]Seen a bro boil a season's callouses off. I pointed to what I was sending and he acknowledged no wraps needed. Weight over a structure. He spent the afternoon with the home owners on the porch watching the show drinking gin and tonics with his hand in a bucket of ice.
 
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I thinking not wearing gloves has helped me especially this year when I got the thumb/palm punture when I was goofin with my son in a tree at the park.

MY tough hands helped to keep it to a nasty wound and not a really nasty wound.

Gloves all the time or not at all. imo
 
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