work gloves

[Dean Lofthouse]

My chipper is air cooled which blows air through an oil cooler ontop of the engine, if and I must stress if, my gloves do somehow get wet, I just put them ontop of the oil cooler during tea break after the chipper has been running and they are dry and warm as toast after

[kav]

Hi. Sorry for that slight detour with a first post but does any know of good thornproof(ish). We do loads of blackthorn/hawthorn clearance stuff (digging splinters out now). Chainsaw gloves get trashed too quick for the money and welders guantlets are too think to use a saw confortably and seen too fill up with chip/sawdust. I dont mind shelling out on something if I know they're going to last.

Cheers

[Stephen Blair]

thorns are a night mare mate, i always try and use the pole saw and pitch fork as much as possible

[kav]

Yeah nothing like getting smacked round the back of the legs trying to get a big lump of blackthorn crown in the chipper!

[Mesterh]

Hi. Sorry for that slight detour with a first post but does any know of good thornproof(ish). We do loads of blackthorn/hawthorn clearance stuff (digging splinters out now). Chainsaw gloves get trashed too quick for the money and welders guantlets are too think to use a saw confortably and seen too fill up with chip/sawdust. I dont mind shelling out on something if I know they're going to last.

Cheers

 

Ok this is prob of no use but I had some cheapo (£4ish) leather gloves that had a bit of a fleece lining in. Were really good for hawthorns etc, I think the extra bit of padding helped alot. The leather was fairly soft but surprisingly good:thumbup1:

 

Now If I knew were I bought them it would probably be of some help!

[Mozza]

Hi. Sorry for that slight detour with a first post but does any know of good thornproof(ish). We do loads of blackthorn/hawthorn clearance stuff (digging splinters out now). Chainsaw gloves get trashed too quick for the money and welders guantlets are too think to use a saw confortably and seen too fill up with chip/sawdust. I dont mind shelling out on something if I know they're going to last.

Cheers

 

Welders gaunlets are good, go all the way upto the elbow too, great for thorns

[Mark Bolam]

Ok this is prob of no use but I had some cheapo (£4ish) leather gloves that had a bit of a fleece lining in. Were really good for hawthorns etc, I think the extra bit of padding helped alot. The leather was fairly soft but surprisingly good:thumbup1:

 

Now If I knew were I bought them it would probably be of some help!

 

Dickies do some excellent leather fleece lined gloves, great for thorn work. About £8.

 

You can use them on the ground easy enough, but are too cumbersome to climb in.

[penfold]

when i did my hedgelaying course the old boy who was teaching had a horsehide mitt made for him by a saddler. It might be worth having a word with your local saddler to make a mitt up from either horse hide or chromed leather.

[gingertreeninja]

did electric board work all last year and 90% of the work was thorn hedge reductions. i bought a pair of youngstown anti-vibe xt gloves and they worked a treat. good quality lasted most of the year and would still be going strong if one had not got pulled through the chipper

[kav]

Cheers for the replies. Yeah I reakon AV gloves could be the way to go. I had some SIP one a few years ago and they seemed pretty good