Chainsaw gloves - who wears them

[jrose]

I don't wear chainsaw gloves, in the summer I rarely wear gloves except when strimming. In the winter, there are warmer, more hard wearing, thorn resistant and more generally comfortable gloves to be had!

 

As far as I'm concerned, having cold, wet, slippy, scratched hands which are cut resistant is far more of a hazard than having nice warm dry gloves where you can work comfortably, but which won't stop a saw.

[Sam Thompson]

Tutors, students, gardeners and homeowners are about the lot that I have seen wearing them. Dangerous, expensive and pointless!

[David Goss]

must admit i do wear them more as a habit from my utility days than anything else i guess, plus they are way better with the thorns than any of your sticky gloves. I must say they are way overpriced and i should stop buying them i guess.

[hazzygawa]

I brought a pair of those chainsaw forearm protectors when I first started. Wore them one or two times and that was it. I think I liked the colour. Pointless. Like the gloves.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

No never. If anything, I think they are more dangerous than a good modern pair of grippy rubber gloves. They are slippery in the wet, hard and brittle once they've dried out, utterly unnecessary, and 5 times the price of a good rubber and textile glove.

 

Jonathan

 

 

My thoughts exactly:thumbup1:

[eddiegts]

I have cut my hand open (down the side of right hand) when the chain came off a 441 ( I had a chain catcher on) hurt like hell but never cut the back of my hand. I wear normal gloves towa powergrab plus

[Tree Man Tom]

Gloves are a balls ache. Wore them for my cs stuff but never again after that.

[likeitorlumpit]

used to wear them filled with the knowledge that cs31 gave me but now feel they are generally too expensive though make it easier to put the chain brake on when you move about- not so painful on the back of my hand

[treemeup]

I thought they were designed before the chainbrake was introduced, hence the location of the protection. Grippy's all the way!

[Mark James]

Never chainsaw gloves just descent gloves, I spend more time taking them off and then back on, handy in the cold when logging up but not for general work.