What do you do for gloves?

Atlas blues here too. Only if the wood is particularly splintery. I normally wear no gloves and the wife seems to prefer that my hands appear to have been used.

For grabbing a hand full of blackberry vines with their half inch thorns, I wouldn't use the atlas blues. I would rather ruin cheap leather gloves. Really though, get the tractor and brushhog to turn those thorny vines into brown dust. Way better.

I have had pretty good luck with the rubber palmed cotton gloves that Home Cheapo sells. I don't know what the brand is, but 3 pair are $10 and they seem to hold up better than any leather gloves I have used.

Seems like I'm one of the few who likes the cheapo leather, typically sold in multi-glove packages. For whatever reason, I seem to get lots of hours from a pair, and when they eventually get holes in the fingers, duct tape patches send them right back into action. Finally when there's too much tape, they get sent to "dirty job" duty. There are at least 2 (and probably lots more) of these that look the same, but the better ones have thicker leather. The thicker, more durable ones that I like (#72425) are from Midwest Gloves, a company based in Missouri. But, this particular glove is made in :-/hina . I tried their web site (www.midwestglove.com) to see if they make anything like this style in the USA, but I think the www stands for world's worst website, and I gave up on it. Please post if you know of a US company actually making these cheapo leather gloves here.

Sorry not much help but I work part time at a veterinary hospital and they had these grooming gloves that came free with some product but no one wanted them so I got about 300 pair free, they are basically cotton gloves with those little grip beads on em, hold up well and my hands are fat and have good circulation so no problems with cold. I figure these should last at least ten to twenty years at the rate I wear em out.