ManiacPD said:Does anyone know of a glove that has an elastic wrist cuff but also has a gauntlet? Seems like its one or the other. The elastic is nice to keep saw dust out and the gauntlet keeps from scraping my wrists up.
Thanks
Gooserider said:For what it's worth dept. the Lumberworks chainsaw gloves that I got a while back (if you use the search, you will see a writeup I did on them a few months ago) have an elastic wrist, but it is quite long, I would say that it comes up at least as far as most gauntlet style gloves.
That said, while I think the lumberworks gloves are great chainsaw gloves, I probably wouldn't want to use them as my main wood handling gloves - they are expensive and wood tears the heck out of most gloves. In addition you get a certain amount of extra stiffness from the chainsaw resistant padding.
My preferred gloves for most general wood handling, other than using a chainsaw or swinging a sledge / maul / axe are the Atlas FIT type gloves - a stretch knit fabric glove w/ a rubber coating on the palms and fingers - good protection, very durable, and fairly inexpensive. The Therma-plus version is also quite warm, surprisingly so. They look similar to the ones that Jamess67 mentioned, w/o the cut resistance (which doesn't hurt, but I don't think is that essential for wood handling, and I seriously doubt would meet the standards for use as a chainsaw glove. However they do look like nice gloves, I'm not putting them down!) Again, they have an elastic cuff, but it comes up fairly high, gives some decent wrist protection, but not as good as a gauntlet - however I like the way they fit, so for me it's a worthwhile tradeoff.
If you want serious wrist and arm protection, there is a guy over on Arboristsite that sells some leather sleeves that are designed to be worn sort of like chaps for your arms, and would definitely offer good protection against brush and other abrasion. Never tried them, but they look like they'd work well.
Gooserider
Bigg_Redd said:How are you scraping up your wrists? In a lifetime of wood cutting I can think of only a handfull of times I've ever scraped the inside of my wrists.
Bigg_Redd said:How are you scraping up your wrists? In a lifetime of wood cutting I can think of only a handfull of times I've ever scraped the inside of my wrists.
ManiacPD said:Bigg_Redd said:How are you scraping up your wrists? In a lifetime of wood cutting I can think of only a handfull of times I've ever scraped the inside of my wrists.
Handling brush is the main problem. I was looking to find a pair that will work for both felling/limbing and working up the wood pile.
Thanks for all the helpful comments
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