Need fire rated gloves for tending the stove

[wahoowad]

I usually use welding gloves for tending my woodstove. I found that cheap ones tend to shrivel up the fingers and make them hard to bend, thus making them difficult to handle logs and such. So I usually bought name brand ones and found they lasted longer.

My last set was Hobart brand (I have a Hobart welder) - specifically buying the higher quality Deluxe model - which have done well before but this time a finger burnt through real easy and I'm constantly getting burned. So now I want to try a different brand or different style glove. Any suggestions?

It is just one finger and I wish I could put a couple wraps of ducttape on it like my work gloves. What could I wrap it with that would be cheap yet effective? I'm thinking nothing and that buying a new pair is the cheapest option.

 

[jtstromsburg]

I'd look for forging gloves. Maybe something like these http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00164QVI4/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/179-4946704-7032364 ?

 

[ewdudley]

Avoiding the need to touch things hot enough to burn leather works well for me, both in the shop and in the stove.

For stove tending we've got a heavy suede barbecue potholder from the dollar-store and a tin coal shovel that meet all our needs.

 

[Bigg_Redd]

Avoiding the need to touch things hot enough to burn leather works well for me

^this^

 

[highanddryinco]

Avoiding the need to touch things hot enough to burn leather works well for me, both in the shop and in the stove.

^this^ X2

 

[velvetfoot]

You're playin' with fire there.

 

[garmford]

Ov-Glove works for us.

 

[ChipTam]

Ov-Glove works for us.

I've got a pair of heavy-duty suede gloves made for tending fires. They were purchased at a Home Hardware in Canada and I'm sorry I don't remember the brand name of the gloves but they work great. However, I don't know why they sell them as pairs. The right one is all sooty and blackened while the left one looks brand-new. Guess I'll have to go in with a lefty when I need a new pair.

ChipTam

 

[CenterTree]

I usually use welding gloves for tending my woodstove. I found that cheap ones tend to shrivel up the fingers and make them hard to bend, thus making them difficult to handle logs and such. So I usually bought name brand ones and found they lasted longer.

My last set was Hobart brand (I have a Hobart welder) - specifically buying the higher quality Deluxe model - which have done well before but this time a finger burnt through real easy and I'm constantly getting burned. So now I want to try a different brand or different style glove. Any suggestions?

I am NOT being a SA at all, but why is there any need to handle burning logs in a stove? Is that what you are saying?

I have never had the urge to put my hand in a fire for ANY reason. I have a metal poker for that.

I use 3 fingered welders gloves to load and "tend" my stove though. They have the reflective top.

 

[Fifelaker]

For welding gloves look no further than Caimans. That said no glove made will withstand contact with fire for very long. I go through welding gloves like a wino goes through booze and the Caimans are the best I have found except tig gloves then Tillmans get my vote.

 

[BrotherBart]

I shuffle burning splits with HF welding gloves. Get two seasons out of a pair.

 

[highanddryinco]

HF welding gloves. Get two seasons out of a pair.

Yep. Into second season with pair #1 of the three pack for about $12 on sale.

 

[firefighterjake]

Cheap welding gloves bought at whatever hardware store I am closest to ... first pair lasted several years. As mentioned ... I pretty much only use them to load the stove and handle the hot ash pan .... to move any burning splits I use my small stove shovel.

 

[BobUrban]

These are made by Dupont I believe and my neighbor gets them from his shop. Made with Kevlar it says and they work very well for stove play.

I am a welder and blacksmith so I have many pairs of different leather gloves in the smitty shop and these things will outlast and do more than any of them in regards to fire and stove work. I can reach in and grab a softball size glowing coal without feeling it or any damage to the gloves. They last a long time and can be thrown in the wash to clean.

Leather shrinks and gets really stiff with heat - these do not.

 

[ryjen]

I use just a pair of leather hearth gloves, but I do not grab burning things from the stove. For that, I have a 3 pronged "Log grabber" that was with my hearth tool set.

 

[Mike Fromme]

I just can't wrap my head around the need to handle burning firewood with gloves?

 

[dougand3]

I had a brown pair of HF welder gloves ($4.99) - they lasted 5 seasons till R hand fingers wore through. I replaced them recently with a HF 3 pack of gray welder gloves ($7.99 with 20% coupon). Gray ones appear to be the same quality. Now, I can't see using them to hold burning splits unless one falls out of the stove.

 

[wahoowad]

I just can't wrap my head around the need to handle burning firewood with gloves?

Why would you try to wrap your head around it, or not??

 

[Mike Fromme]

Why would you try to wrap your head around it, or not??

How's this?

I think it's a bad, dangerous and stupid idea to pick up burning chunks of wood when tending ones wood stove.

 

[ChipTam]

Why would you try to wrap your head around it, or not??

About 90% of the time I use my leather wood stove gloves to put new junks in the stove......keeps fingers and especially my wrist safe from a hot stove. However, I do occasionally rearrange burning logs without an issue. I've never gotten burned. I just don't handle the burning logs for more than a few seconds.

ChipTam

 

[wahoowad]

How's this?
I think it's a bad, dangerous and stupid idea to pick up burning chunks of wood when tending ones wood stove.

Who said they were doing that? Maybe you jumped to a conclusion.

 

[Fred Wright]

Ove Glove. The SheWolf got a pair couple years ago for loading the stove, they're still doing well.

 

[Treacherous]

These have worked well for me the last few seasons.

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[Oakwood5]

I agree with Treacherous. The fingers on the gloves will shrink up and harden after a while but they are durable and cut back on the forearm burns.

 

[BrotherBart]

Who said they were doing that? Maybe you jumped to a conclusion.

Me. I had always fooled around with the ash rake or the forceps until I watched a fellow from Quad working the stove at the Decathlon last year. He just grabbed the burning splits with gloves on and arraigned them like he wanted them. Tried it, since I burn N/S and loved it. And haven't gotten burned yet. With HF gloves.