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    I bought a pair of gloves from Bunnings . They are the leather riggers gloves at $7.90 .
    Nice and soft but they didn't last long before two fingers and a thumb were sticking through on my most used right hand . Not suitable for the amount of firewood and rough sawn timber I have been handling lately . As well as thousands of bricks and lots of rusty steel

    Can any one who has gone through a lot of gloves recommend a type at Bunnings or Ebay that they keep going back to because they last and are comfy . And dont pong after repeated saturation with sweat. I havent experienced that but was told of a pair that had that problem for the user.

    Here is a link to Bunnings gloves .

    https://www.bunnings.com.au/our-rang...FcIsvQodUWUPzA


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    I learned along time a go the you can't use nice comfy gloves on bricks and expect them to last. I just use riggers gloves and treat them as disposable

    For timber milling and general handling of timber I'm a big fan of Ironclad Ranchwox.
    They cost a lot but are really comfortable.
    I keep a pair in the van and another at the mens shed.

    The one's I use on the chainsaw mill eventually get saturated in bar and chain lube but even though they are leather you can chuck them in the washing machine with wool detergent on wool cycle and they don't fall apart

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    I've given up on gloves. I buy Wells Lamont leather gloves in a three pack from the local membership warehouse. They last anywhere from a couple of days for jobs like digging and concrete breaking to maybe a month or two for handling lumber. I cut up the scraps for vise jaw pads and so on.

    Cloth gloves and cloth suede hybrids are a joke in my experience. Very comfortable but they can last as little as an hour of not-very-rough use.

    I suspect that something has changed in manufacturing of leather gloves. I remember having some pairs that would last a year of work including immersion in water when I was younger, or perhaps I didn't work as hard then.
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    I've had reasonable success with these from the bunnies store.
    Doing everything ,everyone has mentioned.
    I can on average get 6 months out of them using then for work.


    Cheers Matt



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    If you do find a glove that stands up to rough work better than riggers gloves please post your findings. I treat riggers gloves as disposable and buy them several pairs at a time.
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    Thanks for the good info guys .
    Those Ironclad Ranchworx look nice ! they would want to be for the price of $48 a pair .
    Id like to try them though . Maybe just for the fire wood cutting and stacking.
    And then just buy the cheaper riggers ones for the rough work when its bricks?

    Rob

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    Riggers gloves for me also. Having gone most of my life without gloves we had them forced on us at work so went through a period where my hands softened and became susceptible to minor damage. Having been retired for 10 years about the only time I use them is when handling rock, bricks or my long handled shovel. The handle is made of fibreglass and a bit worn and hairy on the underside so I wear gloves because I hate those fibres in my fingers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by auscab View Post
    Thanks for the good info guys .
    Those Ironclad Ranchworx look nice ! they would want to be for the price of $48 a pair .
    Yeah I swallowed when I paid that price the first time but they were that good i went back over time and bought 2 more pairs.

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    For RFS work I wear the wildland pro ff gloves and I am still using my first pair issued at the start of 2015
    https://www.firetraderstore.com.au/w...ff-gloves.html

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    With the leather gloves if you rummage through the pile you often find some nice and soft and some of thicker harder leather in the same batch. I grab a pair of each when glove shopping.
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    From my experience, one needs gloves suited to the purpose, I don't believe a particular glove would suit all purposes. Bricks and stones, one would need abrasive resistant, otherwise they will wear quickly, thus BobL and Tony A see riggers gloves for this purpose disposable. I also found riggers gloves to breakdown even quicker once they became wet.

    I mainly use ninja (brand name, similar to the Safety zone gripflex and the Ansell hiflex from bunnings) gloves (sourced from local safety shop, $6.50), because I need both grip, and tactile sensitivity. Though once water gets inside the glove, usually from rain, to me it feels horrible and take them off. I wear them for fours a day, but do need to wash them at the end of the week, and I get three months out of a pair.

    I also wear the Wildland glove, (for CFS), great for when using water, use a leather conditioner to keep them soft.

    I still have a few worn out riggers gloves predominantly left hand (as the righthand has worn out) where I wear the left hand glove on my right for abrasive wear to ensure I get the best value out of a pair of gloves.

    Basically what I am saying you will need to get a glove to suit your purpose. If a few gloves could suit every purpose then Bunnings would not have over a hundred different varieties.

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    Ill have to wait for a trip back to Bunnings soon I hope, then Ill be looking and trying them on . Maybe even reading through this thread while standing there ?

    I'm in need . A trip to the tip today and unloading a full tandem trailer of rusted old roofing iron and tangled rolls of barbed wire and I left my only pair of gloves with the three holes in the workshop . Frustrating !!

    I was more worried about bumping my legs on all the sharp rusty stuff around me when I was walking around though .

    Then I spotted a Dawn100 engineers vice someone had thrown , and I was climbing through stuff! plus a Toolbox and a Screw Driver. Funny how You can always bring something home from the tip Something seems a bit clicky with the vice thread or nut ? It works though I'll have to check it out .

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    I also use this type of glove [ pad back ] $4.50 a pair but you have to buy 30 plus pairs.
    I find these types of gloves last longer than leather, have beter feal and beter grip.

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    I am not referencing the wearing of gloves for gardening, handling bricks, stones, sawn timber etc etc etc. I am only commenting on the wearing of gloves in a sawmill.

    Don't.

    Just... don't.

    Gloves are the difference between got a finger or two crushed in the hob and chopped off and got your whole arm dragged in there and lost it at the elbow.
    As with long sleeve shirts the protection from minor injury they afford comes with an increased risk of major incident.

    Dont wear gloves around sawbenches, or anything else with a power feed.

    Just... don't.

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    For manual work, leather gloves are soft and disposable. I'm convinced that they all wear out in the same length of time, no matter what the price was.
    Buy 3-5 pairs at a time for comfort and simple protection. Chuck 'em. You get used to the idea.

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