Thread: Best Knee-Pads?..

Hi
the best knee pads I find are the 12mm thick foam ones without a shell on them, and with largish velcro attachment, life of 12-24 months. The hard faced ones dont seem so good

Doug

Dear Doug,

Is the Velcro in the form of strapping? If so, do they manage to sit still on your knees particularly well, or do they move around a bit?...

I've got Velcro straps on the current set - one strap above the knee and one below - and the buggers keep moving around on me. Perhaps the foam ones you're suggesting - without the rigid plastic facing like on mine - don't move around as much because they're more flexible with less of a mind to do their own independent thing...

Best Wishes,
Batpig.

I went through this a couple of years ago and spent a fortune on more and more expensive knee pads, until I was in the garden section at Kmart and they had green rubber ones, with a narrow, but soft velcro strap. I've been wearing them for quite a while, and often find I've still got them on when I come to take my pants off in the bedroom at the end of the day!

I'll try and remember to take a photo tomorrow.

And you'll need to empty the piggy bank, because I paid... $2 for a pair! In fact I bought 3 pairs!

They look just like this, only green. Here's an ebay version.

I have a great pair of Irwin knee pads, best I have ever had. They have a hard shell plastic outer with foam inside, a wide soft velcrow strap, the usual blue and yellow Irwin colours. I'm not sure what they are like with long trousers but I wear them a lot and half the time I forget I have them on. Very occasionaly if I am sweating a lot, I may get a litlle rollout but in general they are great. And they were not too expensive.

Dear Richard,

Originally Posted by rhancock

I went through this a couple of years ago and spent a fortune on more and more expensive knee pads...

That is somehow exactly what I wanted to read in the opening line of a response! (Not that I would want anyone to have gone through that, but... well, I'm sure you know what I mean...) Consider a pair bought at that price!


Dear Claw - I don't suppose there's any distinguishing features about them (like single strap, etc...), because they do about eight different versions. I will certainly keep my eyes open for them when I go out on a mini-Spendathon once July rolls around .

Many Thanks Gents,
Batpig.

single strap about 30mm wide from memory, nice cup shape with Irwin in yellow across the centre. Sorry, not much to go on. Will post a pic and bar code shortly.

Ok photo and bar code, 1937496187. good luck

Dear Claw,

Thanks very much for the effort with the photo...

Best Wishes,
Batpig.

Ah.. B#gg&r, I totally forgot to take a photo. Sorry!

Hi all

the square black $2.00 pads I have used and are fine, their failure is that they have a single strap with a bent DD clip which fails

the ones I like are similar to the irwin ones with a strap with velcro ends but without the shell in the pictured ones

Doug

The green ones I use have a velcro strap.

Dear Richard and Doug,

Thanks for the replies. No sweat regarding a photo Richard, because the Pads in the two links you provided earlier are identical enough to firmly implant in my mind what to look for at K-Mart. At that price I will definitely get a set...

Best Wishes,
Batpig.

Ive never tried it but i was thinking maybe someone could wear weight lifting knee wraps.

Looks interesting, although you would end up with a lot of tape behind your knee which when bent for prolonged periods could be an issue. Weight lifters are only in the squat position for a short period. Could be handy when draging around a lot of big slabs though.