Comments on: Hands-On: Milwaukee Fingerless Gloves

by: Medievalist

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:28:50 +0000

I don’t understand how people can wear fingered gloves while working. How can you pass up the feel of the surfaces you are dealing with, how can you stand the lack of feedback on your grip and contact area? It’s baffling. If I didn’t want to touch my tools and my supplies I’d work on something I *did* want to touch.

And, it’s hard to type in full gloves. Really hard, especially on little diagnostic keypads when you are squeezed in under a half ton of high explosive trying to fix the airconditioning before the propellant hits flash point. Or when you’re thirty feet up a pole in a cutting wind.

I’ve been wearing fingerless gloves for about 20 years and I love ‘em, if my fingertips need protection I put my hands in my pockets or put hi-volt rubber gloves on over the fingerless ones.

The price you pay is a lot of splinters. A disk drive magnet will pull the ferrous ones out pretty quick, though, and a knife or needle will get the rest.

The ones in my pockets right now are camo-patterned poly-fleece with thick, soft leather palms. Warm even when wet, strong, lightweight and they let your hands breathe if you get sweaty.

–CHarlie

by: JamesBrauer66

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:05:26 +0000

When I worked at the furniture glass place years ago, some of the guys wore fingerless gloves. We had to pick up big pieces of flat glass that were stacked up between a few squares of sheetrock. The fingerless let them stick their fingers between the pieces to get a grip, then use the padded parts against the sharp edge for lifting. I stuck with fingered gloves and would just ram my fingers in there and lift the glass a little as my fingers wedged in.

by: Nate Bezanson

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:51:41 +0000

Tecra still sells the special deer-skin gloves used by telecom installers. Dexterity for knot tying is the first concern, so the fingers are open, but tension on the cord is also important, and the gloves help with that.

http://www.tecratools.com/product1242.html

Telephone Tools of Georgia also sells a sheep-skin version. Some guys swear by these things. Others just grow callouses. The rest, well, the rest just tie loose stitches.

by: Old Donn

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:08:06 +0000

Aside to Putnam. You forgot the 7 dwarfs and Santa’s elves. Seriously, I’ve no doubt you’re right. However, from what I’ve seen, guys either wear gloves on the job or they don’t. Not these things.

by: PutnamEco

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:38:46 +0000

Re: Old Donn
Some people in construction do like them. Easier to pick up nails etc., while still offering some protection for the palms when carrying plywood/osb.
Some who work the loading docks like them, easier to grab cardboard boxes from tightly packed tractor trailers,
Some biologist like them, can still write notes, and have some protection while moving rocks, climbing ladders, etc.
Some mechanics do like them, can start nuts and bolts while still protecting the palms from ratchets and certain air tools.
Some pilots like them for doing preflights. Can get a good feel for nicks and cracks in props and still have protection from ailerons and elevators.
Some gardeners like them, Can handle a shovel, trowels, dibbles and plant seeds or small plants and bulbs.
Some sailors like them for rope handling and to still being able to tie and untie knots.
Need I go on???
Me, I like to wear ragg wool one under my mittens when I go ice fishing
My favs
http://www.farm-home.com/cgi-bin/miva?/mn/t9_main.mv+FRGL07+LGS+004625+0110+JDISTRIB2370-8001~~~~~~~

by: Old Donn

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:00:53 +0000

Actually, there are only two practical uses for fingerless gloves. 1) Riding a motorcycle, (bikers refer to these as “nose pickers”). 2) Hard core gym rats wear them while pumping iron. Anything else? Doubtful.