Winter gloves

[Minelson]

I have everything I need for successfully keeping my body, head and feet warm. But I cannot find anything to keep my fingers warm. I have tried so many different gloves. The best so far is a liner with wool gloves...but those quickly fall apart. I need something that I can do chores with. I have tried the laytex gloves as a liner but they make my hands sweat and that makes it worse.
Any recommendations?

[Cabin Fever]

A good brand of snowmobiling or icefishing gloves. They are warm, have fingers for dexterity, waterproof, and have tough denier nylon or leather outer covering. Expect to pay around $40 minimum.

[motdaugrnds]

Minelson, I have the same problem you do in that I have not found a pair of gloves THAT I CAN DO FARM CHORES IN that keep my fingers warm.

Cabin, will those goves you mentioned be flexible enough for me to do farm chores with them on? Are they sold at Wal-Mart, Tractor Supply or some sports shop?

[Cabin Fever]

Originally Posted by motdaugrnds

Cabin, will those goves you mentioned be flexible enough for me to do farm chores with them on? Are they sold at Wal-Mart, Tractor Supply or some sports shop?

The type of gloves that I’m suggesting would be found in sporting goods stores and ATV/snowmobile stores. I doubt if you wind anything warmer in a glove. They are fairly dexterous, but not as dexterous as a single thickness leather or jersey glove. They would look something like those pictured below:

[amwitched]

Ski gloves would be great too. They are definately made to keep your fingers warm.

[bluefish]

I've had good luck with the wool gloves inside my DH's plain leather work gloves. Dexterity is ok, about as good as frozen solid fingers inside more dexterous gloves. My fingers stay very warm and it's not that hard to pull off the leather glove for a couple minutes if I need to do something more 'fine tuned.'

[sunflower-n-ks]

I second the type CF suggested. My DS gave me a pair that are similar and they lasted 3 winters doing outdoor chores including getting into water. I don't think they would stay totally dry if left submerged in water, but the spray from the hose and wet from rinsing water containers didn't bother them. They don't work for fine detail work, but I just slip them off quickly for those things. Mine have a wrist strap so they can be slipped off and they hang from your wrist so they don't get dropped or lost. I was surprised how tough they tuned out to be.

I am price shopping for another pair. Ebay has listing for some great gloves, but watch the prices because they can vary a lot.

[Minelson]

Originally Posted by sunflower-n-ks

I second the type CF suggested. My DS gave me a pair that are similar and they lasted 3 winters doing outdoor chores including getting into water. I don't think they would stay totally dry if left submerged in water, but the spray from the hose and wet from rinsing water containers didn't bother them. They don't work for fine detail work, but I just slip them off quickly for those things. Mine have a wrist strap so they can be slipped off and they hang from your wrist so they don't get dropped or lost. I was surprised how tough they tuned out to be.

I am price shopping for another pair. Ebay has listing for some great gloves, but watch the prices because they can vary a lot.

Can you post a link to the ones that you have had for 3 years?

[jd4020]

I find that gloves don't keep my hands warm at all. I know mittens are not o.k for some outside jobs but they're the only thing to work for me. Dh has some deerskin mittens with wool mitten liners that he likes.
I found heavy leather mittens with the sheepskin inside do a wonderful job. And like thermopkt, usually with all the other layers on I'm warm and therefore my hands are warm enough to slip off the mitten to do fence work or whatever for a vew minutes.
Hope you find what works for you.
jd

[TacticalTrout]

Thermastat (DuPont) is a new-ish material used in some glove liners. I have some from MCR Safety that I have been quite impressed with, although your mileage may vary. One size fits most, these things stretch out quite thin and would make you question their ability to insulate. My 5 year old son can wear the same ones that I do and I wear an XL (size 10 or 11) in gloves. As it is a form fitting liner your dexterity is mostly determined by whatever you put over it. Not sure what the retail availability is for this type of liner, but if you have a safety supply company in your area you may check with them especially if you can find one that sells supplies to food processing facilities. My cost on these suggested that they would sell for less than $3.00 a pair, but are probably sold by dozens only. They are washable as well.

[SFM in KY]

Thirty some years doing outside chores in Montana winters and as CF says the ONLY glove I found that kept my hands comfortable at even the extreme temperatures were the snowmachine gloves. Not for handling small stuff, but pitchforks, hay hooks, hay bales, water buckets, axes to chop ice to open water ... and they were absolutely the only glove I could find that kept my hands warm if I had to ride in the winter.

[arcticow]

For what it's worth, Ak winters experience, pigskin gloves lined with Thinsulate. Next to wool, even wet, and dry soft without cracking. 65 below plus windchills.

[Bat Farm]

I have to have some manual dexterity for my job and these are what I wear. They are wonderfully warm and the mitten top really warms your fingertips back up when you are done with needing them exposed. They are hardy (I work with concrete and re-bar) and take a lot of abuse. I wore these in Chicago in February and not only were my hands warm, the little mitten top was great place to keep my transit pass

http://www.campmor.com/outdoor/gear/Product___91894

[jwal10]

Lined leather for work, wool otherwise. I got these at my safety supply, great price....James


http://www.clarcorpindustrialsales.c...p/sg93210p.htm

[fishhead]

I used to have a pair of thick knit wool mittens with a thin leather shell when I worked in AK. They lasted for years and years. I used them while pounding nails and other things.

[Backfourty,MI.]

I agree with the leather fleece lined gloves, they seem to work the best for me as well asw last the longest. I also have used fleece hunting gloves that work pretty good too but not as good as the lined leather one's.

[SilverFlame819]

I found a pair once that kept my fingers nice and warm... Too bad they were a size too large!! No idea the brand name, but they were like a tight wool knit outside and had dense plush fleece liners.

My issue is finding gloves that will fit! All those "one size fits all" gloves? Haha! Yeah, right! My hands are about a women's size large or a men's size medium... Seems like women's only come in medium and men's only come in large!! Ridiculous.

[maddy]

Ragg wool mittens, no liner. Average cost $6.00. They are awkward at first, but my fingers (which ordinarily freeze up painfully in almost any glove) stay toasty warm. All in all, I get far more done outdoors since dexterity ain't worth much if your fingers are stiff and throbbing.

[FunnyRiverFarm]

I am a ski instructor so I have lots of experience with various mittens and gloves and I have to say that there are NO gloves that will keep your hands anywhere near as warm as a pair of mittens. A $10 dollar pair of mittens will work better than a $140 pair of gloves. I wear mittens for all of my chores--once you get used to them they are just as practical as gloves for doing almost anything.

[tinknal]

I like a pair of rag wool gloves inside of a pair of sheepskin lined chopper mits. You can take the mit off when you need to use your fingers. They also make a rag wool glove/mitten hybrid. There is a slit in the palm of the mitten and you can just pull the mitten over your fingers and you still have the gloved fingers. If this is still too cold put a pair of chopper gloves over the top.