jakethesnake
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Yup, no matter the glove, thumb and trigger finger always wears out.Gloves wear out much faster when processing firewood with certain wood species more so than with others. The two worst glove-destroying barks around my area are hackberry and ash. The deer love hackberry bark for cleaning velvet from their antlers but will usually accept ash bark as a substitute.
I enjoy making firewood with both hackberry and ash. So, my gloves never last long and the right glove wears out half again faster than the left. There are times when I wish I could have bought three gloves -- two rights and one left. However, I have never seen that option sold by any glove supplier.
For falling timber in the cooler wet months I wear Atlas Thermals, they give you good grip as well as dexterity and a little vibration damping. For summer I’ll wear the non thermal version or old standard white west coast loggers gloves like [mention]jacob j. [/mention] posted above from one of the local rigging shops.
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I buy the non-thermal blue Atlas gloves like this by the dozen. I will never buy another pair of leather gloves, for firewood, as long as I live. They are too expensive, uncomfortable, and don't last; I have worn holes in leather in one day before. The gloves above are/were about $25/dozen and last 50+ times longer than leather. They are also washable...
X2I buy the non-thermal blue Atlas gloves like this by the dozen. I will never buy another pair of leather gloves, for firewood, as long as I live. They are too expensive, uncomfortable, and don't last; I have worn holes in leather in one day before. The gloves above are/were about $25/dozen and last 50+ times longer than leather. They are also washable...
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I use something similar….some kind of cut resistant glove they hand out at work.These are another good choice for handling firewood. Unlike most guys here, I wear a hole in the ring finger and thumb first on any leather glove. These & the Showa ones last a good while
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