I was the industrial first aid guy for one camp I worked in for three years(I let the ticket expire after that, to much grief/blood). I made a correlation between saw cuts and those yeller gloves. Not a fan. When a severe unexpected kickback occurs, grip becomes the most important factor of a...
Didn't you not really work in the rain much? Some people didn't mind the yellow gloves. I found the white ones to have more consistent grip, to be warmer, and wring out better.
In my youth I worked often for up to weeks straight in the rain that Sean and other PNW'ers know all to well.
It is what everyone I ever saw used for chainsaw work. Those or the yellow webbed gloves, which I referred to as 'death gloves' because they were slippery IMO.
Death gloves:
https://www.buxtons.net/yellow-criss-cross-garden-gripper-gloves.html
These look very similar to what I always got from the local saw shops. The different colours at the wrist indicated the different sizes. Despite the link pricing they were very, very cheap to buy. Like $20 for a pack of a dozen(24 gloves). They weren't hand specific and so you could swap hands...
I never used those latex/rubbery covered gloves because I found them slippery as hell in the wet. It's why I always used those white nylon cheapie gloves. Feel like cotton kind of but they're nylon, wring them out in the wet now and then and they are good to go. Buy them by the dozen and easy...
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