This morning, as I once again stood out in under 10 degree weather shoveling snow I finally accepted the fact that my 20 year old great winter work gloves, aren’t anymore. The insulation has worn and clumped to the point, it’s just a single layer of ever thinning leather against the ravages of winter on the inner fingers, and my fingers hurt from cold after 10 minutes. And there has been so much buying and selling and offshoring of companies, and quality lessening over those 20 years I don’t really know what is good anymore , and lot’s of promising brands don’t seem to have an Amazon pretense.
Anybody tundra folk got any favorite warm, lasting, gloves that are still made these days they would recommend? Preferably ones that don’t cost a ridiculous amount, But I understand the cost-quality equation for good lasting winter gear.
At least my 30 year old Sorel duck boots with the 3/4 inch felt are still kickin winters ass hard. I expect they will be still be able to kick it long after I am not.
A good pair of gloves are two pairs of gloves. And a big pair of mittens over them if you’re out for a long time using your hands a lot but not your fingers so much.
I have liner gloves in the closet but lately I use a pair of knit gloves that look too small but are stretchy and a roomier pair with a rubberized grip over them.
Bah, Mittens are useless. Might as well just be kicking stuff around with my warm boots and stick my hands in my pockets for all the dexterity they allow.
I’ve had good experience* with gloves containing 3M™ Thinsulate™ as their insulation layer.
*This includes commuting by foot and train in all weathers, including standing for hours on freezing cold platforms when snow disrupted the train timetables - in this latter case, my hands were pretty much the only bit of me that remained comfortable.
I’ll echo the stretch knit gloves for a liner. I get the largest women’s sized ones since they don’t seem to make them for men. They make great cheap liners under a heavier over sized leather work glove. I have many hours of hunting in the woods in near zero temperatures wearing them. They suck when wet or it’s windy though.
How are you gonna replace the shear pin on a snowblower with mittens? You’re gonna take them off and freeze the shit out of your fingers because you got mittens instead of good gloves.
Meh, OK. Your OP said shoveling snow. Actually, I have 3 ‘classes’ of winter ‘gloves’. Mittens, heavy warm gloves that you really can’t do anything in anyway, and then thinner gloves that will at least let you finger smaller parts. The thin gloves aren’t very warm, but will at least keep the wind away and keep you dry. I’ll be wearing those when I replace the battery on my plow truck this weekend.
I see what’s going on here. You’re the type that never wanted to wear his mittens like his mamma told him because he thinks his friends will make fun of him and have an advantage in a snowball fight because they have gloves. Well, you put on your mittens, AND hat, AND zip your coat up all the way and we’ll have no more sass from you today little mister.
When it gets super cold, you really can’t beat mittens. I bought a pair of Kombis maybe 12 or 15 years ago and they’re wonderful. When skiing or otherwise going to be outside for hours, you can drop a handwarmer into each and life is good. Mine have fleece liners so I can briefly take off the outer mitten when I need a bit more dexerity while not totally exposed.
If I were shopping for new ones, I’d read reviews from those using them for extended periods outside. Skiers, ice fisherman, snowmobilers, mountain climbers, etc. This would probably be one of those times to spend a bit more to get something with quality that lasts.
