Glove recommendations

You probably make your marinara with ketchup and water too eh?

 

Whatever you pick for gloves, plan on buying a lot of them and keep a spare pair on hand. Nothing puts a damper on your day quite like tearing the palm of your glove open when hand-unloading a whole bunch of frozen freight. Foodservice is hard on gloves, treat them as a consumable like brake pads or motor oil.

 

This may not answer the question directly, but i was using Gorilla Grip
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Grease-Monkey-Large-Gorilla-Grip-Glove-25053-030/202709681

Which you can get at Home Depot. The thing that is great about these gloves is you can feel everything about as good as you can barehanded. One problem though is they don't last very long---only a few weeks before they start falling apart.

So then, i decided to try the Gorilla Grips with the nitril coating on the palm side and fingers figuring it would be more durable---which they are :
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Grease-Monkey-Large-Winter-Gorilla-Grip-Glove-25153/203478514

But the problem here is that they don't ventilate very well----as you can imagine, so they really have to be washed every day or every other day----this may not be practical.

So i'm probably going to switch back to the regular ones.

 

The monkey grip w/ nitril coating DO NOT breath at all---the sweat has no where to go. i tend to wear my gloves all day long. This isn't working out, so i'll be going back to the regular monkey grips.

 

Well i carry 2 different pairs with me ..
one is a ORHD CR from Mechanix - that's for when i have to unload nasty stuff like busted pallets and any piece of steel. - only problem you can't function fine stuff with them.
other is M-Pact fingerless from mechanix as well - the good point is you can actually write with them on , (aka finish up the DR and such)
Both breath fairly well and are super resistant - yes they are q bit pricey but you got what you pay for , buy 5 times a $10 glove or put $50 in a good pair that will last

But anyways matter of fact... I rarely wear them as most of the time its only the pallet jack handle that i touch.

 

Food service work is hard on gloves. Cardboard is surprisingly abrasive, coupled with grabbing and digging and throwing heavy boxes, and gloves getting sweaty and wet. I would cringe at spending ten bucks on gloves, let alone fifty.

 

I get mine at home depot 5 bucks a pair but when I use them for 1st time I tighten fuel tank caps on tractor get a little diesel fuel and or grease on them acts like a preservitive

 

Don't forget the clear nail polish to stop a run. Last thing I want to read is a bunch of threads about guys getting runs in their stockings.