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Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7226541
03/25/21 08:31 PM
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XL-XXL
Most gloves are made for the younger guys, the ones that sit in the house and play video games

Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7226545
03/25/21 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Feedinggrounds
Originally Posted by KeithC
My hands are mostly palm. I have short, strong thick fingers and very wide, strong palms. I need at least an XL to have a chance of getting my hands in the gloves, but the fingers are always to long. Not all XL gloves are wide enough for my hands.

I'm built weird. If I had normal length legs I would be 6' 4", but I'm only 5' 9" . I'm 60" around the shoulders. I have to turn sideways to go through a normal size doorway. A lot of people think I'm into powerlifting from the way I look. I am very strongly built.

I basically got a large Scandinavian torso and frame, with short, stocky, Sicilian arms and legs.

Keith

Forgot your shoe size....Lol


7 1/2 EEEE.

I have a big head too. I don't know what my hat size is, but I have to leave most ball caps on the last peg or unhooked.

I'm a freak. grin

Keith

Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7226549
03/25/21 08:46 PM
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There is not that many large men in China that need glove over XL


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Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7226550
03/25/21 08:46 PM
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XL, I have to have pretty tough leather gloves for the Mill work. The ends of red pine logs are like porky quills the dryer they are the worse they are. I get Plainsman leather gloves at Sam's Club 2 pair $20.00 I get them wet the first time I wear them, that takes your hand shape. When dry again, Neatsfoot oil or Mink oil rub. I get about 2 months daily work use. Says they are made from Cabretta leather, whatever that is. Best I have found so far. At the Post Mill gloves are second only to safety toe boots, and really just as important.


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Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: KeithC] #7226553
03/25/21 08:50 PM
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Keith, sounds like your built like a fire hydrant. Probably cast a heck of a shadow! lol Its all good, were all different.


you're only allowed so many sunrises... I aim to see every one of them!
Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: Big Possum] #7226570
03/25/21 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Big Possum
Used to be most XL’s would fit but now it’s XXL. Think gloves have gotten smaller because I don’t think my hands have gotten bigger at 66 years old. Leather gloves definitely have to be XXL.


Your hands didn't get bigger... Chinese children can't sew for s---.

Mike


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Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: Scuba1] #7226577
03/25/21 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Scuba1
Here is another glove question ....not trying to hijack the thread but are there work gloves made that last longer than ten days ?? I spend more on gloves than I do on boots


some last better than others but , if the job is tossing split fire wood , lucky to get 5 days

I wear a bunch of these
https://www.farmandfleet.com/produc...er-split-unlined-work-gloves-3-pack.html

my other problem is that I seem to wear out one glove but not the other


Last edited by GREENCOUNTYPETE; 03/25/21 09:18 PM.

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Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7226581
03/25/21 09:18 PM
03/25/21 09:18 PM
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Bogmaster sells (still, i think) gloves at the trapping conventions. He claimed most trappers wore the larger sizes.

The only thing i know for sure is no one makes gloves big enough for OJ


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Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7226585
03/25/21 09:20 PM
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Tractor Supply has a good selection of XL Gloves. Anything in Harbor Freight, Home Depot, and Lowes, just does not fit me.

Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: proratman] #7226593
03/25/21 09:25 PM
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I wear 2xl or 3xl when I can get them. Wiebke Trading in LaCrosse, Wisconsin sells excellent deerskin gloves in sizes up to 3xl.
They are the best work gloves I have found.

Zim

Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7226594
03/25/21 09:27 PM
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Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: KeithC] #7226611
03/25/21 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by KeithC


7 1/2 EEEE.

I have a big head too. I don't know what my hat size is, but I have to leave most ball caps on the last peg or unhooked.

I'm a freak. grin

Keith



head 8 or 8 1/4 any hat I can find in the store I can open the adjuster all the way up and it might just get on my head but it won't be deep enough to stay there very long
3XLT or 4XLT in a button up shirt need looong sleeves to cover these ape arms
46x32 pants
16EEEE shoes
6' 2"
weighing in at 285 currently
and of course XXL gloves

my grandpa farmed and ran a masonry business for most of his life didn't wear gloves cause he would wear a pair out in a day

by the time he was 60 grandma had to get the buttons on his dress shirt his fingers were too big and callused to get the buttons any more. I would like to keep my dexterity so I use gloves

it doesn't surprise me trappers have larger than average hands , trapping builds a fair amount of hand strength.


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Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7226665
03/25/21 10:17 PM
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Rex I still sell gloves and choppers. As you stated most are XL and more and more take XXl. And the deerskin gloves are real comfortable'
Though size varies with each different type. The XL elbow length choppers run big and fit most guys ,and some other types a XXl would be needed.
Tom


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Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7226674
03/25/21 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by GREENCOUNTYPETE
Originally Posted by Scuba1
Here is another glove question ....not trying to hijack the thread but are there work gloves made that last longer than ten days ?? I spend more on gloves than I do on boots


some last better than others but , if the job is tossing split fire wood , lucky to get 5 days

I wear a bunch of these
https://www.farmandfleet.com/produc...er-split-unlined-work-gloves-3-pack.html

my other problem is that I seem to wear out one glove but not the other



Ya want a couple of dozen " left " ones let me know
whistle
its mostly the middle finger on the right glove that wears out

Last edited by Scuba1; 03/25/21 10:28 PM.

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Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7226818
03/26/21 12:35 AM
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xxl ,least bit of tight gloves means cold hands.


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Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7226824
03/26/21 12:47 AM
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Xl gloves, most of them. 11EE on the boot. 8 3/8 skull cap.

I swear the sizing keeps changing. whistle


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Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7226833
03/26/21 01:00 AM
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How do u like your gloves to fit? Im a freak about gloves, socks and stocking hats. I want to barely be able to get them on. I wear a L for most gloves but if i can get into a M ill do it. If socks stretch out in the least they find themselves in the trash. I typically snap my laces 2-3 times during the life of a pair of boots pullin them tight.

Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7226861
03/26/21 01:53 AM
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Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7226866
03/26/21 02:55 AM
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Well it's obvious that trappers trend toward large hands... the question is, does trapping make the hands large or does trapping attract men with large hands?? Which caused which?

Kinda like the chicken/egg question...


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Re: Brief survey on glove size [Re: Scuba1] #7227070
03/26/21 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Scuba1


Ya want a couple of dozen " left " ones let me know
whistle
its mostly the middle finger on the right glove that wears out


index and middle finger on the right hand

if I know I am tossing a lot of wood I will put duct tape on those 2 fingers and sometimes the thumb then it can be replaced to keep them going longer

any lefties out there need thoroughly sweat thru gloves with a strong odor of bar & chain and two stroke gas , just let me know


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