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My Wife Says These Gloves are Done - No Way - UPDATE
booger
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My wife caught a glimpse of these gloves and was horrified, "Go buy new gloves today" she says. "What's wrong" I say.
Just some Gorilla tape and I keep going, don't have time, everybody's gloves look like this, right? Can anybody back me up on this? If I threw gloves away every time they rubbed a hole, I'd have to buy them by the gross.
So,.............it was time to let them go. On top of a cosmoline soaked Palmetto Sate Armory box, atop the burn pile, I lit the match. An honorable Viking goodbye. Took a pop off a longneck and waited for any rats or snakes to run out.
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Barely broken in! Bob
Booger, got your back. Reminds me of conversation with Alaska State Trooper at laundry mat in Delta Junction in '89. Had broken windshield on my new truck and needed to find glass shop. Trooper said "What for, everyone up here has a broken windshield, fix it when you get home son" -----------------------Ray
Looks like they are just getting comfy!😁
Same here. I work in the words a lot and cutting, splitting and stacking work is tough on gloves. My leather gloves look the same especially on the finger tips.
just now useful, broke in
Look exactly like mine.
Don't buy a new pair of gloved booger, a new roll of tape - maybe.
Lots of life left
I am well know in the family for "extending" the life of every thing my family got to where they will not throw any thing away if i am close by or I might see it in the trash lol
I keep the stanard repair kits duct tape electrical tape super glue and epoxies on hand
I worked construction 13 yrs when younger I never wore gloves except winter I would wear the cheap jersey cotton gloves in the winter my hands were calloused big time .
I have dozens of pairs of work gloves gave to me over the years many still in the packages and use them ocassonaly my hands have become citiyfied and not as tough as they use to be . Like the rest of my body i guess LOL
One big exception if I were a lineman the heavy insulated rubber gloves they have to use I would be over carefully about any defect Evan a pin hole could cause you to be DRT
Are they to save your hands or make a fashion statement? Looks like they do both.....
Well, I'm glad to know I'm not alone with my glove situation. Once I buy a new pair and break them in, I just keep 'em going. They are Wells Lamont and are my preferred type. I've tried some other mixed-mesh with leather types, they didn't hold up any better.
A lot of mileage left in those gloves.
Nah, those are done. Your hands are very important, treat em right. Same applies to your feet.
I think you are a kind of cheap skate. But some of mine look kinda like that, though I didn't spring for the tape.
my gloves look similar, Seems odd that almost every pair of gloves has one or two areas that wear through before the rest fail.
My work gloves have most of the fingers protruding from the glove. I thought that was normal.
Joe
speaking of gloves
i gave my wife a pair of welding gloves to use a week or so ago ( I never used them welding any way )
while trying to calm down three feral kittens that were way wild they were like holding a set blender blades on high
biting and scratching , now they come to her looking for attention.
I've got several pair of gloves like that.
I have one driving pair that is for my 1980 4x4 hunting vec. (touring gloves)
I would use them to test drive this vec at this link.
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/1911983/its-only-money#latest
...sorry, your wife is right...break down and get some new gloves dude...look like the same gloves I use, and they are only about 25 bucks....
Bah! Those are fancy gloves if you ask me. Are you and the wife going out for an expensive dinner?
🇺🇲 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇲
My Dad used to tell me just wear them on the other hand! After a day of new break-in they will feel just like new😝
That would be like turning your underwear inside out after a week. I don’t think so.
Those glove sure don't owe you anything.
Back in the day...........I helped my uncles haul hay bales on occasion.
I learned very quickly that I needed good gloves.......and to KEEP them that way. 😬
They had fun.....breaking-in the city kid.
Learned a lot of lessons in farm country. 👍
When one glove in the pair goes beyond a duct tape finger repair, I save the other one. Sooner or later, another glove for the other hand will turn up and I put the remaining gloves together. Wearing work gloves is not a fashion show.
When I first saw a pair of gloves that were made without finger tips on them for hunting many years ago, I decided to just cut the ends off of most of mine anyway! Finger tips are overrated around here! If you always hold ice cold beer cans in your hands, they become numb so the cold never bothers you! 😁
Might put them up for sale on fleece bay one at a listing as Michael J's glove and the other as OJ's.
As a millennial would say….. eeeeew!
Dude, you know you can afford a new pair or two, you just have an unnatural attachment to that pair. No shame, we have all ben there, but help is available. Try Tractor Supply.
Well I can't just throw them away, they'll have to be tossed on the burn pile and go out like a Viking.
That works for your boss and me. I will even buy the new pair. I will tell you where to send the receipt when you have it. He dog said it.
I have to confess
I broke down and used a pair of gloves two nights ago
I cornered a young skunk and decided if it got scared I would loose a pair of gloves
I was very gentle took it over to my wife to see it she loves all animinals especially young ones the cute parts gets her
She held it petted it's head then we let it go back to its normal busness
Well, they look done to me too.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
those are called, in-law christmas presents...............
UPDATED ABOVE
DUDE! that Viking send off could have started a wild fire! Where I live it could have burned a few hundred thousand acres.
Look like normal work gloves to me. Tell the Mrs., that you are saving up for a new Glock. LOL
Reminds me of an old Nancy Sinatra song......"These Boots Were Made For Walking"
Only with gloves it equates to ...."These Gloves Were Made For Burning" and that's just what they'll do, one of these days these gloves are gonna BURN all over you. 😁
Sad update
I was in Menards yesterday and saw an 'end cap ' display of the gloves I like(fairly tactile and comfortable) @ $8/pair. I didn't put any in my cart. This was a 30% markdown plus 11% in store rebate. Went around the corner and saw similar gloves @$20/pair and wondered why? Big box store buying is a shoppers' challenge and should be approached as such.
Indian build small fire and sit real close, white man build big fire and stand way back........