what are your guys in the snow belt using for gloves?

we dont usualy have weather this extream here, curently its -9. and the high is supposed to get up to 6 above, i have 4 layers of clothes on to go out and feed, a ski mask that coveres my head and half my face, and lined ski gloves for my hands my fingers are freezing 10 minutes after i go out, so is my forhead, so what am i missing? you all must be wearing something im not as i know some of you have to do this all winter

Hey Eric,

If I need my fingers, I wear glove liners and leather thinsulate gloves. If I need more dexterousness, I will pull off the thinsulate gloved for short periods and only wear the liners.


If I don't need my fingers, I use leather Thinsulate mittens. I put on a pair of glove liners and put them over them. They work great on my open station tractor or enclosed but unheated skid steer. Mittons keep the fingers together and they stay warmer beacuse of it.

Good luck!

( KINCO ) insulated with Pig Skin Covering...
Best glove I"ve found....

I expect the biggest problem is that you are not used to it.

I don't know your age, but how is your circulatory system? Any heart issues? If you can take aspirin it seems to help thin the blood for better circulation. I take one a day.

Caffeine constricts the blood vessels in the head and neck so don't consume drinks containing caffeine before needing to go outside.

Make sure your body trunk is insulated enough to stay thoroughly warm. If warm blood it flowing from it it should reach other parts of the body to carry the heat to them.

I used to be a letter carrier but was used to being out every day. Even on the days (old chart) when the windchill was -50º I got along okay. Not comfortable, but okay.

Best wishes for figuring out what works for you.

These days to keep my hands warm I use leather insulated ski gloves.

When we lived in Minnesota, I would wear thermals(somtimes), decent socks, boots appropriate to the weather (not always), a flannel shirt, a wool sweater, a carrhart type jacket, a cap with earflaps, and jeans. If it was windy enough, I'd also wear a scarf my sister knitted for me years ago. It is extra wide and extra long, so I can wrap it around twice and cover both my neck and my face. For my hands I would wear 'choppers', suede leather mittens lined with sheepskin that went up to my mid forearm. I don't really remember being all that cold most of the time. If I did get cold and uncomfortable, I dealt with it as necessary. I think mostly it is being accustomed to the weather. I was colder in October and early November than later in the winter when the temperature was actually lower.

Good luck with the weather.

Christopher

I used to have what they called chopper mittens a leather mitten with a wool liner those would keep fingers warn in the coldest weather

Doesn't matter how super dupper your gloves and boots are. If the rest of your body isn't warm enough circulation to hands and feet slow and they will become cold.
If your toes are cold, put on a hat.

We got a 6 month winter up here,-20 C is normal temps .It takes getting used to the cold.

In the fall one tends to wear an insulated coverall allready when the temps near freezing.
towards spring -10 C feels warm and the insulated coverall comes off during the day when the sun shines.

I use insulated work gloves,
and leather insulated long sleeved mitts.The fingers get cold anyway when working with cold objects
When it gets really cold i try to stay indoors.

It is about 20 here right now and in a little bit I'll be going out to plow drive ways off. Probably take at least an hour with a couple stops in between. I have on long handles blue jeans and will also put on a pair of insulated coveralls On top I have a T-shirt, then a long handle type top then a flannel shirt I'll also have a ski cap on and deer skin insulate gloves and hope I stay work on that 841 ford I'll be driving. But the black coveralls and the bright sun may help. Will need sun glasses for sure

I love the old style deerhide choppers with wool liners. I have never found anything better for keeping you hands warm.

Buick is right. You lose your heat out of your legs and the top of your head. My good friend, who lost a leg below the knee has more trouble with the summer heat because he lost some of his cooling system. Long johns on the legs help a bunch. Seems like no amount of insulated coverals or outer layers can match plain old insulated long underwear. I wear flannel lined jeans all winter long, but when I had livestock it was longies for the whole winter. And I half froze in the spring when I quit wearing them. Last sunday I wore some unlined pants to church, Couldn't figure out why I was chilly till I got home and put the flannels back on and figured it out.

For cold hands, insulated leather mittens are the best. You won't have any dexterity, but at least you will be able to feel your fingers.Jim

i have leather gloves but rarely use them ,Mostly white knit chikn catchn gloves (hands stay warm despite being wet , and you can do a lot of mechanic work with them , and lefts and rights interchange , use brown Jerseys alot to , BUT , when they are wet , not much better than being without gloves , i am left handed and have more left hand gloves than right from pullin off and misplacing and faling out of pockets ,, seemed like it would be the other way around ,, ( any of you notice that ) i keep a lookout for suchwayward gloves in my travels about the place and always seem to find a glove when in need .. , i keep a set to warm on the 730 case gasser oil filter casting , that is my daily driver for winter time feeding ,, the sc and DC has best spot above the valve covers but they won't always stay there , and have gotten next to manifold ,i keep a setunder the 4020 jd fuel pump cover , a good glove warming spot on the 430 case is the powersteering pump crevasse

The best winter work clothing I have is the artic parka and horsehide mittens the Canadian army issued me. The mitts are the warmest I have ever worn and under them I wear a thin pair of mechanics gloves in case I have to take them off to do something. I don't know about US artic combat gear but even though the Canadian forces are how would you put it,buget conscious, they make sure nothing is spared for winter gear.

I just wear the white knitted brick layers gloves, don't suffer much from cold. One pair of socks and plain old rubber boots , winter and summer.Drives my wife crazy, her hands and feet are always cold.

im over 50, no real heart trouble, but some body damage nerve damage to both feet, 3 crushed discs in my back and my knees are giving me fits lol just getin old and worked all my life, thanks for the ideas, im going to see if i can find some of the items listed in the posts

Not gloves, but the polypropelene (sp) long johns that were army issue about 10 yrs ago are really great. I have been hunting in deep snow in the mountains and my outwear would get completely soaking wet to my crotch but my legs would never feel the moisture or cold through those long johns. The same is true if you get to sweating; you never feel the moisture. The claim is that it wicks the moisture away from the skin. I don't know what I would do without them in the winter. I think the army goretex boots are great too, but they are pretty heavy and I only wear them if it is really cold.

I'm 64, live in Ontario's snow belt and have tried every glove and mitt known to mankind.
If they aren't dry you will freeze your hands.Every job dictates a different kind of glove.
For long periods outdoors,snowmobiling,blowing snow,a cloth glove worn inside a leather or nylon mitt will keep your hands warm for hours in the most extreme temperatures.
For doing jobs around the barn or farm, I found that cheap lined cloth gloves work well, I buy them in sets of six.I keep them by the stove when I come in so they are dry,keep two pair in the truck.When they get ratty and worn I toss them in the stove.I have leather work gloves and construction gloves make by Toughduck,they appear to be strtchy cloth with a rubberized palm and finger bottoms, they are good for construction, good grasp,keep your hands warm and they are tough and last well.
Re other clothing..layering is the best.I wear a T shirt and work pants the year round,I put coveralls over that when I go out in cold weather and a bush jacket with hood over the coveralls. I can work all day on a construction job in winter weather and not be cold,sometimes have to open my jacket and overalls a bit to stay cooler.The most important element of winter survival is to be dry,take a layer off if you get heated,put back on when you cool down, keep dry gloves or mitts on and always wear head wear,a touque in cold weather. It is estimated that 25% of you body heat is lost through the head.So..cheap cloth gloves at the dollar store !

My system goes on like this. 1st pair of socks, union suit, 2nd pair of socks, sweat shirt, hooded sweat shirt, dickey bibs, lacross ice kings,baseball cap, hood up, handy andy cotton work gloves. No drafts down my neck or on my lower back. Always have a dry pair of gloves with me somewhere. Works great for mee. Jim

zip up sweatshirt hood over my seed cap and for gloves Kinco heat savers, it was -20f here this morning

I use these marine grade sailing gloves for the real cold stuff.

My fingers sweat on my Harley during winter rides.

They're made for standing the helm when rounding Cape Horn......
Heavy weather gloves

Buckskin choppers with good wool liners, add a pair of fingerless gloves, of good wool, if it's really cold or I need my fingers a lot.

I like the wool/poly long johns. I wear 2-3 pair of Wigwam 100% rag wool socks, tried the poly and they just suk.

I get by with a Walls coat, wool vest, Duofold turtle neck and sweat shirt most days. Jeans over my longies, but I wear chainsaw chaps to cut the wind if I'm on the tractor or if it's real cold I break out the Swedish military surplus wool pants. They weigh a ton, but I've never seen anything beat them, coveralls included.

Best boots I ever had were the old USMC Mickey Mouse boots. Got to get some. Wearing Kamik now and they stink. Too bad Sorels went down hill, they used to be good.

Well first of all the clothes they offer for the southern states are no where near as heavy as the ones offered in northern climates.
I see it all the time when I go down south in the winter . The coats in the stores are what we would wear in the fall or spring in the north.
I showed my arctic lined(black lining) Carhartt to a person in southern IN one day and they told me they didn"t offer that in the stores.
I Wear a pair of unlined carhartt bibs with a light jacket and yellow chore gloves from TSC. Just keep some dry ones to change to. The jacket has a hood for the wind. Will work out in winter weather from 20 to -20 this way. Oh and leather shoes.

I don't as a rule wear gloves. Can grab metal once hands get dry no problem. Have to admit, that -23 degree morning had me looking for a pair of gloves. Payback is hands are kind of numb, hard to sort papers.

Depends on what you're doing. When its that cold, I try to use lined leather mittens when I can get away with it because the fingers are together, which helps them stay warm, and they block the wind around the fingers like gloves don't. Good lined leather or ski gloves otherwise, but I have found that even the best ski gloves for example can be water proof, and be warm, except where the stiching is. Decades back I bout a pair of ski gloves in Austria when I was stationed in Germany. They were great, except so lined they used to overheat the hands and fingers and sweat up. They were great in extreme weather though like you're in now.

True story. A few years ago I had one of my Hogs in the shop about ow being worked on, and was time to pick it up. Was about 20 degrees out and had about a 10 mile ride home on the interstate, with 20" high ape hanger handle bars. I was wearing what I thought was a good set of leather gloves, about $70 worth. It was a cold ride, so I sped up to about 70 to get home as soon as possible. My buddy pulls up next to me in my pickup and acts like he's wiping the sweat from his forehead and unbuttoning his shirt, laughing at me. When we got my scooter back to my place, my fingers were so froze I couldn't feel them. I had him turn the kitchen sink on for me, told him cool water, not hot because I couldn't feel it. When I put my fingers under it and they began to thaw, I was almost in tears it hurt and burned so bad. I swear as I flexed them that the blood was going through them like slush. If I ever take the old iron jugged shovelhead out in cold weather, and it loves 20 degrees...mittens.

Good luck, and be careful.

Mark

get the LaCross iceman boots they are awsome and mot as heavy as the micke mouse boots