Recommendations for WARM Mitts/Gloves?

[AKtinman]

I am looking for some recommendations on WARM gloves/mittens.

Wearing the Dakine Titan glove for a half hour at -1 resulted in minor frostbite. Today at 8 degrees, while wearing the Serius Arctic Edge Gauntlet Mitt ($80) my hands got cold. The activity was snowblowing on my John Deere.

Both stores said that I was purchasing their “best & warmest” product.

After looking online, I discovered both products were in the middle of the product line for warmth.

So, it appears I’m shopping at the wrong store and I need a better quality product.

Dad always said “you only pay for quality once” and I believe that. $150 to safeguard my hands would be a bargain.

BTW, I’m not trying to disparage either product listed above, but listing them for comparison purposes. They might work fine for someone else, but not warm enough for me.

Suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[arjay]

Might get better results if you can find a pair large enough to fit over a pair of thin fleece gloves.

 

[dougb1946]

Hard to beat leather mittens with a wool liner. Get the hands off the controls once in a while to let the blood flow a bit. It's kind of like holding on to an icicle.

 

[Mule Packer]

I have Gordini Storm Trooper gloves and Gordini Down mittens. Both do real well out here, but we might not get as cold as where you live. The coldest it got here last year was minus 20. This year, we've only been down to minus 7, so I've only used the gloves. Hasn't been cold enough to switch to the mittens.

I'm sure I didn't pay a hundred bucks for either pair. If I remember, they were each in the high eighties or somewhere around there. So far, they've been great.

 

[rcnixon]

Hard to beat leather mittens with a wool liner. Get the hands off the controls once in a while to let the blood flow a bit. It's kind of like holding on to an icicle.

Wear a pair of silk gloves under the wool mitts to wick the moisture away from your hands. The leather outer mitts will keep the wind out. Mitts will always be warmer because your fingers can huddle together for warmth.

Russ

 

[Jessie]

WOOL! With a good polypropylene liner works for me
Might even try those battery heated ones, I haven't, but it may be worth a try

 

[hangnoose]

MITTENS

I detest wearing gloves or mitts and opt for a muff with a heat pack inside & a very thin merino wool glove if it's below 20 & I need to use my hands. for extreme cold for say snowmobiling look for thick dachtstien wool mittens, a thin pair of merino wool under them and an old gi issue mitten overglove to block the wind. I may still have my dachstein mitts and non Gi overgloves. being in fl I don't forsee needing them. Pm me & I'll give you a great deal on them. Dachstein wool used to be the wool of choice for high altitude cold weather climbing. It has a high oil content & can be almost waterproof.

 

[LazyKB]

-1 degrees! I think I would look into moving.

 

[gdnagle]

While riding the MC in winter I wore electric heated mittens. Mittens keep you 4 fingers warmer then gloves, but the thumb would get cold so I would wiggle it into the area with the four fingers. Running at 70mph in single digit temp would get the hands cold, but with the gloves I could drive the 70 miles to work with warm hands.

You could also get oversize gloves and put pocket warmers in them but I find for the cost the electric mittens work the best for me. I'm not sure how the newer gloves are made this was about ten years ago and maybe the newer gloves are made better.

I assume you have a Deere tractor not the walk behind blower. With the walk behind you will have to use the battery powered ones unless you want to install a battery. If you have the walk behind you might be able to install the handlebar heaters, they work good also but you need a battery and good charging system.

PS. I tied the gloves into the battery with a plug they provide, and I see they make battery ones now but don't know how long the battery will last. My mittens lasted as long as the battery was charged and it never killed the battery.

 

[Marshwheeling]

It's hard to beat a good pair of choppers, deerskin mitts with wool liners. I'll wear silk or polypro glove liners under that if it's really cold. I don't think my hands have ever gotten cold with that combo.

Snowblowing is not a good test for me, though. It is too much like work, and I get warm and sweaty, including my hands.

For short stints outside, up to an hour or so, I like ice fishing mitts, thin, very flexible rubber mittens with a pebbled finish for grip, with polypro fleece liners. These things cost about nine bucks, and are so cheesy you would not believe they could keep you warm. But they really work well, until they are soaked inside. They do not breathe at all, and condensation collects first in the liners, then it pools up. Then it's time to get inside, or trade them for a dry pair.

 

[kamloops67]

another vote for wool inner, leather outer mittens , even wet they will keep you warm. i used to use several sets and change them out through the day (concrete forming/carpentry).

 

[ACORN]

Hard to beat leather mittens with a wool liner. Get the hands off the controls once in a while to let the blood flow a bit. It's kind of like holding on to an icicle.

I had a pair. Black leather with wool liners. They were the warmest I ever had. But, I left them somewhere and never saw them again.

 

[AKtinman]

Thanks for the replies and suggestions!

I'll give the choppers with wool inserts a try and see how they work out.

 

[Pop's2]

we used a waterproof textured chooper with wool mitten liners when I was a firefighter in Mn but I have no idea where you would get these today (I retired in 1991) the leather choppers with wool liners may be the closest

My ice fishing friends like these:

Ice Armor Ultra Mitt Large - Overton's

Frabill FXE Snosuit Gauntlet Mitt Frabill Store

 

[Steve in Vermont]

Try a pair of Grabber Hand Warmers. They also have toe warmers and both last for hours.

 

[ACORN]

If you find someone that has them let us know. I've been looking for another pair.




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[lowhog]

I use chopper mittens when on my tractor or snow blower. For cutting wood thanks to my son I have a life time supply of joker oil rig gloves. These things are made for the frigid cold. They can be found on ebay.

 

[6518John]

The coldest it got here last year was minus 20. This year, we've only been down to minus 7, so I've only used the gloves.

ONLY DOWN TO MINUS 7!!!!!??????? ONLY!!!??? Good lord!!!

I am going outside (in my shorts) to kneel down and kiss southern soil!

 

[dougb1946]

ONLY DOWN TO MINUS 7!!!!!??????? ONLY!!!??? Good lord!!!

I am going outside (in my shorts) to kneel down and kiss southern soil!

It's not the temperature that gets you. Its the 30mph wind in your face. Nose hairs freeze and break off. Eyes freeze shut.
Sometimes, you have to zip up the coat.

 

[arjay]

Take a look at the ears and cheekbones of some those old outdoors types.In between all the wrinkles and sun damage are frostbite scars (that would be me lol)