A recommendation, rather than an ask, bought a set of these leather/kevlar gloves for under a tenner (make sure to select the 6044 green version).
They make your hands *absolutely* *invincible* against brambles, pulling with all my might to disentangle two year old woody brambles from a hedge, letting thorns slip through your hands as you pull on them, grasping as tight as you can on them, all without feeling anything at all.
On a similar note I had to improvise for some clearance work recently, and I resorted to using some 'welder's gauntlets' I had lying around:
I expect yours are superior...
Theo
I have used the same for brambles. The long sleeves also protect the arms.
I'm a fair weather hedge cutter/pruner!
I use rawhide leather welding gauntlets. No idea about price as I've had my pair for around twenty years.
Welding rays!
Ah, mine don't, but they do stain them green...
Do they also work on pyracantha thorns, which will go through the sole of a shoe if you step on them?
None available to test, will see how they fare on Blackthorns
Or Blackthorn, which is very similar. Surprisingly THISTLES will penetrate ordinary gardening gloves too.
+1, have used them for years when working on thorny brash and brambles
"Up to a point, Lord Copper." (No pun intended, but I'll claim it.
As will nettles . . .
I did some pyracantha trimming, and the Silverline ones were fine for that. I just held branches while I cut them and picked up the cut pieces - I wasn't yanking them, so wasn't really testing jamming the thorns into the gloves.
Theo
All pussycats compared to this devil, which would probably penetrate Chobham armour!
I still grow it, but inside a cut-off plastic drinks bottle! I've been spiked too many times by it, and the barbed spines are no joke - they do not come out without a lot of pulling.
If your nettles penetrate rawhide gloves you must have some ferocious examples - oh! Ordinary gardening gloves.
Well, cheapjack ripoff gardening gloves, mayhap...
How is it when lots of other things stop growing, Brambles carry on regardless. Now I like Blackberries as much as the next person, but I and my neighbour want them to stay where they are put, not all over the gardens!
Brian
How far up the arm do these bramble gloves go? Not being able to see, I often find ordinary garden gloves result in my arms being scratched to hell. Brian
As far as my shirt sleeves, which somewhat surprisingly was enough to stop my wrists getting attacked, there's a button-hole at the end of each cuff, not sure if you're intended to hook them onto your shirt sleeve buttons, but it would be impossible while wearing such thick gloves.
Chrome leather - nobody more surprised than me!
Ah1 *Chrome* leather - newfangled tanning process when I were a lad! You always had to try to get traditionally-tanned boots if you could - all postwar Army boots (all, I think) were chrome leather. Took an age to get 'right' and a deep, dark polish (not Polish) on them.
'SHUN!
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