Gloves for brambles?

Rob Lockwood · May 2018

My hands are shot through with bramble thorns as I've just cleared a lot of old (last years: brown) brambles. To avoid this in future, what would forkers recommend as gloves, probably just for this job, but which will keep out even old, dried (and hardened) bramble thorns.

I think I've picked up that Kevlar palms/fingers might do the trick (don't think I need anything other than a cloth back), but welcome any thoughts!

fidgetbones · May 2018

Thick leather gauntlets , almost up to the elbow.

https://www.farrar-tanner.co.uk/in-the-shed-c69/garden-tools-c83/haws-classic-leather-bramble-gauntlets-p1883/s3160?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=haws-classic-leather-bramble-gauntlets-hl006&utm_campaign=product+listing+ads&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxqzLkoSa2wIVUPlRCh1C9gIrEAQYAiABEgIl7PD_BwE

Lyn · May 2018

No one believed me when I put this on here years ago, but the best I used is a pair of heavy duty rubber gloves from supermarket, Morrison own for me. My brambles are like tree trunks and miles long, I can grab them at the roots and pull them out.

fidgetbones · May 2018

I use loppers to cut them off, and handle as little as possible.

B3 · May 2018

I had a pair of welders gauntlets. They were great. Unfortunately, the foxes thought so too

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Pete.8 · May 2018

Not cheap but absolutely faultless.
Extremely soft and comfy, and thin enough to do delicate work. Even my battered 5yr old pair are impervious to any thorns - inc pyracantha.
I can't rate them highly enough

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Gold-Leaf-Tough-Touch-Gloves/dp/B002PHX7PG/ref=sr_1_6?s=outdoors&ie=UTF8&qid=1527017730&sr=1-6&keywords=gold+leaf+soft+touch+gloves

Lyn · May 2018

I can’t work in the garden with any thick gloves, need to ‘feel’ everything.
Kitchen gloves for when brambling, easy to feel the roots and pull right out.
and only cost about 2.00.

Rob Lockwood · May 2018

Thanks all - will look into these.

DampGardenMan · May 2018

scroggin said:

Welders gauntlets for me too.

And me.

DampGardenMan · May 2018

Lyn said:

Kitchen gloves for when brambling, easy to feel the roots and pull right out.
and only cost about 2.00.

But presumably you can't grab the stems and pull at them in kitchen gloves???

Gloves for brambles?

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